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Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 1
David Heading and James Bisset
Part 1 overview
• Finding information - Basic search techniques: Keyword searching
• Managing information - Introduction to Endnote• Further searching and limiting options• Break• Endnote and Word• Accessing information
Find resources on researcher behaviour in higher education
What is the first thing you would do?
Ask:
• What is it for?
• What do you want me to do with it?
• How much information do I need?
Define your information need
• Background and context• Basic facts/ definition• In depth secondary information• Critical responses• Data• Primary material
Purpose of searching effectively
• Effective searching should – Reduce the time spent looking for information – Maximise the quality and appropriateness of results
• Keywords – Part 1• Further search options – Part 1• Citations and references – Part 2• Keeping up-to-date – Part 2
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
• Narrowing your search– Phrase searching “Truth and Reconciliation
Commission”
• Narrowing your search– Proximity Truth AND reconciliation
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
• Narrowing your search– Proximity Truth within 3 reconciliation
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
• Narrowing your search– Additional keywords AND Chile
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
“truth and reconciliati
on committee
”
ChileAND
• Narrowing your search– Excluding irrelevant results NOT South Africa
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
• Narrowing your search– Phrase searching “Truth and Reconciliation
Commission” – Proximity Truth within #
reconciliation– Additional
keywords AND Chile– Excluding
irrelevant results NOT South Africa
Keyword searching – Narrowing your search
Truth within 5 words reconciliation
Truth w/5 reconciliation
Truth /5 reconciliation
Truth N5 reconciliation
Truth adj5 reconciliation
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
• Broadening your search– Synonyms butterfly OR lepidoptera
butterfly lepidopteraOR
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Pink Sherbert Photography. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/70873497@N02/6935006104/
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Pink Sherbert Photography. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/70873497@N02/6935006104/
The problems of spelling…
Donut
Doughnut
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
• Broadening your search– Alternative spellings (wildcard searching)– organi?ation will find: organisation and
alternative letters organization– labo?r will find: labor and missing letters labour– do?nut donut and multiple missing letters doughnut
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
• Broadening your search– Word stems (truncation searching)– negligen* will find:
“the police were accused of negligence”“the police were accused of acting negligently”“the police were accused of being negligent”
Keyword searching – Broadening your search
• Broadening your search– Synonyms butterfly OR lepidoptera– Alternative spellings organi?ation
labo?r – Word stems negligen*
Terminology and symbols vary, depending on which database or catalogue you are using
Example
Examining the impact of crime
enacted by teenagers in the
inner city
Example
Examining the impact of crime
enacted by teenagers in the
inner city
teenagers
youth
juvenile
adolescent
crime
shoplifting
Anti-social behaviour
theft
inner city
urban
cities
London
teen*
youth
juvenile
adolescen*
crim*
shoplift*
“Anti-social behavio?r”
theft
“inner city”
urban
cities
London
teen*
youth
juvenile
adolescen*
OR
OR
OR
Example
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*)
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR
adolescen*)
Example
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*)AND
(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR London)
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR
adolescen*)
(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR
London)
Example
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*)AND
(crim* OR shoplift* OR “anti-social behavio?r” OR theft)AND
(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR London)
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR
adolescen*)
(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR
London)
(crim* OR shoplift* OR “anti-social
behavio?r” OR theft)
(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR
adolescen*)
(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR
London)
(crim* OR shoplift* OR “anti-social
behavio?r” OR theft)
Keyword strategy hands-on
• write a research question connected to your subject or any area of interest in the box at the top
• identify the key concepts within your title / question and write these at the top of each column
• write synonyms below each keyword• Use wildcards, truncation symbols where possible
teen*
youth
juvenile
adolescen*
crim*
shoplift*
“Anti-social behavio?r”
theft
“inner city”
urban
cities
London
Further search options
• Narrow results either before or after you search
• Limit to location, format, subject area, date range, document type etc.
• Database or catalogue specific
Accessing Print Resources
• Borrow 40 books for up to 6 months• Renewals and recalls• Copy service and postal loans for p-t students• For print not in stock
– Ask if the library can purchase it– Use Document Delivery Service and check to see if
your department covers costs– SCONUL Access allows you to visit and borrow
from other institutions
Which resource?
• known item OR resource discovery• introductory OR in-depth• subscription OR freely available• full text OR bibliographic• current OR historic/non-recent• generic OR subject-specific• primary OR secondary
Finding the right tool for the job
• Overview of what available: Google Scholar• Manageable number of results: subject specific
database such as IBSS, Westlaw UK, Econlit, PsycINFO, Embase
• Full text journal articles: Jstor• Multi-disciplinary, up-to-date: Science Direct • Primary material: EEBO• Popular and Trade commentary: Nexis UK
Accessing Electronic Resources
• Connexions link works to link you to where you might find electronic or print full-text copies.
• Find a print version
If we don’t have a copy…
• - make use of Document Delivery Service or SCONUL Access if we don’t have what you need.
Accessing Resources Hands-on
• Look at what is available at other institutions in print using COPAC or WorldCat
• Try accessing e-resources from references-only database using ConneXions
• Look at Document Delivery options for your department
• Look at the information about SCONUL Access if you are not already a member
Summary
• Spend a little time in preparation– Consider what sort of information you need– Think about how you are going to search– Identify what sort of resources you want and how
you will access them• Save time in the long run• Endnote saves you time and improves quality
and consistency of citations and references
Measuring Researche
r Developm
ent
Measuring Researcher Developm
ent
Measuring Researcher Development
Part 2
• Using citations and references• Finding related material • Styles of referencing in Endnote• Keeping up to date with new research
Same time next weekBook online at www.dur.ac.uk/training.course/