Some tools for research

Journals that are good to watch (along with impact factors)

• Science (29)
• Nature (26)
• PNAS (9.6)
• Environmental Science and Technology (4.5)
• IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (3.5)
• IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (1.9)
• Energy Policy (1.8)
• The Energy Journal (1.7)
• Energy (1.7)
• Applied Energy (1.4)
• IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (1.3)

Seach engines

• IEEE Explore
• Engineering Village
• ISI Web of Knowledge
• ProQuest
• Science Direct
• Google Scholar
• UVM Library
• UVM Catalog
• UVM links to article search databases

Software tools that I have written:

• mexosi
  A (less than perfect) MATLAB interface to Coin-OR Cbc package. This will allow one to solve mixed integer linear programming problems in MATLAB. To use it uncompress the zip file, travel to the mexosi directory and type "make" in MATLAB. It will take a few minutes to build the files. I've only tried this on my mac, so not sure if will work on other platforms. It will take some work to get this to work on windows as it is hard to work with mex files in windows. If you figure out how to compile this on windows send me an e-mail.