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Information Skillsfor first year Geographers
Roger Mills & Sue BirdOULS Bio- & Environmental Sciences
October 2008
Today’s sessionUsing tools:
SOLO / OLISOxford e-journalsOxLIP+
Finding items on reading listsCitation and plagiarismSubject searching
WoKSCOPUSReference books
First
Login computer if necessary:Username: rslreadertrainingPassword: rslreadertraining
Open web browserGo to www.ouls.ox.ac.uk
SOLO
Searches the library catalogue OLIS and some other catalogues
Use it as a starting point for all searchesLinks from many web pages including
libraries home page www.ouls.ox.ac.uk Or go direct to http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
Search for a book
Carolyn Merchant (2004) Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture, Routledge
Search for a periodical
Amin A and N Thrift (2005) 'What's Left: Just the Future', Antipode: a radical journal of Geography, 37, 2, 220-238
Exercises
Try exercise 1
Citation and Plagiarism
Note the statement on the OUCE web site: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/info/fhs/plagiarism.php
Avoid trouble by getting into good habits now – always record your source, and the date you found it
Learn to cite references in a standard way – e.g. the Harvard system
Useful guide available in Blackwells £1 Software is available to manage references – e.g.
EndNote, RefWorks
Subject Searching
To find information about a topic, rather than a specific reference, use a database that indexes articles – e.g.:Web of Knowledge (WoK) / Web of Science (WoS)SCOPUS
Online reference books and newspapers are good for finding facts and biographies
Find some articles on biodiversity politics. Which have been the most influential?
Find a book review
For The slum and the ghetto by TL Philpott
Search for the book title in inverted commas:
“The slum and the ghetto”
Restrict search by document type ‘Book Review’
SCOPUS
Elsevier’s alternative to WoKIncludes data from GEOBASE - The
bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Ecological Sciences
tidal inlets AND Canada
“tidal inlets” AND Canada
“tidal inlet” AND Canada
(“tidal inlet” OR “tidal inlets”) AND Canada
Book reviews
Export
Exercise 2
Now try these:
1. Find some articles on the drying up or desertification of the Aral Sea
2. Find a reference to a book review of David Harvey’s book “Spaces of Hope”
Reference works
If you wanted to find a general introduction to the topic of Gaia, where might you look?
Biographical Resources
You have been asked to give the vote of thanks to Ron Johnston who is coming to speak to the Herbertson Society. Where might you start to look for information about him? What hobby does he have outside his geographical interests?
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