Top Tools and Tips
Course reserves are in Olin Library; 20,000 engineering books are located in Uris Library.
Passkey Off-campus? Log in once with this browser bookmarklet that connects you to all the Library's databases and journals with a single Cornell log-in. See this video.
Unpaywall.org - looks for legal, open-acces copies of an article
Data - data.research.cornell.edu for questions on submitting and storing data.
Citation Management - Keep track of your references, format bibliographies in thousands of styles. Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, Papers. Email engrref@cornell.edu for free premium upgrade for Mendeley.
ORCID - set your ORCID id and Scopus ID to establish a persistent unique identifier for you and ensures your work is linked to you. Required by some publishers and funders.
Rapid delivery of books not owned by Cornell from Borrow Direct and scanned articles from Interlibrary loan.
SHARES program - visit and possibly borrow books from other libraries, such as Columbia, Syracuse, Ohio State, Boston University.
Stay Current - with JournalTOCS - have tables of contents from journals in your field delivered to your email.
SPARC Author Addendum - sign and send to your publisher to retain your rights to your article - to distribute in your classes, include sections in later works, post to a website.
Databases
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Clarivate (Web of Science)
Web of Science searches major science journals across disciplines.Tracks the number of times articles and authors are cited by others. Includes Science Citation Index (1900 - present).
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Cornell Library Catalog
Cornell Library website and catalog has records for 8 million books, and thousands of journals and articles. Links to interlibrary loan, scanned articles, and Borrow Direct.
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Engineering Library
Engineering Library links to databases plus group study room reservations. -
Engineering Village
Best comprehensive engineering database. Search scholarly articles and conference papers in Compendex. -
GeoRef
Database of the American Geological Institute. -
Knovel
Knovel has thousands of technical e-books on many subjects. Materials Properties, Handbooks may be searched here. -
Lyell Collection
Publications of the Geological Society of London -
Proquest Theses
Guide to finding full-text theses from Cornell and North America. -
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Use for article searching, citations of articles (from 1996-), citation scores of authors, set up alerts, analyze data (i.e. journal rankings).
Icebreaker Questions
1) Which citation management program do you use, if any? Why?
2) Have there been times when you couldn't find or organize the information you needed? Describe.
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