One of the main ideas of research is to study what others have published and form your own opinions. When you quote people -- or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages -- you must acknowledge the original author.
One of the main ideas of research is to study what others have published and form your own opinions. When you quote people -- or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages -- you must acknowledge the original author.
Academic Research Strategies
How do I effectively & efficiently do academic research & navigate the college's online library?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of academic research & show you how to best use the ESC Library resources to find sources & cite
them in your academic papers.
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This lesson teaches CA Draft Library Standards on using advanced search techniques. This skill is put to use using Gale Virtual Reference Library along with the Big 6 research organizer.
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Created as an orientation to library research for our IUON nursing students, this presentation provides a preliminary overview to the types of information resources available to them; as well as a brief introduction to searching for medical information with a focus on nursing.
Academic Research Strategies
How do I effectively & efficiently do academic research & navigate the college's online library?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of academic research & show you how to best use the ESC Library resources to find sources & cite
them in your academic papers.
A sample lesson in Information Literacy and college-level research strategies, designed for a fictional community college. Created and presented to 9443: The Academic Library. Fall 2013.
This lesson teaches CA Draft Library Standards on using advanced search techniques. This skill is put to use using Gale Virtual Reference Library along with the Big 6 research organizer.
Google Scholar and the Academic Web (November 2013) slides. Delivered as part of the Durham University Researcher Development Programme. Further Training available at https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training/
Created as an orientation to library research for our IUON nursing students, this presentation provides a preliminary overview to the types of information resources available to them; as well as a brief introduction to searching for medical information with a focus on nursing.
How to Find ArticlesFinding research articles1 Why find .docxwellesleyterresa
How to Find Articles
Finding research articles
1 Why find research articles?
2 What is a research article?
3 Strategies to find research articles
4 Advanced search interface
5 Logistics of how to find full-text articles
6 How to read research articles
What is a research article?
Before we talk about how to find research articles, we have to
agree on what we're looking for. We're looking for scientific
truth. Where do you get it? From a Trustworthy Authority? Give
me a break! (see rant).
Scientific truth resides in research articles. A research article is
one that provides observations or the observed results of
experiments (not merely conclusions) and a description of how
the experiments were performed, in sufficient detail that
someone else might replicate them. You will recognize them by
the detail paid to the methods on which the results were based.
A news report of a scientific finding is not a research article. It
doesn't describe how to do the experiment. A review article is
not a research article. It combines lessons learned from multiple
research articles but, again, does not describe how to do the
experiments it covers.
Strategies to find research articles
If you know the exact title of the article you're looking for, then:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/why-find-research-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/how-to-read-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/trustworthy-authority.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/help/modules/review.html
• Your favorite search engine may be the fastest way to reach
the article (if you have its exact title). However, if you're
doing this from off-campus, the site you reach will not
recognize your IP address and not realize that you are a
member of the VCU community and thus deserving of the
full text of articles in journals to which VCU subscribes.
•
• VCU library general search facility is an excellent way of
getting most articles. If you are accessing it from off
campus, you'll be prompted for your eID and password if
needed. But no database is perfect, and you may sometimes
need to look elsewhere.
If you don't know the exact title, then:
• Using a search engines is generally a poor strategy -- too
low of a signal-to-noise ratio
•
• Google Scholar is much better but I haven't used it enough
to know how its database compares to others. Note that
Google Scholar allows advanced searches by clicking the
down arrow in the search box.
•
• For greater flexibility, try dedicated services, such as
PubMed and Web of Sciences.
There are two major strategies to use these indexes to find
research articles (plus one general fallback strategy):
• Keyword search: Looks for articles whose titles, abstracts,
or author lists contain a set of words that you supply. Used
by all the sites. This is what you're already used to.
http://scholar.google.com/schhp? ...
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This guide walks you through how to conduct a literature review, including some useful hints and tips on how to manage your literature and structure the writing of the review. Any postgraduate student will find this guide useful.
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This presentation is to assist students and graduates in conducting an academic literature review, with step by step help, including some tips for academic reading and writing.
