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Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 1

Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 1. David Heading and Laura Jeffrey. Part 1 overview. Keyword searching Managing information - Introduction to Endnote Break Advanced searching and limiting options Endnote and Word Accessing information.

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Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 1

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  1. Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 1 David Heading and Laura Jeffrey

  2. Part 1 overview • Keyword searching • Managing information - Introduction to Endnote • Break • Advanced searching and limiting options • Endnote and Word • Accessing information

  3. Find resources on information literacy practices among researchers in higher education

  4. What is the first thing you would do? Ask: • What is it for? • What do you want me to do with it? • How much information do I need?

  5. Define your information need • Background • Basic facts/ definition • In depth secondary information • Critical responses • Data • Primary material

  6. How to search • Effective searching should • Reduce the time spent looking for information • Maximise the quality and appropriateness of results • Keyword – Part 1 • Advanced search options – Part 1 • Related material – Part 2 • Citations and references – Part 2

  7. Keyword searching • Opening up your search • Synonyms butterfly OR lepidoptera • Alternative spellingsorgani?ation will find organisation and organization • Word stemseducat* will find education, educational, educationalist, educating • Terminology and symbols are database and catalogue specific

  8. Keyword searching • Narrowing your search • Proximity European within # Presiden* • Phrase searching “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” • Additional keywords AND Chile • Excluding irrelevant results NOT South Africa

  9. Examining the impact of teenage crime in the inner city Examining the impact of teenagecrime in the inner city OR OR OR youth juvenile adolescen* youth adolescen* teen* ( theft OR “anti-social shoplift* thief) behavio?r” “anti-social behavio?r” crim* crim* AND AND “inner city” cit* London cit* London AND NOT truan*

  10. Keyword strategy hands-on • write a research question connected to your subject in the box at the top • identify the keywords within your title / questionand write these at the start of the rows • write synonyms next to each keyword • Use wildcards, truncation symbols where possible

  11. Advanced search options • Narrow results either before or after you search • Limit to location, format, subject area, date range, document type etc. • Database or catalogue specific

  12. Advanced Searching Hands-on • Choose a database or catalogue • Enter your search strategy • Try and limit your results before and after you search

  13. Which resource? • known item OR resource discovery • introductory OR in-depth • subscription OR freely available • full text OR bibliographic • current OR historic/non-recent • generic OR subject-specific • primary OR secondary

  14. Finding the right tool for the right job • Thorough assessment of what available: Google Scholar • Manageable number of results: subject specific database such as IBSS • Full text journal articles: Jstor • Most up to date research: Science Direct • Primary material: EEBO • Popular commentary: Nexis UK

  15. Accessing Print Resources • Borrow 40 books for up to 6 months • Renewals and recalls • Copy service and postal loans for p-t students • For print not in stock • Ask if the library can purchase it • Use Document Delivery Service and check to see if your department covers costs • SCONUL Access allows you to visit and borrow from other institutions

  16. Accessing Electronic Resources • Use library web pages • Sign in off campus • Use to find out if we have access • Double check the catalogue if negative result or use resources in tandem if no option • Make use of Document Delivery Service or SCONUL Access if we don’t

  17. Accessing Resources Hands-on • Look at what is available at other institutions in print using COPAC or WorldCat • Try accessing e-resources from references-only database using ConneXions • Look at Document Delivery options for your department • Look at the information about SCONUL Access if you are not already a member

  18. Summary • Spend a little time thinking about • what sort of information you need and how you are going to search • what sort of resources you want and how you will access them • and you will save time by having a more relevant and useful set of results • Endnote saves you time and improves quality and consistency of citations and references

  19. Part 2 • Using citations and references • Finding related material • Styles of referencing in Endnote • Keeping up to date with new research Same time next week Book online at www.dur.ac.uk/training.course/

  20. Evaluation Please fill in the evaluation form at www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/pt1fmi121010 to give us feedback on today’s session. Thank you.

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