ABC: information literacy and bibliographic research

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1 ABC: information literacy and bibliographic research By ABC group Information Literacy in the Social Sciences area

2 Crucial importance of the information We have become like the most primitive Paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information. Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, Rimorso di incoscienza, in Lettera internazionale, 98, 2008.

3 The 5 rules of information literacy Research is a process Investigating Searching Locating Evaluating Using Pubblico dominio: Sidney Paget, 1892

4 Investigating (1) Have you heard a song and do you want to have it? You have to investigate to find out : song s title the performer the cd where...or if...you could buy it Creative Commons:

5 Investigating (1) Has your professor recommended you a book and you want to read it? You have to investigate to find out : book s title the author the edition where...or if...you could buy it Creative Commons:

6 Investigating Bibliographic research is like an investigation: Identify a topic! What s your goal? Report, Paper, Thesis Are you able to use the proper sources? Not every topic can be supported by adequate (and linguistically approachable) bibliography. Plan your writing process Presentation, analysis, scientific debate Introduction, analysis of the primary sources and secondary ones, debate, metodology used, conclusions, bibliography, annexes Eco, Umberto. Come si fa una tesi di laurea. 10 ed. Milano, Bompiani, 1995.

7 Investigating Why is investigation so important for your research? how you ask + where you look = What you get

8 Searching How? Where? When? Why? What? Pubblico dominio: Sidney Paget, 1892

9 Searching : how make a list of key-words, use tag cloud CALCIO

10 Searching : how browse subjects

11 Searching : how use Boolean operators And + between concepts to narrow your search Or between concepts to expand your search Not - before a concept to keep it out Full sentence

12 Searching : how Use a Thesaurus or a Glossary to find the proper statistical terms. For example: Glossary of statistical terms by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

13 Searching : where Search by topics, key-words, author, etc. in: Bibliographies List of documents dealing with a specific topic or produced by a specific author Catalogues To locate bibliographic informations Bibliographic databases A systematic collection of bibliography and abstracts of journal, report or newspaper articles listed in it. Sometimes full-text is available. Meta-search portals To search simultaneusly different databases (Digital library Padova, Portale AIRE) Web Scholarly search engines (Google scholar, Google books), institutional web sites and archives (Padua@Thesis, Padua@Research)

14 Searching : cosa Different kind of documents

15 Searching : what? Weber, M., Il metodo delle scienze storico-sociali, Torino, Einaudi, Rivista di studi politici internazionali. Firenze : Le Monnier, Bobbio, Norberto. Il ruolo dell ONU nel nuovo assetto internazionale. La comunità internazionale, (59) 2004, 1, pp Vianelli, Donata. Consumatori e comportamenti d acquisto. Micro & Macro Marketing, (65) 2013, 2, pp Honneth, A. Scuola di Francoforte in Dizionario delle scienze sociali, a cura di W. Outhwaite [et al.], ed. italiana a cura di P. Jedlowski, Milano, il Saggiatore, 1997, pp

16 Searching : Catalog OPAC OPAC means on-line public access catalog. It is the comprehensive catalog of books, journals, e- books and e-journals of all the libraries of the University of Padova, togheter with the main libraries of the city of Padova. It is used to locate and retrieve a document. It is free and it can be used by everybody who has access to the web.

17 Searching : Catalog

18 Searching : what?

19 Searching : Catalog

20 Searching : Databases Databases: 1. Bibliographic databases: organized digital collections of references to academic literature, especially journal and newspaper articles (e.g. Scopus, Population Index, ); 2. Full-text databases: collections where you can find the whole text of the document you are looking for (e.g. Eurostat, EconLit, Socindex ).

21 Searching : Meta-search portals Biblioteca digitale Padova provides you with a single access point to all the digital resources and the related services of UNIPD libraries (proxy, RefWorks, document delivery, interlibrary loan, courses )

22 Searching : Meta-search portals Try the CERCAFACILE (easy-search) service of BDP! It s the easiest way to find an electonic resources. Are you looking for ebooks or articles about your thesis argoment? Do you want to check if the full-text of a specific article is available online? Looking for a Doctoral dissertation? Select the proper field of Cercafacile and make your search.

23 Searching : Meta-search portals Are you looking for articles about statistics of corruption? Select the bibliography field, then the disciplinary area and finally digit one or more key-words.

24 Searching : Meta-search portals If you need to make a more specific and accurate search enter the Portale AIRE from the Articles and more field of Cercafacile.

25 Searching : Meta-search portals You can use AIRE also to find all the electronic resources available for your disciplinary area. Click on Trova risorse and search them by title or categories. For the Economic & Statistics area you have access to 54 electronic resources.

26 Searching : Meta-search portals Another comfortable tool to see all the resources selected by the Library System for single disciplinary areas is the Digital Library s SCAFFALE DELLE RISORSE (Resources shelf). With this service you can select the electronic resources also by language and by type (fulltext databases, eprints, multimedia, thesis, online newspapers, search engines )

27 Searching : Inst. archives & thematic websites For Theses and Doctoral dissertation of the University of Padova search the Institutional archives: PaDUA@thesis PaDUA@research and thematic websites Istat: the website of the Italian National Institute of Statistics, which represents a strategic resource for statistics available for public access. Eurostat: it gathers and analyzes figures from the different European statistics offices in order to provide comparable and harmonised data. The data cover the European Union, its member states, and its partners.

28 Searching : Scholar Not only basic-search Google! Did you ever try Google Scholar? Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

29 Searching & Locating : where Pc stations for searching: University of Padova s Libraries wi-fi Auth-Proxy everywhere

30 Locating And if you don t find what you are looking for Document delivery Articles Book chapters Sign in: Interlibrary loan Books from other italian libraries and the Web?

