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An introduction to library resources, including database search skills, to support the UC Summer Scholarship programme in the arts and humanities fields, presented by Janette Nicoll and Cuiying Mu.
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Library Searching For Your Summer Scholarship
2011
The Research Process
Define your topic
What information do you need?
Who would have written about it? Where?
Find information
Judge it – is it reliable? relevant?
– does it point in new directions?
– is it enough? or do you still need more?
Analyse and synthesise
Cite all sources!
What is available to you
Books Journal articles Newspapers Theses Non-book materials e.g. video, eTV Primary sources – archives, statistics,
photos
Getting started
Books
Don’t be restricted by what is
in the library
WorldCat – world’s largest
network of library content
Google Books – search the content of published books, read limited content but not complete full-text
E-Books - Your comments or questions!
Encyclopedias
Wikipedia – scan the bibliography
Scholarly encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks in all disciplines – provide an overview of the topic, often include a literature review and a bibliography
e.g. Palgrave dictionary of economics Encyclopedia of disaster relief Encyclopedia of globalization
• Use a variety of academic search tools & compare results
• Be aware of the level of content i.e. scholarly, popular
• Switch the type of keywords you use from the broad to the highly specific – e.g. natural disasters/ earthquakes or tsunamis or floods
• Use different options for refining your search– Limit and sort, apply relevance and times cited
Be prepared to scroll/scan through lists of results to find the best
Scan bibliographies
Journal articles & databases
Searching in key journals
Browse individual issues
MultiSearch
Searches across content held by UC Library
Includes books, e-books, book chapters, full-text journal and newspaper articles
Use the faceted searching options to limit by date, format and subject
Databases for Humanities/Social Science/ Commerce
Discipline based databases
Explore suggestions from Subject guides
JSTOR & Project Muse, Oxford Journals Online, Cambridge journals online, Sage, Wiley, Emerald Journals for Commerce
“Big 3” Multidisciplinary databases
Web of Science – indexes the top journals in each subject category, very strong for science, weaker in humanities and social science
SCOPUS – strong on science, good for most social sciences, excludes humanities
Google Scholar
All include cited searching
Web of Science
Scopuslooking for the best bits …..
Cited references
Google Scholar – free full text
Your first task
Use either Web of Science or SCOPUS to find:
1. What your supervisor has written
2. How many times his/her work has been cited
3. Select an article or book in your research area – find it in Google Scholar. How many times has it been cited in Google Scholar?
Google Scholar…it’s more and less than you thought it was…
Library databases Index selected sources
systematically Provide a variety of options
to refine searches Provide a variety of options
to sort searches Limited NZ content Can use sophisticated
syntax to construct a comprehensive search
Google Scholar Does not index journals
systematically Multidisciplinary Indexes more than journal
articles – free PDF content Sorts by relevance Easy to construct a search More citation counts
New Zealand databases
Te Puna and Index New Zealand (National Library of New Zealand)
findNZarticles
ANZ Reference Centre
Newspaper sources – Newztext, Papers Past
eTV – Archive of Television programmes
Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS)
Newspaper databases
Press Display
Theses
Interloans
(image: world map of libraries)
Managing your results
Install EndNote software
Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs>Add New Programs Start>All Programs>EndNote
Activity
1. Create your personal EndNote Library
2. Search MultiSearch and export your references to your EndNote Library
3. Search Google Scholar and export your references into EndNote Library as well
Learn more about EndNote
Want to know more about EndNote?
Link fulltext articles
In-text citations, reference list and more
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