Keeping up with Current Research:

November 2011

Sue BirdBodleian Subject Librarian Geography

This session

Introduction to Oxford Research Archive

Introduction to Current Awareness Services

Introduction to Bibliographic Databases

Introduction to Reference Management Software

Oxford Research Archive

• Students registered on the D.Phil. programme from 1st October 2007 are required to deposit both a print copy (in the Bodleian Library) and a digital copy (in ORA) of their thesis.

http://ora.ox.ac.uk/

OXFORD E-THESEShttp://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora/oxford_etheses

Oxford eTheses

Eligible eTheses Preparing your thesis Thesis: Copyright and other legal issues Pre-publication concerns Submitting your eThesis Digital theses at Oxford Training on ORA for theses for PG research students Digital thesis FAQs

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora

WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA Find out how to deposit the digital copy of your thesis and what you need to know

about rights and other issues.Monday 21 November 9.30 - 10.30am  (repeated Friday 25 Nov. 12.30 - 13.30pm )

Search O.R.A. http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/

OXFORD RESEARCH ARCHIVE

E-Journals

“I didn't check for the hard copy

- so used to getting online access!”

Current Awareness Services

• The information explosion during 1950’s & 60’s gave rise to fears of not being able to keep up to date with the literature and so current awareness services came into being.

• Originally hardcopy and postal services.

• Advent of the internet has vastly improved such services.

EAS make use of e-mail and e-databases.

In the academic community these are usually subscribed to by the Institution and so are free to the end-users.

WARNING : No database is comprehensive and no matter how well you frame your enquiry, an EAS will never be as clever as your brain is at picking out material of interest.

ELECTRONIC ALERTING SERVICES (EAS)

RSS = Really Simple Syndication

• RSS is a family of web feed formats

• A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content.

• Content distributors syndicate a web feed• thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.

Current Awareness

Three ways to keep up to date:

• E-mail alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at chosen intervals or Zetoc will tell you when the next issue of a journal is available.

• Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future.

• Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular article is cited in another WoS or Scopus indexed article.

WISER: Bibliometrics I - Who's citing you?  (Wednesday 9 November 2.00 - 3.00pm)  - An introduction to citation tracking as a tool for finding out who has cited your work.  We will cover citation tracking using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar and will include time for you to use each tool to find citations to your own work.    Presenters:   Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt.

 WISER: Bibliometrics II - The Black Art of Citation Ranking  (Wednesday 9 November 3.15 - 4.15pm )    -  An introduction to using bibliometrics to calculate research impact. Using Web of Science & Scopus discover the pitfalls of impact factors for individual and departments, how to calculate your h-index and view journal impact factors to find the most influential journals.  Intended audience: science and social science. If you are unfamiliar with citation tracking please attend "WISER: Who's citing you?" before this course.   Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt. 

Citation Tracking

ZETOCBritish Library: Electronic Table of Contents

+++ Broad coverage.Easy to set up.Easy to modify & extend

--- Not so timely as some (it depends on BL receipt of hard copy)

Search string: "food security" in Title :

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SAFETY NUTRITION AND PUBLIC HEALTH VOL 4; NUMB 1 (2011) pp. 4-11 Food security: its components and challenges Havas, K.; Salman, M.

ZETOC Results

Databases vs. Search engines

• Contents are indexed by subject specialists

• Subject headings• Limiting functions e.g.

publication types, languageAllow you to • View Search history• Combine searches• Mark and sort results• Print/save/email/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!

SCOPUSTHE bibliographic database for Geographers

Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Over 19,000 titles from 5,000+ international publishers, inc. 300 book series.

45.5 million records:

24.5 million records with references back to 1996 (of which 78% include references).

21 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823.

4.6 million conference papers from proceedings and journals.

Reference Management Systems

RefWorks

(web based – access your records anywhere - free to members of university – even after you leave)

• ProCite, Reference Manager and EndNote (works without web access – but software needs to be installed on own machine – charge of c£80 from OUCS)

• EndNote on the Web

(free to members of university, but has limited feature set – designed to be used alongside desktop version)

• Zotero is a free plug-in for Firefox browser (only) – limited but growing capability

• Mendeley, etc.

Compatibility of different reference management packages

• Mobile Devices

• Some reference management software has mobile versions offering generally more limited functionality and adaptations to better suit small screens. Some software also has dedicated app versions for iPads (or shortly will have in the case of ColWiz).– RefWorks – mobile version.– EndNote Web – mobile version.– Mendeley – dedicated iPad app.– ColWiz – dedicated iPad app coming very soon.

Newspapers

Legal information, cases etc.

• Lexis Library

• WestLaw – both UK & US editions

• But there are a lot more

(if necessary ask the Law Library for help)

Bibliographic Databases

Abstracting and Indexing Services Vast range.

• SCOPUS (includes GEOBASE)

• OVID SP

• ProQuest for CSA Illumina

• Web of Knowledge

Search Strategies

• Boolean logic

• Truncation

• Wild cards

• Synonyms

• Which language are you using?

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

Other tricks:

Use symbols for wildcards and truncation

? or $ for a single character globali?ation / globali$ation (is it an ‘s’ or a ‘z’)

* for truncation or variant spellingsgovern* for governance, governmentality, etc

use quotation marks for searching for phrasese.g. “resource management”

Web of Knowledge

WEB of Science: ISI citation indexes

Broad Coverage – all subject areasRun when convenient

Automatic export to EndNote + to RefWorks

(Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area for publication)

Web of Science

Three ways to keep up to date:

E-mail alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at chosen intervals

Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future

Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular article is cited in another WoS-indexed article

Save searches to our server that you can later open when you resume your research.

Set up search history alerts. The alert automatically searches the latest update to the database, and then sends the results to you by e-mail. This feature requires a subscription.

Set up citation alerts whereby you are notified by e-mail whenever an article on your Citation Alerts list has been cited by a new article. This feature requires a subscription to Web of Science.

      

                   

Bibliographic Databases

OVIDSP

• CAB Abstracts – biogeography• Forest Science - biogeography• GeoRef – physical geography & geology• EconLit – economic geography• Zoological Abstracts (1864-2009 only)

      

                   

Bibliographic Databases

Search :- (arctic OR polar) AND geopolitic*

2009 - 2011 only

Scopus = 39 articles

Proquest = 58 (from IBSS; PAIS; Worldwide Political Abstracts)

(of which 44 are new)

c.101 articles (down from 113) for absolutely complete search

W.o.S. = 23 articles (only 4 not brought back by SCOPUS)

Ovid = 4 (but 3 are completely new)

RefWorks de-duplication = 90 (unique items)

GUIDE to RESOURCEShttp://ox.libguides.com/geography

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