More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (19)
Viewers also liked
Similar to Hack Your Research Process
Similar to Hack Your Research Process (20)
More from aldenlibrary
More from aldenlibrary (10)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Hack Your Research Process
- 1. HackYour Research Project Hilary Bussell Chris Guder Jessica Hagman September 18, 2015 319 Alden Library
- 2. Access (almost) Any Resource You Need
- 3. 73%
- 4. Inter Library Loan & Document Express • Books not available via OHIO Libraries or OhioLINK • Articles not available online • Book chapters (<50 pages) • Microfilm • Theses & Dissertations • Conference papers Sign up now!
- 5. Get Google Scholar to Help You Access Full Text Resources from the Library Here’s How
- 6. Ask your Subject Librarian Find Yours
- 8. Pomodoro Technique Set a timer for 25 minutes. Just work. No texting, no social media, no laundry, no cleaning off your desk to make it a better writing space. Use a regular timer, or try a computer or smart phone app. More Info
- 9. Turn off Distractions Sometimes we need a little help to focus. • Freedom (Mac + Android) • Anti-social (Windows + Mac) • Self Control (Mac)
- 10. Writing Tools • 750words.com (Web-based) • Write or Die (Windows + Mac + Linux) • Scrivener (Mac + Windows) • OmmWriter (Mac + Windows + iPad) • Scrivener (Mac + Windows)
- 11. Citation Tools AKA: stop writing your citations by hand. You have better things to do with your time. And your brain. We support Zotero, but there are plenty of options like Mendeley, RefWorks/Flow, and EndNote. And more! More on Zotero
- 12. Search Like an Expert
- 13. Advanced Keyword Wrangling • Combine words with AND to make sure you get results with all of those search terms • Combine related words with OR when you would take any of those words. • Use NOT if there’s an annoying word that you don’t want to see in your search results • Put words in quotes to get that exact phrase • Use * for words that may have different endings (aka truncation)
- 14. Gender Women Girls Men Social media Twitter Facebook Instagram (gender or women or girls) AND (“social media” or Twitter or Facebook or Instagram) NOT bully*
- 15. Search in a Database on Your Discipline • Articles Plus, Google Scholar and JSTOR are all interdisciplinary. Sometimes that’s good, but sometimes you just need research in YOUR discipline • Most disciplines have a subject-specific database with articles, and sometimes references for books, theses, etc. • Some databases also offer primary sources • Ask a subject librarian for recommendations. Find Your Database
- 16. Make New Research Come to You • Many databases and lots of journal publishers offer search alerts or notifications of new table of contents for your most relevant journals. • How you set this up depends on the discipline and database. Check with your subject librarian.
- 17. Don’t Forget Books & Book Chapters
- 18. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- In a study we did last year, a majority of students reported not using a source because could not get the full text
- We want to make sure you know about a service can use to get your hands on anything you need – Interlibrary Loan and Document Express. 1) If we don’t have access to the full text of an article - Interlibrary Loan (Log into the Interlibrary Loan page and show ILL request page) The Library will request it from another university; pay copyright clearance fee -- free to you. You can use it to request all kinds of materials (point out the types you can request). 2) Document Express - If we have a book chapter or journal article in print but you don’t want or are unable to come to campus - we will scan it and send you the PDF. Have them get signed up through the library website
- When you’re on campus and you search Google Scholar, you automatically get full text. (Do a search) If you are off campus, you won’t get the full text links – unless you set it up. Settings > Library Links > Select institution and sign in with Google Scholar is a good tool to use if you know the title or author of the work you’re looking for
- Any time you run into trouble getting your hands on a source, ask your subject librarian! There is a librarian for every department and major. We are here to help you! Show them how to look up who their subject librarian is