ECE 4445 Introduction to Digital Image Processing

This page contains information and links to resources relevant to the ECE 4445 library instruction session.

• Slides from the Librarian's (Dan's) presentation (the slides provide more details re. the items linked below)
• Find books & eBooksusing:
  • Library catalogue (contains many eBooks)
  • ENGnetBASE (online engineering handbooks)
• Find scholarly journal articles and conference proceedings using:
  • Google Scholar - easy to use, multidisciplinary; not complete | export to RefWorks instructions
  • IEEE Xplore - full text, publisher-specific database | export to RefWorks instructions
  • SPIE Digital Library - full text, publisher-specific database | export to RefWorks instructions
  • Inspec (Physics, IT, ECE; 1969-) and Compendex (all engineering; 1884-) - can search both at the same time; not fulltext databases | export to RefWorks instructions
  • Scopus - track down highly cited articles | export to RefWorks instructions
  • Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded) - track down highly cited articles | export to RefWorks instructions
  • Click the Get it @ Western button to try to get fulltext online.
  • If Get it @ Western doesn't get you fulltext, search the library catalogue's holdings by Journal Title.
  • If the journal issue or conference proceeding isn't in the library catalogue, search for it on the web. You may be able to get it for free.
  • If all else fails, order the article through InterLibrary Loan (RACER) (free).
• RefWorks (bibliographic citation management and bibliography generating software) | about | importing instruction | Write-N-Cite (plug-in for MS Word)