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Finding the best information
Therese Robin, Head of Library and Information Services
Library & Information Services 2013
Where do you normally start when looking for information for your assignment?
Content provided on the LMS Readers, print and online Pdfs Video Links to articles in UniMelb subscribed
databases
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When asked to find information beyond the LMS – what’s the best approach?
Where you look
How you look
What type of information you look for
depends on your information need.
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Some options
Information freely shared on the internet – Google.
This can be a good place to start. There is much reputable information in the public domain e.g. Government reports etc and used with caution Wikipedia can be a good place to get an overview.
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GoogleUse the links on the Library website for tips and tricks
Use several key words and phrases e.g. Australia "Federal budget"
Add descriptive words like ‘facts’ 'summary’ ‘basic’ ‘introduction’
‘opinion’ 'review'
Specify the domain with your keywords e.g. site:edu; site:edu.au;
site:gov.au; site:vic.gov.au
The order of your keywords matters. Google weights the importance
of your keywords in order of appearance
Google assumes a Boolean AND between your keywords. If you
want it to do an OR search you have to type OR between the words.
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Googling cautions
What you see is skewed by what you have
viewed in the past.
The page rank algorithm is vulnerable to
manipulation
False sense of comprehensiveness
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides links to full text University of Melbourne resources available through Discovery.
See the Library website for how to set up Google Scholar
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Evaluate sitesAuthority; Objectivity; Accuracy; Currency
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Think tanks: Organisations have affiliations. A point of view is fine – your favourites inevitably reflect your worldview – just be aware of this
Australian Policy Online
The Power index
Crikey.com
Get Up
Avaaz.org
The Globalist
David Donovan looks at Q & A
Committee for Economic Dev
elopment of Australia (CEDA)
Green Institute
Chifley Research Centre
Per Capita
The Australia Institute
The Melbourne Institute
Lowy Institute
The crisis group
UK think tanksUS think tanks
Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
Centre for Independent Studi
es (CIS)
Australian Business Foundati
on
Australian Business Council (
BCA)
Menzies Research Centre
Page Research Centre
Grattan Institute
Reliable sitesGet to know good sites as starting points
ABC; Radio National
BBC
Radio National
Victorian government
Australian government
Australian Parliamentary Library / Hansard
The conversation
Trove. Over 284,011,888 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic
newspapers, maps, music, archives and more
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Shared education iTunes U: Over 800 universities, intellectual societies
and institutions have made freely available audio and video lectures from their courses and public lecture series. Includes the University of Melbourne (Need to open with iTunes)
Ted talks the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, talk on their chosen topic (18 minutes or less).Slow TV is a free internet TV channel produced by The Monthly delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues.YouTube EDU Videos and YouTube Channels from Colleges and Universities
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Oxford University on iTunes U
Highlights Marianne Talbot’s “
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners” Alan Turing : A Centenary Conference on the famous
mathematician Uncertainty as part of decision-relevant information Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Shakespeare's first folio of 36
plays including original spelling (need ibooks app to read)
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Libraries still best for some types of information
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Ormond College Library
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Ormond
Use the Ormond Library catalogue
to find Books and DVDs – not journal articles
Use Ormond’s eBook library (EBL) to find and borrow eBooks
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Ormond Library catalogue
Don’t just cut and paste your assignment title in – think about key concepts.
When you retrieve something relevant, try the subject headings it has in its catalogue record.
The term used by your lecturer and textbook is not necessarily the same as the subject used in the Library database. E.g. Indigenous v Aboriginal Australians
Looking at a specific item. Where is it? Is it os-general? in the Reserves collection? in the Reference collection? or RecRead?
Lost? – ask library staff
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At the shelves
Dewey classification works by disciplines
Depending on the ‘angle” – you may find books on your subject in several areas
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E.g. Books on China 302 Intercultural communication 320.951 Politics 327.51 Foreign relations 365.45095 Human rights 395 Social life and customs 349.51 Law 495 Chinese language 709.51; 759.951 Art 895 Chinese literature 951 History
Choose some relevant numbers and walk over to the shelves and browse.
