EDISE (Engineering Diploma Seminar)
Get your grade signed in the "index" booklet during your instructor's (Domaszewicz) office hours (available here).
How to get scientific papers from reputable digital libraries.
Our Main Library provides free access to a great number of top digital libraries. The list of the libraries is available at http://www.bg.pw.edu.pl/index.php/en/database-list For us, the libraries of particular importance are the following:
- ACM Digital Library,
- IEEE/IEE Electronic Library,
- Science Direct,
- Springer.
(Of course, others may be of interest as well.)
To access any of those libraries you need to follow the above link and then click on the library of interest. If you are connected to a WUT's network (for example, in a lab in our faculty), you will be taken directly to the corresponding library.
When you use the list of the libraries from the outside of the WUT facilities, you need to provide your login and password (once you click on a specific library). As students, you can get the login and password in WUT's Main Library, located in the Main Building.
A possible way to look for relevant papers is as follows:
- Use good keywords in your favourite search engine to find prospective papers.
- When the title of a paper looks interesting, read its abstract (the digital libraries usually provide abstract free of charge to everybody).
- If the paper still appears relevant, go to the list of digital libraries maintained by the Main Library (the link above).
- Click on the library where the paper is stored.
- If working from the outside of the WUT facilities, provide your login and password.
- Now you are at the site of the digital library of interest and you are authorized to retrieve papers from it. Paste the title of the paper you are interested in into the "search" field of the digital library.
- The entry for the paper, along with a link to its pdf should appear.
- Download the pdf to your computer.
Remember, searching for related work is not trivial, even for an experienced researcher. It is important to be creative in trying different keywords (see step 1 above). Authors of relevant paper might have named things differently than what your first guess might suggest. Thus one needs to "experiment" with different sets of keywords.