TELSTAR
Owen Stephens
17th June 2009

What is TELSTAR?
www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

What is TELSTAR?
www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

What is TELSTAR?
www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

www.jisc.ac.uk
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www.refworks.com
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What is a Reference?
A description of a resource intended
to identify the resource to the extent a
copy of the resource can be
discovered
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What is a Resource?
A thing that can be referenced. In the
context of teaching and learning this
includes…
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What is a Resource?
• Course materials
• Web sites
• Books (electronic or print)
• Articles (electronic or print)
• Journals (electronic or print)
• Online databases
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What is a Citation?
an in-context pointer to a reference
e.g. from within an
essay, thesis, book chapter or article
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Title: Effective Literature Search for Research
Author: Sarah Gash
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Gower Publishing Limited
Year of Publication: 2000
Place of Publication: Aldershot
(ISBN: 0566082772)
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Nature formatting
Gash, S. Effective Literature Searching
for Research (Gower Publishing
Limited, Aldershot, 2000).
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MLA formatting
Gash, Sarah. Effective Literature
Searching for Research. Second ed.
Aldershot: Gower Publishing
Limited, 2000.
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Where do References
appear?
• Course materials
• Library Resources
• Student content
(essays, TMAs/eTMAs, ePortfolios)
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Course Materials Library Resources Student Content
In In a library
structured system ?
content
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Course Materials
Student Content
Library Resources
?
Structured
format
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Why structure?
Gash, Sarah. Effective Literature
Searching for Research. Second ed.
Aldershot: Gower Publishing
Limited, 2000.
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Why structure?
Gash, S. Effective Literature Searching
for Research (Gower Publishing
Limited, Aldershot, 2000).
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Adding Value
Find item
online
Find
item in Buy
nearest item
library
Discover
related
material
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Acknowledgements
•Telstar Satellite
•http://ctd.grc.nasa.gov/rleonard/regs1ii.
html
•Telstar: The original 45
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/
•Telstar Movie Wallpaper
•http://www.telstarthemovie.co.uk/
•TELSTAR Wordle
•http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/8708
37/JISC_TELSTAR
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Acknowledgements
•Book Cover
•http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-
Literature-Searching-Research-
2nd/dp/0566082772
•The climb
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/jablan/
•Quality Garanteed
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/drift-words/
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Acknowledgements
•The Passage of Time
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/
•The largest QOTSA headline crowd to
date
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewfie
ld/
•Signpost
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmcphotos/
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