PG research skills: PELP
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PG research skills: PELP
- 1. Library Research Skills libguides.rhul.ac.uk Rachel Sleeman, Information Consultant 19th August 2016
- 2. Library Session Outline 2 • Finding items on your reading list • Developing a search strategy • Sources of Information • Searching hints & tips • Evaluating your results • Managing your References • Off-campus access and other libraries • Further Help
- 3. Finding items on your Reading List
- 4. Library Finding items on your reading list 4
- 5. Developing a search strategy
- 6. Library Developing a search strategy Pick out the key words in your topic Find alternative terms Identify good sources of information Combine your key words Evaluate Read
- 7. Library Pick out the key words in your topic ‘The potential for social media has not been fully realised’ How far do you agree with this statement? Your answer should refer to one of the following: political change, interpersonal relationships, or marketing. ‘The potential for social media has not been fully realised’ How far do you agree with this statement? Your answer should refer to one of the following: political change, interpersonal relationships, or marketing.
- 8. Library Find alternative terms 8 synonyms - these are different words with the same meaning acronyms - this is where your keywords can be condensed into a set of capital letters alternative spellings - remember to try UK and US spellings alternative and related terms broader and narrower terms
- 9. Library Alternative terms for keywords Potential Low/High Uptake Capacity Utilisation 9 ‘The potential for social media has not been fully realised’ How far do you agree with this statement? Your answer should refer to one of the following: political change, interpersonal relationships, or marketing. Social media Social media marketing Twitter Instagram Marketing Advertising Retailing Promotion
- 11. Library BooksJournals Statistics Websites Databases Reports Identify good sources of information
- 12. Library Identifying good sources of information • Library Search • Subject Guides • Online databases (e.g. JSTOR, Project Muse, Web of Knowledge/Science) • Credo Reference (good starting point) • Senate house library catalogue • Other internet resources
- 13. Searching – hints & tips
- 14. Library Combining Keywords AND - Narrow your search e.g. social media AND marketing OR - Broaden your search e.g. social media OR twitter Brackets e.g. (social media OR twitter) AND marketing
- 15. Library Reviewing your results – hints & tips Quotation marks around phrases: Use truncation/wildcard characters ($ ? * -) to replace letters in search terms: e.g. “social media marketing” Advertis* = advertise, advertisement, advertising Organi?ation = organisation, organization
- 16. Evaluating
- 17. Library Evaluating Information 17 What? What is the resource you are reading? Is it a book, article, blog? Why? Why did they right it? Was it to inform, or perhaps persuade? When? When was the information written? Is it still accurate? How? How can you tell if it is unbiased? Has the author provided evidence e.g. data, quotes, references Where? Where was the work published? If not in the UK is it still appropriate? Who? Who wrote this? Who says the are an expert in the field? (Bhimani, 2016)
- 19. Department Managing References with RefWorks What is RefWorks? Web-based reference management software which helps you to record and organise your bibliographic references, and create bibliographies in different formats. How to access it Visit your Subject Guide, go to Citing and Referencing, and choose RefWorks Help with RefWorks Email the Library, attend a training session,YouTube: Learn to use RefWorks in 20 minutes 19
- 20. Off Campus access and other libraries
- 21. Library Off campus access & other libraries Senate House Library Campus Anywhere Inter Library Loans
- 22. Library Questions? 22 Leo Reynolds. Flickr. CC-BY-NA Library Services
- 23. Library Further Help 23 Online libguides.rhul.ac.uk www.rhul.ac.uk/library Libraryblog.rhul.ac.uk Social Media @RHUL_Library rhul.library RHULLibrary rhul_library Rachel Sleeman – Information Consultant Bedford Library rachel.Sleeman@rhul.ac.uk or library@rhul.ac.uk
- 24. Library References Bhimani, N. (2016) Ask a librarian: does mindfulness benefit children? Available at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/blog/askalibrarian-does-mindfulness-benefit-children (Accessed: 17 August 2016). 24