ILS Advanced

Information Literacy Skills (Advanced)
Reference & Research Division
Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut

Main Objective
To introduce some of the
research support tools which can
help the researchers to produce
high-quality research with
efficiency

Part 1: Searching the literature
Objective:
To explore some of the useful
research-related platforms/websites
which can be used to find high quality
articles related to your topic

Part 1: Searching the literature
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Thesis (USM)
1. Go to OPAC in Library
Website
2. Click advanced search
3. Type your keyword (first box)
4. Choose [subject] and type
dissertations (second box)

Thesis (USM)
1. Choose and click the title of thesis to browse further
2. Get the details info of the thesis, then proceed to Malaysiana & Archive Division,
PHS to read the full text (printed version)

Thesis (Myto)
1. Go to:
http://myto.upm.edu.
my/myTO/myto.html
2. Type your keyword
3. Click search

Thesis (Myto)
1. Choose a thesis to
browse
2. Click on the title

Thesis (Myto)
1. View the detail to
verify the relevancy to
your topic
2. Take note of the
location of the thesis
(Holding Library)

Thesis (International)
1. Go to:http://search.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/index?accountid=14645 OR via
Library Website [Resources – Subscribed Database – Proquest]
2. Type your keyword in search box

1. Check the result & choose a thesis to browse further
2. Click on full-text-PDF to download full text
Note: If you try this outside campus, please login via ezproxy (off campus login)

List of theses repositories based on country

Open Access
1. Go to : https://doaj.org/
2. Type keyword in search box (tick articles)

Open Access
1. Click on title to browse further
2. Click Full Text to download the article

MYCITE
1. Go to MYCITE
http://www.mycite.my/
2. Type in your keyword to
search

MYCITE
1. Browse the result
2. Click on the title or
download fulltext

Web of Science
1. Go to Web of
Science via Library
Website [resources-
subscribed
databases]
2. Type in your
keyword to search

Web of Science-find highly cited
article in your topic
1. Sort by: times cited—highest to lowest
2. Click on the title to browse further
3. Click on times cited to get other related articles
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Web of Science
1. Once you click on the title, detail view will be displayed
2. Identify the keyword relevant to your topic from KeyWords Plus (based
on highly appeared keyword in the titles of citing articles)
3. Get another articles from citation network
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Web of Science – find most
popular journal for your topic
1. Click on results analysis
2. Rank the record by source titles
to find the most relevant
journal to your topic
3. Based on the list, you can start
following the journal closely
(eg. alert to table of content)
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Web of Science – find productive
author about your topic
1. Click on results
analysis
2. Rank the record by
authors to find the
most relevant author
to your topic
3. Based on the list, you
can start following
the author closely
(eg. alert to his
publication)
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Web of Science –
trend of your topic
1. Click on citation report from the main list
2. Trend of publication of your selected topic will be displayed
3. Citation trends also will be provided (to identify hot topic)
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Scopus
1. Go to Scopus via Library Website [resources-subscribed databases]
2. Type in your keyword to search
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Scopus
1. Click on cited by to browse highly cited articles
2. Click on the title to browse further
3. Or click analyze search results to analyze deeper
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Scopus – narrow down search
by filtering
Make sure you use the filtering function to get most relevant articles

Scopus – analyze result to get
more relevant articles
Analyze the results to
get other important
information such as
Prolific Author, Main
Journals etc

Alert Services
• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Specific Journals

Alert Services - WOS
1. Login into Web of Science (please register for first timer)
2. Click ‘create alert’
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Customize your alert

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view your saved
alert here

Alert Services - Scopus
1. Login into Scopus (registration is needed)
2. Type your keyword to search
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Alert Services - Scopus
click ‘set alert’ & customize your alert

Alert Services-Google Scholar
1. Login into Google Scholar
2. Type your keyword
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Alert Services
Click ‘create alert’

Alert Services
Customize your alert

Alert Services-
follow prolific figures
1. Search for prolific author in GS
2. Click ‘follow’ to be alerted about new
publication or new citation

Alert Services – by Journal
1. Go to specific
journal page &
login
2. Customize your
alert

Alert Services – notification via email

Part 2:Research Writing
Objective:
To explore some of the beneficial
research support tools to ease your
research writing process

Part 2:Research Writing
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MS Word Advance
Microsoft
Words
Advance
Changing
Page
Margins
Formatting
Graphics /
Figures
Navigation
Pane
Header
&
Footers
APA style
template
Adding
symbols &
Superscript
Adding
Captions
Footnote
for
Tables

Smmry
Helpful in
summarizing the
article within
seconds

Smmry
1. Copy & paste the content of article
2. Choose to summarize into how
many sentences
3. Click Summarize

Bibliographic Management Software

Endnote (cite while you write)

Mind Map- Mindmeister
Helpful in preparing mind map for your research flow, topic
& subtopic, literature map etc

Mind Map- Mindmeister
1. Create your map
2. Customize your map (it can be
public or private)

Cloud Storage
Reference: http://ipadinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/iPad-Cloud-Storage-Comparison.jpg

