Essential library skills for Sport & Exercise 2015

Essential Library SkillsSES1242 12/10/15

© Middlesex University

Housekeeping

• How’s it going?

• Can you find the books on your reading lists?

• Have you found/downloaded your personal e-textbooks?

• Do you know who to contact for help?


Today we are going to cover...

• Different types of resources available for your studies

• Finding information for your assignments

• Using Cite Them Right, your online referencing guide


Assignment 3 – Literature Review

• This assignment requires you to • use your research skills and

• find several journal articles

• on a topic of your choice

• to produce a literature review.

• You need to select a maximum of 5 articles from academic journals that are • relevant to your degree programme and

• on the same topic.


So what is a journal anyway?


Thinking about resources


Types of information Task 1:

1. Each group will be given a pack of cards 2. The cards contain the names of 4 different

resources3. Match together the correct: Resource Type +

Definition + “Good for” + “Not so good for”

Time: 5 mins


BooksWhat are they:

A written or printed work of fiction or fact.

May be electronic.

Good for:

Clear overview

Not so good for:

Up to date information


Web pagesWhat are they:

An information resource which can be easily created by anyone on any topic.

Electronic.

Good for:

Very up to date information

Not so good for:

Accurate and reliable

information


NewspapersWhat are they:

A regular publication containing current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising.

May be electronic.

Good for:

Daily information

Not so good for:

Balanced and well researched information


JournalsWhat are they:

A regular publication containing articles on a particular academic subject.

Presents new research.

Good for:

Latest research,

critically reviewed by experts

Not so good for:

Broad overview of a subject


Finding resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library

Select Summon and

search for articles for

your Literature Review

task


Over to you

• Try the example on the handout

• Have a go with a topic relevant to your degree programme which interests you

• Save or print articles that look useful


Refine your search


Search tips

• Keep it simple! Can you summarise the topic in just a few words?


If you have too many results...

• Add more keywords (narrow)

• Be more specific (sprinting vs. running)

• Use phrases (“penalty kicks”)

• Add limits, e.g. date


If you do not have enough results...

• Use synonyms (football or soccer)

• Be less specific (martial arts vs. Judo)

• Split the question into single concepts/words

• Use tricks like truncation* = swim* finds swim, swimmer, swimming etc


Referencing - easy marks!

Task 3: Using Cite Them Right…Write a full reference for this article


Referencing

• Irwin, C., Desbrow, B., Ellis, A., O’Keeffe, B., Grant, G., Leveritt, M. (2011) ‘Caffeine withdrawal and high-intensity endurance cycling performance’, Journal of Sports Sciences, 29(5), pp.509-515

• In text citation: (Irwin et al., 2011)


Reading lists



Where can you find them?

Where are the Sports books?

1st floor wing

(right)

3rd floor

1st floor

Online


Library Subject Guides

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Need help?

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• UniHelp – in person, online, by phone

• Librarians in the StudyHub (1st floor of the library)

Monday – Friday 9-5

• SES Library Subject Guidehttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/sport

• Ask!

http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/sport


Images

• Rugby image from Wikimedia Commons licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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Essential library skills for Sport & Exercise 2015