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100
This is the most important database for electrical engineering
What is IEEE Explore
100
Put this after some letters so you get all the words starting with those letters.
What is the asterisk, star, or wildcard?
100
This services allows you to check out books?
What is Access Services or Circulation?
100
This allows you to use all the databases from home as if you were on campus
What is off campus users login
100
This number is unique to each article
What is a DOI or Digital Object Identifier?
200
This database covers all areas of engineering and includes journal articles, conference papers, and reports?
What is Engineering Village?
200
These give you helpful hints for searching a database
What are search tips?
200
This helps you find information?
What is Reference Service or a Referencebrarians?
200
You find the most important databases AND websites for your major or a specific class here.
What are the Research Guides?
200
This tool in RefWorks allows you to put in your citations while writing a paper in Word.
What is Write and Cite?
300
Sign up for these so you will be notified of new citations matching your search when the database is updated.
What are alerts?
300
When you put this between words it will only retrieve hits only if both the words are present.
What is and?
300
This service helps you create multi media presentations, like Power Points and videos.
What is Media Services?
300
This is the most crucial of the tools on in Refworks? (Hint-you should do this every time you add citations to RefWorks)
What is Backup and Restore?
300
Experts in their fields who evaluate journal article submissions to determine which are worthy of publication.
What are peer reviewers or referees?
400
These show you more recent publications that cite an article
What are citing references
400
Look here to find synonyms for your keywords and what terms the indexers used
What is the thesaurus?
400
This card lets you go to other libraries (UNH, Tufts, MIT, Northeastern, etc. )and check out their books.
What is a Consortium card?
400
Use this to find if the UMass Lowell has a particular ejournal?
What is UML ejournals?
400
This database has the full text of recent UML dissertations?
What is Dissertation Abstracts?
500
This database lets you make custom tables and graphs.
What is Knovel?
500
You can use these to nest words. The search operates first within them.
What are parentheses?
500
You fill out a form online and the library obtains books or journal articles from other libraries for you
What is Interlibrary Loan?
500
Create these to keep track of your citations for different projects
What are folders?
500
The three P's : thing not to do
What are procrastinate, pay (or purchase) and plagiarize?