Beyond Books and Journals: Conference Papers and Theses
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Introductory session delivered as part of Durham Doctoral Training Programme. The Theses and Conference Papers workshop will provide demo’s and hands-on time to explore Durham, UK and international theses collections which are accessible online, as well as an overview of resources for finding and locating conference papers and upcoming conferences.
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Beyond Books and Journals: Conference Papers and Theses
- 1. Beyond Journals & Books Discovering Doctoral Theses and Conference Papers James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)
- 3. Part 1 Conference Papers
- 4. Key Resources • Conference alerts - Current Awareness service for upcoming and recent conferences • Web of Science Conference Proceedings - Will locate individual papers • Proceedings First / Papers First
- 7. Demo WoS Conference Proceedings / Proceedings & Papers First
- 8. Hands-on Via Flickr Creative Commons, by © Stuti Sakhalkar. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/
- 10. Theses in the UK • Durham e-Theses • Index to Theses - Bibliographic details • EThOS - Full text available for immediate download - Full text scanned for free - Contact the institutional library to access - Full text available, for a fee
- 11. Demo Durham e-theses / eThos / Index to Theses
- 12. Theses at other institutions - For theses where you asked to pay to download from EThOS - For those not available via EThOS - Use Durham Library’s Document Delivery Service
- 13. Hands-on Via Flickr Creative Commons, by © Stuti Sakhalkar. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/
- 14. International Theses • Subscription resources - Proquest Digital Dissertations • Open access resources - DART (European Portal) - Trove Australian Theses Programme - South African Theses and Dissertations - OAIster
- 15. Hands-on Via Flickr Creative Commons, by © Stuti Sakhalkar. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/
- 16. Part 3 Your Thesis
- 17. Thesis Submission at Durham • You will have to submit an electronic copy of your thesis in pdf format. • E-theses are open access: available to anyone, anywhere in the world • Think about third-party copyright and use of research data • Consider what you want to do with your research after you pass e.g. embargo, creative commons licence
- 19. Image Credits [Slide 2] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by demonsub. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/66397367@N05/6993902269 [Slide 16] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Kirsty Andrews. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/47745961@N08/5169765739 [Slide 8, 13, 15] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by © Stuti Sakhalkar. Original at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/ [Slide 3] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Quinn Dombrowski. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/53326337@N00/6381059241 [Slide 9] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Alan Cleaver. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11121568@N06/4122176776/ [Slide 20] ‘Vitae®, © 2010 Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited‘ Available at www.vitae.ac.uk/rdf
- 20. Measuring Researcher Development Vitae Researcher Development Framework [see image credits]
Editor's Notes
- Newspapers section looks first at current news, then at historic news Official Publications is a very brief addition, not previously covered, to highlight some of the ‘hidden and unique collections’ at Durham University. E-books – a basic intro to highlight the different content platforms and tools available Theses – Looking at accessing theses both in the UK and beyond. ENTIRE SESSION accompanied by detailed hand out.
- Section in programme from Nov 6th on scientific authorship, including proliferation on “fake conferences” where there is very little quality control, and more focussed on attracting in fees. Advice: research organiser, other presenters and delegates, and speak to colleagues.
- Suggestion: locate an article, follow the citations. Possibly compare to other articles published in the same year. Then, compare the article on Google Scholar, explore some of the citations.
- We’ll just look quickly at the submission process for you, and also searching and browsing the thesis collection here at Durham.
- EThOS covers 122 UK Universities, Index to Theses does not cover all of these (eg Bath Spa, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Brighton) but also includes Irish Universities not covered by EThOS and some additional UK Universities (including those which have been subsumed into existing institutions, such as many of the old London colleges). Use the two together (see examples in following slides) - generally Index to Theses has broader coverage, but not always. - EThOS ‘advanced search’ appears to give you options to search more facets, but search function isn’t perfect and it may be that not all Theses on EThOS have abstracts, compared to those available on Index to Theses. In neither service are you searching full text. Want to make a comprehensive search – need to search both. Just making a quick search to find a couple of examples you can access full text immediately, not fussed on items meeting very specific criteria (eg looking more at examples of structure, bibliographies, language style, so want recent examples) – go with EThOS (as can limit to full text availability, even if not as broad a search sometimes).
- Also mention some may not appear on either service. If you know it exists, try searching the institutions own site.
- Suggestion: locate an article, follow the citations. Possibly compare to other articles published in the same year. Then, compare the article on Google Scholar, explore some of the citations.
- Open Access DEMO’S
- Suggestion: locate an article, follow the citations. Possibly compare to other articles published in the same year. Then, compare the article on Google Scholar, explore some of the citations.
- Para 1: This guidance is for the process after examination, but before you can be awarded your doctorate. Electronic submission: after examination, normally 3-4 weeks after letters of outcome. You still need to follow the guidance and submit 2 copies of a soft-bound copy for examination. Para 2/3: See Graduate School site. All submissions made open access (requirement under Freedom of Information and institution in receipt of public funding). You can apply for an embargo, primarily for on of four reasons: intend to publish soon / patentable or commercially sensitive material / disclosure would release into the public domain data collected either (i) in confidence or (ii) restricted by data protection legislation. Para 3: In order to restrict access, you must discuss with your supervisor and both complete and sign a ‘restricting access’ form. You should also think about issues around any images or graphics you have used in your thesis which might require copyright clearance. You should have done this in any case! Also, informing any research participants, ideally at the point they participate (such as letting them know data they will provide will be in the public domain, and if they will anonymous or identifiable). Para 4: What do you want to do? Embargo so you can publish or patent? Release under licence to access and read but not re-use? Licence to read, access and re-use? What about the data you have collected – will you make that available, and clearly indicate how someone can access this? - Creative Commons allow all of this, usually under various requirements and versions, the basic being re-use with acknowledgement to you as the author. Talk about them submitting and thinking about what they include – getting copyright clearance etc for images and large quotations, informing any research participants etc. http://www.dur.ac.uk/graduate.school/current-students/submissionandbeyond/
- Think about what copyright you wish to use prior to submission fro examination. Nothing confuses a reader more than you releasing on a creative commons licence, but then including in the actual text a copyright statement you have cut-and-pasted from another thesis you were using to help you put together the correct structure.