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Advanced Research Skills :
Water Science, Policy & Management Autumn 2014
Sue Bird Bodleian Subject Librarian Geography
Elective Essay Assessment
Aims: Does the essay have a clear aim, question or
perspective that is relevant to the literature or an issue?
Presentation: You are expected to know how to cite
references
Literature: Does the essay address a range of relevant
literature, and demonstrate a good level of understanding of the
literature on the topic.
You need to conduct initial scoping lit review – key themes, etc.
Followed by a more focused & deeper literature review. Peer-
reviewed literature acts as a form of substantiation
Timetable
Week Michaelmas
1 Research design
2 Epistemology and methodology
3 Writing a policy brief
4 Presenting arguments
5 Fieldwork Planning
6 Topic selection
7 Research Question
8 Literature review
19 November 2014 3
Research Design & Skills Wk 8
• Literature review
– Identify 3 key papers on your topic/research question
– Discuss in groups
• How did you identify them?
• Literature gaps identified and how it relates to your topics
• Common characteristics?
Dissemination of your Research
Research Partners: What are their expectations?
Ethics: Should you be communicating with your partners?
Short Resume: Will you allow this to be made publicly
available?
You need to specifically allow publication on a web-site or
users could infringe your copyright.
This session
More on Bibliographic Databases
Searching techniques for journal articles,
conference papers, book chapters etc
Keeping up to date
Subject searching
Better to use specialist indexes covering the
world’s literature to find articles
Access via OxLIP+ (http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
Use inter-library loan for items not held in
Oxford and not online
E-Journals
“I didn't check for the hard copy
- so used to getting online access!”
“I had just googled the article rather
than using SOLO, so that was the
issue & why I’d been asked to login,
or use Athens”
Newspapers
Electronic newspapers
• Some are freely available. Alphabetic list on
OxLIP+
• Best source for the “Text Only” of huge range of
newspapers and magazines is Nexis UK. Goes
back approximately 10 yrs in most cases and is
very current i.e. today’s daily news items
Newspapers
Electronic newspapers
• Factiva - from Dow Jones & Reuters Company
• Business news & challenges, market trends & info.
• 14,000 + sources inc. local & global newspapers,
newswires, trade journals, newsletters, etc.
• Archive back to 1969 - 28 languages from 159
countries
• Dun & Bradstreet company profiles, Reuters
Fundamentals, etc.
Legal Resources
Jurisdictions, topics, cases etc.
• Lexis Library
• WestLaw – both UK & US editions
• But there are a lot more
(if necessary ask the Law Library for help)
Bodleian Maps
Catalogues The main map catalogue is a physical card
catalogue in the Map Room, containing records of
all of the sheet maps in the collection, together with
most of the atlases. The general arrangement is by
map scale, but records for maps dated before 1851
and all atlases are arranged chronologically
Currently in the process of digitising our
physical catalogue and deploying it on SOLO.
Our aim is to complete this by the end of 2014. A
small percentage of the collection is already
catalogued on SOLO: approximately 5000 post-
1850 sheet maps and atlases published after 1988.
Databases vs. Search engines
• Contents are indexed by subject specialists
• Subject headings
• Limiting functions e.g. publication types, language
Allow you to
• View Search history
• Combine searches
• Mark and sort results
• Print/save/email/export
• Save searches
• Set up alerts
• Searches done by
automated “web crawlers”
• No thesaurus / subject
headings – just free text
searching
• No limiting functions
• Usually none of these!
Databases (Scopus or Web of
Science) enable you to:
• Refine results overview to find the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your
area of interest.
• Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections.
• Find out who is citing you or your supervisor, and how many citations an article or an author
has received.
• Use Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-
index
• Use Journal Analyzer to provide quick insight into specific journal performance
• Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.
• Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
• Use Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX
Search Strategies
• Boolean logic
• Truncation
• Wild cards
• Synonyms
• Which language are you using?
Boolean connectors
• AND – combines terms to restrict results
• OR – useful for covering synonyms
• NOT – excludes unwanted areas of research
SCOPUS
THE bibliographic database for the Earth,
Geographical and Enivronmental Sciences
Scopus --
Abstract & citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature
and quality web sources. 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international
publishers. Now starting to include more book material
53 million records: 29 million records back to 1995 (of which 78% include references).
21 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823.
6.5 million conference papers from proceedings & journals.
Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 1
– Important to remember that although each database
covers thousands of journal titles no single database
is ever comprehensive.
– If you are having difficulty finding material on a topic
use the keywords you find in any relevant reference to
extend your search.
Bibliographic Databases
ProQuest
• Aqualine
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
• Oceanic Abstracts (under ASFA)
• Water Resources Abstracts (under ESPM)
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Sustainability Science Abstracts (under ESPM)
• EconLit
Bibliographic Databases
OVIDSP
• CAB Abstracts – natural resources
• Forest Science - biogeography
• GeoRef – physical geography & geology
• Zoological Abstracts (1864-2009 only)
Web of Knowledge
Similar but not the same : a.k.a. Web of Science WEB of Science: Core Collection Broad Coverage – all subject areas (Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area)
Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 2
Take time to explore the various databases & platforms available.
Some will be more useful to you than others.
• Scopus
• ProQuest
• OvidSP
• Web of Knowledge
Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 3
Boolean Logical Operators AND, OR, NOT
Proximity operators
Adj (literally adjacent); Near(same sentence); With(same
field)
Field descriptors: AU(author); TI(title); AB (abstract);
SO(source or reference); DE (general descriptor) etc are
likely to be specific to each database and won’t operate in
‘cross searches’
Combining searches: #1 and #2
Other tricks:
Use symbols for wildcards and truncation
? or $ for a single character
globali?ation / globali$ation (is it an ‘s’ or a ‘z’)
* for truncation or variant spellings
govern* for governance, governmentality, etc
use quotation marks for searching for phrases e.g. “resource management”
Synonyms & Language
• Topic = Personal energy use reduction
• Search:
• A) personal energy use
• B) “personal energy use”
• C) “energy use” OR “energy consumption” AND
personal OR private OR household
• Context : “carbon footprint” OR “carbon neutral”
(including food mile* (i.e. miles or mileage)? )
Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 4
• Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings.
• Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word endings and ? to replace a single character.
• Expand search by following hypertext links esp. subject headings
• Authors names: Check the online help for formats. Use the database index to find different forms of author’s name otherwise truncate first initial.
Bibliographic Searching
Three ways to keep up to date:
• Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it
again in the future.
• E-mail alerts / RSS feeds:–
– Specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at
chosen intervals or on a continuous basis
– Select your favourite journal(s) & the database will tell you when
the next issue of a journal is available.
• Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular
article is cited in another WoS or Scopus indexed article.
Bibliographic Databases
Search :Integrative water resources management (IWRM) (2011 only)
Scopus = 94 articles (2012-14 = 323)
ProQuest = 21 articles (adds another 7 to the total) (2012-14 = 88)
Ovid = 29 after de-duplication (gives a further 7) (2012-14 = 214)
Web of Science = 38 articles (only a further 3 unique items) (2012-14 = 201)
RefWorks de-duplication = 111 unique items!! (for the 2011 search)
GUIDE to RESOURCES
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/geography
Advanced Bibliographic Skills
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