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Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography
110226 Magnus Olsson, Umeå University libraryPhone: 786 91 [email protected] page: http://www.ub.umu.se/om/personal/tjanstesidor/magnus-
olsson
Today you´re going to learn more about…• Evaluation of information• Scholarly articles and journals• Search strategies• Libris• Leisure tourism and Academic search elite• Google scholar• Zotero
Guidelines for evaluating information
• Author• Subject and tendency• Purpose and target group• Currency• Edition• Publisher• References
How do I determine if an article is scholarly (”scientific”) or not?• Who has written the article?• Where is the article published?• Has the article been peer-reviewed?
Elements of a peer reviewed original article
• Introduction• Methods and material• Results
And• Discussion
Sources
Encyclopedias/dictionaries
BooksLibris
Articles (databases)Leisure tourismAcademic search elite
(choice of database depending on subject) Internet Google scholar
Search strategies in databases
• What words should I use when searching?• How do I expand my search?• How do I limit my search?• How do I search using keywords?
Libris
• Contains references to books from all Swedish university libraries• Related articles• English or swedish keywords
Leisure tourism
• “Access to over 70,000 research abstracts from the last 30 years of research with 400 publications abstracted every year.”
• 1974-
Academic search elite
• “general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.”
• Peer-review• Thesaurus
Google scholar
• Introduced november 2004• Specialises in academic material on the internet• Everything in GS is not scholarly• Advanced search• Use english terms when you are searching
Access to databases, e-books and e-journals off-campus
• http://www.ub.umu.se/sok/atkomst-utanfor-campus
What is Zotero?
• Zotero is a freely available reference management system which helps you to sort and arrange your references.
It will help you to:• import references from various databases into one place• keep track of your references• spell correctly• create references and a reference list in your Word document• adapt the layout of the references in accordance with different
reference systems
Zotero continued…
• Mozilla Firefox webbrowser• http://www.zotero.org/ download program och plug-in for word.• Create own account to save on Zotero server