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DIT Library
• Clicks & bricks
• Borrowing
• Library Sites
• DIT Library A-Z
• Ask a Librarian
• Kevin St Library
Study Skills
Study Skills
eBookseBooks
Short Loan
Short Loan
ReferenceReference
LendingLending
90 days90 days
1 renewal per item
1 renewal per item
10 items10 items
Library Library
Library Accounts & PIN
View Renew Request Reading history Remote Access
http://www.library.dit.ie/
Library Resources: E-books for Computing
• Library website www.dit.ie/library
• Library catalogue www.library.dit.ie
»Example Art of Software Testing
E-books
Library Community
Letters of Introduction?
Alcid?
Sconul?
Information Retrieval : Class Overview
7. ReferencesPlagiarism
6.Evaluate
Info Sources
5. Full Text
E-Journals
4. Subject Databases
3. WebOPAC & Subject Gateways
2. Search
Strategy
1. Lit Review
Thesis or
Project
Research Question
1. What do I need to find out?
2. Where can I find the information?
3. Is the information reliable?
4. Is the information relevant?
Research Question
Where to look?
• Catalogues (WebOpac)
• Databases
• Subject Portals
• E-journals
• Virtual Reference Desk
Library Resources - Hardcopy
• DIT Library WebOPAC
• Other Academic libraries
Library Resources - Electronic
• Subject Links
• Evaluated Web-links
• Databases & E-Journals
• Ask a Librarian
Types of Academic Information
Formal
• Library Catalogues• Subject Portals• Textbooks & Ebooks• Databases• Journals• Theses & Projects
Informal
• Blogs, email• Groupwork• Wikis• WebCourses• Peers & tutors• Focus groups
Types of Academic Information
Primary
• Journal articles• Standards• Patents• Reports• Theses• Lab results
Secondary
• Textbooks• Encyclopaedias• Dictionaries• Databases• WWW• Subject Portals
Where to Find Academic Information
• Subject Databases
&
• Journals/E-Journals
• Articles• Research• Conference
proceedings• Standards• Reports
Journals
• Serials, Periodicals• short articles• subject specific• published weekly or monthly• reporting on research• peer reviewed• hardcopy v electronic
e.g. Polymer 2008 Vol 49 No 20 (Sept) p.8-44
Magazines, Trade Journals
• Less academic• Informative• Weekly• Editor driven
Finding Specific Journal Titles
1. DIT Library Catalogue
– hardcopy & e-journals.– search by Journal Title
2. DIT Library Website
– e-journals only– search by Title or Topic
Fulltext ?
DIT Databases
DIT E-Journals
DIT Print Journals Inter Library LoanAcademic Libraries
Databases
&
Searching Multiple Journals
DIT Library Science Databases
Why use?
• Scholarly • Indexes 1000s key academic journals • Peer reviewed • Subject appropriate• Updated & current• Links to full text • Personalisation and social networking links• Current awareness services
DIT Library Computing Databases
Which ones? Why Use more than one?
• Science Direct • ACM• British Standards Online• Web of Science • IEEE Electronic Library
DIT Library databases
Library Resources – Blogs & Mailing Lists
• http://blogsearch.google.com• http://www.blogdigger.com• http://www.bloggapedia.com/
»ISWORLD»SEWORLD»DBWORLD»uk-usabibility»JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk
Library Resources: Institutional Repositories
ARROW@DIT Open Access Repository Ireland http://www.irel-open.ie Intute UK Research Repository ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/ OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ union catalog of digital
resources OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
National Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (US) http://www.ndltd.org/
Library Resources: Open Access
Cite Seer: Scientific Literature Digital Library Cogprints Computing Research Repository (CORR) arXiv.org : E-Print Archive (Computing) E-Print Network (Science) Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)
TechXtra
Library Resources: Subject Gateways
HEA http://www.heanet.ie INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu BUBL http://www.bubl.ac.uk INTUTE http://www.intute.ac.uk
The tutorials help answer :
What are the key websites I should be using for research in my subject field?
How do I search the Internet effectively?
What can I trust on the Internet?
How do other people use the Internet effectively to support their research?
Infomine
• http://infomine.ucr.edu/
What about ?
‘In a 2002 survey of over two thousand US students only 9% used the library resources more than the internet’…
- (O’Dochertaigh, N., Internet Research Skills Sage: 2007)
What about ?
Consider the following ….
What about ?
need to focus on high quality academic sources need for critical thinking about Google results and hits. need to learn about the main issues and academic debate on
a topic need to identify the central arguments, historical perspective
and research context.
What about ?
concern over academic quality
unreliable sources (wikis, Web 2.0)
need to evaluate information consistently
What about ?
Google Scholar
Develop evaluation skills
SubjectDatabases &
Peer Reviewed Journals
Evaluated WeblinksE-Prints
Google Advanced Search/Google Scholar
Wikis, Web 2.0.
Basic use search engines
Web Resources:
Academic Value
