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Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences Postgraduates
Library Information Resources
2011/12
Click on the Research Tab
Research
E-prints soton
Data management
E-theses
Bibliometrics
Getting ISBNs and ISSNs
E-theses
Issues relevant from the start of your PhD– Inclusion of third-party copyrighted
material (diagrams, tables, code etc)– Structuring your files to convert to
elegant pdf
e-theses website– http://www.academic-skills.soton.ac.u
k/ethesis
Focus onHigh quality information sources
Techniques for searching
Evaluation of sources and information
Exporting citations and referencing
Keeping up to date
Overview
Web resources
Database searching
Finding full text
U of S library service
Internet Searching There are some good search engines• Google Scholar
and many high quality websites and gateways• Intute
but many websites have no quality controls and need careful evaluation
so one of the best internet resources for you is…
Direct URL http://www.soton.ac.uk/library
Or via SUSSED
Library Website
1st break
Get together in pairs for 10 minutes and use the library website to answer the questions given on the handout
Research information needs to be..
High quality – peer reviewed
Up to date
Relevant
Comprehensive
Publishers websites
Learned Societies
E-print servers
Databases and Indexes
Can be obtained from…
Databases and Indexes up to date information from peer
reviewed publications
well indexed enabling detailed searching
contain abstracts of the articles retrieved
may to link to full text where available
coverage can include conferences, reports, books, theses
but they don’t cover everything.
So…
… remember other sources
Books
Theses e.g. Index to Theses
Patents e.g. Espacenet
Standards e.g. BSI
Technical data
Access
Institutional Login– iSolutions username/password
VPN– check iSolutions site for details
2nd Break
Get together in pairs for 10 minutes and answer the questions on the handout
Specialist databases and indexes
Searching techniques (1)
Search statements retrieve exact matches
Use Boolean operators (and,or,not) to combine search terms
Boolean Logic
a AND b
a OR b
a NOT ba a a
b b b
Can be used to join different search terms
Searching techniques (2)
Use truncation, stemming and wild cards (symbols vary between databases)
Phrase searching
Think carefully about what terms to use and how to enter them
Truncation
Finds words with a common stem (normally * symbol, $ in WebCat / Medline)
Aero* will find:• Aeroplane• Aeroplanes• Aerospace
Wildcards
Replace a single character (normally ? symbol)
Wom?n will find both woman and women
Engine? will find both engine and engines but not engineering
Colo?r will find both colour and color
Phrase Searching
Some databases search for a phrase if Boolean operators are not present
Others require phrases to be enclosed in quotation marks “ ”
Note that truncation and stemming do not always work with phrase searching
Examples of combining search terms and using truncations
Recording your results
Mark relevant references in your search results
Then:
e-mail results to yourself
export to reference software
save to a file
Finding the documents
Direct links from databases
TDNet – electronic (and print) journal holdings – links from Library web page and from most databases
WebCat – print and electronic holdings of books, journals, conferences reports and theses
Exceptions
Items not individually catalogued– Patents/ BSI/IEC standards– IET/IEEE conferences and
standards (IEEEXplore)
Items not in UoS Libraries– Inter Library Loan (ILL) – Free material e.g. NASA
Technical Reports
Web of Knowledge
hosts a number of databases:
Web of Science
Medline
INSPEC
Journal Citation Reports
Use ‘Select a database’ tab for full details of the databases available on the Web of Knowledge Platform
Web of Science
Good for citation searching
Has a useful citation linking feature
Click here to see all citing
articles
Web of Science has a useful citation linking feature
These articles all cite the ‘parent’ article
TD-Net link
Following the full text link through TDNet
If you get this message, it is still worth checking WebCat and TDNet as links don’t always work
How to access Web of Science
From the library home page at:
www.soton.ac.uk/library
ECS/ORC subject pages
Resources page
Using Institutional login or VPN when off campus
3rd break (20 minutes)
Together in pairs (or separately)
Practice search techniques and cited reference searching, using your own topics or the examples on the sheet
Explore full text links
Advanced searching techniques
Citation searching
Controlled vocabulary (thesaurus)
Limiting
Saving searches
Current awareness/alerts
Controlled (Thesaurus) terms
Terms added to a record taken from a fixed list (thesaurus)
Searching these makes results more relevant by– avoiding concepts mentioned in
passing– retrieving material containing
alternative terms
Live thesaurus demo – Inspec
Search Compendex
Click on the drop down boxes to access search options
and other features
Saved Searches
Search history
Saving searches
Alerts
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Select ‘Search History’ to save a search or create an ‘alert’
To save searches and create alerts set up an account
4th Break
Separately or in pairs – 15 mins
Search a database with a controlled vocabulary/thesaurus
Alerts – save a search as an ALERT
Try links to full text
Sources of further help
Academic Liaison Librarians
Library webpages
Subject enquiry desk
Deskside coaching
e-mail [email protected]
Other courses- book through GradBook
E-theses
Endnote/Reference Manager
Keeping up to date
Open access
Copyright
Bibliometrics
Data management (coming in semester 2)
Our blog
Science Engineering and the Environment @ soton
http://sciengsoton.wordpress.com/
