Faculty instruction session given to the School of Nursing at Fanshawe College. First part of two part session on saving research time.

1. Saving Research Time
Robin Featherstone Suzanne O’Neill
Research & Instructional Public Services Librarian
Librarian (Nursing)
rfeathe@uwo.ca soneill@fanshawec.ca
(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383 (519) 452-4430 ext: 4346

2. Part One Literature searching:
Managing citations:
Creating manuscripts:
Research
Publishing:
Life-cycle
Fund searching:
Collecting data: CANADIAN DIRECTORY
TO FOUNDATIONS AND
CORPORATIONS

3. RefWorks

4. Getting Started
http://www.lib.uwo.ca
Make sure to
Sign in!

5. Exercise
• Login to RefWorks or
sign up for an
individual account
• Tip: make sure to
use your UWO email
address

6. Exercise
• Once you have an account, create a new
folder called “Research Seminar”

7. Managing citations: Literature searching:
Creating manuscripts:
Research
Publishing:
Life-cycle
Fund searching:
Collecting data:
CANADIAN DIRECTORY
TO FOUNDATIONS AND
CORPORATIONS

8. Scopus
• Large, multidisciplinary database
• Supports “citation mapping”

9. Getting Started
http://www.lib.uwo.ca
Make sure to
Sign in!

10. Exercise
In Scopus, find the following article:
Baumbusch, J. L., & Andrusyszyn, M. -. (2002). Gerontological
content in Canadian baccalaureate nursing programs: Cause
for concern? Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 34(1),
119-129.
How many articles reference it?

11. Exercise
Select the 8 citations that reference the Baumbusch
article
Use the “Output” button to send them to RefWorks

12. Exercise
• In RefWorks, move your citations from the
“last imported folder” into your “Research
Seminar” folder
• Now you can remove the citations from the
“last imported folder”
Put in folder.... Remove from folder....

13. Exercise
• Format a bibliography in APA style from the
citations you exported from Scopus
• Save the document to your desktop (in Word)

14. Managing citations: Literature searching:
Creating manuscripts:
Research
Publishing:
Life-cycle
Fund searching:
Collecting data:
CANADIAN DIRECTORY
TO FOUNDATIONS AND
CORPORATIONS

15. Google Docs Free!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

16. Getting started

17. Exercise
• Create a Google account (if you don’t have one
already)
• Upload the reference list you saved to your
desktop
• Share that document with yourself (via a
different email address).

18. Robin Featherstone
rfeathe@uwo.ca
(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/nursing