2. In this workshop we will look at...
• How to find information
• Developing an effective search strategy
• Resources available and how to use them
• Evaluating information for quality and relevance
• Managing references
3. Coursework marking criteria:
21st European Conference on Information Systems
• Originality
• Quality and appropriateness of contents
• Ability to present information in a coherent manner
• Critical analysis of information gathered
• Awareness of current issues around the subject
• Demonstration of research carried out
• Acknowledgement of the sources
• Overall presentation of work
11. Journal Databases
myUniHub > My Study > My Library > Databases > Computing Science
Choose subjects for
a list of relevant
journal databases
12. Summon and journal databases provide:
• Access to quality information
• Information not available elsewhere
• Up-to-date
• Focussed/specific
• Full-text access
• Access on/off campus
• Personalize
• Citation and journal impact info
13. Citation searching
• Which articles have cited an earlier article
• Find articles on similar/related subject
• How many times an article has been cited
• Best journals in your field
15. Company information
•Business Source Complete
•Global Market Information Database
•Keynote
Find out more: http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/CareersVacanciesInterviews
MyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Databases
16. Get online help using resources
MyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Library Subject Guides > Computing
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/EIS
17. Keeping up-to-date with your subject
• Zetoc Alert
• TicTOC
• Google Alerts
More information on Library Subject Guide:
http://bit.ly/CSkeepingcurrent
18. It’s not in the Library!
• Inter Library Loans http://bit.ly/InterLibraryLoans
• Sconul Access http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access
• Other libraries http://bit.ly/visitingotherlibraries
20. Evaluating information
Imagine you are researching ‘The right to be forgotten’
Go to http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/EvaluatingInformation
Have a look at these items and then answer the following questions:
• Which of these items are suitable for postgraduate research?
• What are your criteria for choosing these items?
22. Referencing and Plagiarism
myUniHub > My Study > My Library > Library Subject Guides >
Computing > Information Skills > Referencing and Citation
http://bit.ly/CSrefandcite
23. Managing your references
• Use bibliographic management software
• RefWorks and Flow
• http://bit.ly/BibManSoftwareMDX
24. Keeping in touch
• Blog http://satlibrarian.blogspot.com
• Twitter http://twitter.com/SATlibrarian
• Library Facebook Middlesex University Library
• Library Twitter http://twitter.com/MDXLibrary
25. Need further help?
Your Librarian is:
Vanessa Hill v.hill@mdx.ac.uk
http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/support/unihelp/
Notes de l'éditeur
Welcome and intros.
How to find information for your projects
How to develop an effective search strategy when you need to find information for an essay or project
The range of resources available and how to use them to find good quality and relevant information
Evaluating information for quality and relevance
Managing references
Research from Uni of Huddersfield shows that correlation between library usage and good grades.
Hands on exercise: Sources game.
Magazine (A regular publication aimed at a profession, business or interest....trade/popular)
Good: Latest news: events, jobs, products etc, concise info, easy to obtain
Bad: lacks detail, can be bias, old issues hard to come by
Standards (An agreed, often legally binding level of quality or way of doing something....regional, Nat, Internat, profession/sector)
Good: Created by experts, confidence
Company/market research report (Well researched overview of a company or product market. Could contain future trends, financial data, competitors and SWOT analysis)
Good: Up-to-date: latest research/data, Insider information: information not freely available elsewhere, objective, accurate
Bad: Hard to locate
Webpage
Good: All subjects covered, easy to use, mobile
Bad: accuracy, no editorial control, anyone can add information, provenance
Newspapers
Good: Daily information ie. up-to-date, edited, current issues accessible
Bad: Sensationalist, biased (unbalanced), harder to get back issues
Conference proceedings (Collof aca papers distributed after a conference, cont the contributions made by researchers, academics etc)
Good: Up-to-date: latest research, ideas, thinking on a subject, focussed/specialist, stringent quality control
Bad: Too specific
Journals
Good: Up-to-date, Focussed: specialist subject areas, quality
Bad: Too specific
Books
Good: overview, background knowledge, edited/quality
Bad: Currency, detailed/specific information
More information about the range of resources available on the Library Subject Guide plus useful online guides eg. how to find information for your project.
Group discussion:
What can you see in the picture…fruit
If type ‘fruit’ into database will get millions of hits, how can you break it down ie. search for something more specific to get more manageable results
Can you be more specific ie.
Type of fruit: apples, oranges, bananas etc
Location: Stall, market, outdoor market, fruit market, Britain
Detail: boxes, signs, astroturf, prices, colour of fruit, lights, pound £ signs, special offer etc
People in background: old, young, male, female > stall holder, customers, browsers etc
Think of related subjects eg.
retail, commercial, financial, point-of-sale
Shopping, shops, fish/meat/clothes market, shopping centres, high street
Town, city, centre, British town
Nutrition: vits and mins
Also:
Orange or Blackberry: fruit NOT telephone
Apple: fruit NOT computer
Thinking beyond the obvious, looking for the detail that might make a difference.
Hand out worksheet.
5 mins.
Feedback.
Need to carry out a literature review:
Finding the information available on a subject
Finding information to inform, underpin and shape your research
Finding what has already been written on a subject
Analyzing, evaluating and making judgements about the info found
Identifying the main trends
Finding appropriate information: the information needs to be suitable for your need ie. right level, current if important, sufficient breadth or detail etc
Explain to students what Summon is.
