1 / 22

Writing Across the Profession Part II

Writing Across the Profession Part II. Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu. Quick Review: . Define a Topic & Generate Keywords

carrington
Download Presentation

Writing Across the Profession Part II

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Writing Across the ProfessionPart II Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

  2. Quick Review: • Define a Topic & Generate Keywords • Using Catalogs/WorldCat/Ebrary • Finding Databases • Browse and locate databases by subject • Locate more databases using the library's research guides ( LibGuides) • Finding Articles in Library Databases • Identify a variety of articles appropriate to your topic • Locate articles based on a citation

  3. Quick Review: Mix & Match • Use keyword search in JSTOR to find Book Reviews • Use WorldCat to locate books • Use Cited References/Bibliographies • Use Periodical List (or ILL) to locate article

  4. Publishing Cycle

  5. Between 1986 and 2006, journal expenditures of North American research libraries increased by a staggering 321%

  6. $4360

  7. $10,320

  8. $15,428 

  9. Response: Open Access • Directory of Open Access Journals • PLOS • OAIster/Open Thesis

  10. Directory of Open Access Journals • DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 6195 journals in the directory. Currently 2639 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 511454 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

  11. PLOS • Public Library of Science: a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

  12. OAIsterOpen Thesis • Union catalog of digital resources • Contains digital resources from open archive collections. • Represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors worldwide. • Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click. • Repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents • Boolean search, • Collaborative tools.

  13. Searching the Deep Web www.opte.org

  14. Specialized Search • Wolfram/Alpha • A computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. • Scrius • For scientific information only. A web based comprehensive scientific research tool. • Ipl2 • Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). A directory.

  15. Academic Search Engines and Databases • Google Scholar. Find information among academic journals with this tool. • getCITED. This database of academic journal articles and book chapters also includes a discussion forum. • HighWire Press. From Stanford, use this tool to access thousands of peer-reviewed journals and full-text articles. • Virtual Learning Resource Center. This tool provides links to thousands of academic research sites to help students at any level find the best information for their Internet research projects. • MagBot. This search engine provides journal and magazine articles on topics relevant to students and their teachers • OpenJ-Gate. Access over 4500 open journals with this tool that allows you to restrict your search to peer-reviewed journals or professional and industry journals.

  16. Semantic Search Tools and Databases • Hakia. This popular semantic search engine only accesses websites that are recommended by librarians. • Freebase. This community-powered database includes information on millions of topics. • Powerset. Enter a topic, phrase, or question to find information from Wikipedia with this semantic application. • Kartoo. Enter any keyword to receive a visual map of the topics that pertain to your keyword. Hover your mouse over each to get a thumbnail of the website. • Quintura. Entering your search term will create a cloud of related terms as well as a list of links. Hover over one of the words or phrases in the cloud to get an entirely different list of links. • Evri. This search engine provides you with highly relevant results from articles, papers, blogs, images, audio, and video on the Internet.

  17. Scientific Search Engines and Databases • Science.gov. This search engine offers specific categories including agriculture and food, biology and nature, Earth and ocean sciences, health and medicine, and more. • WorldWideScience.org. Search for science information with this connection to international science databases and portals. • CiteSeer.IST. This search engine and digital library will help you find information within scientific literature. • Scirus. This science search engine moves beyond journal articles and also includes searches among such resources as scientists’ webpages, courseware, patents, and more. • Scopus. Find academic information among science, technology, medicine, and social science categories. • GoPubMed. Search for biomedical texts with this search engine that accesses PubMed articles. • PubFocus. This search engine searches Medline and PubMed for information on articles, authors, and publishing trends. • Scitopia. This "deep federated search" brings the best information from the fields of science and technology. • Scitation. Find over one million scientific papers from journals, conferences, magazines, and other sources with this tool.

  18. Tips and Strategies: Searching the deep web should be done a bit differently, so use these strategies to help you get started on your deep web searching. • Don’t rely on old ways of searching. Become aware that most of the content on the Internet doesn’t show up on typical search engines, so think about other ways of searching i.e. Specialized Engines • Search for databases. Using any search engine, enter your keyword alongside "database" to find any searchable databases (for example, "running database" or "woodworking database").

  19. Tech Tools For Scholars • RSS feeds • Dropbox • UNC Writing Center • Writing for Specific Fields

  20. LibGuides • librarian created portals to high quality research information.

  21. Questions? • Contact me: • Frederic Murray • 774-7113 • frederic.murray@swosu.edu

  22. Thanks!

More Related