Miscellaneous
Representative Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering 2 vol. ENGR REF R857.M3 E63 2004
Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology (TOC and abstracts are online) 11 vol. LOVE REF TA402 .E53 2001
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 23 vol. ENGR REF TK9 .W55 1999
Copyright, Citations, Fair Use
How to Secure Permission toUse Copyrighted Works http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/permsec.htm
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.html
Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html and http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=645&PARENT_ID=393&bhcp=1
From the University of Minnesota Copyright Information and Education Web site:
Four Factors of Fair Use: <http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/checklist.phtml>
Factor #1: Purpose and character of the use
Factor #2: The nature of the copyrighted work
Factor #3: Amount and substantiality of the portion used
Factor #4: Effect on the potential market for or value of the work
Proper citation of an Internet source: APA Style (from the 5th edition, 2001 of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association)
From the APA Web site Electronic References section http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html#71
examples are given for proper citation of:
1. Internet articles based on a print source
2. Article in an Internet-only journal
3. Article in an Internet-only newsletter
4. Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date
5. Document available on university program or department Web site
6. Electronic copy of a journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database
If you use screen shots from a .gov Web site, you must cite them!
Check out this important Copyright Information from the Virginia Tech University "ETD" (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) Web site: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/crightflier.pdf. Contains advice about signing agreements with publishers and about using someone else's copyrighted works in your dissertation or thesis.
Patent Searching
Among reasons to do patent searching are the following:
(1) To find information about an area that is a candidate for a utility (based on usefulness) patent. Often there is an early insight into groundbreaking accomplishments in an area that are not published elsewhere.
(2) You have an idea and you want to see if there is a patent out there that is related to your idea. You will want to do a "prior art" search (search for granted patents in the same area). This search can only be considered a complete search if you are searching for all patents in the class(es)/subclass(es) related to your idea.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office Web site <http://www.uspto.gov/> will only provide keyword searching for patents back to the early 1970's. Keyword searching may be appropriate as a method for locating information (1) and may assist the searcher in finding a class/subclass to search (2).
Espacenet ep.espacenet.com/ - search European, Japanese, and Worldwide Patents.
The UNL Engineering Library is a United States patent and trademark depository library and has access to WEST – the database used by the USPTO patent examiners.
Other Searching and Assistance
Search Google – http://www.google.com/ choose Advanced Search
Search Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com choose Advanced Scholar search.
E-prints are considered part of the grey literature. They are "rough drafts" of articles that will be submitted to a journal for publication. They can be found on the Internet, through servers that are specially set-up to accommodate authors in certain fields (for example, high-energy physics and energy).
For personal assistance with your information researching, contact me, Virginia Baldwin, at vbaldwin2@unl.edu, 472-3412. This kind of assistance is part of my job description!
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering 2 vol. ENGR REF R857.M3 E63 2004
Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology (TOC and abstracts are online) 11 vol. LOVE REF TA402 .E53 2001
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 23 vol. ENGR REF TK9 .W55 1999
Copyright, Citations, Fair Use
How to Secure Permission toUse Copyrighted Works http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/permsec.htm
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.html
Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html and http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=645&PARENT_ID=393&bhcp=1
From the University of Minnesota Copyright Information and Education Web site:
Four Factors of Fair Use: <http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/checklist.phtml>
Factor #1: Purpose and character of the use
Factor #2: The nature of the copyrighted work
Factor #3: Amount and substantiality of the portion used
Factor #4: Effect on the potential market for or value of the work
Proper citation of an Internet source: APA Style (from the 5th edition, 2001 of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association)
From the APA Web site Electronic References section http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html#71
examples are given for proper citation of:
1. Internet articles based on a print source
2. Article in an Internet-only journal
3. Article in an Internet-only newsletter
4. Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date
5. Document available on university program or department Web site
6. Electronic copy of a journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database
If you use screen shots from a .gov Web site, you must cite them!
Check out this important Copyright Information from the Virginia Tech University "ETD" (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) Web site: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/crightflier.pdf. Contains advice about signing agreements with publishers and about using someone else's copyrighted works in your dissertation or thesis.
Patent Searching
Among reasons to do patent searching are the following:
(1) To find information about an area that is a candidate for a utility (based on usefulness) patent. Often there is an early insight into groundbreaking accomplishments in an area that are not published elsewhere.
(2) You have an idea and you want to see if there is a patent out there that is related to your idea. You will want to do a "prior art" search (search for granted patents in the same area). This search can only be considered a complete search if you are searching for all patents in the class(es)/subclass(es) related to your idea.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office Web site <http://www.uspto.gov/> will only provide keyword searching for patents back to the early 1970's. Keyword searching may be appropriate as a method for locating information (1) and may assist the searcher in finding a class/subclass to search (2).
Espacenet ep.espacenet.com/ - search European, Japanese, and Worldwide Patents.
The UNL Engineering Library is a United States patent and trademark depository library and has access to WEST – the database used by the USPTO patent examiners.
Other Searching and Assistance
Search Google – http://www.google.com/ choose Advanced Search
Search Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com choose Advanced Scholar search.
E-prints are considered part of the grey literature. They are "rough drafts" of articles that will be submitted to a journal for publication. They can be found on the Internet, through servers that are specially set-up to accommodate authors in certain fields (for example, high-energy physics and energy).
For personal assistance with your information researching, contact me, Virginia Baldwin, at vbaldwin2@unl.edu, 472-3412. This kind of assistance is part of my job description!
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