ECS 293: Library research

Phoebe Ayerspsayers@ucdavis.edu

UC Davis Libraries

Doing research:

• Find literature on your topic / background• Do research• Publish results• Develop a reputation in the field

Let’s start from the end…

Making your reputation: Identify yourself!

• Make a Google scholar profile• Make an ACM author-izer profile• Get unique ids: ORCID / ResearcherID• Know your h-Index• Make sure your website and other online

profiles are current

Reputation

ResearcherID: from Web of Science

Publishing

• Journal reputation:Finding a journal:– ACM related conferences/journals– “impact factor” – from Journal Citation Reports– Is it a scam? Publishing:– What can you do with your own work?– OA or not? OA funds– Data publishing – often required!

JCR – Journal Citation Reports

ACM Publishing Policy

guides.lib.ucdavis.edu/openaccess

guides.lib.ucdavis.edu/data

Finding literature

• Search a database: – Compendex, Web of Science, Citeseer, INSPEC– Finding authors & times cited in Web of Science– Review articles– Google tricks

• Organize everything– Export to Endnote, etc– Export in BibTeX

guides.lib.ucdavis.edu/cs

Google tricks

• http://scholar.google.com • Via the VPN• Change your settings: – Add in UC eLinks (search for university california

davis)– Add BibTeX export option

• Commands: AROUND(2), site=, etc.

Harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu for books

guides.lib.ucdavis.edu/csPhoebe AyersEmail me! psayers@ucdavis.edu