Research Guides: EECE 533: Physical and Chemical Processes for Water Treatment: Home

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Conducting Research Guide
This research guide provides tips from the librarians on finding and evaluating sources for your research.

Washington University in St. Louis Library Catalog
Access books, ebooks, journal titles, government reports, and more.
MOBIUS Library Catalog
See and request books from other libraries in Missouri.
Note: ebooks cannot be requested. Contact your subject librarian for possible purchase.
Illiad (Interlibrary Loan) Services
Article and book delivery.

AccessEngineering (Access Engineering)
McGraw-Hill textbooks, handbooks and more.
Knovel Library
Over 2,800 major science and technical reference books and databases from major sci-tech publishers including John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier.

Academic Search Complete (1975-present)
Great start for database novices; work on keywords and search filters.
Scopus
The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. NOTE: Click "Institutions" icon in right corner. Change organization to Washington University in St Louis John M Olin Library, Danforth Campus.
Web of Science (1900 - )
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present)

National Technical Reports Library (NTIS/NTRL)
Online library of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports, acquired, indexed, and archived by the National Technical Information Service. Contains over 2 million titles with links to over 600,000 full-text reports (in PDF). Note: Search to Public NTRL is free but in order to display a full text document you would need to register. Registration is free but Terms and Conditions of use need to be signed.

Citing Your Sources & Writing Styles
This guide is designed to help you find information on how to cite your sources correctly and to avoid plagiarism.
How to Choose: Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote
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Identify relevant engineering standard numbers based on design prompt inputs.
Summarize standards and standard requirements.
Brainstorm keywords, subject headings, and additional research areas.
Identify possible "experts."
Help outline your report.
Remember to fact-check all information generated as it could be wrong, outdated, or fabricated.

Start creative juices and overcome writer's block.
- Generate topics, keywords, and ideas.
- Help outline papers.
- Compare and contrast
- Refine research questions and thesis.
- Note effective prompts and strategies.
Be very specific with your language inputs.
- Consider the target audience and task.
- Refine your questions and responses.
- Verify everything.
Use for simple facts that you can fact-check via another source. Then cite that other source.
Beware of misinformation.
- ChatGPT is notoriously bad at sources and often includes fake articles and citations.
- ChatGPT has limited knowledge of the world or events after 2021.
- If you copy/paste AI-generated text, you could be plagiarizing without even knowing it.

Citations

Hargadon, Steve. "Library 2.0's ChatGPT Bootcamp for Libraries and Librarians." Library 2.0, 3/25/2023, https://www.library20.com/bootcamps/chatgpt.