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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2. What we will cover
1. The library website
i. Accessing resources from home (off-campus login)
2. Searching effectively
i. Boolean logic
ii. Using search engines
iii. Finding books and journal articles in Primo
iv. Finding resources in online databases
18. Identifying Keywords
• Broader v narrow terms
• Synonyms
• Drug abuse vs narcotic abuse vs substance abuse
• British v US terminology and spelling
• Labor v Labour
Planning
Social
Development
Planning
Community
Development
19. Constructing Search Strategy
• Search Language
• Natural Language
• Terms and Connectors (Boolean Operators)
• Constructing search phrases
• Keywords
• Terms and Connectors
• Boolean Operators
• Phrases
• Brackets
• Truncation / Stemming
• Proximity searches
20. Using Boolean Operators
• Boolean Operators are used to connect and define
the relationship between your search terms.
• When searching electronic databases, you can use
the Boolean operators to either narrow or broaden
your record sets.
• The three Boolean operators are AND, OR and
NOT.
21. The Boolean Operator “AND” (narrows
search)
= Hit Using the Boolean
Operator ‘AND’ for the
topic “Abuse of cocaine”
Cocaine
Abuse
22. The Boolean Operator ‘OR’ (synonyms,
alternatives, broadens search)
= Hit
Strategies success
Using the Boolean
Operator ‘OR’ for
the topic
“Strategies for
success”
23. The Boolean Operator ‘NOT’ (exclude
certain words from your search)
= Hit
Community
organisations
collaboration
Using the Boolean
Operator ‘NOT’ to
exclude
collaboration from
the topic
“Community
organisations”
24. Phrases
• More than one word contained in “ ” to search for a
specific phrase
• “substance abuse”
• Certain databases use ( ) to signify phrases instead
25. Brackets
• Useful to combine search phrases into one using
brackets
• Using the topic “Successful strategies for community
organisations” the searches can be
• Strategies AND “community organisations”
• Success AND “community organisations”
• Using brackets:
• (strategies OR success) AND “community organisations”
26. Brackets
• Brackets avoid ambiguity:
• Strategies OR success AND “community organisations”
• It will not include arrest in the search
= Hit
success
Community
organisations
strategies
27. Truncation / Stemming
• Truncation involves the shortening of the word (*)
to allow the inclusion of plurals and similar phrases
• Eg. dev* for development BUT
• dev* - development, developmental,
developments, etc
BUT ALSO devotion, devilish, develops, devested
Best truncation would be
development*
28. Proximity Searches
• Good to use for phrases: “substance abuse”
• Abuse of a substance
• Substance that is there for abuse
• Using a proximity search you can search for your
keywords in proximity to each other
• Use the search help to find proximity searches but
in general it is designated by the “/”
• Eg. within same sentence: custom /s bushmen
• Eg. within same paragraph: custom /p bushmen
29. Wildcards
• If you are looking for a word that has a plural in the
word, you can use a wildcard
• Usually designated by “?”
• Eg. searching for articles on woman and women in
general
• You would use wom?n instead and it would bring results
back with both woman and women in it.
30. Exercise
• Using what you know now, take your topic and
create 3 different search strings.
32. Using search engines (or Google)
effectively
• Keep in mind that Google is a good starting point, but that it
isn’t able to access most of our resources!
• For example – none of the EBSCOHost journals are available via
Google
• Every database has a search engine like Google – but they
are not always as intuitive as Google
• Keep in mind that Google saves searches and uses specific
algorithms to adapt to your previous searches – this gives the
efficient impression
• When using any search engine – be more specific and keep
in mind how to evaluate information
• The more specific you are, the more relevant results it will give
33. Evaluating Information
The golden rules:
• Authority – who wrote it, are they an expert?
• Credibility – is there bias / which point of view? Are
there other sources supporting it?
• Currency – the timeliness of the information
• Authenticity – is it just copied or does it link back?
Where does the original lie?
• Accuracy - Are sources for any factual information listed
so they can be verified? Can you detect some sort of
quality control? – look at grammar, spelling etc. Are
charts, graphs clearly labelled and easy to read?
58. Exercise
• Using your search strings you constructed previously, find
the following items – first trying in Google and then trying in
a database of your choice.
1. A journal article
2. A newspaper item
3. Any online item (eg. Blog)
4. A social media item
5. A book in the library
Email them to me when done:
elizabeth.moll-willard@uct.ac.za
60. Research Assistance
• Use the Library’s Virtual Reference Service at:
www.lib.uct.ac.za
• Email me
elizabeth.moll-willard@uct.ac.za
• Call me (021) 650-5944
• Set up an appointment for a consultation
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