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Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography

Learn how to evaluate information, find scholarly articles, use effective search strategies, and organize references using Zotero.

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Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography

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  1. Information searchBachelor thesis in human geography 110226 Magnus Olsson, Umeå University library Phone: 786 91 81 magnus.olsson@ub.umu.se Web page: http://www.ub.umu.se/om/personal/tjanstesidor/magnus-olsson

  2. Today you´re going to learn more about… • Evaluationof information • Scholarlyarticles and journals • Searchstrategies • Libris • Leisuretourism and Academicsearchelite • Google scholar • Zotero

  3. Guidelines for evaluating information • Author • Subject and tendency • Purpose and target group • Currency • Edition • Publisher • References

  4. How do I determineif an article is scholarly (”scientific”) or not? • Whohas written the article? • Where is the articlepublished? • Has the articlebeenpeer-reviewed?

  5. Elements of a peer reviewed original article • Introduction • Methods and material • Results And • Discussion

  6. Sources Encyclopedias/dictionaries Books Libris Articles (databases) Leisuretourism Academicsearchelite (choice ofdatabasedepending on subject) Internet Google scholar

  7. Searchstrategies in databases • Whatwordsshould I usewhensearching? • How do I expand my search? • How do I limit my search? • How do I searchusingkeywords?

  8. Keywords • Descriptors, subjectwords, keywords, A-Z, Index etc. • ”Tags”

  9. Libris • Containsreferencestobooks from all Swedish universitylibraries • Relatedarticles • English or swedishkeywords

  10. Leisure tourism • “Access to over 70,000 research abstracts from the last 30 years of research with 400 publications abstracted every year.” • 1974-

  11. Academic search elite • “general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.” • Peer-review • Thesaurus

  12. Google scholar • Introduced november 2004 • Specialises in academic material on the internet • Everything in GS is not scholarly • Advanced search • Use english terms when you are searching

  13. Access to databases, e-books and e-journals off-campus • http://www.ub.umu.se/sok/atkomst-utanfor-campus

  14. What is Zotero? • Zotero is a freely available reference management system which helps you to sort and arrange your references. It will help you to: • import references from various databases into one place • keep track of your references • spell correctly • create references and a reference list in your Word document • adapt the layout of the references in accordance with different reference systems

  15. Zoterocontinued… • Mozilla Firefoxwebbrowser • http://www.zotero.org/download program och plug-in for word. • Createownaccountto save on Zotero server

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