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Academic Writing Night on the 4th of October 2017

Do you struggle with your academic writing? Is it difficult to find good literature/information sources? Are your references a bit of a mess?

Then the academic writing night on the 4th of October at Gløshaugen could be the right solution for you.

You can come and go as you please, and you can either write on your own or get help from learning assistants and professionals. You can participate in individual guidance, workshops and lectures on academic writing, literature search, reference management, motivation & study techniques.

This academic writing night is an offer to all students at NTNU. You can benefit from the evening regardless of how far you have come in your studies. Bring the text you want to work on and any relevant literature you might have.

You are welcome between 3pm and 9pm at U1 at the Natural Science Building and it would be great if you would register for the evening in advance (but it’s not necessary in order to participate): http://www.kurspaamelding.no/ntnu-ub/index.php?kursid=148&dato=363&paamelding=ja&groupid=171

 

 

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Alerts – information about topics or authors of interest

Through the Library you have access to databases (Web of Science; SCOPUS; Compendex) in which you can create alerts to ensure that you get information about topics or authors of interest. These alerts will notify you by email and can be specified to track the following:

  • new papers published by a specific author or new papers on a specific topic
  • to learn when a specific paper has been cited by new papers added to the database
  • to receive table of contents of new journal issues

To learn how to create citation alerts review the Web of Science – Citation Alerts tutorial.
To learn how to save searches and create search alerts review the Web of Science – Saving your search and setting alerts tutorial.

 

 

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Standards and Patents at the University Library

The NTNU University Library subscribes to a number of portals offering standards and patents.  These portals offer different standards based on subject area.

What is a standard?

Standards define an agreed, repeatable way of doing something, which is documented in specifications, procedures and guidelines. They are designed to ensure that products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistent within a desired performance level, and cover everything from consumer products and services to engineering, energy utilities, the environment and much more.

Standards are based on industrial and scientific experience, and are frequently reviewed to make sure that they are up to date with current technology. The use of standards serves as a basis for the trust that consumers have in a product or service, and ensures that the consumer can expect a certain quality from their purchase.

There are three kinds of standards. International standards (e.g. ISO-standards), Regional standards (like those found in the European Union, EN-standards) and national standards. Often, countries adopt international standard for national use.

Standards are, in essence, concentrated knowledge. They are tools that facilitate technical improvement and an increase in productivity, and are also suited for educational purposes. The NTNU University Library can offer standards from a wide range of subjects and fields.

Go here for direct access to the Oria database for portals to standards.

Some of the portals you can find in Oria:

You can get access to international and national standards like ISO, NS and NEK at standard.no

For IEEE standards you can go here. This database gives you access to standards for computer engineering, biomedicine, telecommunications, electrical engineering, electric power engineering, space engineering and consumer electronics.

The American Petroleum Institute offer standards that are widely used worldwide in the oil and natural gas industry. This link gives you access to API standards through the IHS database. To use this database you will need to create an account using your NTNU email address.

Patents

The University Library also provides access to patent databases. A patent is used for protecting a solution to a technical problem. It also gives the patent applicant the sole rights to use this solution in a commercial context during the patent lifetime (normally 20 years) in the countries where the patent is valid. No one else can use the solution to produce, market or sell something in these countries until the patent has expired.

The patent databases can be found via this link to Oria.

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NTNU Open – No limits for access to research 

From January 2017 all research publications from NTNU staff have to be archived and made freely available in NTNUs institutional repository, NTNU Open.

If researchers and other staff at NTNU chose to publish in an open publication channel (Open Access) you should find a copy of the final publication in NTNU Open.
If the publication is published in one of the traditional subscription based publication channels, a copy of the final draft of the article or chapter has to be archived in NTNU Open, but without the final publisher layout and formatting.

This way we can guarantee that the most important part of published NTNU-research, that you previously would have had to pay for to get access to, is available to all.

More about Open Access at NTNU:

Publishing for employees: https://innsida.ntnu.no/publisering

Publish your master thesis electronically

How to apply for Open Access funding

NTNU Open Access Journals

NTNU Publishing Policy 2014–2020

 

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OECDiLibrary – world statistics and much more

Do you wonder about how much renewable energy Norway produces? And how that compares with production in the rest of the world?

OECD statistics, accessible to you via NTNU library, helps finding the answer to this question and many other.

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In the OECDiLibrary statistics module, you can find world statistics on many themes from gender equality in education to fisheries, employment or health status…

OECDiLibrary also provides access to numerous reports of interest for a wide range of disciplines, like the World Energy Outlook 2015, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015 and Education at a glance 2015, to name a few.

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books,  papers and OECD OECD statistics.

OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

OECD iLibrary presents all content so users can find – and cite – tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters in any available format: PDF, WEB, XLS, ActiveChart, DATA, ePUB, READ.

 To access OECDiLibrary datapages you have to be on the NTNU campus network or use VPN.

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Access to AAPG Datapages

The library has online access to AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists). Contents include AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Gulf Coast Group (USA), Journal of Petroleum Geology, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Midcontinent Group (USA), Pacific & Asia Group, Rocky Mountain Group (USA) and Southwestern Group (USA).

Link: http://archives.datapages.com/data/index.html

If you prefer you can access the database through the library’s home page, http://www.ntnu.edu/ub, and get a alphabetic list of all of our databases (select database under the search box).

To access AAPG Datapages you have to be on the NTNU campus network or use VPN.

 

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Knovel – interactive equations

When studying or working on your research you sometimes have to do calculations or look up a specific equation. Knovel interactive equations can help you as they provide an online notebook where you can look up and try out selected equations.

Example on interactive equations in PID controller design with an op-amp. (Picture from: knovel - interactive equations)
Example on interactive equations in PID controller design with an op-amp. (Picture from: knovel – interactive equations)

All of the equations come with citations to a published work in which versions of them are used.

To get an overview, take a look at knovel’s video where they present the current available equations. Try them out and do a calculation within your subject.

To get full access you will have to be connected to the network at NTNU (use VPN from outside).

Information from the web page:
“Knovel Interactive Equations features authoritative content with over 500 equations paired with worked examples in the areas of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Electronics and Semiconductors, General Engineering, Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, and Metals and Metallurgy.”

For more information, take a look at:
https://app.knovel.com/ie/#welcome

Please tell us whether you find this kind of tool useful (leave a comment).

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Try OnePetro!

OnePetro is a full text database of technical documents and journal articles. It covers subjects like: oil, gas, energy, physics, geophysics and geology. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) – operates OnePetro. Access to OnePetro is available to the general public, and full-text articles and technical content is provided to you by the NTNU University library.

Conference proceedings like OTC (Offshore Technology Conference) and ISOPE (International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference) are available in OnePetro.

Please note that searching in oria.no will not search OnePetro.  To get results from the database you must do a search directly in OnePetro or via Google Scholar

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Access to Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics

As of September 2015 you have access to Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics    

( http://arc.aiaa.org/loi/jgcd ).

This journal is wanted especially by researchers from the IME faculty, but could be useful to all involved with:

“…dynamics, stability, guidance, control, navigation, optimization, electronics, avionics, and information processing related to aeronautical, astronautical, and marine systems.

You can access both articles from 2015 and earlier issues as full text (pdf). The older issues will have to go through a control after one year to see if access could still be justified (due to statistical use). So if you want to keep it you should use it!