Advanced Bibliographic Skills for M. Phil Theses: Hilary 2016

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1 Advanced Bibliographic Skills for M. Phil Theses: Hilary 2016 Sue Bird Tylor Librarian for Anthropology

2 This session Introduction to Reference Management Software Google Scholar v. Bibliographic Databases Introduction to Bibliographic Databases Searching Techniques & Keeping up to Date

3 How reference managers work 1. Collect bibliographic information 5. Automatically create a bibliography for your work 2. Create a personal online reference database 4. Insert citations as you write 3. Annotate, edit and share your reference database

4 Adding a reference Direct export from a database Add manually Upload from a text file Grab website info

5 Software available Many different packages are available The principles are the same but the details are different Variations in price and features

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7 LibGuide for Reference Management

8 Direct export Easiest way to move references into your library WoS ProQuest SCOPUS OVID

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12 RefWorks Overview Dropdown menus Search your references Quick function buttons Folders list Brief view of references in your collection

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14 Right-click on this RefGrab-It bookmarklet link

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17 Citing your references Just a few of the more common points An article in an online journal which also exists in print should be cited in the same way as print. To cite something which only exists electronically, e.g. a web site, follow special rules which include the date viewed. A specific quote must include the page reference in the citation. (This also applies to tables & diagrams you have taken directly from another source.)

18 Citation practice A large number of manuals are available to give guidance and sound practice. 1:Doing a literature review / Chris Hart (London, 1998) [H 62 HAR ] 2:Manual for writers / Kate Turabian (7 th ed. Chicago, 2007) [LB 2369 TUR ] 3:Cite them right /Pears & Shields (2013 ed.) [LB 2369 PEA] 4: Complete guide to referencing & avoiding plagiarism / Neville (2 nd ed. 2010) available on-line via E.B.L.

19 SOLO Map Search Bodleian Maps

20 Illustrations Interesting new resource now available Glass Lantern Slides from Oxford collections Pickering c Bruges 1948 Naples 1893 Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR)

21 Legal Resources Jurisdictions, topics, cases etc. Lexis Library WestLaw both UK & US editions But there are a lot more (if necessary ask the Law Library for help)

22 Newspapers Nexis UK (has international coverage) News coverage offered by Nexis UK - Global news & business information service has over 20,000 sources of authoritative news Ethnic NewsWatch interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) & comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

23 E-books Reference books Blackwell Reference Online SAGE Research Methods Online Text books EBL (officially) the E-Book Library Oxford Scholarship Online Ebrary Academic Complete NetLibrary now hosted by EBSCOhost Ebook Collection

24 SAGE Research Methods Online

25 Databases vs. Search engines Contents are indexed by subject specialists Subject headings Limiting functions e.g. publication types, language Allow you to View Search history Combine searches Mark and sort results Print/save/ /export Save searches Set up alerts Searches done by automated web crawlers No thesaurus / subject headings just free text searching No limiting functions Usually none of these!

26 Systematic Review What are the factors affecting energy behaviours

27 Bibliographic Databases Vast range SCOPUS EBSCOhost OVID SP ProQuest Web of Knowledge

28 Search Strategies Boolean logic Truncation Wild cards Synonyms Which language are you using?

29 Boolean connectors AND combines terms to restrict results OR useful for covering synonyms NOT excludes unwanted areas of research

30 Search Strategies Boolean Logical Operators AND, OR, NOT Proximity operators Adj (literally adjacent); Near(same sentence); With(same field) Field descriptors: AU(author); TI(title); AB (abstract); SO(source or reference); DE (general descriptor) etc are likely to be specific to each database and won t operate in cross searches Combining searches: #1 and #2

31 Improving Searching Boolean Operators Use Boolean operators AND narrows down OR broadens out NOT excludes Inheritance AND Haplotypes Haplotypes Inheritance Use brackets to group operations Altruism OR altruistic behaviour Human OR Homo (Sapiens) Human Homo (social PRE/3 cooperat*) AND ( altruism OR altruistic behavio*r ) Demographic Transition NOT Economic Economic Demographic Transition

32 Other tricks: Use symbols for wildcards and truncation? or $ for a single character organi?ation / organi$ation (is it an s or a z ) behavio*r (is there an extra u or not?) * for truncation or variant spellings femin* for feminist, feminity, feminism, etc use quotation marks for searching for phrases e.g. moral system

33 Identify the search concepts in your research question: Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies For each search concept, think of keywords, broader and narrower terms, synonyms etc:

34 Creating a search string How you might do it. Research Question: Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies Row 1 Concept 1: Visual Concept 2: Nuer Concept 3: Initiation ceremonies Row 2 Visual Film Photography Nuer Sudan Tribal Initiation Ceremony Culture Customs Row 3 #1 = Visual OR film* OR photog* #2 = Nuer OR Sudan* OR trib* #3 = init* OR ceremon* OR cultur* OR custom* Row 4 #1 AND #2 AND #3

35 Databases (Scopus or Web of Science) enable you to: Refine results overview to find the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest. Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. Find out who is citing you or your supervisor, and how many citations an article or an author has received. Use Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date Data export via bibliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX

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37 SCOPUS Good general bibliographic database Abstract & citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature. 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Now starting to include more book material 60 million records: 36 million records with references back to million records pre-1996 which go back to 1823 Details from over 110,000 books

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45 Web of Knowledge Similar but not the same : a.k.a. Web of Science WEB of Science: Core Collection Broad Coverage all subject areas (Journal Citation Reports help choose the most effective title in your area)

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55 Bibliographic Databases Anthropology Specific Databases

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69 Bibliographic Databases Search :- Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective ( only) Scopus = 32 articles ProQuest = 37 articles (35 not found by Scopus) Web of Science = 17 articles (but 8 were in Scopus & others were in ProQuest) RefWorks de-duplication = 69!!

70 Good book on methodology Classic paper to use in the introduction Supervisor recommended this book Your Paper/ Thesis Useful literature review in this paper Paper supports my argument in chapter 2 Good comparison study in this paper NGO project evaluation, good evidence for chapter 5 Lots of country data on this site

71 Grey literature Key sources for anthropology working papers, conference papers and policy briefs include: MigrationOxford FMO Eldis CIAO PolicyFILE IOM UNBISnet See the LibGuides for other useful links

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73 Current Awareness Three ways to keep up to date: Saving and rerunning searches you save a search and run it again in the future. alerts / RSS feeds: Specify a search to be repeated and the results ed to you at chosen intervals or on a continuous basis Select your favourite journal(s) & the database will tell you when the next issue of a journal is available. Citation Alert you will receive an every time a particular article is cited in another WoS or Scopus indexed article.

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75 Conclusion Maintain a balanced diet! Five a day WoS, Scopus, Solo, subject-specific database, Google Scholar

76 Advanced Bibliographic Skills Your feedback is greatly appreciated Please complete a short