Resources and Tools for Physics ResearchElizabeth Lee San Bao | elizabeth.lee@nus.edu.sg22 January 2015

Session Outline

Overview of Library Services and Resources

Ethics in Research and Plagiarism

Core Research Databases in Physics

Tools for Managing Your Research

Overview of Library Services and Resources

NUS Libraries For knowledge ~ for inspiration ~ for life

Central Library Chinese LibraryHon Sui Sen

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www.lib.nus.edu.sg | sclib@nus.edu.sg | Chat service (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm)

Your Access to NUS Libraries

Your matric card is your library card.

Library Opening Hours

Library Login ID and PIN

Your matriculation number (e.g. A0066650N) is your library login ID. By default, your library PIN is your student SMARTCARD PIN issued by the NUS Computer Centre.

Use this login ID and PIN to:

Check your library account online

Renew items online

Reserve items/Place a hold

Borrow items at self-check out stations

Request items from closed stacksRelated FAQs

For Graduate Students

Loan entitlement:

Max 30 books and 1 RBR

Loan period:

Main shelves books: 28 days

RBR: 2 hours/overnight

3 online renewals for main shelves books

More services:

Study carrels (4 hours per loan)

Document Delivery Service (DDS) *

Intra-library loan *

Inter-library loan *

* e-form submission is requiredDemo on Library Portal

Quick Tip:

You can return Main Shelves books at any NUS Library.

But all RBR books must be returned at the Loans Desk of the home library.

Return through book chutes only if library is closed.

NUS Libraries Resources

FindMore / LINC : Discovery Search Engine / Library Catalogue

E-Resources / E-Books

RBR / Exam Papers

ScholarBank : Institutional Repository, where past theses can be found.

Accessing NUS Libraries E-Resources

NUSSTU/A0066650

No excessive copying or downloading of E-resources

Searching Citations with FindMore

FindMore searches for books, e-books, journal articles, newspaper articles, dissertations & more.

Shankar, R. (2014). Fundamentals of physics: mechanics, relativity, and thermodynamics. New Haven: Yale University Press.

* For more information, you can visit the FindMore LibGuide.

Searching Citations with FindMore

Login to view more results from databases

Search Filters

Sort results by relevance/date

Content type & item availability

Inserts items into temporary folder

Citing and email options

LINC View

Searching Citations: FindMore vs LINC

Similarly to FindMore, LINC also searches for books, e-books, journals, etc. But it does not search for journal articles.

You would need to search for the journal title in LINC to find the article. In FindMore, you can search the journal article title directly.

Daley, A. J. (2014). Quantum trajectories and open many-body quantum systems. Advances in Physics, 63(2), 77-149. doi: 10.1080/00018732.2014.933502

Not found in LINC

Found in FindMore

Search LINC using this information instead.

Activity: Searching Citations | FindMore vs LINC

1) Search for this citation in FindMore and LINC. Does NUS Libraries have access to this journal article?

Cariglia, M. (2014). Hidden symmetries of dynamics in classical and quantum physics. Reviews of Modern Physics, 86(4), 1283-1336. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.86.1283

2) Search for this citation in FindMore and LINC. Does NUS Libraries have access to this citation?

Khrennikov, A. (2014). Prequantum Dynamics from Hamiltonian Equations on the Infinite-Dimensional Phase Space Beyond quantum (pp. 149-173). Boca Raton: Pan Stanford.

Theses and Dissertations

NUS Theses and Dissertations

Before Sep 2003 (Print): Call No. QC3

After Sep 2003 (E-Theses): ScholarBank

Non-NUS Theses and Dissertations

Theses Databases: ProQuest dissertations & theses (Global, UK & Ireland) | Springer Theses | Other NUS-subscribed databases

University Repositories

Recommend to purchase thesis

* For more information, you can visit our LibGuide on how to find theses.

Ethics in Research and Plagiarism

Copying of Library Materials

Please observe the Copyright Act of Singapore. Copying should be strictly for the usage of research and study.

Limitations of Copying:

a) Published books (> 10 pages):Not more than one chapter or 10% of number of pages

b) Journals:Not more than whole or part of one Article in a Journal unless the Articles relate to the same subject matter.

c) Electronic Materials:

Not more than10% of the total number of bytes in the Work; or10% of the total number of words in the Work or 10% of the contents of the Work; or One chapter of the Work, where it exceeds any of the limits set out above

Avoiding Plagiarism

“In NUS, it is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”

Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language Communication

“Plagiarism is a deliberate activity – the conscious copying from the work of others without acknowledgement.”

Source: Avoiding Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Dr Yang Ying, Centre for English Language Communication

For more information:

You can visit the NUS Plagiarism Prevention website, which offers a self-checked plagiarism prevention software called Turnitin.

You can view the NUS emodule on academic culture and plagiarism here.

Ethics in Science Research

Source: DW, 6 June 2014Source: Nature, 6 September 2007

Source: VietnamNet Bridge, 30 May 2012

Citing Your Sources Properly

Different citation styles are available, e.g. APA, AIP, MLA. Please check with your tutor/supervisor which style to use in your paper.

Different ways of citing are used for different types of sources, e.g. books, edited books, journal articles, etc.

There are 2 places to cite the sources you have used during your research:

a) Within a sentence (In-text citation)

b) At the end of document (Bibliography/References)

Source: Plagiarism | Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language Communication

* For more information, please visit our LibGuide on Citation Styles.

Numerical system of citing

Author-date system of citing

Core Research Databases in Physics

Core Research Databases in Physics

NUS-subscribed Databases:

a) INSPEC – Covers physics, electronics, computing and engineering from 1969.

b) Institute of Physics (IOP) Science - Over 60 IOP journals with archive dating back more than 130 years

c) Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) - From the American Physical Society, this database’s coverage is from 1893 to present

d) Web of Science – Multidisciplinary, 1900 onwards.

e) Scopus – Multidisciplinary, 1996 onwards.

