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Literature searching for research
Presentation delivered as part of Academic Development Directorate's research support programme. Covers literature searching and evaluation, current awareness and managing resources.
Literature searching for research
- 1. Literature Searching forResearch Clare McCluskey & Victoria Watt Information Learning Services
- 2. Computer Desk byNathan Wells. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/2jE6cK Book Snake by Alan Levine. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/dphot9 Stack of books by gaku. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/oQjgK
- 3. What types ofinformation do you need to find? Vintage type at a flea market by Victoria Pickering. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Available from https://flic.kr/p/nXYA5V
- 4. How are yougoing to get at the information you need? The wine of Akrotiri by Klearchos Kapoutsis. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0 Available from https://flic.kr/p/afZesz
- 5. Organising your results TheMess by Pascal. Used under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal . Available from https://flic.kr/p/fY9Cgu
- 6. Evaluating Sorting at Mpembaby counterculturecoffee. Used under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/cpBpTC
- 7. Where to getfurther help Lottie Alexander (Arts) l.alexander@yorksj.ac.uk Leah Emary (Arts) l.emary@yorksj.ac.uk Clare McCluskey (E&T) c.mccluskey@yorksj.ac.uk Jane Munks (HLS) j.munks@yorksj.ac.uk Ruth Patterson (HLS) r.patterson@yorksj.ac.uk Annette Webb (IT) a.webb@yorksj.ac.uk Ian Staite (IT) i.staite@yorksj.ac.uk ILS Research Blog http://ysjilsresearch.blogspot.co.uk/
Editor's Notes
- #3 Introduction One thing you want to get out of the session (CM) 5-10mins Bag of fears “what is your biggest worry about starting a literature search” (VW) 10mins
- #4 What types of information do you ned to find? (CM) Sconul pillar 2 (identify ways of filing the gap) Group discussion on what types of information have been useful in previous research (are the same types of information going to be useful in this research?)
- #5 How are you going to get at the information you need? (VW) Sconul pillar 3 (plan your search strategy – part of the planning process but not all)/Sconul pillar 4 (carry out and refine your search) Where?The tools available via ILS (Discover, Databases, RaY) and the tools available for free on the internet (CORE, Google Scholar, PubMed, NHS affiliation) How? Scope, defining, delineating – John’s session on 8 June 2015
- #6 Organising your results (VW) Sconul pillar 6 (record and organise material) The tools (RefWorks) – RefWorks not specific to one database so better than Ebsco folders and has write N cite feature. Also a good way to back up copies of PDFs as can upload PDFs to references Keeping versions of documents/materials to ensure future access – download PDFs – could be especially important for policy documents (governments change and documents disappear/withdrawn) also if full text access to journals are removed from databases, etc. Current awareness - CM
- #7 Evaluating (pointers to tools and other sessions not detailed) Nvivo Evernote Mendeley Etc.