Woodward Library Research Help
Can't find articles on your topic? Not sure which database to use?
Email Woodward Library at: wd.ref@ubc.ca
Contact Woodward Library Ref Desk Monday to Saturday
Woodward Library Session Slides
Key Resources
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
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SummonSummon is a single access point to find most of the UBC Library collections including: print books, ebooks, scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles, theses and dissertations, digitized items, conference proceedings, and images.
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Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Find Open Access books, articles, and more with Summon
Summon currently indexes more than 200 million open access items, including articles, books, thesis, technical reports, images, and more. These items are made accessible in a variety of ways, including as full text resources (e.g. pdf, image, etc.) or through the descriptive metadata allowing you to find the full resource in open access repositories.
On the Library homepage search using Summon (General), and limit your results to openly accessible content using the “Refine Your Search” filter for “Open Access”.
UBC Sites
Research Skills for Engineering Students
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Research Skills For Engineering StudentsThis tutorial consists of 2-5 minute video modules. It covers:
1) Brainstorming concepts & keywords for a search
2) Differentiating between & evaluating information
3) Google & Google Scholar
4) UBC Summon
5) Finding technical & scholarly information using academic databases
6) Standards & patents: What they are & how to find them
7) When & how to cite your sources