HMCS Vancouver Pre-Deployment Brief - May 2024 (Web Version).pptx
Introduction to the Library for ERTH10001 The Global Environment/ERTH10002 Understanding Planet Earth
1. School of Earth Sciences
Introduction to library resources.
Guido Tresoldi
Earth Sciences Librarian
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2. What is the purpose of this presentation?
To introduce main aspects of using the Library and
its resources at the University of Melbourne.
To show you how these resources can help you in
your assignment.
3. Where is the Library?
Eastern Resource Centre (ERC)
Is the Physical Sciences Library. Collections comprise
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Mathematics and Statistics
Physics
4. Where is the Library?
It’s only 5
minutes
walk away
from Mc Coy
Building.
12. Planning
Narrow or broaden your search
General search operators narrow or broaden
your search (called Boolean Operators) and, or, not
Atmosphere and Ocean and Evolution
Evolution or Oceans or Atmosphere
(Oceans or Atmosphere) and Evolution
19. Planning
Truncation
How to pick up both ‘Ocean’ and ‘Oceans’ in
your search?
Use ocean*
Other examples: Mineral* for Mineral and Minerals
Volcano* for Volcanoes
Etc.
22. Searching Sources
Library homepage - starting point
for literature searching.
• You can navigate to the
Library homepage via the
Student portal, or via the
University homepage.
• Access to the Catalogue.
• Access to Discovery.
• Information about
opening hours, branch
locations (maps),
services, computer
facilities, borrowing
periods, overdue fines,
skills classes you can
attend, etc.
23. Searching Sources
The catalogue
• The catalogue lists printed and physical resources (books, print
journal titles, reports, music scores, maps, pictures, CDs, DVDs,
kits, e-books,etc. available within the University’s collection)
• Covers all the university library Parkville branches and country
campuses.
24. Searching Sources
Discovery
It is one large unified database from many sources
Journal articles
Images
Books
25. Searching Sources
Doing a keyword search in the catalogue
Origin and earth
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29. Searching Sources
Getting and reading your results
What type of document is it?
Source it Melbourne
In some cases you
can get it straight
away as full text.
You can refine your search
31. Evaluating Sources
Options: What is a good one?
Google
Wikipedia Google
Scholar
Library Specific
Discovery
Catalogue databases
And more...
32. Evaluating Sources
Wikipedia
Strengths Weaknesses
Vandalism, biases and
Easy to use, fast deliberate factual errors
Omissions, oversights
Updated quickly
Lack of citations
Covers many subjects
Hard to judge the credibility
Links to related material See the disclaimer
Good for quick definitions,
Should not cite
overview, keywords
33. Evaluating Sources
Strengths Weaknesses
Easy to use, fast Web crawler: Search Internet search
engine does not evaluate
information on Web sites:
engines:
no quality control Google, Yahoo!,
Broad coverage: covers Lots of results: information Bing etc.
many topics overload, hard to refine the
search
Convenient Irrelevant information:
ranking algorithm
manipulation: Google
bombing, Search Engine
Optimisation (SEO)
industry
Updated quickly Internet sources can be
unstable
Free Advertisements
34. Evaluating Sources
Google Scholar
Strengths Weaknesses
Lots of results, hard to judge
Easy to use, fast
relevance
Breadth of coverage: all disciplines
Full-text not always available
Scholarly information:
Journal article abstracts, theses, No detailed records: often just the
books, scientist homepages, public title
patent records
No source list: no way to know what
A good starting point (especially with
is covered
Discovery)
Good for locating a specific item
(especially with incomplete details)
Sources are not expertly or
selectively chosen for inclusion
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35. Evaluating Sources
Checklist for evaluating sources of information
• Who is the author?
Authority • What are his/her qualifications?
• Is there bias?
Objectivity • How are the claims justified?
Intended • General public or scientific
Audience community?
• Facts/figures/dates cited and
Accuracy references included?
• How up to date is the
Currency information?
36. Evaluating Sources
Quote from feedback from academic:
“The issue in many assignments students have accessed
the papers online, and very probably not through
Discovery, but through a keyword search in Google. So
they do not realise that it is available as a paper entity
and reference it as an online accessed piece of
material.”
40. Document and Citing
Referencing - how, what, why?
There are a number of In scientific and
Failure to properly
ways of referencing technical report writing
acknowledge your
other people’s work you will often want to
sources may leave you
(APA 6th; Harvard; refer to other work that
open to accusations of
Chicago) but they all is somehow related to
plagiarism.
share some features your own.
A citation is inserted A full reference is
at the appropriate point given separately for
in your text to indicate each citation, to enable
the existence of related the reader to trace the
work. corresponding work.
Creaney, N., 2008. How to Use the Harvard Style of Referencing [Online]
(Updated 13 March 2009) Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/ohlcv/how-to-use-the-harvard-style-of-referencing
[Accessed 23 February 2012].
41. Document and Citing
Examples in the Harvard style of citation
Reference List
Bryson, B 2005, A short history of nearly everything,
Transworld, London
In text citation
Bryson (2005) has argued that ...
OR
... as found in his analysis (Bryson 2005).
Examples found on University’s ‘reCite’ website. Accessible through Library
Home page and your LibGuide.
42. Got all your information – how
the library can help you with
your poster presentation?
Library has software/hardware at your
disposal such as:
Scanners
Colour Printers
Adobe Photoshop
GIMP
And more!
44. Libguides are your friend!
• Summary of what we learned
today
• Contains further explanation
and tutorials (including video)
• Has useful links
• Contact the library details
45. So… to recap
Plan how you will tackle the research. (Identify keywords, Boolean
searches)
Search possible resources to use such as: journal articles, books.
Locate resources in the library and online.
Evaluate the resources you have found critically. (is the information
you are using relevant, current, authoritative and reliable?)
Document the details of the resources you use. (Cite your sources
and avoid plagiarism).
47. References:
Lawrence University. 2011. Katy Cummings '11 at the 2011 Institute on Lake Superior Geology meeting,
accessed 14 February 2012, <http://blogs.lawrence.edu/news/tag/marcia_bjornerud>
State University of New York at New Paltz. 2007. Thomas Schramm Wins Award For Presentation at National
Geology Meeting, accessed 14 February 2012, <http://www.newpaltz.edu/geology/story.php?id=3717>
Editor's Notes
Plan how you will tackle the research. (Identify keywords, Boolean searches)Search possible resources to use such as: journal articles, books.Locate resources in the library and online.Evaluate the resources you have found critically. (is the information you are using relevant, current, authoritative and reliable?)Document the details of the resources you use. (Cite your sources and avoid plagiarism).
Single search across library catalogue, digital repository and subscribed contentDiscovery is:A search interface which allows quick and easy searching of high quality library resources, with the option of building more complex and advanced searches.It is a “fast track to full text” and allows you to search across many different resources at once, with easy access to full text where it is available. Discovery is does not replace the need to systematically search the native interfaces of relevant databases for researchers and higher degree students. Use Find database and Find e-journal to access these.
Do search with ‘Origin and Earth and Geology’ - show actual article.
Show how to use Google Scholar through Discovery.
Show what’s happens when you search ‘Life on Mars’ on Google.
Show how to access the ReCite website through Library page.
Show:Library Home Page ----- ‘Student IT Support’ ---- ‘Apps & goodies’ (under ‘Study)Also say link will be available under LibGuide
As per slide Go to their LibGuide and show all features. Explain contact detail, but also all librarians at desk will be able to help.