The Library - Your research Link to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

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The LibraryYour research Link to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Presenters:

Monica Raszewski, Liaison Librarian, School of Culture and Communication

Appy Laspagis, Education Librarian

Mary-Louise Edwards, Liaison Librarian, Business and Economics

Katie Wood, University of Melbourne Archives

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Overview

• Introduction to the Library’s quality research resources

• Strategies for finding Information

• Tips to effectively use the Library catalogue

• How to access Discovery to find electronic resources including, journals and indexes

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Borrowing books

Your student card is your Library and printing card borrow 100 items

at a time

Renew up to 10 timeson 28-day and 7-day loans

No renewals on hourly or overnight loans

Renew up to 4 times on

Music Scores

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Room and Computer Bookings

400 PCsBook for up to 30 minutes or 3 hours

Group study spaces Book for up to 2 hours

32 Rooms over 6 locations

Book anytime anywhere

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Where can you find us?

12 libraries

Discipline Specific

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Arts Students

Baillieu Library

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Business, Economics and Education Students

Giblin Eunson Library

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The University holds over 30 cultural collections including:

• University of Melbourne Archives• Rare books / Special Collections

• Classics and Archaeology• Medical history, botany… and much more

Services:• Access unique and valuable research collections

• Receive support from staff who are subject experts

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Research Cycle

Analyse the Problem

Identify concepts, keywords,

authors

Create a search

strategy

Identify search tools

Search and Retrieve

Information

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2: Brainstorm words to describe each concept

Identify synonyms Use dictionaries,

encyclopaedias or thesauri

Do searches and look at the subject

terms used

Consider singular vs. plural and

different spellings

1: Identify the main concepts in your topic

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Example

1. Identify main concepts

Television Children Behaviour

Topic: Media Violence and Influence on Children’s Behaviour

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Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Keyword 3

Television Violence children

Media Aggress* youth

Internet Bullying Young adults

Brainstorm keywords

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Use operators

Combine search terms using operators

Boolean Operators:• AND• OR• NOT

Phrase “”• Search for an

exact phrase• “educational

research”

Wildcard ?• Matches any

single character anywhere in a word

• organi?ation finds: organisation organization

Truncation *• Matches

characters at the end of a word

• Child* finds:• children• childhood• child

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Online Search Statements

Narrow or broaden your search using the Boolean Operators and, or, not

1. Television and violence and child

2. (Television or media or internet) and violence

3. Television or Media not (Social Media)

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Where to start!

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Subject Research Guideshttp://www.unimelb.libguides.com/

• Literature Reviews• Research Support• Getting Published • Finding Theses• Staying Current• Managing References • Research Impact• Tracking Citations• Finding News• Measuring Research• EndNote for Windows• EndNote for Mac

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Library Catalogue

E-Books Bonus

Interlibrary LoansCAVAL & national

borrowing schemes

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Discovery

Journal articlesEbooksBooksExam papersReadings online and more…

http://www.unimelb.libguides.com/discovery

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Why Use Individual Databases?

Subject based and a focus on specific content

Advanced search options, publication type, thesaurus, cited by

Targeted and manageable number of hits

Discover the important publishing sources – peer reviewed journals, conferences in your subject area

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Useful Education databases

A+ Education- Australian Focus Sources include published and unpublished material, theses, book chapters, conference papers, journal articles

ERIC- US Focus on all aspects of education. Sourcesjournal articles, conference papers, reports, theses and book chapters.1966-present over1.2 million references

Education Research Abstracts- Taylor and Francis

Publishers database includes Taylor and Francis

RoutledgePsychology Press

CRC PressGarland Science

Proquest Digital DissertationsFull text theses over 2million entries from 700 countries

Web of Science

Sage Research Methods OnlineOutstanding new resource

collection of ebooks, videos journals, dictionaries ,

encyclopedias in social sciences

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Useful Arts databases

APAFT - Australian Focus Sources include published and unpublished material, theses, book chapters, conference

papers, journal articles. Some full text.

JSTOR (Archive) provides full-text access to a range of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities and social

sciences.Lacks the most recent 2-5 years of journals.

Academic Search Premier a scholarly database that includes full text for

1,800 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study.

Proquest Digital DissertationsFull text theses over 2million entries from 700

countries

Web of Science

Project Muse provides full-text, online access to a comprehensive selection of scholarly humanities and social sciences journals.

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Checklist for evaluating sources of information

•Who is the author? •What are his/her qualifications?Authority

•Is there bias? •How are the claims justified? Objectivity

•Practitioners or academic community?Intended Audience

•Facts/figures/dates cited and references included? Website – what domain?Accuracy •How up to date is the information?Currency

Evaluating Sources

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Citing & Referencing

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Citing & Referencing Tips

Which Style?

•Check with your supervisor

Style manual or guidelines

•Re-cite

Bibliographic management

software

•EndNote •RefWorks

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Take Home Message

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Researcher@Libraryhttp://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/

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Get in touch!

• Visit us in person• Chat to us online• Call us via 13MELB• Visit our mobile website

Monica Raszewski

Liaison Librarian

School of Culture & Communication

E: monicar@unimelb.edu.au

Telephone: 8344 7796

Appy LaspagisEducation LibrarianE: laspagis@unimelb.edu.auTelephone : 8344 7119

Mary Louise EdwardsLiaison LibrarianBusiness and EconomicsTelephone : 9035 7884 E: marye@unimelb.edu.au

Katie WoodUniversity of Melbourne Archives Telephone : 8344 6848E: kathryn@unimelb.edu.au

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