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Research help: Library services & resources Shannon Farrell, Natural Resources Librarian

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Research help: Library services & resources

Shannon Farrell, Natural Resources Librarian

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Agenda● Discuss library services & resources● Strategies to help you get started on a paper● Citation managers & notetaking

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Library Services

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Things we can help with● Purchasing & providing access to books & other resources that are needed in

research process● Conducting literature reviews & systematic reviews● Citation managers● Preparing data management plans● Locating grants

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Resources we provide● books● journals ● scientific articles● videos/dvds● streaming media● government documents● grey literature● theses & dissertations

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What’s the first thing you do before you start writing a paper?

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You want to study:

the effect of wildlife crossing structures on wildlife mortality on highways

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Wildlife crossing structures Mortality

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Wildlife crossing structures

Crossing structures

Tunnels

Underpasses

Bridges

Culverts

Mortality

Roadkill = road-kill

Vehicle collisions

Animal-vehicle collisions

Kills

Mortality patterns

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Wildlife Highways

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Wildlife

Vertebrates

Carnivores

Canada lynx = Lynx canadensis

Highways

Road / roads

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Where? Broader terms

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Where?

North America

United States

Minnesota

Broader terms

Road ecology

Road avoidance

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Searching tips● Keywords are really important!● Goal is to outsmart the computer● Some tricks:

○ AND = lynx AND roads○ OR = lynx OR wolves○ NOT = wolves NOT lupus○ road* = road, roads, roadkill○ “Gray wolf” = keeps terms together○ “Gray wolf” AND (mating OR reprod*) = ( ) tells computer to search this first

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Library Resources (demo)

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● Web of Science● Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide ● CAB Abstracts● Agriculture & Environmental Science Database● Google Scholar

Recommended Databases

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● Government documents○ MNCat: federal and state documents○ Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide & Agriculture & Environmental Science Database

■ State and extension pubs○ Monthly Catalog○ Proquest Congressional

● Grey literature○ MNCat○ Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide, CAB Abstracts & Agri. & Environ. Sci. Database○ Google

■ Limit to specific organization’s sites by using site:[organization’s URL].org● Example Google search: “oak site:cifor.org”

Government Documents & Grey Literature

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● Copy the title of the article into:○ library home page search box○ Google Scholar

● If it’s not in either place:○ Submit an Interlibrary loan request○ Contact me!

Finding full-text of a citation

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Citation managers

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Citation managers supported in UMN Libraries

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Importing citations

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Organize citations

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Create reference lists

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Note-taking!

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Note-taking!

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Note-taking!

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Note-taking!

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Note-taking!

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Other note taking tools● Scrivener

○ Digital notecards○ Works on desktops & iOS○ Costs $, but free trial

● Google Keep○ Digital sticky notes○ Part of our Google suite○ Free

● Supernotecard○ Digital notecards○ Works on phones and desktops○ Costs $, but free trial

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What are your note taking strategies?

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Questions?Shannon Farrell

Natural Resources Librarian

[email protected]