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ACRL: Search as Strategic Exploration;
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Finding U.S. Patents in Patent Public Search This is one of a series of videos we have on patents. Today we’ll be finding US patents in Patent Public Search. The website we'll be at today is: uspto.gov/patentpublicsearch -
Steps to Searching for U.S. Patents This is one of a series of videos we have on patents. In this video we’ll be reviewing the steps to searching for U.S. patents. The US Patent and Trademark Office, is an agency of the US Department of Commerce, the USPTO for short and they are the ones who grant patents. Their main webpage has a lot of useful information on it, including a multi step search strategy - and this will be our guide. -
Book Spine Poetry This activity is meant to engage studio art students in the library through browsing and serendipitous discovery. Research has shown that art students have a preference for browsing as an information search strategy. -
SLM 621: Citations as Seeds and Getting Organized with Google Sheets In a session prepared for SLM 621 students, tips on how to search library databases is shared along with the activity "Citations as Seeds" to show students how to use the references section on an article to find related articles. -
ENG 111 (2022) The ENG 111: Miami University Libraries module uses digital resources to develop and strengthen your ability to identify, locate, and evaluate, different types of information. Items include text tutorials, videos, interactive exercises to practice concepts, and short quizzes. -
ENG 111 Library Instruction (2021) Intended for students to learn how to use basic library research services, like how to find instructional videos and relevant resources for their current assignment. -
Researching for the Literature Review -
STEM Resource Video Series: GeoRef and GeoScience World This video covers both databases because GeoRef is integrated into GeoScience World, but you can also use them on their own, so it can be a bit confusing to talk about them separately. This video goes over how to do a search including the different search options in each database, and how to access the full text PDF. -
STEM Resource Video Series: Engineering Village Engineering Village has a few components to it that are relevant to different areas of study and you can search these together or separately. This video covers a basic search applicable to any portion of Engineering Village and looks at the different filtering options you can use to refine your search. It also examine an article record, goes over how to evaluate it and how to share and save resources with permalinks. Finally as Engineering Village is just an indexing database, and the full text is not stored there, it'll show to use the Find It button to gain full access to the PDFs. -
STEM Resource Video Series: Introduction to Web of Science This video covers general searching and the citation tracking features that set Web of Science apart from other databases. Web of Science covers quite a few subject areas, across the sciences and engineering; it actually consists of several separate collections you can search separately or all at once. This video goes over the basics that are applicable to any of the collections. -
English 119 Library Instruction Session -
UNV 101 King Library Exploration This in-class handout introduces students to library resources and services through the university libraries’ website by doing a scavenger hunt type activity. Students learn about such things as how to find databases and subject guides, how to search books and articles as well as how to use the library’s chat service and where to find the Special Collections website.