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Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library

Learn about literature review, citations, bibliography management tools, and ways to stay up-to-date with the latest research.

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Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library

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  1. Exploitinginformation:getting the mostfrom the OU Library March 2016

  2. Our session will cover.. • Literature review and sources of help • The importance of citations • Keeping up to date • Bibliographic management tools

  3. A good literature review will.. • clarify your understanding of the field • explain the rationale for your research • evaluate the results of previous research • define key concepts and ideas • identify research in related areas that are generalizable or transferable to your topic • identify relevant methodological issues. • cover all important relevant literature • be up-to-date

  4. Library

  5. Using citations • Helps measure the impact an article makes on the community at large • Properly grounds the research through an appropriate review of the literature • Considered to be one of the most reliable of resources in tracing the development of an idea across the multitude of disciplines that are part of our body of knowledge

  6. Web of Science The original citation research source extracting the citation information from the articles in over 10,000 journals from almost every discipline.   https://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/resource/database:257166&f=126

  7. SCOPUS An abstract and citation database of over 14,000 scientific, technical, medical and social science titles, from 1966 onwards. The citation tracker allows the user to find articles that have cited specific authors https://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/resource/database:330495&f=126

  8. Keeping up to date Introducing you to ways of keeping up-to-date using electronic tools

  9. Email alerts, RSS feeds, social media Set up, save and re-run your searches against latest additions to databases Set up profiles to receive automatically the contents pages of journal issues Receive notification of articles recently published and added to a database Keep up to date with breaking news Discover new resources in your field

  10. Email alerting services Two types Journal table of contents (TOC) based Search based: keywords, authors, subject Examples Zetoc Alert IEEE Explore/JSTOR/WOS Library Search

  11. Zetoc Zetoc provides access to the British Libraries Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year http://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/resource/database:286975&f=126

  12. Other updating tools Setting up RSS feeds Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/welcome Social networking tools ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com

  13. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/the_orb /

  14. Bibliographic management tools

  15. What if the OU Library doesn’t have what I need? • Use the document delivery service to order books and photocopies of articles via the British Library http://www.open.ac.uk/library/node/40333 • Borrow from other libraries using the SCONUL Access scheme: http://www.open.ac.uk/library/help-and-support/libraries-near-you • Use the ‘suggest new titles’ form http://www.open.ac.uk/library/library-resources/suggest-new-titles

  16. Help and training resources • Training sessions, online or F2F http://www.open.ac.uk/library/training-and-events/online-training-sessions • Subject specialists within the Library • Immediate help via Library helpdesk • 24/7 Webchat

  17. Image credits All images from Britannica Image Quest • Gold panning on the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada. Universal Images Group • The Science Museum, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain. Universal Images Group • Cosmic microwave telescope, Owens Valley, Calif. David Nunuk/ Science Photo Library • Parallel imaging. Sandia National Laboratories Science Photo Library

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