Last week’s Librarian blog was about finding a journal article by searching its DOI using the Library’s journal finder. But you can also use a search engine, such as Google or Bing, to find an article by its DOI. As discussed in last week’s blog, a DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a unique number given to an article to provide a persistent link to its location on the internet. The DOI is typically located on the first page of...
Have you ever seen a DOI on an article and wondered what it was? DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a unique number given to an article to provide a persistent link to its location on the internet. The DOI is typically located on the first page of an article. A new feature of the Full Text Journal Finder tool allows you to search using the article’s DOI. Go to research.udmercy.edu, click Articles, Journals + Databases, scroll down to “Find...
Need to find information in electrical and computer engineering? Even information on medical or dental applications? Try IEEE Xplore. This database offers basic and advanced searching in almost four million records, including conference publications, standards, journals, and magazines published by the IEEE. Only abstracts are available. Topics include: Aerospace Bioengineering Communication, Networking, and Broadcasting Components, Circuits, Devices, and Systems Engineering Materials Engineering Profession Fields, Waves, & Electromagnetics General Topics for Engineers Geoscience Nuclear Engineering Photonics & Electo Optics Power Energy...
I hope by now that it’s been drummed into your heads, the need to properly document where, and how you found the information that you’re using within your papers. If it’s not common knowledge, and is not of your own creation; i.e. the words and ideas are those of another person, or organization, then you need to give proper credit. Citing where those words and ideas originally came from, where they were published, what journal, magazine, or website, can often...
