literature search primer leo kempel college of engineering michigan state university
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Literature Search PrimerLeo Kempel
College of Engineering
Michigan State University
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ObservationThere are a lot of smart people out there, as smartor smarter than I am (you are), the key to success is to work harder than them!!! – John Volakis, my advisor.
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Outline
• Motivation
• The easy stuff… web-resources
• More advanced searching… Old School
• Doing it right…
• Closing the loop… Making your work pay-off
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Why do a literature search?
“Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident”-- Wikipedia (first attributed to Bernard of Chartes)
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Some Web ResourcesWe are Generation Whatever… we use
technology minute by minute…• www.google.com: We all know this one…• www.googlescholar.com: Specialized!• www.dtic.mil: US DoD Reports• http://ntrs.nasa.gov: NASA Tech Reports• http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu: Example of
a University database
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• www.lib.msu.edu: Portal for all MSU Libraries services and listings
• http://er.lib.msu.edu: Electronic Holdings– Engineering– Mathematics– Physics– Chemistry– Biology… and many more useful subjects
MSU Library Electronic Resources
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MSU Library Holdings and Beyond
• Check out the Engineering Library for archival articles and books
• Other branch libraries– Mathematics (Wells Hall)– Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS
Building)– Main Library – Government Documents
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Doing it right… Follow the idea trail
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Making it Payoff…
• Giving your advisor a pile of papers, books, etc. does little good.
• Make a synopsis of what the papers say, why they impact the project.
• AND make a electronic file folder of papers, etc…
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Example
• “Patch antennas on ferromagnetic substrates,” Brown, A.D.; Volakis, J.L.; Kempel, L.C.; Botros, Y.; Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 47, Issue 1, Jan. 1999 Page(s):26 - 32.– This paper investigates the radiation and scattering
performance of a patch resonator printed on a ferrimagnetic substrate (specifically, Yttrium Iron Garnet – YIG). The novel contribution is the simulation of non-uniform static magnetic bias field effects on the antenna’s performance.
– Filename: Brown_TAP_Jan99
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Summary
• By all means, utilize technology to simplify learning what has been done in the past
• Go to the library, get books, read them• Make a synopsis of what the literature
says• Find a niche that YOU can contribute…
then “Just Do It”
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Questions?