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Maximizing Academic Information Retrieval: Tools and Strategies

Learn how to effectively locate, evaluate, and utilize academic resources for research projects and assignments. Explore various databases, journals, portals, and tools available through DIT Library for accessing reliable and relevant information. Enhance your research skills and access hardcopy and electronic resources to support your academic endeavors.

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Maximizing Academic Information Retrieval: Tools and Strategies

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  1. Information Universe DIT Library Research Resources www.dit.ie/library

  2. DIT Library Clicks & bricks Borrowing Library Sites DIT Library A-Z Ask a Librarian Kevin St Library

  3. Library Accounts & PIN View Renew Request Reading history Remote Access http://www.library.dit.ie/

  4. Library Resources: E-books for Computing • Library website www.dit.ie/library • Library catalogue www.library.dit.ie • Example Art of Software Testing

  5. E-books

  6. Library Community Letters of Introduction? Alcid? Sconul?

  7. Information Retrieval : Class Overview

  8. Research Question What do I need to find out? Where can I find the information? Is the information reliable? Is the information relevant?

  9. Research Question Where to look? Catalogues (WebOpac) Databases Subject Portals E-journals Virtual Reference Desk

  10. Library Resources - Hardcopy DIT Library WebOPAC Other Academic libraries

  11. Library Resources - Electronic Subject Links Evaluated Web-links Databases & E-Journals Ask a Librarian

  12. Informal Blogs, email Groupwork Wikis WebCourses Peers & tutors Focus groups Types of Academic Information Formal • Library Catalogues • Subject Portals • Textbooks & Ebooks • Databases • Journals • Theses & Projects

  13. Primary Journal articles Standards Patents Reports Theses Lab results Secondary Textbooks Encyclopaedias Dictionaries Databases WWW Subject Portals Types of Academic Information

  14. Subject Databases & Journals/E-Journals Articles Research Conference proceedings Standards Reports Where to Find Academic Information

  15. Journals • Serials, Periodicals • short articles • subject specific • published weekly or monthly • reporting on research • peer reviewed • hardcopy v electronic e.g. Polymer 2008 Vol 49 No 20 (Sept) p.8-44

  16. Magazines, Trade Journals • Less academic • Informative • Weekly • Editor driven

  17. Finding Specific Journal Titles • DIT Library Catalogue • hardcopy & e-journals. • search by Journal Title 2. DIT Library Website • e-journals only • search by Title or Topic

  18. Databases & Searching Multiple Journals

  19. DIT Library Science Databases Why use? • Scholarly • Indexes 1000s key academic journals • Peer reviewed • Subject appropriate • Updated & current • Links to full text • Personalisation and social networking links • Current awareness services

  20. DIT Library Computing Databases Which ones? Why Use more than one? • Science Direct • ACM • British Standards Online • Web of Science • IEEE Electronic Library DIT Library databases

  21. Library Resources – Blogs & Mailing Lists • http://blogsearch.google.com • http://www.blogdigger.com • http://www.bloggapedia.com/ • ISWORLD • SEWORLD • DBWORLD • uk-usabibility • JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk

  22. ARROW@DIT Open Access Repository Ireland http://www.irel-open.ie Intute UK Research Repository ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/ OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ union catalog of digital resources OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). National Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (US) http://www.ndltd.org/ Library Resources: Institutional Repositories

  23. Library Resources: Open Access • Cite Seer: Scientific Literature Digital Library • Cogprints • Computing Research Repository (CORR) • arXiv.org : E-Print Archive (Computing) • E-Print Network (Science) • Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) • TechXtra

  24. Library Resources: Subject Gateways • HEA http://www.heanet.ie • INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu • BUBL http://www.bubl.ac.uk • INTUTE http://www.intute.ac.uk

  25. www.intute.ac.uk Library Resources: INTUTE

  26. The tutorials help answer : • What are the key websites I should be using for research in my subject field? • How do I search the Internet effectively? • What can I trust on the Internet? • How do other people use the Internet effectively to support their research?

  27. Infomine • http://infomine.ucr.edu/

  28. What about ? ‘In a 2002 survey of over two thousand US students only 9% used the library resources more than the internet’… - (O’Dochertaigh, N., Internet Research Skills Sage: 2007)

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