Earth Sciences 4490: Library Research Tools for your Literature Review Dan Sich Earth Sciences Librarian Oct 7 th , 2009

I want you to be able to… find articles using GeoRef and SciFinder find references & highly-cited articles using Web of Science get article full text using “Get it @ Western,” the library catalogue and Interlibrary Loan create a bibliography using RefWorks

find articles using GeoRef and SciFinder

find references & highly-cited articles using Web of Science

get article full text using “Get it @ Western,” the library catalogue and Interlibrary Loan

create a bibliography using RefWorks

schedule RefWorks GeoRef Web of Science SciFinder Get it @ Western Interlibrary Loan

RefWorks

GeoRef

Web of Science

SciFinder

Get it @ Western

Interlibrary Loan

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RefWorks Set up an account Use it with databases Why bother?

Set up an account

Use it with databases

Why bother?

Library Catalogue everything we own books, journals (not articles), etc. books: introductions, basic info, data, etc. search by keyword, title, author, etc. try: United States Geological Society, Geological Society of America try: glacial drift location, call number, status, request, subject headings

everything we own

books, journals (not articles), etc.

books: introductions, basic info, data, etc.

search by keyword, title, author, etc.

try: United States Geological Society, Geological Society of America

try: glacial drift

location, call number, status, request, subject headings

Scholarly / peer-review journal articles?

Scholarly vs. Popular Publications availability audience aesthetics authors topics length language advertizing sources, credits

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 sends feedback to author author decides whether or not to revise article and send back to publisher publisher decides whether or not to publish

author writes paper, sends to publisher

publisher sends to referees (experts)

referees send feedback to publisher

publisher sends feedback to author

author decides whether or not to revise article and send back to publisher

publisher decides whether or not to publish

Finding journal articles?

Article databases Find peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles, conference articles, and review articles using journal article databases GeoRef (geology) Web of Science (references) SciFinder (chemistry)

Find peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles, conference articles, and review articles using journal article databases

GeoRef (geology)

Web of Science (references)

SciFinder (chemistry)

Off-Campus Access article databases eBooks, eJournals

article databases

eBooks, eJournals

GeoRef GeoSciences, 1785-present Try meteor* AND compos* AND canad* “ Peer-Reviewed Journals” tab Descriptors Get it @ Western “ Palaeolimnological evidence…” eJournal “ The Earth’s lower mantle…” ILL RefWorks download

GeoSciences, 1785-present

Try meteor* AND compos* AND canad*

“ Peer-Reviewed Journals” tab

Descriptors

Get it @ Western

“ Palaeolimnological evidence…” eJournal

“ The Earth’s lower mantle…” ILL

RefWorks download

Search tips identify concepts, keywords, synonyms use AND, OR, NOT, * (truncation) review & revise searches use Search History limit date range, document type(s), etc. skim abstracts

identify concepts, keywords, synonyms

use AND, OR, NOT, * (truncation)

review & revise searches

use Search History

limit date range, document type(s), etc.

skim abstracts

Your turn 10 minutes

10 minutes

Web of Science Science Citation Index meteor* AND compos* AND canad* Refine Results: Subject Areas Citations? Times cited? Create citation report Select records, save to Plain Text, Import into RefWorks

Science Citation Index

meteor* AND compos* AND canad*

Refine Results: Subject Areas

Citations?

Times cited? Create citation report

Select records, save to Plain Text, Import into RefWorks

Your turn 10 minutes

10 minutes

SciFinder Chemical Abstracts Service Account set-up Search by Research Topic mineralogy of martial soils Analyse (by Journal), Refine (add “life”) Get Cited, Get Citing Get Full Text, tricks in catalogue RefWorks…?

Chemical Abstracts Service

Account set-up

Search by Research Topic

mineralogy of martial soils

Analyse (by Journal), Refine (add “life”)

Get Cited, Get Citing

Get Full Text, tricks in catalogue

RefWorks…?

Your turn 10 minutes

10 minutes

Notes on SciFinder Sign Out when finished We only have 8 ‘seats’ Today you’re using training seats

Sign Out when finished

We only have 8 ‘seats’

Today you’re using training seats

No fulltext? Search the catalogue by Journal Title, or Keyword Check the web (it may be free) Order it through Interlibrary Loan (RACER)

Search the catalogue by Journal Title, or Keyword

Check the web (it may be free)

Order it through Interlibrary Loan (RACER)

Interlibrary Loan (RACER) Journal issue not in library catalogue? Free photocopies of articles, loan of books Averages 4-10 business days Need to create a RACER account Three ways to create request: Link from Get it @ Western (quickest) Search RACER by “journal title” Use Blank Request Form (slowest)

Journal issue not in library catalogue?

Free photocopies of articles, loan of books

Averages 4-10 business days

Need to create a RACER account

Three ways to create request:

Link from Get it @ Western (quickest)

Search RACER by “journal title”

Use Blank Request Form (slowest)

RefWorks web app for citation management automatically formats notes (?), bibliographies Citation style? E.g., AGU, Earth and Planetary Science Letters use the Write-N-Cite plugin for Word (demo only)

web app for citation management

automatically formats notes (?), bibliographies

Citation style? E.g., AGU, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

use the Write-N-Cite plugin for Word (demo only)

Feedback On a piece of paper, briefly describe the one thing that you’re still confused by It doesn’t have to be something I covered in the session

On a piece of paper, briefly describe the one thing that you’re still confused by

It doesn’t have to be something I covered in the session

contact info Dan Sich, Earth Sciences Librarian phone: 80962 email: [email_address] Subject: Earth Sciences 4490

Dan Sich, Earth Sciences Librarian

phone: 80962

email: [email_address]

Subject: Earth Sciences 4490