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Tools to use when you write your Master Thesis

Discover useful tools for searching, evaluating, and managing scientific information for your master thesis. Learn about search tools, search strategies, citation management software, and plagiarism prevention.

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Tools to use when you write your Master Thesis

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  1. Tools to use when you write your Master Thesis Annika Nilsson Physics- and Astronomy Library

  2. Source: http://projectimplicit.net/nosek/interests.htm

  3. Support from the Physics and Astronomy Library Source: http://projectimplicit.net/nosek/interests.htm

  4. Search, find and evaluated scientific information about your subject

  5. Different search tools • Local LU searchtools • LUBcat • LUBsearch • Serchtools not restricted to LU-material • Libris • Databases (Web of Science, Inspec, Scopus, arXiv.org) • Searchengines (Duckduckgo, Google)

  6. Search strategy To creat a strategy is essential for successfulsearchresults. • Keywords and controlledlanguage • Booleansearching • Searchtechniques to use in different databases

  7. Write your Thesis Follow academic integrity and Cite correctly • Choose one Reference Style - APS, Vancouver or Harvard? Ask your supervisor • Consider using a citation management software such as BibTeX, EndNote, Refworks, Mendeley, or Zotero • Don’t forget to specify the origin of your figures/images Collect and manage your references when you start working with your thesis!

  8. Urkund Lund University uses the program Urkund in order to prevent and detect cases of plagiarism. Urkund compares student papers with other texts from three central source types – the Internet, printed material and its own archive.

  9. Urkund • Send your Thesis to your supervisors Urkund-mail • Important that you get the e-mailadress from your supervisor! (name.surname.lu@analys.urkund.se)

  10. LUP-SP Upload your Thesis in LUP-SP. https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/ • Full Thesis under Main document • Popular abstract under Related Materials

  11. Guide for Students at Advanced Level http://libguides.lub.lu.se/advanced_physics

  12. Workshop Attend to oneof the workshops : • Dates: 2/10 or 3/10 or 5/10 • Time: 13-15 • The computer room – Lyran, Astronomybuilding • Information about the groups by e-mail a weekbefore the workshop Contact: annika.nilsson@fysik.lu.se

  13. Preparation for the workshop • Findkeywords in yoursubject – thinkwide and narrow • Chooseyourreference style – ask your supervisor A workshop to spendtimewith the writing and citing part of the thesiswork.

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