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Use Summon as a first stop for your research to search across most of the library's resources. Example: “life cycle assessment” cars
More Search Options: Advanced Search | Databases A-Z | by Subject and Type
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Use to find books, ebooks and films available through the Gordon Library. Example: “ultimate history of video games”
More Search Options: Advanced Search | eBook Collections | WorldCat
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Use when you know the title of a journal, magazine or newspaper to find if WPI has full text access. Example: “Journal of Solar Energy Engineering”
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Use to find completed project report, theses, or disserations.
Example: “Erosion”More Search Options: Project Center Resources | Theses & Dissertations
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Use to find resources through Google Scholar and connect through FullTextFinder. Example: “life cycle assessment” automobiles OR cars
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Morgan Construction Company: Revolutionizing the Rolling Mill Industry Worldwide - Gallery Talk
On February 16, 2012, Chuck Innis, Adjunct Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WPI and a 28 year veteran of the Morgan Construction Company, will offer a guided gallery talk at noon.
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Noelle Richard is winner of Robert Fellman Memorial Scholarship Prize
Noelle Richard, WPI Class of 2013, is the winner of the 2012 Robert Fellman Memorial Scholarship Prize for her essay, "The Ghostly Progression Towards Redemption."
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- Happy Birthday Mr. Dickens Celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens today with some words from Dickens like “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” >
- Library Workshops This Week! Copyright & Your WPI Project and Finding Numbers/Statistics Sign up now for this week's library workshops: Copyright & Your WPI Project Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 Library Lab A 3:00-4:00 p.m. Since WPI Interactive Qualifying Projects (IQPs), Major Qualifying Projects (MQPs), theses, and dissertations are now published online and often distributed to a sponsor, you need to pay close attention to copyright law. You need to consider such issues as: Can I copy an image from a commercial Web site? May I use a chart or table from an article in my MQP, IQP, thesis or dissertation For online projects it is not enough to simply cite your source with a citation; copyright permissions are required for works under copyright protection. This workshop will explain basic copyright as it relates to your project as well as show you how to find free-to-use images and other resources for your project work. >
- Website Feedback & This Week’s Winner Congratulations to Danielle Riccardi, the first winner of a $25 Amazon gift card. The library has received much feedback already on the new website so far and we welcome additional comments. Take a look at www.wpi.edu/+library and send us your feedback. Submit feedback if you have not already, to be eligible for next week’s gift card drawing. >
- Attention Hoover’s Academic Users! New access URL The provider of the Hoover's Academic database has changed the URL that we use to access Hoover's. The change came with very little warning, and as a result the library has not updated all of its web page links to Hoover's. The new URL is http://ezproxy.wpi.edu/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/hoovers. >
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RSS Feed- Library Workshops This Week! Copyright & Your WPI Project and Finding Numbers/Statistics Sign up now for this week's library workshops: Copyright & Your WPI Project Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 Library Lab A 3:00-4:00 p.m. Since WPI Interactive Qualifying Projects (IQPs), Major Qualifying Projects (MQPs), theses, and dissertations are now published online and often distributed to a sponsor, you need to pay close attention to copyright law. You need to consider such issues as: Can I copy an image from a commercial Web site? May I use a chart or table from an article in my MQP, IQP, thesis or dissertation For online projects it is not enough to simply cite your source with a citation; copyright permissions are required for works under copyright protection. This workshop will explain basic copyright as it relates to your project as well as show you how to find free-to-use images and other resources for your project work. >
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Our Visual Art Reception – Thursday, February 2, 4:15 – 5:15, 3rd Floor Library Gallery
All are welcome to attend a gallery reception with WPI artists. Thursday February 2 4:15-5:15pm, 3rd Floor, Library. Refreshments will be served.
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- Library Workshops This Week! Use ILLiad interlibrary loan to obtain access to books, journal articles, and other information resources conveniently and efficiently. Create your own account, place requests, check request statuses and more in this hands-on, overview session. Need it now? Learn more about our rush Document Delivery service and about our Academic & Research Collaborative (ARC) borrowing card options too! >
- Library Workshop: Business Plan Research on Monday, Jan. 30 Learn how to effectively and efficiently find research about your industry, target market, customers and competition. >
- Library Workshop Tonight! Summon-Simplify Your Research, 6-7 p.m., Lab B Have you ever wished that you could find library resources in one place? Well now you can. Summon is one stop shopping for searching for books, e-books, project reports, articles, patents and more. Instead of searching separately through many sources, you can search Summon to get the research you need quickly and easily. >
