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Sarah Rhodes, Subject Consultant for International Development, Forced Migration,
African and Commonwealth Studies
Online Resources & Searching Skills for
Global Governance and Diplomacy
Overview
Set up a Refworks account
Create a search strategy
Bibliographic databases
Other sources:
Grey literature
Theses
Statistical data
News
Set up a Refworks account
Create a search strategy
Bibliographic databases
Other sources:
Grey literature
Theses
Statistical data
News
Reference Managers
Reference Managers
Availability •Desktop – but
can also transfer
to Endnote web
•Web based
•Web-based •Web browser
extension and
desktop
•Web-based and
desktop (but no
automatic
syncing)
Cost •Buy from
OUCS
•Free via our
subscription
•Free via
subscription (inc
alumni)
•Freely available
(but limited
storage space)
•Freely available
Word
processing
•MS Word
•Open Office
•Pages
•MS Word
•Open Office
•MS word •MS Word
•Open Office
•MS Word
•Libre Office
Cross
platform
support
•Not compatible
with Linux
•Word processor
plugin not
compatible with
linux
•Refmobile –
mobile phone app
•Mobile apps
available
•Iphone/Ipad
interface
Database
interaction
•Web of Science
/ Web of
knowledge
•Proquest
For more detailed table see http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/content.php?pid=294548&sid=2418329
Libguide for Reference Managers
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/reference-management
Task 1 Create a Refworks
account
Good book
on
methodology
Paper
supports my
argument in
chapter 2
Classic paper
to use in the
introduction
Useful
literature
review in this
paper
Lots of
country
data on
this site
NGO project
evaluation,
good evidence
for chapter 5
Supervisor
recommended
this book
Good
comparison
study in this
paper
Your Thesis
Approaches
to finding
the
literature
Reference ‘chasing’
You know relevant books and papers
already so follow the references, but don’t rely on this approach
alone.
Google Scholar
It is the biggest database and covers
books as well. A useful starting point
but it is hard to control and
causes frustration. The systematic approach
Plan your search, list your search
terms, hit the databases,
systematically manage your
references and papers
Ask people Recommendations are a good starting point
and you have to read what your supervisor suggests but this not a
comprehensive solution.
Start with a clear research question
Example research question
Identify the search concepts in your research
question:
Globalisation and feminist thought in
development : a case study from Lebanon
For each search concept, brainstorm keywords:
e.g. for feminist thought also search for feminism, gender theory,
women’s rights, sexual equality etc.
Research Question: Globalisation and feminist thought in development
Row 1
Concept 1:
globalisation
Concept 2:
feminist thought
Concept 3:
development
Row 2
Globalization
Multinational
Global
Market
Feminism
Gender theory
Economic
Policy
Poverty
Row 3
#1 = globali?ation OR multinat* OR
global market*
#2 = “feminist
thought” OR feminis*
OR gender theory
#3 = development AND
(economic OR policy OR policies
OR poverty)
Row 4
#1 AND #2 AND #3
(N.B. # means search number)
Building a structured search An example of one possible approach…
Search syntax: Boolean logic
OR
NOT
university or oxford
university not oxford
AND university and oxford NARROWS
SEARCH
BROADENS
SEARCH
NARROWS
SEARCH
Search syntax: wildcard characters
• Truncation may be used in a number of ways:
– * for right side truncation (e.g. plurals and
alternative word endings) • feminis* retrieves feminist, feminists, feminism
– ? for a single character (e.g. alternative spellings) • organi?ation for organisation or organization
– $ for one character or zero characters • behavio$r* retrieves behavior, behaviour, behavioral, etc
• Check the database online help (the symbols given above are common but not universal)
Task 2: Create an Advanced Search String
Exporting references from SOLO
Exporting references via the e-shelf
Articles from
OU e-journals
(link from SOLO)
Major
databases
SCOPUS Indexes journal
articles,
conference
proceedings,
working papers.
Limited coverage
of political topics
and social theory
Google Scholar
Searches journal
articles and books some other
content (but not government, NGOs, policy institutes etc.)
Proquest Platform
Searches scholarly journals, theses, news and commercial publications
Jstor full text database, lots of classic journals back
to their beginning, lacks most recent years
Databases via OxLIP+ (link tab on SOLO or
http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk )
SAGE Research Methods Online Link via OxLIP+
Proquest Platform- IBSS
Google Scholar Preferences
Libguides http://ox.libguides.com/development-studies
Task 3: Run your advanced search in Proquest
Grey literature
Key sources for development studies working papers, conference papers and policy briefs include: Oxfam ODID Dfid MigrationOxford FMO IDS Eldis CIAO PolicyFILE IOM UNBISnet
See the LibGuides for other useful links
Theses
Search for previous MSc theses on SOLO (“msc thesis global governance”)
Proquest Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (full-text). Mainly US but some global content.
EThOS. UK theses digitized by the British Library (not all universities, no Oxford theses)
Statistical data services
UNdata: http://data.un.org/
UNHCR Statistical Online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
MPI Data: http://migrationinformation.org/DataHub/
World Bank data: http://data.worldbank.org/
WHO: http://www.who.int/research/en/
U.S. census: http://www.census.gov/
UK National Statistics: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
LibGuides: http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
OECD iLibrary
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/
UK Data Service
International macro data
from Eurostat, OECD,
UN, World Bank, IMF,
IEA.
Survey and UK data via
other ESDS services.
Register and use via
Single Sign On.
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/data
Social science data services
John Southall (Social Sciences Data Librarian) – [email protected]
News databases: Nexis UK
Over 24000
news. Trade
and reference
sources
Searching by
source, topic
or country
Company profiles / industry news /
biographies / UK legal case studies
Newswires
(eg Reuters)
and Global
Newspapers
Searching by
source, area
or industry
31,000 sources
from more than
200 countries
News databases: Factiva
News databases
•AllAfrica's news and information archive, dating from 1996, is a growing collection containing over two million articles and documents from allAfrica.com, the leading Africa information source on the Internet. • AllAfrica collects and aggregates articles from 130 African news organizations, as well as documents and releases from several hundred governmental, nongovernmental and international institutions
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshops Workshops for postgraduates & researchers Topics covered:
• information discovery and finding scholarly materials • reference management (Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero &
Mendeley) • keeping up to date • measuring research impact • copyright and intellectual property • open access publishing • managing research data
Any questions?