And don’t forget to have a look for eBooks in EBL
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Think laterally
Question "Have you got anything on focus groups?”
“I did a keyword search in the library website search box focus groups and got no results”
Answer Try books on Marketing. Most of them will
have a chapter on Focus Groups
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eBooks
Your search in the Ormond Library catalogue may retrieve selected eBooks from University or from Ormond’s eBook library EBL.
Click the URL link to use the eBook
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Or search in E-Book Library (EBL)
Over 300,000 scholarly titles including some fiction
Browse and e-loan Access from the Ormond Library webpage
with your Ormond Library login Look for the EBL logo
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Ormond periodicals
Browse periodicals and newspapers. We have excellent journals for general reading in science, culture, news and current affairs, law, literature etc (see listed in Notes below)
In Academic Centre; JCR; MCR
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Australian Personal ComputerArchitecture AustraliaAtlantic MonthlyArt & AustraliaABR (Australian Book Review)Aust Historical StudiesAustralian medical students journalAustralian Literary Studies (ALS)BRW Cosmos (Science) Economist (The)Foreign AffairsGrantaLapham's QuarterlyMeanjinMelb Jrnl of PoliticsMelb Uni Law ReviewMonash Uni Law Review The Monthly
Monument National GeographicNew InternationalistNew ScientistNew Yorker QuadrantRolling StoneScientific AmericanTimeVictorian Bar NewsVogue Australia Newspapers Age (The)Australian (The)Australian Financial Review (The)Guardian Weekly (The)Herald-Sun (The)
University Library
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In-depth collections and Gateway to online articles
UniMelb Libraries
As well as the Baillieu, check out the home
pages of specialised libraries like the
Brownless Biomedical Library, the
Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library,the Giblin
Eunson
Business, Economics and Education Library
or the Eastern Resource Centre Law Library
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UniMelb
Traditionally
University library Catalogue to look up
paper based books and increasingly a
range of digital resources
Discovery to look up digital resources
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Discovery
Use the Discovery search box on the Library Home page
Combines “the catalogue, digital collections, eBooks and some databases”
Makes life easy by allowing you to limit your search results to full text, Peer reviewed etc
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How to get the best from Discovery With Discovery you can look up everything at
once!
Or you can narrow to only the Catalogue (if you want a book)
Or narrow to digital articles
Still need help? Try this UniMelb LibGuide
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Discovery caution
Discovery combines the information from the library catalogue, the digital repository and many databases into a single database so your search is faster, and more thorough.
Discovery does not: Completely cover all the databases the library
subscribes to. Have the advanced features specific databases provide. If you need to conduct a comprehensive search, for
example for a literature review, you should search individual databases as well as Discovery.
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Find a database
To search specific databases or eJournals, Find Databases link at the top of the Discovery search screen. (Author, Title or Subject)
Or
From library home page select
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Which database?
Subject Research Guides (Lib Guides) are a
fantastic resource! How to find information
in your subject including which databases
to use
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UniMelb: More digital goodies
The University of Melbourne Digital Repository showcases scholarly works of the University’s staff and students.
Check out also Business Case Studies; Readings Online Streaming video
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Questions?
Library staff are trained to go beyond the obvious to find the best information for your particular need and we love to help!
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For consultations, contact:
Thérèse Robin,
Head of Library and information Services
Ext 1117
Mob: 0417 301 827
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Library Classes, Tours and online tutorialsThroughout the year, the Library offers classes and tours. E.g.
Getting started: Library research (multi-disciplinary) Beginning historical research EndNote (Windows) Introductory workshops
And Online tutorials e.g. Learn to use RefWorks in 20 minutes(YouTube: 7 videos) RefWorks Fundamentals - shows the basic features of RefWorks
including creating your database, managing your references and generating bibliographies. (YouTube: 9 videos)
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