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MST8011:

Finding and Managing academic information

Finding and managing academic information

Moira BentFaculty Liaison Librarian

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Programme

Finding Information/ Search strategy Library catalogue Academic internet Databases and EJs for quality information

Specialist resources/Keeping up to date/Social media Standards, conferences & theses Keeping up to date

Email alerts RSS feeds

Managing Information Academic integrity EndNote

Summarise, synthesise, critically evaluate

Identify gaps

Track key issues/debates/people

Inform your research Contextualise your work

Literature reviews – essential for projects

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It needs to be

thorough….

…but selective

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Information overload?

Information resources

Books

E-Books

Journal articles

Conf Papers

Theses

Internet

Experimental data

Statistical data

Commercial material Digital images

Chemical and physical data

Government reports

Maps

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Don’t sink under the weight of all the information!

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Having a search strategy keeps you afloat

• Primary data• Secondary

sources• Maps/images

• How much?• What date?• How quickly?• Which language

• Main terms

• Related terms

• Synonyms

• Logical approach

• Use proper strategies Search

Techniques Keywords

Info typeLimits

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Keywords – an example

“The environmental impact of terrorism at sea”

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Keywords – an example

“The environmental impact of terrorism at sea”Environmental

impact

Disaster prevention

Maritime incidents

Catastrophes

Environmental effect

Environmental control

Environmental management

Terrorism

pirates

security

attack

protection

safety

Defence/ defense

Sea

marine

Maritime

ocean

offshore

Found too

much?

Search a more

specialised resource

Apply limits

(date, type etc)

Combine terms with

‘AND’

More specific search terms

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Eg terrorism AND sea

Eg LIMIT to Journal articles after 2004

Applying your search strategy

Can’t find

enough?

Search a less

specialised resource

Truncate your

search terms

Combine terms with

‘OR’

Use different search terms

Eg sea OR ocean OR marine

Eg Terror* finds terror, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists

Applying your search strategy

Recipe for success!

Keep refining

Narrow down

Start broad

Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place altogether?

Or perhaps it doesn’t exist at

all?

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LibrarySearch is a good place to start

Includes the library catalogue and a range of electronic resources

Full & mobile views

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Use Library Search

To find printed books in the Library To find electronic books To get a general overview of a topic To find a few journal references for an essay

DON’T rely on Library Search as the only source for your literature review – not all our resources are included.

Use your Library Guide to identify key databases:

libguides.ncl.ac.uk/marine

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LibrarySearch is fab!Why use specific databases?

To download results to EndNote Compendex

Unique content for marine engineering Set search alerts

Scopus Unique content for engineering Set search alerts Search within results

Knovel eBooks Interactive tables

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Finding websites

http://www.intute.ac.uk• Portal to quality information on the internet• Resources selected by subject experts• Provided for UK academic community

http://scholar.google.co.uk/• Google’s search engine for academic literature

http://www.scirus.com• Scientific search engine – filters out non-scientific sites

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Now you have all the info you need – relax!

Reserve

• For books on loan• Place a “hold” on books which are on loan• Borrow when book is returned

Request

• For articles and conferences we don’t have• Apply for an Inter Library Loan• 50 requests @ £1.50

Recomme

nd

• New books to buy• Books on Time system to recommend new

titles for purchase

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Things to do

Literature search

proforma

Online guidance and printed handouts:

Marine Library Guide

7 steps on the Project tab of the

Library Guide

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Lectures and workshops

Lecture 2:Fri 12 Oct 10.00-11.30 – ArmB 2.98 Specialised resources: standards, conference, theses Keeping up to date/ social media

Workshops Mon 15 Oct 10.00-11.30 ArmB 1.64Mon 15 Oct 5.00-6.30 ArmB 1.64

Lecture 3:Fri 19 Oct 10.00-11.30 ArmB 2.98 EndNote

Workshop : Endnote:Mon 22 Oct 10.00-11.30 ArmB 1.64