The Bodleian Libraries offer:

1. Your Library Services: Resources for Academic Success Jo Gardner, Bodleian Social Science LibrarianJohn Southall, Bodleian Data Librarian and Subject Consultant

2. The Bodleian Libraries offer: 29 libraries including • The Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera, Social Science Library, Law Library, EducationLibrary, Philosophy & TheologyFaculties Library, Radcliffe Science Library and more… www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries Over80,000 ejournals, 850,000 ebooks More than 12 million print volumes • 1,000 items added daily to the collections 3,800 study spaces • 600 PCs and 3 wireless networks

3. Legal Deposit College Libraries

4. Connecting to Library services • Single Sign On • Bodleian-Libraries

5. Single Sign On Issued to you by University IT Services Log onto SOLO(library catalogue) Accessonline resources off-campus

6. Bodleian-Libraries Yourusername is the 7-digit number on your University Card. Yourdefault password is your DOB (e.g. 01JAN1990). For accessing Bodleian Libraries PCs Bodleian-Libraries wifiPCAS [Print, Copy and Scan]

7. The Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL) Opening hours in Term (Weeks 0-9) Mon – Fri 09:00 – 22:00 Saturday10:00 - 18:00 Sunday11:00 – 19:00 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ssl

8. SSL Services and Help - Lending (up to 30 books, normal loans 7 days, short loans 2 days, up to 7 renewals, fines 20p or £1 a day ) - Self-Issue machines - Bodleian stack requests - Enquiry services & friendly staff - Graduate study rooms - Study carrels - Book discussion rooms - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Borrow equipment (Nooks, laptop locks, ethernet cables etc.) - Buy stationery - Free spiral binding - Subject Consultant appointments - Training courses SSL Services - Lending and enquiry services - stack requests - Study carrels - Discussion rooms - 400 study spaces - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Subject Consultant appointments - Efficient and friendly staff

9. SSL House Rules

10. Search for Books and E-books Journals and E-journals Grey literature Digital collections Request SSL books out on loan Books in ‘Closed Stack’ Manage your account Renewals View fines Save and export references http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

11. Common search problems • I’ve searched SOLO but I can’t find any relevant publications • I get too many ‘hits’ when I search online • I need to find different kinds of information (journal articles, newspaper articles, data) and I don’t know where to start

12. Beyond SOLO • Reference ‘chasing’ • You know relevant books and papers already • Ask people • Recommendations are a good start • Not comprehensive • Google / Google Scholar • Arguably the largest ‘database’ • Secret recipe search syntax – hard to replicate • The Systematic Approach a) Plan your search, list your search words b) Identify relevant databases and websites c) Manage your references Stay focused, keep a search log

13. Plan your search: Create a question Search question: Main concepts Do improved skills in information literacy increase the academic achievement of university students?

14. Plan your search: Keywords and synonyms

15. Plan your search: Commands OR BROADENSSEARCH Information skills or search skills AND Information skills andacademic success NARROWSSEARCH

16. Plan your search: More commands Truncation and wildcards e.g. feminis*, wom?n Search for a phrase by using quote marks e.g. “graduate students” Parentheses e.g. (academic OR educational) AND achievement Limit to particular fields e.g. title, abstract, keywords Apply search filters e.g. date, format

17. Research Question: Search string • Search 1: information literacy “information literacy” OR “information skills” OR “search* skills” OR “bibliographic instruction” OR “user educat*” • Search 2: academic achievement academic AND (achiev* OR success* OR assess* OR result* OR standard*) • Search 3: university students “university student*” OR undergraduate* OR postgraduate* OR graduate* • Final Search: Search 1 AND Search 2 AND Search 3

18. Research Question: Applied to a database ASSIA

19. Find relevant databases http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

20. Find other sources for Internet Studies http://ox.libguides.com

21. Find relevant sources for data www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/data

22. Choosing your reference manager Choosing your reference manager What is important to you? Exporting/importing references from databases Cost Integration with word processors PDF management Cross-platform support (Mac, Windows, mobile) Online storage and syncing Sharing and social networking £

23. Further information Choosing your reference manager Reference management LibGuide http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/reference-management Bodleian Libraries RefWorks updates http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/finding-resources/refworks Bodleian Libraries EndNote updates http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sers/resources/endnote

24. http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshops Workshops for postgraduates & researchers Topics covered: • Finding scholarly materials • Reference management (Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley) • Measuring research impact • Copyright and intellectual property • Open access publishing • Managing research data

25. Further training http://researchtraining.socsci.ox.ac.uk

26. Any questions? jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk john.southall@bodleian.ox.ac.uk