Face to face training session delivered at The Open University. It encouraged attendees to search for, evaluate and use external scholarship literature (i.e. that produced outside of The OU) in their scholarship projects.

1. Finding and
evaluating external
scholarship literature
David Jenkins Research Support Librarian

2. What do you want to get
from this session?

3. Browsing scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
How to find suitable journals to publish in
Outline

4. Browsing scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
How to find suitable journals to publish in
Outline

5. Browsing scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
How to find suitable journals to publish in
Outline

6. Browsing scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
How to find suitable journals to publish in
Outline

7. Browsing scholarship journals
Comparing databases/search engines
Planning a search
Evaluating literature with the Scholarship
Checklist
How to find suitable journals to publish in
Outline

8. You can browse
scholarship journals using
Library Search

9. You can search for
scholarship articles using
Library Search, Google
Scholar and British
Education Index (BEI)

10. Try browsing for scholarship journals in Library
Search and then searching for scholarship
articles in Library Search, Google Scholar and
British Education Index (BEI)
Which one works best for you?
Exercise

11. Google
Google Scholar,
Library Search
BEI

12. Try planning and refining your search using
the pointers on the handout
Which do you find most useful?
Exercise

13. Searching for scholarship
literature is tricky

14. You can evaluate the
literature you find using the
Scholarship Checklist

15. Evaluate the literature you found using the
Scholarship Checklist
What would you rate the literature you found
out of ten overall?
Exercise

16. What do you already do to
find good journals to
publish in?

17. Try talking to peers, using
trusted lists of journals or by
using journal rankings

18. Metrics are not perfect and
need to be used with
caution

19. Evaluate a journal you have found
using http://thinkchecksubmit.org/
Exercise

20. Any questions?

21. You can email us at
library-research-
support@open.ac.uk