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Research Skills for Dissertations:2013
Sue BirdBodleian Subject Librarian Geography
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The digital architecture facilitating research & study
Oxford Libraries Information Platform
Literature & Data Search Enginese-Journals
e-Books
On-line data bases
Subscription Dbases
Data Portals(expanding)
Course Information Management
Research Skills Tool Kits
Science Blogs
Science & Ideas MediaPodOxfo
rd
Networking, Communication & Living
Data Visualisation Tools
You & Your Devices (and WiFi connection –
Eduroam, OWL)
Cloud computing
Note: commercial products cited merely represent commonly used services rather than endorsements
Data Mining & workflow tools
Policies & GuidelinesSoGE Intranet
Cloud computing
OUCS Personal
Page
Data & File SharingOxFile
Oxford iTunes U
Reference Management Tools
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This sessionHow to cite sources correctly & therefore avoid plagiarism
How to use Reference Management Software
SOLO & OXLIP+
Reference works
Google Scholar v. Bibliographic Databases
Searching Techniques & Keeping up to date
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Avoiding Plagiarism
"...You must always indicate to the examiners when you have drawn on the work of others; other people's original ideas and methods should be clearly distinguished from your own, and other people's words, illustrations, diagrams etc. should be clearly indicated regardless of whether they are copied exactly, paraphrased, or adapted...
...The University reserves the right to use software applications to screen any individual's submitted work for matches either to published sources or to other submitted work. Any such matches respectively might indicate either plagiarism or collusion...
...Although the use of electronic resources by students in their academic work is encouraged, you should remember that the regulations on plagiarism apply to on-line material and other digital material just as much as to printed material..."
Section 9.5 Proctors' and Assessor's Memorandum
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https://intranet.ouce.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/fhs/plagiarism.html
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Good academic practice So follow the citation principles and practices in
place in your subject area, develop a rigorous approach to academic referencing, and avoid inadvertent plagiarism.
Be uniform in your referencing system:- Probably use the Harvard system as suggested
on the School’s web-site – but whatever you do use – just be consistent
https://intranet.ouce.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/fhs/dissertation/referencing.html
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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.
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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 (7th ed. Chicago, 2007) [LB 2369 TUR ]
3:Communicating in geography & the environmental sciences / Ian Hay (3rd ed. Oxford, 2006) [G 70 HAY ]
4:Cite them right /Pears & Shields (2010 ed.) [LB 2369 PEA]
5: Complete guide to referencing & avoiding plagiarism / Neville (2nd ed. 2010) – available on-line via E.B.L.
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References / Bibliography
Organize your research and manage your database of references
Import references from many different data sources including direct from databases like Scopus or Web of Knowledge, or library catalogues like SOLO.
Store links to documents – pdf’s, images, etc.
Include citations while you write your paper
Build a bibliography in a variety of styles and in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)
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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 – software needs to be installed on own machine – charge of c£87 from IT Services in Banbury Rd. (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.
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E-Journals
I didn't check for the hard copy - so used to getting online access!
“I had just googled the article rather than using SOLO, so that was the issue & why I’d been asked to login, or use Athens or pay a fee”
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Newspapers
Electronic newspapers• Some are freely available. Alphabetic list on
OxLIP+
• Best source for the “Text Only” of huge range of newspapers and magazines is Nexis UK. Goes back approximately 10 yrs in most cases and is very current i.e. today’s daily news items
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Newspapers
Electronic newspapers• Factiva - from Dow Jones & Reuters Company • Business news & challenges, market trends & info. • 14,000 + sources inc. local & global newspapers,
newswires, trade journals, newsletters, etc.• Archive back to 1969 - 28 languages from 159
countries• Dun & Bradstreet company profiles, Reuters
Fundamentals, etc.
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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)
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Dissertation Techniques
Use SOLO or OxLIP+ to access
Reference tools
Abstracting and Indexing services
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Reference Sources
General reference tools
CREDO Reference : Reference works incl. Dictionaries, encyclopaedias etc
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Dictionaries. OED; Oxford Reference On-line
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http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps
Bodleian Maps
http://ox.libguides.com/finding-maps
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/geography
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E-booksReference books
Blackwell Reference OnlineSAGE Reference OnlineSAGE Research Methods Online
Text booksEBL (officially) the E-Book LibraryNetLibrary now hosted by EBSCOhost Ebook CollectionOxford Scholarship OnlineTaylor & Francis Online eBooks Library
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Subject searchingSOLO and Oxford e-journals cover Oxford holdings only by title
Better to use specialist indexes covering the world’s literature to find articles
Access via OxLIP+
Use inter-library loan for items not held in Oxford and not online
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Bibliographic Databases
Excellent for locating journal articles , book chapters and book reviews (NB. References only,)
General or specific subject coverage
Different interfaces but similar functionality
Not tied to library holdings
Frequently will provide a link to full text
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Google is fast
• Very fast• Proudly fast• Tells you how fast• Found SoGE home page in 0.13 secs• Also found 26,600,000 other ‘relevant’ pages• But put home page first• Brilliant - How does it do it?• Not telling….
