Library:Research Skills For Engineering Students

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Introduction

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Introduction/Page 01 Learning objectives
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Introduction/Page 02 Why is research important to your education & career?


Module 1: Thinking about your research problem

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 01/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 01/Page 02 The problem
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 01/Page 03 Brainstorming concepts & keywords
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 01/Page 04 Conclusion


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Module 2: Types of engineering information

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 02 Evaluating information
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 03 Popular vs. scholarly sources
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 04 Conclusion
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 05 Introduction
  6. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 06 Primary & secondary sources
  7. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 07 The research cycle
  8. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 08 Peer review
  9. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 02/Page 09 Conclusion


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Module 3: Google & Google Scholar

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 02 What is Google good at?
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 03 What about Google Scholar?
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 04 Google operators
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 03/Page 05 Conclusion

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Module 4: Summon

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 04/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 04/Page 02 Why use Summon?
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 04/Page 03 Searching & applying limits
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 04/Page 04 Limitations of Summon
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 04/Page 05 Conclusion

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Module 5: Academic Databases

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 02 What’s an academic database?
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 03 Database operators & tools
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 04 Conclusion
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 05 Introduction
  6. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 06 Compendex
  7. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 07 Accessing an article
  8. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 08 Conclusion
  9. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 09 Introduction
  10. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 10 Web of Science
  11. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 11 Conclusion
  12. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 12 Introduction
  13. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 13 UBC Library research guides
  14. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 05/Page 14 Conclusion

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Module 6: Standards & Patents

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  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 06/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 06/Page 02 Standards
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 06/Page 03 Patents
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 06/Page 04 Finding standards & patents
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 06/Page 05 Conclusion

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Module 7: Citing your information

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  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 01 Introduction
  2. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 02 Why do you cite?
  3. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 03 Plagiarism
  4. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 04 When/what do you need to cite?
  5. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 05 Conclusion
  6. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 06 Introduction
  7. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 07 How do you cite?
  8. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 08 Citation styles
  9. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Module 07/Page 09 Conclusion

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Conclusion

Table of Contents

  1. Research Skills For Engineering Students/Conclusion/Page 01 Summary


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  2. The tutorial home page is a simple list of the module home pages. This structure will facilitate easily finding all of the pages in each module. (This page is the tutorial home page for the "Library Research Skills for Land & Food Systems Tutorial".)
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History of this Tutorial

The Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems tutorial began as the tutorial Library Research Skills for Biologists co-written by Sally Taylor and Katherine Kalsbeek assisted by Web Designer, Suzan Zagar in 2000. In the fall of 2000, Sally Taylor in collaboration with Director of First Year Biology, Carol Pollock designed a marked library assignment that included a research tutorial originally created in WebCT, then migrated to Vista. In November 2011, we worked on the migration of the content in the Biology Research Skills tutorial to UBC wiki with the presentation into Connect. In July 2013, the content of Biology Research Skills was used to form in part the tutorial for Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems on Blackboard.

This tutorial was licensed under Creative Commons License Attribution, Share Alike and donated to ALPS LINK in 2008. The creators, Katherine Kalsbeek, Sally Taylor and Suzan Zagar were recognized by a panel of their peers and awarded the 2008 Laud a Librarian Award. Since 2008, it has been updated and maintained by Katherine Miller and Suzan Zagar.

In the 2011-2012 academic year, the Library Research Skills for Biologists tutorial was used by 1377 BIOL 140 students (88% of the students registered in the class) who reviewed 5 or more pages in the tutorial.

In 2014, based on assessment with students (card sorting exercise) and a survey of faculty members in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, the tutorial was completely restructured and there was a major rewriting of the content. This restructuring and rewriting was co-authored by Katherine Miller and Megan Brown. Suzan Zagar was the key technical creator, making changes to UBC wiki content and Blackboard Learn.

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