Introduction to Graduate Studies

TST-41006

Library Info
Miikka.sipila@tut.fi
 Lecture Overview
• Introducing the TUT
library
• Printed and electronic
resources at TUT Library
• Exercises
• Information retrieval
© Charles M. Schultz
basics
• Using information:
citations and plagiarism
 The Library in Kampusareena
• Student card = Library
card
• Open 24/7
• Multiple study spaces
• Free 3D printing
The Library at your service:
www.tut.fi/library
 TUT Library resources

58 000 200 98 000 235 000

e-journals Printed Printed books e-books
journals

Andor
 TUT Library resources
location:
58 000 200 TUTCAT 98 000 235 000
e-journals Printed Printed books e-books
journals

Andor
 Information sources for Academic
Work
Conference
Friends, presentations
Books
(textbooks, handbooks, Social media
Teachers, & publications thesauri, dictionaries)
(Facebook,
Family
Twitter)

Journal
Book chapters
articles

Standards and
Raports
patents
 Information retrieval?
• Define your information need à choose
where to search.

• What search terms to use? à use dictionaries

and thesauri.

• Use SciencePort to get started!

 Search techniques:
• Concept consisting of more than one word:
– Phrase search: ”life cycle cost model”

• Term truncation finds everything beginning

with the truncated term:
– product* finds product, products, production,
productive, productivity, productization,
productize…
 Boolean operators:

AND OR (NOT)
• Combine search terms with Boolean operators.
• Readily available in most databases.

• (”internet of Things” OR iot) AND transport*

• Drone* AND (transport* OR logistic*) NOT

military
All Library materials: Andor
 Exercise 1.
• Go to Quick Search on the Library’s front page
and find the following books:

a) Antonio Gómez-Expósito, Antonio J. Conejo,

Claudio Cañizares: Electric energy systems:
analysis and operation (2008)
- What is the location of the book in the Library?

b) Gross, Frank B.: Frontiers in Antennas: Next

Generation Design & Engineering (2011)
- What is the location of the book in the Library?
Electronic resources by subject:
Science Port
http://scienceport.tut.fi
 Exercise 2.
1. Go to the SCOPUS database and look for
articles on Network impacts of electric
vehicles.

1. What search terms did you use?

2. How many results did you get?
3. How do you access full-text articles?
 Evaluating information
• Things to consider:
• Who wrote it?
• Where and when was it published?
• Does it contain citations and a
bibliography?
• Is it scientific (aka objective, well-
studied)?
• Is it peer-reviewed?
• Is it relevant to your research?

Source: www.express.co.uk
 Citing sources
• Finnish universities are very
strict about citing sources.
• Citation information must
be provided for all
information that you use.
• Do not copy other people’s
citations!
• Images must also have
citations.

Source: http://secondarylibrary.cis.edu.hk/
 Plagiarism?
• Copy/paste.
• Rephrasing someone’s
ideas as your own.
• Combining text from
multiple sources without
citations.
• Forgetting to cite.
• Adding sources to Works
Cited but not citing them
in your text.
• Also: self-plagiarism is
also plagiarism.
Source: http://borrowingsam.tumblr.com/
 Thank you!
• The Library will assist you with all issues
related to information retrieval and use.

• Customer service desk open Mon-Fri 9-17

• Chat open Mon-Fri 9-16:30
• Email us: kirjasto@tut.fi

• Book A Librarian!