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Research Skills for a Literature Review
Richard Holmes, Durham University Library
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Aims
• To bring everybody up to speed• Dispel common misapprehensions• Explain the tools available• Provide time for hands-on and for Q&A
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Format
• Where to search Introduction to the tools• Hands on• Comfort break• How to search: strategies and techniques• Hands on• Q&A
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Use the Right Tool
• Google isn’t great for academic research• Alternatives are more efficient…• Save you time• Improve your results
What’s wrong with using Google then?
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Problems with Google
• Too many search results• Not targeted at academics• Indiscriminate harvesting of information• Search results are manipulated (personalised)
and sorted by popularity; not quality• Google has no awareness of Durham holdings or
subscriptions
But, good for finding ‘grey’ literature
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Go Scholar?
• Filters out web sites and other ‘lay’ material
• Searches mainly academic domains
• Some awareness of Durham collections
• Broader search than some alternative
• Indexing is still automated• Hazy definition of
‘scholarly’• Depth of coverage (misses
key resources)• Limited filter/refine options• Less structured/consistent
records than alternatives
Tip: Set up library links
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Library Catalogue, then?
Benefits:• Degree of quality assurance• Check local availability of
specific content• Find monographs on your
subject• Access to everything it finds
No good for finding:• Chapters (in textbooks)• Articles• Conference papers• Newspaper reports• Theses• Technical notes• Images
An extremely superficial search tool
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Discover?
• Deeper searching• Identifies a range of content types (including articles,
chapters, images, primary material)• Options to limit or filter results• Searches just owned/subscribed content but can also
search more broadly
But…• No citation data to assess popularity or impact• Fewer advanced search options offered by niche databases
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Commercial Databases
Two distinct types:
Full Text
VS
Bibliographic
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Commercial Databases
1 - Full text collections– JSTOR– ScienceDirect
• Search every word in every paper (deep searching)• View the full PDFs immediately (where entitled)
But…
• Narrow breadth (limited or individual publishers)• Multiple search interfaces to learn
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Commercial Databases
2 - Indexes of bibliographic information– Web of Science– Medline/PubMed– SciFinder Scholar
Search multiple publishers at onceMainly peer reviewed materials
But…
No knowledge of your access entitlementsUse ConneXions to check Local availability
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Demo
Catalogue
Discover
ScienceDirect
Web of Science
No one resource covers everything! Use a range of options.
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Have a go!
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Comfort Break
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What to search
Entering correct syntax
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The Research Cycle1.
Decide where to
search
2.Choose
your search terms
3.Perform
the search
4.Review results
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Choosing Search TermsIdentify the key words/concepts from your topic
“Treatment and prevention of Ebola Virus in Women and Children”
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Choosing Search TermsIdentify the key words/concepts from your topic:
“Treatment and prevention of Ebola Virus in Women and Children”
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Choosing Search TermsIdentify keywords from your topic:
“Treatment and prevention of Ebola Virus in Women and Children”
Identify Synonyms:• Treatment| intervention| management | cure• Prevention |prophylaxis• Women| females• Children| Infants | minors | neonates
Tip: Use a thesaurus such as ‘VisuWords’ to identify synonyms and related concepts
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Tips to broaden or narrow your search
“Treatment and prevention of Ebola Virus in Women and Children”
• Identify Synonyms: prevention OR prophylaxis | treatment OR intervention | children OR Infants OR Minors
• Truncation: prevent* = prevent, prevents, prevention, prevented, preventing
• Wildcards: wom?n to locate woman or women• Phrases: “prevention of Ebola”• Joining Words: AND, OR, NOT
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Have a go!
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Evaluate your resources
Consider:• Who wrote it• What are their credentials?• Who did they write it for?• Why did they write it?• When did they write it?
Further guidance at• http://prezi.com/q5jglgamre6c/evaluating-information/ • https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/evalinfo/
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Keep a note of all references used
Catalogue and databases all offer the option to save/export recordsDo it! It will save time when writing up and referencing
Bookable Endnote sessions:• 18th November• 8th December
Zotero equivalent on:• 25th November
Apply via the University’s course booking system https://www.dur.ac.uk/training.course/