6.UAT - Preparation for Undergraduate Advanced Project

Literature Searching

Strategies for finding related work for the Technical Chalk Talk assignment

Links to databases used in class

• Inspec
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• More databases...

Thesis used in class

• Answering definitional questions before they are asked -- Aaron D. Fernandes

Why worry about previous work?

How to find previous work

• the art of keyword searching
• citation browsing

More about finding foundational papers

Additional class-related links

• Barton
• Vera
• Vera Multi-search
• LibX toolbar
• Bibliographic software

This page was last updated on 02/25/08