SFU Library services, resources, and research tips for SIAT researchers(or: How libraries are still useful in the age of the Digital

Revolution and Breaking Bad)

Shane PlanteSIAT Librarian

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Today’s workshop

• Library services• Databases for SIAT students• Open Access, retaining your

copyright + digital rights management

• Your research questions + problems • Research tips• Questions (at any time)

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library services

What services at your last university library would you like to see here?

What bothered you about your previous university library?

SFU Library: 3 campus locations

– Bennett Library: Burnaby Campus (main)– Fraser Library: Surrey campus (branch)– Belzberg Library: Vancouver campus (branch)

Collections

What do we have?• Over 2.5 million books• Over 60,000 journal &

magazine subscriptions• Over 500 research

databases• SIAT equipment

What if you travel? • COPPUL cards*

*BUT: Be sure to visit the Loans desk before you leave you lea

What if we don’t have it? • Collections suggestions • Interlibrary loans

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- Workshops- Graduate Writing Services

Writing ConsultationsRead Ahead Service

- Research Data Services

researchcommons.sfu.ca

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A few examples of things you can learn about automatically - new articles published

in a specific journal- new articles in your

research area(s)- new SIAT books added

to SFU Library’s collection

Managing citations

Citation managers keep track of sources

Three of the best known:– RefWorks– Zotero–Mendeley

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Library Search

Catalogue

Fast Search

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SFU Library homepage’s three

search options:

SIAT research databases

Do you have a favourite research resource?

Some major SIAT databases• ACM Digital Library (ACM = Association for Computing Machinery)

• IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; IET = Institution of Engineering and Technology)

• Web of Science (citation index of scholarly literature; includes Cited Reference Searching + Journal Citation Reports)

• Design and Applied Arts Index• PsycINFO• Digital Dissertations (2.7 million citations; 1.2 million full-text

dissertations)

• lynda.com• ARTstor (over one million images)

• Sage Research Methods Online• Google Scholar (access it through SFU Library to get free access to our content)

SIAT databases

Open Access, retaining your copyright,

+ digital rights management

What is Open Access?

“Open Access Explained” video:http://youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY

What is Open Access?

Open Access publications are free for anyone with a connection to the open internet to “read, download, copy, distribute, [and] print.”

Authors retain “control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

- From the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)

Open Access Options

• Publish in an open access journal • Publish in a conventional journal but

also publish your article in an online repository for a discipline (e.g., arXiv for physics) or an institution (e.g., Summit at SFU)

Ways To Retain Your Copyright

1) Publish in a journal that allows you to keep your rights

2) Negotiate with a publisher to keep all (or some) of your rights

Transferring Rights to a Publisher

• It is possible to grant only those rights to a publisher that they need to conduct their business – e.g., right to first publication

• Examples of rights that are negotiable: • Right to distribute your work on campus (to colleagues

and/or students)• Right to archive your work in an institutional repository• Right to use your work in your teaching• Right to post your work to a personal / professional

webpage

Retaining Your Rights

I’m not a lawyer, but …

Two common methods of negotiating additional rights:• Modifying the original copyright

agreement• Including an addendum

Modifying an agreement: An example

From: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/manage/transfer_copyrights.html

Including an addendum: An example

• The SPARC Canadian Author’s Addendum

SFU Library website > Scholarly publishing

Digital rights management

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Digital rights management is the name given to a set of technologies used by publishers of digital content (like music, video, or electronic texts) to control the ways in which content consumers (like library users) are able to use information.

(Puckett, 2010, p.11)

Puckett, J. (2010). Digital rights management as information access barrier. Progressive Librarian, 34-35, 11-24. Retrieved from http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/index.shtml

Digital rights management

your research questions + problems

research tips, etc.

Finding previous SIAT theses

“How can I find previously-published SIAT theses?”

Finding previous SIAT theses

Searching by Topic

“I need to learn about the field of ___[insert your topic here]___. Where should I start?”

For example: social cognition

Searching by Topic: Getting Started

• Basic textbooks, reference books• Browse the shelves• Supervisor’s reading list• Meta-analyses + review articles• Bibliography mining of all of the

above• Search engines, databases …

Researching a new area

conference presentations, journal articles

books summarize recent research

textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias

Academic publication cycle

the scholar(s) doing research

conference presentations, journal articles

books summarize recent research

textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias

Searching for a specific article

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Searching for a specific article

50% vs. 100%Search a phrase from the title of the article in the library’s default search box.

finding newer articles that cite an

older article

Database search tips

• Boolean logic: AND, OR, NOT• Truncation *• Search for separate concepts, then

combine your search sets• Ask a librarian for help

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Levels of searching

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advanced keyword

subject searching

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Ask Us

Have questions or need help?- Contact me directly (shane@sfu.ca) - Contact us any of these ways:

in person | email | phone | IM chat | text

www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/askus

questions?