F inding the best information

1. Finding the best information Library & Information Services 2013 Therese Robin, Head of Library and Information Services

2. Where do you normally start when looking for information for your assignment? • Content provided on the LMS • Readers, print and online • Pdfs • Video • Links to articles in UniMelb subscribed databases ORMOND COLLEGE

3. When asked to find information beyond the LMS – what’s the best approach? • Where you look • How you look • What type of information you look for depends on your information need. ORMOND COLLEGE

4. Some options • Information freely shared on the internet – Google. • This can be a good place to start. There is much reputable information in the public domain e.g. Government reports etc and used with caution Wikipedia can be a good place to get an overview. ORMOND COLLEGE

5. Google Use the links on the Library website for tips and tricks • Use several key words and phrases e.g. Australia "Federal budget" • Add descriptive words like ‘facts’ 'summary’ ‘basic’ ‘introduction’ ‘opinion’ 'review' • Specify the domain with your keywords e.g. site:edu; site:edu.au; site:gov.au; site:vic.gov.au • The order of your keywords matters. Google weights the importance of your keywords in order of appearance • Google assumes a Boolean AND between your keywords. If you want it to do an OR search you have to type OR between the words. ORMOND COLLEGE

6. Googling cautions • What you see is skewed by what you have viewed in the past. • The page rank algorithm is vulnerable to manipulation • False sense of comprehensiveness ORMOND COLLEGE

7. Google Scholar • Google Scholar provides links to full text University of Melbourne resources available through Discovery.   • See the Library website for how to set up Google Scholar ORMOND COLLEGE

8. Evaluate sites Authority; Objectivity; Accuracy; Currency ORMOND COLLEGE

9. Reliable sites Get to know good sites as starting points • ABC; Radio National • BBC • Radio National • Victorian government • Australian government • Australian Parliamentary Library / Hansard • The conversation • Trove. Over 284,011,888 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more ORMOND COLLEGE

10. Shared education • iTunes U: Over 800 universities, intellectual societies and institutions have made freely available audio and video lectures from their courses and public lecture series. Includes the University of Melbourne (Need to open with iTunes) • Ted talks the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, talk on their chosen topic (18 minutes or less).Slow TV is a free internet TV channel produced by The Monthly delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues.YouTube EDUVideos and YouTube Channels from Colleges and Universities ORMOND COLLEGE

11. Oxford Universityon iTunes U Highlights • Marianne Talbot’s “A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners” • Alan Turing : A Centenary Conference on the famous mathematician • Uncertainty as part of decision-relevant information • Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) • Shakespeare's first folio of 36 plays including original spelling (need ibooks app to read) ORMOND COLLEGE

12. Libraries still best for some types of information • Quality assured • Content rich • Accessible • Relevant • Organised ORMOND COLLEGE

13. Ormond College Library ORMOND COLLEGE

14. Ormond Use the Ormond Library catalogue to find Books and DVDs – not journal articles Use Ormond’s eBook library (EBL) to find and borrow eBooks ORMOND COLLEGE

15. Ormond Library catalogue • Don’t just cut and paste your assignment title in – think about key concepts. • When you retrieve something relevant, try the subject headings it has in its catalogue record. • The term used by your lecturer and textbook is not necessarily the same as the subject used in the Library database. E.g. Indigenous v Aboriginal Australians • Looking at a specific item. Where is it? Is it os-general? in the Reserves collection? in the Reference collection? or RecRead? • Lost? – ask library staff ORMOND COLLEGE

16. At the shelves • Dewey classification works by disciplines • Depending on the ‘angle” – you may find books on your subject in several areas ORMOND COLLEGE

17. E.g. Books on China • 302 Intercultural communication • 320.951 Politics • 327.51 Foreign relations • 365.45095 Human rights • 395 Social life and customs • 349.51 Law • 495 Chinese language • 709.51; 759.951 Art • 895 Chinese literature • 951 History Choose some relevant numbers and walk over to the shelves and browse. And don’t forget to have a look for eBooks in EBL ORMOND COLLEGE

18. Think laterally Question • "Have you got anything on focus groups?” “I did a keyword search in the library websitesearch box focus groups and got no results” Answer • Try books on Marketing. Most of them will have a chapter on Focus Groups ORMOND COLLEGE

19. eBooks • Your search in the Ormond Library catalogue may retrieve selected eBooks from University or from Ormond’s eBook library EBL. • Click the URL link to use the eBook ORMOND COLLEGE

20. Or search in E-Book Library (EBL) • Over 300,000 scholarly titles including some fiction • Browse and e-loan • Access from the Ormond Library webpage with your Ormond Library login • Look for the EBL logo ORMOND COLLEGE

21. Ormond periodicals • Browse periodicals and newspapers. We have excellent journals for general reading in science, culture, news and current affairs, law, literature etc (see listed in Notes below) • In Academic Centre; JCR; MCR ORMOND COLLEGE

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23. University Library In-depth collections and Gateway to online articles ORMOND COLLEGE

24. UniMelb Libraries • As well as the Baillieu, check out the home pages of specialised libraries like the Brownless Biomedical Library, the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library,theGiblinEunson Business, Economics and Education Library or the Eastern Resource CentreLaw Library... ORMOND COLLEGE

25. UniMelb Traditionally • University library Catalogueto look up paper based books and increasingly a range of digital resources • Discovery to look up digital resources This distinction is disappearing ORMOND COLLEGE

26. Discovery • Use the Discovery search box on the Library Home page • Combines “the catalogue, digital collections, eBooks and some databases” • Makes life easy by allowing you to limit your search results to full text, Peer reviewed etc ORMOND COLLEGE

27. How to get the best from Discovery • With Discovery you can look up everything at once! • Or you can narrow to only the Catalogue (if you want a book) • Or narrow to digital articles • Still need help? Try this UniMelb LibGuide ORMOND COLLEGE

28. Discovery caution Discovery combines the information from the library catalogue, the digital repository and many databases into a single database so your search is faster, and more thorough. Discovery does not: • Completely cover all the databases the library subscribes to. • Have the advanced features specific databases provide. • If you need to conduct a comprehensive search, for example for a literature review, you should search individual databases as well as Discovery. Ormond College

29. Find a database • To search specific databases or eJournals, Find Databases link at the top of the Discovery search screen. (Author, Title or Subject) Or • From library home page select A-Z journals and databases (Title search only) ORMOND COLLEGE

30. Which database? Subject Research Guides (Lib Guides)are a fantastic resource! How to find information in your subject including which databases to use 'Medicine', 'Business & Economics' or 'Specialist' (e.g. Statistics and Mathematical Software). ORMOND COLLEGE

31. UniMelb: More digital goodies • The University of Melbourne Digital Repository showcases scholarly works of the University’s staff and students. Check out also • Business Case Studies; • Readings Online • Streaming video ORMOND COLLEGE

32. Questions? • Library staff are trained to go beyond the obvious to find the best information for your particular need and we love to help! ORMOND COLLEGE

33. For consultations, contact: Thérèse Robin, Head of Library and information Services Ext 1117 trobin@prmond.unimelb.edu.au Mob: 0417 301 827 ORMOND COLLEGE

34. Library Classes, Tours and online tutorials Throughout the year, the Library offers classes and tours. E.g. • Getting started: Library research (multi-disciplinary) • Beginning historical research • EndNote (Windows) Introductory workshops And Online tutorials e.g. • Learn to use RefWorks in 20 minutes(YouTube: 7 videos) • RefWorks Fundamentals - shows the basic features of RefWorks including creating your database, managing your references and generating bibliographies. (YouTube: 9 videos) ORMOND COLLEGE