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Evaluating Information

When using Online or Internet Resources, consider Search Engines vs. metasites - evaluate resource - consider domain - .edu, .com, .gov, .org, etc.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources - or Evaluation Techniques for Internet Resources

Authority control - authorship - who, affiliation, where
Currency - note the date, the update, does it reflect the right period of time
Evaluate the source - establish criteria that is meaningful to covering the topic
Citing Internet resources - URL & date of the search
Capturing and citing
Copying

Introduction

The Department focuses on foundations in computer science that include algorithms, data structures, artificial intelligence, machine learning, database systems, networked systems, programming languages, digital logic, operating systems, compilers, and computer architecture. Related to the library resources to support this program is the Subject Page for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in the Samueli School of Engineering.

All new affiliates of ICS should consider the following:

Create an ORCID ID
Learn about Overleaf Professional, a LaTeX writing tool

News Block

Beginning October 21, 2020 a fall series of webinars that are being scheduled among a group of the major Data Science institutes at key research institutes -- UC Berkeley, Michigan, Stanford, Rice, Univ of Washington & NYU
From CNI: Not only is this an important development in its own right, as higher education tries to situate the emerging discipline of data science within its institutions, but it begins to suggest how the current pandemic and the shift to virtual venues is changing scholarly communication patterns. Events such as seminars and symposia that were historically institutionally based are moving to much broader (sometimes internationally based ) community participation, with implications that we have yet to understand. This demands closer examination and consideration than I'm aware is occurring, particularly in the context of the growing emergence of what might be called "scientific nationalism" driven by government policies.
Gartner Campus Access
UCI has licensed Gartner and this version offers industry trends related to most IT issues and emerging technologies including all the hypecycles.
UCI Libraries License Overleaf Professional
Available from January 2020. More detailed information available at https://guides.lib.uci.edu/overleaf
Gamers are the New High School Athletes
With input from UCI faculty, Education Week, May 24, 2018
Storytelling in Video Games
from American Libraries Oct 13, 2015
First World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees Announced in 2015
The games in the inaugural class of The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame™ span multiple decades, countries of origin, and gaming platforms, but all have significantly affected the video game industry, popular culture, and society in general. Pong, Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Mario Bros., DOOM, and World of Warcraft have been selected from a field of 15 finalists that also included: Angry Birds, FIFA, The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, The Oregon Trail, Pokémon, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Space Invaders.
JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments
This dynamic new concept of a journal incorporates videos, films, sound, powerpoints, text & images to demonstrate the experimental sciences. Indexed in PubMed & other sources. Covers Bioengineering, Chemistry, Applied Physics, Neurosciences, Immunology & Infection, Clinical & Translational Medicine, Behavior and Environment. Increasingly interdisciplinary.
ASTM Standards & Engineering Digital Library
ASTM Compas is the major database for standards issued by the American Society for testing and materials. Includes full text current and historical standards, and all other publications issued by ASTM: e-books, symposia, journal articles.
Finding Video Content in ASTM
Learn how to find video content associated with ASTM standards.
Reuters Science News
Global news summaries about latest science events, policies and findings from news wires and media outlets.
ScienceWatch
Tracks trends and performance in global scientific research since 1989 and includes interview, competitive intelligence, data and rankings, special topics.

ORCID iD

Registration

Beginning FY 2020 (October 2019), federal funders now require ORCID iD registration for all new fellowship, research training, education, and career development proposals.

(See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-109.html for the original notice.) ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique digital researcher identifiers. These unique identifiers help identify articles written by the same author using various forms of his, her, or their names. This registry also provides a way to link research activities, such as publication and data set creation, to these identifiers. Beyond the federal funding requirements, you’ll be doing the research community a favor by participating – the more the ORCID buy-in, the further along we all get toward the goal of seamless, comprehensive and accurate compilation of individual authors’ works.

Library is Open for eAccess

Liaison Librarian

Julia Gelfand

Contact:

Office: Science Library 228

Phone: 949-824-4971

EMail: jgelfand@uci.edu

Subjects: Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Information & Computer Science, Physical Sciences, Public Policy, Social Ecology, Urban Planning

Collaboration

Collaborative Software - Overleaf
A collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor for the writing, editing, compiling and publishing of scientific documents. Integrated directly with Bibliographic Management Software packages. Requires registration and can be used with collaborators at other institutions.
Collabratec
IEEE platform that is free for sign-up. Think of it as LinkedIn for Engineers. Very international in scope. Active discussion for authors.
Overleaf LibGuide