Research workshop for Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Mid-Career Students

1. Library & Knowledge Services August 2009 Services for Mid-Career Students HKS Library: Supporting Research, Scholarship, Teaching & Learning

6. We are all information producers, consumers, collectors.

8. Harvard University Library 70+ libraries Access to over 13 million print and digital items Books, journals, databases, ebooks, maps, manuscripts, ephemera, objects, diaries, photographs

9. We’re here to help.

10. FIND, The Research Process & USE EVALUATE INFORMATION

14. information literacy IL = the ability to identify, retrieve, evaluate, and use information that is appropriate to a need.

17. or or or or or or concept one AND concept two AND concept three 1 2 3 Concept Three Concept Two Concept One

18. information literacy or information fluency or information and and communication technologies (ICT) or twenty-first century skills standards or best practices or guidelines graduate students or adult learners or lifelong learners Concept Three Concept Two Concept One

19. Disciplines Public Administration International Relations Political Science, Theory Business & Management Economics Legal Medical & Public Health Environmental Studies Social Policy Women’s Studies Science & Technology

20. Sources Books Scholarly journals – online databases News Freely-available Internet Blogs, Wikis, Web Sites, Twitter NGOs, Associations, Think tanks Grey literature – working papers

21. http://www.wordle.net

22. Author Affiliation & Bias

23. www.hks.harvard.edu/library HOLLIS = Catalog of titles held by the Harvard Libraries HOLLIS = Harvard Library Catalog

26. www.hks.harvard.edu/library Quick Access to Selected Databases

27. Faster. Easier. Better.

28. Write-N-Cite: Plug-in for Microsoft Word used to insert citations in your paper. RefGrab-It: Plug-in used to import references for most web pages. Generate bibliograhpies. Organize and share folders of citations. Import citations from existing bibliographies.

29. LibX Firefox Browser Extension

31. Interlibrary Loan

32. Search for course reserves

34. What research hurdles are you expecting to encounter? HKS Library: Supporting Research, Scholarship, Teaching & Learning

35. Open Access “ Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.” – Peter Suber, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access Open Access Mandate at HKS: March 10, 2009. All peer-reviewed, scholarly articles published after this date must be deposited into DASH, the Harvard Institutional Repository.

38. Finding journals to submit a proposal Are the journals open access? In which databases are the journals indexed? Authors’ rights?

39. Open Access Week October 19-23, 2009

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43. HKS Library: Supporting Research, Scholarship, Teaching & Learning www.hks.harvard.edu/library [email_address] (617) 495-1300 Twitter: hkslibrary Contact Us Abby Clobridge Associate Director, Research & Knowledge Services Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Library [email_address] (617) 496-1772