31 Evaluating (1) Creative Commons:

32 Evaluating (2) Web resources quantity vs quality reliability information noise Information overload

33 Evaluating (3) Is it pertinent? Is it relevant? Is it reliable? Pubblico dominio: Sidney Paget, 1892

34 Evaluating (4) Currency Information can quickly become obsolete. When was the information published or last updated? Are links or references to other sources up to date? Is your topic in an area that changes rapidly? Rilevance Does the information answer your research question? Does the information meet the stated requirements of the assignment? Is the information too technical or too simplified for you to use? Does the source add something new to your knowledge of your topic? Authority What are the author's credentials? Is the author affiliated with an educational institution or prominent organization? Can you find information about the author from reference books or the Internet? Do other books or articles cite the author? Accuracy Are there statements you know to be false? Are there errors in spelling, punctuation, or grammar? Was the information reviewed by editors or subject experts before it was published? What citations or references support the author s claims? What do other people have to say about the topic? Purpose Why did the author or publisher make this information available? Is there an obvious bias or prejudice? Are alternative points of view presented? Does the author omit important facts or data that might disprove a claim? Does the author use strong or emotional language?

35 Utilizing : and your dissertation? Different planning: how to find sources how to write a dissertation Title page, layout, graphic objects, summary Cfr. Laboratorio Sezione Elaborazione Dati and how to cite?

36 Utilizing : why to cite Citations: state every source you use give scientific credit to your work Cfr. Tesi e copyright M. C. Escher Drawing Hands, 1948

37 Utilizing : plagiarism (1) i.e. the practice of taking someone else s work or ideas and passing them off as one s own (Oxford Dictionaries 2014) It means to steel words, ideas, creative works, and it s: illegal, because of the copyright law; (L.633/1944 and other rev.); reprehensible, because it runs against intellectual honesty the basic rule of our University. Cfr. Tesi e copyright

38 Utilizing : plagiarism (2) There can be different kinds of plagiarism. Some are more evident you read Si può dire che tre qualità sono soprattutto decisive per l uomo politico: passione, senso senso di responsabilità, lungimiranza L uomo politico deve dominare in se stesso, ogni giorno e ogni ora, un nemico del tutto banale e fin troppo umano: la vanità comune comune a tutti, la nemica mortale di ogni dedizione a una causa e di ogni distanza. you write Si può dire che tre qualità sono soprattutto decisive per l uomo politico: passione, di responsabilità, lungimiranza L uomo politico deve dominare in se stesso, ogni giorno e ogni ora, un nemico del tutto banale e fin troppo umano: la vanità a tutti, la nemica mortale di ogni dedizione a una causa e di ogni distanza. from: Max Weber, La politica come professione, Edizioni di Comunità, 2001, pp You have to use the quotation marks and to cite the source!!!

39 Utilizing : plagiarism (3) other are more hidden: You read: Si può dire che tre qualità sono soprattutto decisive per l uomo politico: passione, senso di responsabilità, lungimiranza L uomo politico deve dominare in se stesso, ogni giorno e ogni ora un nemico del tutto banale fin troppo umano: la vanità comune a tutti, la nemica mortale di ogni dedizione a una causa e di ogni distanza. (Max Weber, La politica come professione, Edizioni di Comunità, 2001, pp.94-95) You write: Si ritiene che tre doti siano fondamentali per i politici: la passione, il senso di responsabilità, la capacità di essere previdenti. La dedizione alla propria attività politica deve evitare una troppo facile tentazione: la vanità. If you reword a book s passage you have to cite the source!

40 Utilizing : citation styles Different citation styles (international and sector-based standard) Chicago A/Chicago B?/Harvard?/or Every citation style establishes rules about: Details like author, title, publication date, retrieval date, etc. Key frame and format Series of details (according to the type of material!) Punctuation, fonts, space.

41 Utilizing : RefWorks It s a web based application that can be used to collect bibliographic references, and to create and manage personal bibliographies. Users can: import, organize and save references taken from bibliographic databases, books, web pages or other sources format bibliographies automatically in several referencing styles insert bibliographies and citations directly into a text. Cfr. RefWorks Creative Commons:

42 Utilizing : how to write Text s planning, writing & revision Layout rules Reading and writing ability

43 Utilizzare To consult other theses To submit your thesis and make it more visible To avoid plagiarism

44 Ther library courses Don t miss your train! Check the schedule and sign in.

45 Investigation go on Lesina, Roberto. Il nuovo manuale di stile. 2. ed. Bologna, Zanichelli, Eco, Umberto. Come si fa una tesi di laurea. 10 ed. Milano, Bompiani, De Francesco, Corrado e Delli Zotti, Giovanni. Tesi (e tesine) con pc e web. Milano, F. Angeli, Riediger, Hellmut. Scrivere tesi, saggi e articoli. Milano, Bibliografica, Sala, Virginio B. Tesi di laurea con computer e internet. Milano, Apogeo, 2009 Citazioni bibliografiche nelle Scienze sociali cfr CitBibSocITA.htm Per una sintesi del Chicago Manual of Style cfr. Per il sistema Harvard cfr. of_guidaharvardmodificato.pdf Pubblico dominio: Sidney Paget, 1892

46 Credits Riarranged from: Open Publication Licence: TIP - Tutorial for InfoPower, University of Wyoming Libraries (grazie a Cheryl E. Goldenstein!) ABC della ricerca: competenza informativa & indagini bibliografiche di Massimo Ferrante (vers.11/2011). Translated in English by Costantina Bruno and Michele Visentin. Images by: Costantina Bruno, Gianluca Drago, Michele Visentin. Last rev.: feb 2014