Plagiarism Checker – Turnitin
Please refer to your
respective School for
further information

Part 3:Publishing Strategy
Objective:
To identify the best journals to publish
your research articles

Part 3:Publishing Strategy
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Journal Evaluation
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Evaluates and compares journals using citation data
drawn from the Web of Knowledge scholarly journals.
Shows most frequently cited and highest impact journals
in a given field.
SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank)
Portal that includes the journals and country scientific
indicators developed from the information contained in
the Scopus database. These indicators can be used to
assess and analyze scientific domains

JCR
1. Go to Library Website [Resources-Subscribed Databases-
Journal Citation Reports]
2. Select your category (based on your research area)

JCR
1. Rank of
journals will
be displayed
according to
impact factor
2. You may
choose to
browse by
other
indicators
3. Click on
Journal title
to browse
further

JCR
Details of the selected journal (citation data, indicators, quartile
etc) will help you to identify the best journal to publish in.

JCR
What is Impact Factor (IF)?
The Journal Impact Factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the current
JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total
number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings
papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.
You may consider to publish in higher Impact Factored Journal considering the
tendency to get more citations as compared to lower IF journals.

JCR
What is Immediacy Index?
The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it
is published. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published
in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.
The journal Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited.
You may choose to publish in journal with higher immediacy index to get early
citation.

JCR
What is Eigenfactor?
The Eigenfactor Score calculation is based on the number of times articles
from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR
year, but it also considers which journals have contributed these citations
so that highly cited journals will influence the network more than lesser
cited journals.
References from one article in a journal to another article from the same
journal are removed, so that Eigenfactor Scores are not influenced by
journal self-citation.

SJR
(SCImago Journal and Country Rank)
1. Go to: http://www.scimagojr.com/
2. Click ‘Country Rankings’
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SJR
1. Choose your subject areas OR subject categories
2. List of journals will be displayed based on SJR Rank Indicator (average
no. of citation received by documents published in 3 previous years)
3. Click on journal title to browse further

SJR
Details of a journal like
this will be helpful in
deciding journal to
publish in

DOAJ
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to
high quality and peer-reviewed Open Access journals (https://doaj.org/)

DOAJ
1. Search for journal in the search box
2. Or you can click ‘browse subjects’ to choose your own field

DOAJ
Based on the list , click on journal title to see the details

DOAJ
Based on the information provided, you may choose whether this journal
is worth to be published in

Open Access (JCR)
1. Go to Library
Website
[Resources-
Subscribed
Databases-
Journal
Citation
Reports]
2. Select your
category
(based on your
research area)
3. Select / tick
Open Access

Open Access (Scimago)
1. Choose your subject areas OR subject categories
2. Tick ‘display only Open Access Journals
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Mycite
1. Go to:
http://www.
mycite.my/
2. Click ‘
MyJurnal’

Mycite
1. Choose your
subject
2. Click on
journal title
to browse
details

Endnote Web (manuscript match)

Predatory/Blacklisted Journals –
KPT/MOE

Copyright Checker –
Sherpa Romeo

Part 4: Research Sharing & Monitoring
Objective:
To identify the best strategy to make
your research outputs more visible
and receive high impact

Part 4: Research Sharing & Monitoring
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Traditional vs Recent
Scholarly Publishing Cycle
Images from the University of British Columbia, UBC Library, "Building Your Academic Profile"; http://help.library.ubc.ca/publishing-
research/building-your-academic-profile/

Google Scholar – profile search

Author Impact
H-Index
The most widely used research metric, measures,
productivity and impact of an author's scholarly output.
Tools for calculating your H-index include Web of
Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.
H-Index = number of papers (h) with a citation number ≥
h.
Example: a researcher with an H-Index of 37 has 37
papers cited at least 37 times.

Author Impact
M-quotient
While the h-index is independent of the date of an academic's
career, the m-quotient aims at weighing the period of academic
endeavour. Divide the h-index by the number of years the
academic has been active (measured as the number of years
since the first published paper). (Hirsch, 2005).
G-Index - Accounting for highly-cited papers.
Given a set of articles ranked in decreasing order of the number of
citations that they received, the g-index is the (unique) largest
number such that the top g articles received (together) at least g2
citations. (Egghe,2006)

Measuring Author’s Impact
i10-Index
Indicates the number of academic publications an author has
written that have been cited at least 10 times by others. It was
introduced in July 2011 by Google as part of Google Scholar
Faculty of 1000
A directory to the top articles in biology and medicine, as
recommended by over 5,000 expert scientists and clinical
researchers.

Measuring Article Impact
Web of Science

Scopus

Google Scholar

Article Impact
Altmetrics
Altmetrics are a very broad group of metrics, capturing
various parts of impact a paper or work can have.
Viewed - HTML views and PDF downloads
Discussed - journal comments, science blogs, Wikipedia, Twitter,
Facebook and other social media
Saved - Mendeley, CiteULike and other social bookmarks
Cited - citations in the scholarly literature, tracked by Web of
Science, Scopus, CrossRef and others
Recommended - for example used by F1000Prime

Plum Analytics in Library Discovery

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