Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Guide 

Question 1:

What research databases have you used in the past, besides Google?

A. Only Google

B. Web of Science

C. Applied Science & Technology Index

D. Other

Question 2:

When it is OK to just use Google and its subfiles such as Google Scholar?

A. When you need a lot of scholarly articles from conferences and journals to write a paper.

B. When you need current addresses, maps, translation tools, and a few citations on a topic.

C. When you need to narrow a topic to get fewer results.

Question 3:

Why is it important to learn how to search the literature comprehensively?

A. To avoid repeating experiments and work that have already been done and published.

B. To help avoid being scooped (you and several researchers at another institution are working on the same thing and they publish first).

C. To compete for grant monies.

D. All of the above.

Question 4:

What distinguishes scholarly information from popular (nonscholary)?

A. Inclusion of references at end of article

B. Length of article

C. Peer-review

D. All of above

Question 5:

You search Compendex for articles on steel structures, but you find too many articles. How do you focus the results?

A. Consult the thesaurus for alternative vocabulary

B. Search Google instead

C. Limit the results by title, date, type of document.

D. A and C.

Question 6 :

How would you find this reference in the library online catalog? Suppose there is no full-text link.

"Bubble-based Microfluidic Sensors" by Daniel A. Ateya. Source: American Society of Mechanical Engineerings, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FED, v. 260, Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division 2004, p. 437-441.

A. Search by Ateya

B. Search by Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division

C. Search by Bubble-based microfluidic sensors

Question 7: How much does a subsription to Transportation B by Elsevier cost?

A. $1573

B. $5927

C. $110

Question 8:

Where would you find an abstract of this thesis? The Full-text?

by Ashley, Karen M., Ph.D., Howard University, 2004, 107 pages

A. Library Online Catalog, Library Online Catalog
B. Proquest, Interlibrary loan
C. Compendex, Compendex


Question 9:

Which websites/databases rank journals according to how often they're cited:

A. Compendex, SciFinder Scholar
B. Eigenfactor, Journal Citation Reports
C. Medline, Pubmed