Intro to Nanoscale Science & Technology (ENFD3008)

How to Connect: Click on the Login to Proxy Server for Off Campus Access button to login with your UC ID username and password. Once you login, you will be directed back to this guide.

(Note: UC's AnyConnect VPN no longer authenticates you to access library e-resources).

CEAS Library: http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://libraries.uc.edu/ceas

• 8th floor Baldwin Hall - plan to open Sep 14 (see all Fall semester UC Libraries updates)
• Ted.Baldwin@uc.edu - Your librarian for this class & CEAS (BME, ChE, EnvE) and A&S (Chemistry, Biology)
• You can also contact Science & Engineering Ask-A-Librarian with questions.

Science Libraries

• Chemistry-Biology Library (Rieveschl Hall): http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://libraries.uc.edu/chem-bio

• Geo-Math-Physics Library (Braunstein Hall): http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://libraries.uc.edu/gmp

Start with a keyword search, then refine by subject or other facets later. 

Building a search query:

• Create a search set of synonyms (use "OR" operator) for a concept
• Combine search sets for concepts with "AND" operator
• use quote marks " " to identify a phrase
• Use truncation and wild cards to expand based on a word stem (e.g., nano* )
• More info and general examples: https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/wri10_miller/boolean

Narrow your results:

• Examine search result record to see what subjects have been assigned (if any) to the record. Subjects can be combined with keywords to focus search, or searched individually to find items that are primarily about the topic.
• Use refine or limit features such as date, material type (e.g., review article), treatment (in Compendex - theoretical, applied, etc).

Citation searching

• Expand to related articles with shared citations (Scopus database allows for this)
• Use citation sorting and browsing features, including sorting by # of times cited (Scopus, SciFinder, etc)

Getting Started / Exploring Topics:

Searching Books (Print & Online)

Databases to Get Started

Specialized Databases:

Other Library Research Guides (extensive lists of handbooks, databases, journals, and more):

• When searching in an article database, find the "UC Article Linker" icon ("Find Full Text" in Google Scholar)
  • From Article Linker, check if your desired volume/issue is available online.  Otherwise, search for a print copy in the Library Catalog.
  • If not online or in print, submit an interlibrary loan (ILLiad) request.  ILLiad will automatically populate the request form with the journal article information. 
    • NOTE: First time ILLiad users will be prompted to fill in a profile. The "M number" is on your UC ID card in the upper left corner.  Enter the M number so it looks like this: M12345678.
• Use Full Text Journals to search for full-text sources by journal title.
• Search by journal title in the Library Catalog.

Configure Google Scholar for UC Libraries access

Kopernio Browser Plug-In for Full-Text

Download at https://kopernio.com/

• After installing Kopernio, you should be taken to a page to create a Kopernio account.
• Create account and log in.  Click Settings on the left side or go to https://kopernio.com/settings. 
• From the "Account" section, go to the “Personal Details” section and add University of Cincinnati as your affiliation.
• Further down, there should be a “Library Credentials” section where you can save your UC Central Login credentials and reduce some clicks to reach full-text.  This step is not required.

When you reach available full-text, you should get a green Kopernio “View PDF” prompt for full-text in the lower left.  You can try out this example from Nature Nano - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0655-z and ACS Nano - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c01687 .  You need to be on the article’s page (vs. search results) to trigger a “View PDF” prompt.

Initially, the full-text opens in Kopernio’s viewer.  You can download the PDF file from here.  You can also save PDFs to a personal Kopernio locker; however, there is a limit in their storage space.  A paid Premium account gives more storage (how they make money).

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