Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Library skills for EAP students
1. UCL Library
Lynne Meehan and Ruth Russell
lib-sciteam@ucl.ac.uk
http://delicious.com/LynneMeehan/eap
2. How and where to search
How:
Example search: Healthcare funding
Breakdown search
Key Concept 1 Key Concept 2
Health care Fund or funds or funding
Where:
Library catalogues, web gateways and
websites, databases
3. Library catalogue
• http://library.ucl.ac.uk
Useful for searching for books on topics and
for finding books on your reading list
• QUIZ:
• In which library would you find the book “Rationing
in the NHS” by Bill New, and what is the shelf
location?
• What is the earliest issue of “ Healthcare policy”
available electronically?
6. Current research:
Step 1: Define your topic
• Manufacturing potential therapies for AIDS
• Key concepts
• Alternative terms
Health care Funding or fund or funds
Healthcare Economic or economics
Finance or finances or
financing
7. Boolean logic for combining search terms
All foods with raspberries All flavours of ice cream
Raspberry ice cream
raspberries OR ice cream
Ice cream AND raspberries
Ice cream NOT raspberries
8. Current research:
Step 2: More hints and tips
• Phrase search
e.g. “Health care”
• Nesting
e.g. “Health care” and
(funding or finance)
• Wildcards
e.g. Wom?n
• Truncation
e.g. Financ*
9. Current research:
Step 3: Search the databases
• Database of engineering journals and conference
proceedings
• Go to the library website www.ucl.ac.uk/library
• Click on Databases
• Click on W
• Click on Web of Science
• QUIZ:
• Using Web of Science find three articles on Health care
funding using the tips shown in the previous slides?
• Use SFX to locate the articles?
• Email yourself the records for the two articles?
10. Material not held at UCL
• can be used in most databases to check
journal holdings at UCL and other universities
• Use the drop down menu in SFX to search
across library catalogues with COPAC or ULS
• Links to nearby university libraries here
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/otherlib.shtml
• Books and journal articles can be requested via
inter-library loan: http://
www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/ill.shtml
11. How to avoid plagiarism - Citing your
references
Citing styles: Harvard and
Vancouver
Systematic notes
Note the content
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/current-
students/guidelines/policies/plagia
rism
12. Access to e-resources
• Most electronic resources can be accessed on or
off campus
• The best route to these is via the library website
• You will need your UCL userid to log in
• For further information go to
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/e-res.shtml#res-home
13. WISE
• Library Services’ online induction
• Includes training in various resources
• Go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/wise.shtml
• Click the link to WISE for beginners and log in
using your UCL computing username and
password
• Enrol yourself on the course
14. Help!
WISE: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle
Ask at the Enquiry Desk
Ground floor, Science Library
Opposite the Issue Desk at the Main Library
Tel: 020 7679 7700
Email: library@ucl.ac.uk
Find your subject librarian listed at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/who.shtml
15. Thank you
Please fill in the evaluation form at
http://tinyurl.com/ylgdpws
Lynne Meehan (Room 314, Science library)
Tel: 020 7679 2634 (ext 32634)
Email:lib-sciteam@ucl.ac.uk
Notes de l'éditeur
Demonstrate: Copac, Union List of Serials, ILL request on catalogue
“If you try and access e-resources via other routes look out for a links labelled “institutional login”, “UK federation login”, “Shibboleth login” or similar”