6. Online Help
• The Moodle course for
Information Skills
• A Help Blog with lots of info
• The Twitter account for
Information Skills: @iSkillsTavi
• The library’s main Twitter
account: @tapchat
• The library’s Facebook:
Tavilibrary
7. The Literature Review
A literature review aims to
review the critical points of
current knowledge
on a particular topic.
The goal is to
bring the reader up to date
with current literature on a topic and
to form the basis for future research
that may be needed in the area.
9. What the process entails
Concluding on the research
possibilities on the subject
Writing up the review
(while citing accurately
the documents you found)
Reading, taking notes
Searching the literature
Determining good keywords
Finding a relevant topic
16. Subject Guides
• A current snapshot
• Specific subject areas
• Videos, podcasts,
newsreels, scholarly
articles, current
articles from
journals…
• New information is
being fed onto the
pages hourly, daily
or weekly.
17. Staff Publications
• A repository that
collects together
the work of
clinical and
academic staff
• Simple records
• But often full-text
• Follow us online!
18. Unwinding the thread…
YOU SHOULD CHECK
• Papers from the
same author
• Papers in the
same journal
• This paper’s
bibliography
19. Checking the Catalogue
• Find physical documents:
books, dvds, theses,
pamphlets…
• And eBooks!
• Put documents on hold
• Make suggestions
24. Library vs Shibboleth accounts
Library Login:
Allows you to log into the
library's catalogue to:
• See what documents are
on your card;
• Renew them;
• Put documents on hold;
• Ask for interlibrary loans;
25. Library vs Shibboleth accounts
Library Login:
Allows you to log into the
library's catalogue to:
• See what documents are
on your card;
• Renew them;
• Put documents on hold;
• Ask for interlibrary loans;
Shibboleth Account:
• Log into Moodle
• Access your reading-list
• Access online resources
such as:
– E-books;
– Online journals;
– Bibliographic
databases...
26. What to do if we don’t have it
• Check the One-Stop-Shop for journals;
• Google it;
• Send an e-mail to the author;
• Ask for an inter-library loan (cost: £6);
• Go to the British Library (photocopies:
£0.25 a page).
28. Time for a quizz!
• How would you
search for an
eBook?
• Where would you
look for a thesis
written by a staff
member?
• How can you access
a bunch of articles
on a particular
subject?
34. Back to the catalogue
• The library’s catalogue
• The British Library’s
• The Library of Congress’
• …
35. Bibliographic Databases
WHAT ARE THEY?
A list of sources of information
like:
Journals, Articles, Books...
These information sources are
shown as records.
Each record contains everything
you need to know about the
information source.
Sometimes you only have the
record.
Sometimes you can directly access
the article in Full Text.
36. Bibliographic Databases
HOW TO ACCESS THEM?
Library website > databases
Look them all up to decide
on the ones you should
use!
44. Know you know what you want:
Parents
Parent
Parenting
Parental attitude
Autism
Autistic spectrum
Aspergers syndrome
Diagnosis
Diagnostic
process
Child
Children
Childhood
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
OR
AN
D
AN
D AN
D
46. Group 1
Parents
Parent
Parenting
Parental attitude
Parent*
* = truncation symbol
47. Mind where you put the *!
Psychia*
Psychiatry
Psychiatric
Psychiatrist
48. Mind where you put the *!
Psych*
Psychosis
Psychotic
Psychedelic
Psychology
Psychologist
Psychological
Psychopathy
Psychosomatic
Psychotherapy
Psychopathology
Psychoanalysis
Psychiatry
Psychiatric
Psychiatrist
Psyche, etc.
49. Group 2
Autism
Autistic spectrum
Aspergers syndrome
Autis* OR
Aspergers
57. Unwinding the thread…
YOU SHOULD CHECK
• Papers from the
same author
• Papers in the
same journal
• This paper’s
bibliography
• Papers that
reference this
paper in their
bibliography
58. See you soon!
And if need be, send me your questions!