Go to UniHub > Login in to MyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Summon
Ask students to search for information for their project.
Remember to use some of the keywords that we have discussed.
Show the students how to refine their search using:
FT
Content type
Subject terms
Publication date
Language etc
Have another go.
Students can also search individual databases.
Select ‘Computing science’ for a list of subject specific resources.
CS £1397 IEEE Xplore £61,000 Summon £16k
Access to quality academic information eg. Peer reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings , research etc
Information not available elsewhere
Up-to-date
Focussed/specific....not designed to sell you things, search results not sponsored
Full-text access
Access on/off campus
Personalize eg. In MyEBSCO, once signerd up you can:
Save preferences
Organise research within folders
Share folders
Save search history
Create email alerts/Rss feeds for searches and subjects
Can provide citation and journal impact info > more info on next slide
Which articles have cited an earlier article ie. Way of looking forward in the literature-if have found excellent article, can use a citation index to see which articles have subsequently cited it
Find articles on similar/related subjects: Citation implies subject relationship, so can find papers on a similar topic without using any keywords or subject terms
Find out how many times a paper has been cited ie. gauge the usefulness/quality. esteem of a paper
Determine which are the best journals in your field: citation data used to rank journals within particular subject areas…..useful way of seeing how journals perform in relation to others in the same subject area
Citation data and journal citation reports available from Web of Knowledge
Find out about companies, market sectors, industry and country profiles, and consumer trends:
Lots of useful online guides eg.
How to find books
How to find information for your project
Accessing journal databases
etc
Zetoc
BL current awareness service - provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20.000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published every year
The database covers from 1993 to the present, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes current awareness services, so that subscribers can receive notification of relevant new material either from particular journals, authors or on particular subjects (keywords)
CituLike
Headline articles from recent publications
Some journals publish an electronic table of contents for the most recent issue
Browse all the recent articles in these journals just as if they were on your bookshelf
Currently 13507 journals online
TicToc
Search for 1000s of journal table of contents (TOCs) RSSfeeds by title, subject or publisher, export citations or link to full text, and then save TOCs in your ticTOCs account
Also things like Google Alerts and Google Blog Search
Inter Library Loan service: request copies of books and journals not held by MDX. £3 charge. Register as DL first. More info on our website.
SCONUL Access http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/ The SCONUL Access Scheme provides reciprocal access and borrowing rights for staff and students to approximately 170 member institutions in the UK. Apply online.
Other libraries (specialist, catalogues etc):
British Library http://www.bl.uk/
COPAC http://copac.ac.uk/ COPAC is a union catalogue that gives access to the merged online catalogues of members of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL). Twenty major university libraries currently contribute to COPAC.
Search25 http://www.search25.ac.uk/: helps you discover library resources across London and the South East. You can also see where the libraries are and find out how to visit them.
SUNCAT http://www.suncat.ac.uk/ SUNCAT, a union catalogue of serials (periodicals) for the UK, is a tool for locating serials held in UK libraries.
How do you decide if the information is any good? Especially important with the Internet.
What do you think about this quote?
Item 1 Paul Bernal’s blog ‘The right to be forgotten roadshow- and the power of Google’
Blog about Privacy, Human Rights, Law, The Internet, Politics and more. PB is Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia Law School.
Item 2 Search Engine land ‘The Myths & Realities Of How Of The EU’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” In Google Works’
Daily publication that covers all aspects of the search marketing industry. Link and contact details for editorial team.
Item3 Wikipedia ‘Right to be forgotten’
Lots of refs.
Item 4 European Commission ‘Factsheet on the "Right to be forgotten" ruling’
No author or date, but reference number on first page.
Item 5 BBC News Technology ‘What is the 'right to be forgotten'?’
Dave Lee author is BBC Technology reporter. Contact details.
Item 6 The Sun ‘Perverts can't have Google info wiped’
Sensationalist. Short article.
Item 7 The Guardian ‘EU to Google: expand 'right to be forgotten' to Google.com’
Contact details for author. Substantial. Facts etc
Item 8 Stanford Technology law Review ‘It's about time: privacy, information life cycles, and the right to be forgotten’
Peer reviewed journal. Lots of refs. Biog details for author.
Item 9 Jimmy Wales Twitter ‘There is no "right to be forgotten"....’
Free speech activist, entrepreneur. Started Wikipedia.
Item 10 Google Europe Blog ‘Transparency and accountability for the '"right to be forgotten“’
Google’s own view from their Public Policy Manager. Can post comments.
Item 11 Item 11: Proceedings of the 2013 Eleventh Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust ‘A Peer-to-Peer agent community for digital oblivion in online social networks’
Substantial paper, lots of refs. Contact details for the author.
Take feedback and discuss.
Authority : Who is the author? What is their knowledge base/qualifications? How have they carried out their research?
Relevance : Is this what I need? Will it answer my question? Is it at the right level?
Intent : What is the purpose of information e.g. financial gain, propaganda, academic etc?
Objectivity : Balanced view? Opposing views represented? Links to supporting information?
Currency: How old is this information? When was it last updated and by whom?
Referencing and Plagiarism libguide includes information on how to reference material correctly.
Also information about Plato, LDU support and links to helpsheets.
Don’t forget: Computing LibGuide bring together all the resources for your subject area.
RefWorks is online software that helps you collect, store and organise the references you use in your work. It makes producing a reference list or bibliography quick and easy. It is web-based, so you can access your references from anywhere, and you will never loose them if your computer fails.