Open Access: arXiv.org* More databases listed in Physics LibGuide.

Database Highlight: Web of Science (WOS)

WOS’s Core Collection:

More than 12,000 multidisciplinary research journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings.

More than 250 disciplines covered from 1900 onwards.

Includes Cited Reference Searching to track prior and current research development.

Integrates citing and referencing seamlessly with EndNote.

Updated weekly.

Source: Thomson Reuters, Web of Science Core Collection

Database Demonstration: Web of Science (WOS)

Sample topic:

Study of nanostructure of biomedical samples using Atomic Force Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy

Suggested search statement:

Nano* biomedical AND (Atomic Force Microscopy OR Raman Spectroscopy)

Notes:* truncation operator / wildcardAND boolean operator to narrow searchOR boolean operator to widen search

* For more search tips in WOS, please visit here.

Database Demonstration: Web of Science (WOS)

Create Search Alerts

Results sorting

Find Full-Text

Save citations

Search Filters

Database Demonstration: Web of Science (WOS)

Print/Email OptionsAnalyse Results & Create Citation Report

No. of times cited by other papers

Database Demonstration: Web of Science (WOS)

Back to search results

Find Full-Text

My Tools & Search History

Citation-related statistics

Some tips on managing research results

Refine by subject/discipline areas as defined by the databases – more specific to your research focus.

Identify and read review articles so you can trace the historical development of a certain research area.

Use number of times cited to identify and read high-impact papers.

Use citations to trace the progress of a certain research area.

Building current awareness of Physics research

You can subscribe to the following alerts to keep updated on new Physics research development:

Publishers and journals’ alerting services and newsletters

Databases’ alerting service, e.g. saved search alert

LINC alerting service, e.g. saved search alert

Citation alerts

RSS feeds from related Physics websites and news organisations

Tools for Managing Your Research

JabRef for LaTeX users

JabRef is a free and open source bibliography reference manager software.

Latest version is 2.10, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

Java-based so it is platform/OS-independent.

Uses BibTeX files (.bib) as native file format.

Provides filters to import other file format: .ris, Medline, JSTOR, etc

Graphical interface for editing BibTeX entries.

JabRef for LaTeX users

EndNote

EndNote is another bibliographic software for storing, organising and formatting your references from many sources.

Cite While You Write – EndNote automatically inserts references in Word document.

Customise the format and style of citation automatically.

Current version is X7.2.

* For more information, please visit our LibGuide on Endnote.

EndNote

Creating a EndNote Library: Direct Exporting from databases, Importing from PDF file, Manual Input

Cite While You Write – Inserting references into Word

EndNote Upcoming Workshops

EndNote Workshop Schedule, Semester 2, 2014/2015

Date Time Venue

Tue, 24 Feb 10am – 12pm Central Library

Wed, 25 Feb 1pm – 3pm Central Library

Thurs, 26 Feb 1pm – 3pm Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library

Fri, 27 Feb 10am – 12pm Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library

Mon, 2 Mar 1pm – 3pm Science Library

Thurs, 5 Mar 10am – 12pm Science Library

* This is a tentative schedule for the EndNote Workshops. Please visit http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote for the most updated schedule.

Library Proxy Bookmarklet

A browser plug-in that automatically inserts “libproxy1.nus.edu.sg” into the URL of an article link in your browser.

Quick way to see if NUS Libraries subscribe to the journal and you have access to the article.

* For more information, please visit the LibGuide.

Library Tips in Google Scholar

Apply Library Proxy Bookmarklet in Google Scholar to quickly see if you have access to journal articles.

Change “Library Links” in Settings to “National University of Singapore” – ensures that “Find It! @NUS Libraries” appears.

Change “Bibliography manager” in search results settings to ensure “Import into EndNote” appears.

Start your Physics Research with NUS Libraries today!

Information Sources for Academic Research

List of References

Library Portal: http://lib.nus.edu.sg

FindMore: http://nus.summon.serialssolutions.com

LINC Catalogue: http://linc.nus.edu.sg

myLINC to check library account: https://linc.nus.edu.sg/patroninfo/

Library FAQ: http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg

NUS Libraries Guide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/libraryhelp Physics LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/physics FindMore LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findmore How do I find theses?: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/findthesis E-books LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/ebooks Citation styles LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/citation EndNote LibGuide: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/endnote Library Proxy Bookmarklet LibGuide: http://

libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet

ScholarBank: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg

NUS plagiarism prevention website, http://www.cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention

List of References

Plagiarism, Breeze presentation by Centre for English Language Communication: https://breeze.nus.edu.sg/p53961553/

Avoiding Plagiarism, Breeze presentation by Dr Yang Ying, Centre for English Language Communication: https://breeze.nus.edu.sg/avoidingplagiarism/

NUS emodule on academic culture and plagiarism: http://emodule.nus.edu.sg/ac/

Web of Science Training: http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-science/

JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

More Useful References

Postgraduate Student Resources (Compiled by NUS CDTL): http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/pg/resources/

EndNote training (Thomson Reuters): http://endnote.com/training Early Career Researchers (Elsevier): http://

www.elsevier.com/early-career-researchers/home Institute of Physics, Career Resources for Undergraduates and Graduates:

http://www.iop.org/careers/undergrad--postgrad/page_64174.html Institute of Physics, Career Resources for Early Career Researcher:

http://www.iop.org/careers/researcher--career-change/page_64175.html American Institute of Physics, Career Resources: http://

www.aip.org/career-resources American Physics Society, Career Guidance: http://

www.aps.org/careers/guidance/index.cfm

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