Exploiting information 13
- 1. Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library Fiona Durham and Wendy Mears 20 March 2013
- 2. Our session will cover.. • Literature review and sources of help • Keeping up to date • Bibliographic management tools
- 3. A good literature review will.. • clarify your understanding of the field • explain the rationale for your research • place your research within a broader context • evaluate the results of previous research • define key concepts and ideas • identify research in related areas that are generalisable or transferable to your topic • identify relevant methodological issues. • (taken from Uni New England library website: • http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/literature/litreview.php
- 4. Lit review - doing it well • Comprehensive searching • Citation searching • Good record keeping
- 5. Help and training resources • Information skills for researchers on Library website • Training sessions, online or F2F • Subject specialists within the Library • Immediate help via Library helpdesk
- 6. Keeping up to date • Introducing you to ways of keeping up-to-date using electronic tools
- 7. Email alerts, RSS feeds and tracking engines allow you to: • Set up, save and re-run your searches against latest additions to databases • Set up profiles to receive automatically the contents pages of journal issues • Receive notification of articles recently published and added to a database • Keep up to date with breaking news • Discover new resources in your field
- 8. Email alerting services • Two types – Journal table of contents(TOC) based – Search based: keywords, authors, subject • Examples – Zetoc Alert – TicTOCs: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk – IEEE Explore
- 9. Zetoc • Zetoc provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of around 28,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year
- 10. Other updating tools (1) • Setting up RSS feeds – Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com – Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ • Social networking tools – ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net
- 15. Other updating tools (2) • Social bookmarking – Diigo: http://www.diigo.com • Social citation sharing – Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com • Tracking website changes – TrackEngine: http:www.trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.trac
- 20. Useful links • Services for Researchers page http://www.open.ac.uk/library/services/researchers • Information skills for researchers • http://www.open.ac.uk/library/services/information-skills- for-researchers • Bibliographic management page • http://www.open.ac.uk/library/help-and- support/bibliographic-management • Wikipedia page comparing reference management software • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_m anagement_software
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