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Did I need 26 million references?
• Nobody looks at all the references Google retrieves
• So why display them?• Algorithm takes into account links made by other
pages• And click-throughs• So the top result for a given search is determined
over time by the people who make that search• Is that the same as the ‘best’ result?
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So let’s invent…Google Scholar
• Let’s modify our algorithm so it excludes non-scholarly material (how do we define that?)
• Let’s look at citations so when one article we index cites another one we index, we can move it higher up the relevance ranking
But let’s not allow:• creation of sets / or combining of searches• controlled vocabularies• info on what is included & what is not / indication of
update frequency
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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!
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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 Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-index
• Use Journal Analyzer to provide quick insight into specific journal performance• Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.• Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
• Use Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX
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Bibliographic Databases
Abstracting and Indexing Services Vast range.
SCOPUS (includes GEOBASE)
OVID SP
ProQuest
Web of Knowledge
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Search Strategies• Boolean logic
• Truncation
• Wild cards
• Synonyms
• Which language are you using?
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Boolean connectors
• AND – combines terms to restrict results
• OR – useful for covering synonyms
• NOT – excludes unwanted areas of research
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OR, AND, NOT
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SCOPUS
• THE bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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SCOPUS
Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, including 325 book series.
47 million records:
26 million records with references back to 1996 (of which 78% include references).21 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823.4.9 million conference papers from proceedings and journals.
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eReader Formats The eReader Formats application allows users to convert ScienceDirect articles as seen in the browser into ePUB or Mobipocket format, whichever is appropriate for the user's electronic reader device.
Interactive Map Viewer Interactive Map Viewer displays supplementary geospatial data from Elsevier online articles as an interactive map.
Methods Search Methods Search application helps you find the methods you need for your research.
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Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 1– Important to remember that although each database
covers thousands of journal titles no single database is ever comprehensive.
– If you are having difficulty finding material on a topic use the keywords you find in any relevant reference and search again.
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Synonyms & Language
• Topic = Personal energy use reduction
• Search: • A) personal energy use• B) “personal energy use”• C) “energy use” OR “energy consumption” AND personal OR private OR household
• Context : “carbon footprint” OR “carbon neutral” (including food mile* (i.e. miles or mileage)? )
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Bibliographic Databases
ProQuest• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences• Sustainability Science Abstracts • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• PAIS International – government & other ‘grey’ literature • EconLit• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
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Bibliographic Databases
OVIDSP
• CAB Abstracts – biogeography• Forest Science - biogeography• GeoRef – physical geography & geology• Zoological Abstracts (1864-2009 only)
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Bibliographic Databases
Web of Science/Knowledge– Includes Science, Social Science & Arts and Humanities
Citation Indexes
– Citation indexes can be used in the same way as any other abstracting and indexing service. Their extra facility is the option to search the bibliographies of any articles- a citation search. Academics use the citation index to find out who has cited their work.
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Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 2
Take time to explore the various databases & platforms available.
Some will be more useful to you than others.
• Scopus• OvidSP• ProQuest• Web of Knowledge
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser
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Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 3
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
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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”
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Bibliographic Searching
Search Tip : 4• Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings.
• Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word endings and ? to replace a single character.
• Expand search by following hypertext links esp subject headings
• Use tagging facilities within database to mark articles for printing, emailing, downloading or exporting.
• Authors names: Check the online help for formats. Use the database index to find different forms of author’s name, otherwise truncate first initial.
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Bibliographic Databases
Search :- Impact of La Nina and oceanic circulation on climate change (2011-13 only)
Scopus = 74 articles
ProQuest = 37 articles (after de-duplication of 41) (21 not found by Scopus)
Ovid = 51 after de-duplication of 54 articles, etc. (adds another 19 to the total)
Web of Science = 84 articles (a further 38 unique items)
RefWorks de-duplication = 152
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Bibliographic Searching
• 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 WoK or Scopus indexed article.
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Dissertation Techniques
Apart from Bibliographic Electronic Resources there are some factual databases available
via OxLIP+ e.g.:-• World development indicators,• EIU Country Reports,
• Demographic Yearbook etc.
If they are CD-ROM based they may require you to download software
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Further assistance:
This presentation available via WebLearn & on-linehttp://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/biosciences
More courses available: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/
Other presentations:http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser
Guidance for references:
https://intranet.ouce.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/fhs/dissertation/referencing.html
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Dissertation Techniques
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Appendix
• Results from Google Scholar
• Record for : “State of the Climate 2010” ina) Scopusb) Web of Science
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