Earth Sciences 4490:Getting Started on

your Literature ReviewDan Sich

Earth Sciences Librarian

Sept 24th and Oct 1st, 2008

I want you to be able to…

• find articles using databases

• search by cited reference

• build a list of references, bibliography

• get article full text

schedule

Day 1: Sept 24• account set-up• sources• library catalogue• GeoRef (find articles)• Web of Science• get article full text• RefWorks (export)• homework

Day 2: Oct 1• What did you find?• SciFinder Scholar• get article full text• RefWorks (export)• RefWorks (bibliography)• Questions & feedback

account set-up

• Login Help / Synchronize my password

• RefWorks / Sign up

• Need to synchronize your password today so that you can use SciFinder Scholar later – it takes 15 minutes to sync

Register for RefWorks

• You’ll use your RefWorks account later in the session

@uwo.ca works best

(Some) Types of Information Sources

• Websites

• Books, Handbooks, and Encyclopedias

• Scholarly Journals

Library Catalogue

• Everything that the library owns

• Books, journals (not articles), etc.

• Search by keyword, title, author, etc.

• E.g., United States Geological Society, Geological Society of America

• Get location, call number, status• Use subject headings (none shown here) to find similar items• See table of contents (none shown here)• If signed-out (i.e. not in library), Request Item• Send to RefWorks to add to your list of citations

Your turn

• 3 minutes

• Search the library catalogue

• Ask us questions

Journal Articles & Databases

• Find peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles, conference articles, and review articles using journal article databases

• GeoRef (geology)

• Web of Science (cited ref. searching)

• SciFinder Scholar (chemistry)

Scholarly vs. Popular Publications

• availability• audience• aesthetics• authors• topics• length• language• advertizing• sources,

credits

Peer-review process

1. author writes paper, sends to publisher

2. publisher sends to referees (experts)

3. referees send feedback to publisher

4. publisher decides to publish or not

5. paper is published

6. journal is distributed

Search tips

• identify concepts, keywords, synonyms

• use AND, OR, NOT, *

• E.g., mineral* AND (mars OR martian) AND soil*

• limit date range, document type(s), etc.

• Look at Peer-Reviewed Journals (articles) tab• Use Descriptors to find similar items• Download to RefWorks• Get it @ Western to find fulltext (online or print)

• We have this article online

• The online journal will show up in the library catalogue as well

• We don’t appear to have this journal issue online• Check the library catalogue for print or online version• If we don’t have print or online, use Interlibrary Loan ($5

per article; take 4-10 business days)

Your turn

• 10 minutes

• Search GeoRef

• Get article fulltext

• Export citations to RefWorks

• Ask questions

• Publication date?• Brand new articles =

usually not yet cited

• Read abstracts• Refine Results• Get it @ Western

• Times cited?• The older the article,

the longer it’s been around to be read & cited by others

• Which are the most highly cited articles?

• Create Citation Report

• What are the most highly cited articles on this specific topic?

• See who has cited this article (Times Cited)

• See who this article has cited (References)

• List of articles *in Web of Science* that have cited this article

• Select articles and click more options

• At bottom of page use Output Records

• For Step 3, Save to Plain Text

1. Save File to desktop

2. In a separate tab or browser, login to RefWorks

• In RefWorks, select References > Import

• Import Filter/Data Source = ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)• Database = Web of Science• Import References into Folder (optional)• Browse to your .txt file• Encoding = ANSI – Latin I• Click Import

• Success… but what does it mean?

• View Last Imported Folder or View > All References

• All of your references are in one place• From here you can make a Bibliography

relatively easily (part of next week’s class)• From here you can also use Get it @ Western

Your turn

• 10 minutes• Search Web of Science• View Cited References• Find highly cited, ‘classic’ articles• Find new articles (latest research)• Find relevant articles (any date)• Get article full text• Export citations to RefWorks• Ask questions

Homework

• Using GeoRef and Web of Science, find more journal articles and add their citations to your RefWorks database

• You’ll need these citations to be in RefWorks for next week’s session

• Next week we’ll find more articles using SciFinder Scholar (chemistry), and build your bibliography using RefWorks

SciFinder Scholar

• This will only work if you synchronized your password (takes 15 minutes to take effect)

1. Select articles2. Save As3. Download on ‘sushi’ (K:)4. Type = Tagged Format (*.txt)5. Exit SciFinder Scholar

• Click the orange X

• Then you *should* get this screen• If you don’t (if it crashes), then re-login to

SciFinder Scholar and exit again. You should then see this screen.

• Click Retrieve your search results

1. Click download

2. Browse to your file (or folder)

3. Click your filename

• Save the file to your desktop as file type Text Document

• Then go to RefWorks and References > Import

Notes on SciFinder Scholar

• Always click Exit when you are finished using SciFinder Scholar. We have a limited number of ‘seats’ (8). Today you’re using training seats (15).

• It’s easier to use if you download the client (see link on Earth Sciences 4490 page)

• A web version is coming…

• Import Filter/Data Source = CAS SciFinder• Database = CAPlus• Import References into Folder (optional)• Browse to your .txt file• Encoding = ANSI – Latin I• Click Import

Your turn

• 15 minutes• Search SciFinder Scholar• Search by Research Topic• Analyse, Refine, Get Related• Get article fulltext• Save File of results (to Sushi drive if you’re in the library)• Exit SciFinder Scholar• Retrieve your search results• Do Save As again• Import citations into RefWorks• Ask questions

RefWorks

• web app for citation management

• automatically formats notes, bibliographies

• Export citations directly from database, or import citations from .txt file

• use the Write-N-Cite plugin for Word

• Make a Bibliography using RefWorks

• Click Bibliography

• We need to add a more appropriate style to our list of Favorites

• E.g., American Geophysical Union, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, etc.

• Click Output Style > Access Output Style Manager…

• Choose the appropriate Output Style(s) from the list of the left

• E.g., American Geophysical Union, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, etc.

• Click Add to Favorites

1. Select Output Style from drop-down

2. Select References to Include (e.g., All References, Last Imported folder, another folder, All References, etc.)

3. Click Create Bibliography

• Creates a bibliography relatively easily

• Check the formatting for errors

Your turn

• 5 minutes

• Create a bibliography using RefWorks and an appropriate style

Questions & feedback

• On a piece of paper, briefly describe the one thing that you’re still confused about

• It doesn’t have to be something I covered in the session

contact info

Dan Sich, Earth Sciences Librarian

phone: 519.661.2111 ext. 80962

eMail/MSN: dsich2@uwo.ca

Subject: Earth Sciences 4490 question

Skype: dansich