Earth Sciences 4490: Getting Started on your Literature Review
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- Earth Sciences 4490: getting started on your literature review Dan Sich Earth Sciences Librarian Sept 24 th and Oct 1 st , 2008
- I want you to be able to…
- find articles using databases
- search by cited reference
- build a list of references, bibliography
- get article full text
- schedule
- Day 1: Sept 24
- account set-up
- sources
- library catalogue
- GeoRef (find articles)
- Web of Science
- get article full text
- RefWorks (export)
- homework
- Day 2: Oct 1
- What did you find?
- SciFinder Scholar
- get article full text
- RefWorks (export)
- RefWorks (bibliography)
- Questions & feedback
- account set-up
- Login Help / Synchronize my password
- RefWorks / Sign up
- This diagram has been adapted from Evolution of Scientific Information . [From Allan Kent and Harold Lancour, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (New York, 1979), s.v. ”Scientific Literature,” by K. Subramanyam, 394]. Available at http://library.wooster.edu/sciref/Tutor/EvSciInfo/evsciinfo.php (retrieved Sept 3, 2008). Thanks to Timken Science Library, College of Wooster.
- Library Catalogue
- Everything that the library owns
- Books, journals (no articles), etc.
- Search by keyword, author, publisher, etc.
- E.g., United States Geological Society, Geological Society of America
- Your turn
- 5 minutes
- Search the library catalogue
- Ask us questions
- Journal Articles & Databases
- Journal articles, conference proceedings…
- Scholarly journals
- Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Review articles
- GeoRef (geology)
- SciFinder Scholar (chemistry)
- Web of Science (cited ref. searching)
- Scholarly vs. popular pubs
- availability
- audience
- aesthetics
- authors
- topics
- length
- language
- advertizing
- Sources, credits
- Peer-review process
- author writes paper, sends to publisher
- publisher sends to referees (experts)
- referees send feedback to publisher
- publisher decides to publish or not
- paper is published
- journal is distributed
- Search tips
- identify key words
- use synonyms, AND, OR, NOT, *
- E.g., mineral* AND (mars OR martian) AND soil*
- mineral* = mineralogy, mineral, minerals, mineralogy…
- limit date, language, document type(s)
- Your turn
- 10 minutes
- Search GeoRef
- Get article fulltext
- Export citations to RefWorks
- Ask questions
- Your turn
- 10 minutes
- Search Web of Science
- Try Cited Reference Search
- View Cited References
- Get article fulltext
- Export citations to RefWorks
- Ask questions
- SciFinder Scholar
- Your turn
- 15 minutes
- Search SciFinder Scholar
- Search by Research Topic
- Analyse, Refine, Get Related
- Get article fulltext
- Save citations
- Exit SciFinder Scholar and then
- Import citations into RefWorks
- Ask questions
- RefWorks
- web app for citation management
- automatically formats notes, bibliographies
- Export citations directly from database, or import citations from .txt file
- use the Write-N-Cite plugin for Word
- Questions & feedback
- On a piece of paper, briefly describe the one thing that you’re still confused about
- It doesn’t have to be something I covered in the session
- contact info
- Dan Sich, Earth Sciences Librarian
- phone: 519.661.2111 ext. 80962
- eMail/MSN: [email_address]
- Subject: Earth Sciences 4490 question
- Skype: dansich
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