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STEM libraries & e-resources: make sure you’re fully PREP’ed
Isla Kuhn - Deputy Medical Librarian
Dr. Matt Cole - Director of Studies in Engineering, Admissions Tutor
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One of only five copyright libraries in the UK…
Distributed across the city, 31 Colleges, 100 Departments and 6 Schools…
More than 7 million books…Books are quite literally everywhere!
on-going digitisation & development of associated e-learning infrastructure
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Newton Catalogue- encompasses the distributed texts across the University - consists of College libraries, the Central Science Library, the Medical Library, the Moore Library, and the University Library.- Includes theses as well as standard texts.
Janus Archive- easy remote access to locate information about archival collections held within Cambridge- Largely historic texts (history of science / medicine)
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Reading lists
Keeping track
Reading off list
Working from home
References / Plagiarism
Working in Cambridge
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Reading Lists – chapter, article, book?
Grubb, N., Spratt, J., Bradbury, A.. 2013 The Cardiovascular system. In Douglas G., Nicol, F., Robertston, C., eds 2013 Macleod's clinical examination. Edinburgh Churchill Livingston
Which bit would you search for in Library Search to see if we had it?
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Wicker, S.B. 1995 Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice Hall
Which bit would you search for in Library Search to see if we had it?
Reading Lists – chapter, article, book?
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Gourville, J.T. (2006). Eager sellers and stony buyers, Harvard Business Review, 84(6): 98-106
Which bit would you search for in Library Search to see if we had it?
Reading Lists – chapter, article, book?
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Work out what you want?
Heart disease?
Or
benefits of eating chocolate to help prevent heart disease?
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Rapid heating?
Or
Impact of rapid heating on particle structure in plastics
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Where to find more reading?
•Web of Science – http://wok.mimas.ac.uk •Scopus – http://www.scopus.com •PubMed (Cambridge version) – http://tinyurl.com/campubmed
•If you’re going to use Google Scholar…..
• More subject specific databases
•More subject specific help
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Cambridge has subscriptions to many leading journals
Accessed directly when on the University network or via VPN portal to the University Network
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYKeeping track
What have you read?
Was it any good?
-Evernote www.evernote.com/ -Google drive drive.google.com/ -Delicious delicious.com -Endnoteweb www.myednoteweb.com -Mendeley www.mendeley.com -Zotero www.zotero.org
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RAVEN
help.lib.cam.ac.uk
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• uni of cam – use RAVEN to login
• College & Departmental WANs
• eduroam - set up your device: • http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/wireless/eduroam/localusers• Allows access to most University WANs in the UK and abroad
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http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/google_maps/cam_libs_map_key.htm
Working in Cambridge
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• Syllabus, Reading Lists, Lecture Schedules, Past Tripos Paper & (occasionally) Solutions
• Depends on the Department• Many have digitised lecture schedules• Take a look at your specific Department’s website
e-infrastructure – Dept. Websites
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• CamSIS – http://www.camsis.cam.ac.uk/• Secure management system to monitor and disseminate (to your
College, Tutors and DoSs) your personal and academic information
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• CamTools – https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/• Cambridge Universities authorised sharing platform
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• ebooks@cambridge - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/ • A collaborative venture to purchase and promote electronic books to all
University Members.
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• ebooks@cambridge - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/ • The University’s institutional repository, preserving and providing access to
content created by members of the University.
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• Showing how widely you’ve read around the subject;
• Demonstrating your understanding of the context and research up to this point;
• Highlighting points of view that differ to yours;• Backing up your own points of view;• Avoid plagiarism.
http://theuniversityblog.co.uk/2012/07/24/need-references/
Why reference?
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Anything/everything/anyone that you refer to or quote from directly:
Can include: •Books and chapters of books•Articles from journals•Papers presented at conference•Legal documents•Internet sources (including webpages, email correspondence)•Illustrations•Works of art and design•Legal documents•Notes supplied by a lecturer•Illustrations•DVD/CD databases•Radio/television/ video/audio •etc.
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“Plagiarism is defined as submitting as one’s own work, irrespective of intent to deceive, that which derives in part of in its entirety from the work of others without due acknowledgement. It is both poor scholarship and a breach of academic integrity.”
(Cambridge University, 2011)http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/statement.html
(and it can come back to bite you) It is a serious offence & it’s better to be safe than sorry
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/24/raj-persaud-psychiatry-maudsley
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/17/university-of-alberta-medical-school-dean-resigns-after-plagiarizing-speech/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg
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Examples of plagiarism include copying (using another person's language and/or ideas as if they are a candidate's own), by: •quoting verbatim another person's work without due acknowledgement of the source; •paraphrasing another person's work by changing some of the words, or the order of the words, without due acknowledgement of the source; •using ideas taken from someone else without reference to the originator; •cutting and pasting from the Internet to make a pastiche of online sources; •submitting someone else's work as part of a candidate's own without identifying clearly who did the work. •colluding with another person
(Cambridge University, 2011)http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/statement.html
What is plagiarism
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Know our e-infrastructure
Reference management software?•Keep track of every bibliographic reference you use (even if you don’t end up using it directly)•Back up this system•Keep organised•Connect with word – “cite while you write”•Ensure you use the right referencing style (check with your dept/ tutor re the correct style for your piece of work)•Save time, minimise stress
•Endnoteweb – www.myendoteweb.com •Mendeley – www.mendeley.com•Zotero – www.zotero.org •LaTeX – www.latex-project.org
• Free• Easy to use• Essential?
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYHelp!
Isla Kuhn - Deputy Medical Librarian
Matt Cole - Director of Studies in Engineering, Admissions Tutor
email: [email protected]
twitter: @ilk21
phone: (01223 3) 36750
web: http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk
Thank you. Any Questions?
Or any librarian Or your DoS/Tutor