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Exploiting information: getting the
most from the OU Library

Nicola Dowson and Wendy Mears
21 March 2012
Our session will cover..

• Literature review and sources of help
• Keeping up to date
• Bibliographic management tools
A good literature review will..
• clarify your understanding of the field
• explain the rationale for your research
• place your research within a broader context
• evaluate the results of previous research
• define key concepts and ideas
• identify research in related areas that are generalisable
  or transferable to your topic
• identify relevant methodological issues.
• (taken from Uni New England library website:
• http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/literature/litreview.php
Lit review - doing it well

 • Comprehensive searching
 • Citation searching
 • Good record keeping
Help and training resources
•   Information skills for researchers on Library website
•   Training sessions, online or F2F
•   Subject specialists within the Library
•   Immediate help via Library helpdesk
Keeping up to date
• Introducing you to ways of keeping up-to-date
  using electronic tools
Email alerts, RSS feeds and tracking
engines allow you to:
• Set up, save and re-run your searches against latest
  additions to databases
• Set up profiles to receive automatically the contents
  pages of journal issues
• Receive notification of articles recently published and
  added to a database
• Keep up to date with breaking news
• Discover new resources in your field
Email alerting services
• Two types
  – Journal table of contents(TOC) based
  – Search based: keywords, authors, subject
• Examples
  – Zetoc Alert
  – TicTOCs: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
  – IEEE Explore
Zetoc
• Zetoc provides access to the
  British Libraries Electronic Table
  of Contents of around 20,000
  current journals and around 16,000
  conference proceedings published
  per year
Other updating tools (1)
• Setting up RSS feeds
  – iGoogle: http://.google.com/ig
  – Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
  – Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com
• Social networking tools
  – ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net
Other updating tools (2)
• Social bookmarking
  – Diigo: http://www.diigo.com
• Social citation sharing
  – Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com
• Tracking website changes
  – TrackEngine:
    http:www.trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.trac
Bibliographic management
tools

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Res methods conference 03 12

  • 1. Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library Nicola Dowson and Wendy Mears 21 March 2012
  • 2. Our session will cover.. • Literature review and sources of help • Keeping up to date • Bibliographic management tools
  • 3. A good literature review will.. • clarify your understanding of the field • explain the rationale for your research • place your research within a broader context • evaluate the results of previous research • define key concepts and ideas • identify research in related areas that are generalisable or transferable to your topic • identify relevant methodological issues. • (taken from Uni New England library website: • http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/literature/litreview.php
  • 4. Lit review - doing it well • Comprehensive searching • Citation searching • Good record keeping
  • 5. Help and training resources • Information skills for researchers on Library website • Training sessions, online or F2F • Subject specialists within the Library • Immediate help via Library helpdesk
  • 6. Keeping up to date • Introducing you to ways of keeping up-to-date using electronic tools
  • 7. Email alerts, RSS feeds and tracking engines allow you to: • Set up, save and re-run your searches against latest additions to databases • Set up profiles to receive automatically the contents pages of journal issues • Receive notification of articles recently published and added to a database • Keep up to date with breaking news • Discover new resources in your field
  • 8. Email alerting services • Two types – Journal table of contents(TOC) based – Search based: keywords, authors, subject • Examples – Zetoc Alert – TicTOCs: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk – IEEE Explore
  • 9. Zetoc • Zetoc provides access to the British Libraries Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year
  • 10. Other updating tools (1) • Setting up RSS feeds – iGoogle: http://.google.com/ig – Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ – Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com • Social networking tools – ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net
  • 11. Other updating tools (2) • Social bookmarking – Diigo: http://www.diigo.com • Social citation sharing – Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com • Tracking website changes – TrackEngine: http:www.trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.trac