Library Information System

Doc. dr. Gintarė Tautkevičienė

Dr. Ieva Cesevičiūtė

Library of Kaunas University of Technology

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Research process

Why searching for information and research literature analysis are necessary?

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

• Not to repeat what has already been

done

• Published research results are a starting

point of new ideas and research 3

Search process

4See more at: http://www.lmba.lt/apie-lmba/projektai/emodblt2/mokymo-

moduliai

-find the fundamental information -identify the scope of your search -decide on the novelty of information needed -choose information sources

Chooseyour topic

Create your search

strategy

Search for resources

Evaluate your search

results

• Print, download and save the resources

Use the resources

for research

Modify your search results if necessary

-choose keywords -define search question -choose search tools

-find published resources in the library -find e-resources in the internet and databases

-number-variety -quality -novelty -relevance

Search tools for research information

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Search tools for research information

Institutional or joint library e-

catalogues

Subscribed research

databases, e.g., ScienceDirect,

ASC Publications,

IEEE, etc.

Open Access resources of

research information,

e.g., Directory of Open Access

Journals, Highwire Press,

etc.

Search engines of research

information, e.g., Google

Scholar, RefSeek, etc.

Databases of institutional publications, theses and

dissertations

KTU information system

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Library catalogue, ktu.library.lt

KTU research publications, ktupdb.library.lt

KTU Virtual library, ktu.lvb.lt

Lithuanian electronic thesis and dissertations (ETD) etd.library.lt

Lithuanian Academic E-library eLABa, www.elaba.lt

Lithuanian virtual library, www.lvb.lt

Databases subscribed at KTU ktu.edu/biblioteka Databases

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Electronic resources

E-books

e-books from Technologija, SpringerLINK, eBooks on EBSCOhost, Routledge, Ebrary...

E-articles

ScienceDirect, Emerald, Academic Search Complete, Oxford journals, SAGE...

Statistical data, reports

Passport GMID

Bibliographic information, citation data

Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports

accessible 24/7

Connect from home:

Via Virtual Private Network VPN (instructions)

Via KTU Virtual Library (use unifed KTU log-in)

About e-resources: ktu.edu/biblioteka Databases

KTU Virtual Library

ktu.lvb.lt

Lithuanian Virtual Library

www.lvb.lt

E-mail alert subscription

E-mail alerts. The latest information on the topics of interests may be obtained by subscribing for e-mail alerts on the latest publications included into the database, etc.: ScienceDirect, SpringerLINK.

RSS Feeds. The user subscribes to a preferred information channel and receives timely updates from favouritewebsites. An RSS document includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like author’s name and publishing date. Programmeslike RSS Reader or search engine function Site Summary are used to review the information.

www.google.com/alerts

For a comprehensive

search we recommend:

• to search on your topic in several databases;

• to use subject repositories and virtual libraries;

• to ask librarians and teachers for advice;

• to use “Ask a Librarian” service;

• to seek consultation by phone or e-mail;

• to join researchers networks.

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Search scenarios

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Book search

Library catalogues: http://ktu.library.lt

Subscribed databases: Ebrary, Springer e-books, ScienceDirect e-books, eBooks on EBSCOhost, AccessEngineering.

E-books by KTU Publishing House Technologija: http://www.ebooks.ktu.lt/

E-books by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Publishing House Technika:http://www.ebooks.vgtu.lt

E-books by Vytautas Magnus University: http://ebooks.knygininkas.lt

E-books by Mykolas Romeris University: http://ebooks.mruni.eu (Open Access)

KTU Virtual Library: http://ktu.lvb.lt E-books

Google Books, http://books.google.com

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Article search

1) In Lithuanian resources or by Lithuanian authors:

• Databases of research publications from KTU and other universities: http://ktu.library.lt KTU research publications

• Lithuanian Academic E-library: http://www.elaba.lt

• Lithuanian scientific journals: http://www.mab.lt/lt/istekliai-internete/mokslo-zurnalai

2) In subscribed databases:

Journals subscribed by KTU via KTU VB E-journals

Website of KTU Library: http://ktu.edu/biblioteka Databases Subscribed databases

Lithuanian Research Library Consorcium: http://www.lmba.lt/duomenu-bazes

Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania http://www.lnb.lt

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Specialized search engines

Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.lt

Google Books, http://books.google.com

Microsoft Academic Search

http://academic.research.microsoft.com

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Open Access journals

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals,

http://www.doaj.org/

BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com

Public Library of Science, http://www.plos.org/

Hindawi, http://www.hindawi.com/

PeerJ, https://peerj.com/

Journals of hybrid open access: Springer, Elsevier

Journals of delayed open access: HighWire Press

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

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Open access repositories

OpenDOAR, http://www.opendoar.org/

ROAR, http://roar.eprints.org/

Zotero, http://www.zotero.org

Institutional• e-Prints Soton, http://eprints.soton.ac.uk• TSpace, https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/, • eScholarship, http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship • ARROW, http://arrow.edu.au/repositories.php• NARCIS, http://www.narcis.info/

Subject• arXiv, http://arxiv.org/• Cogprints, http://cogprints.org• RePEc, http://repec.org/• SSOAR (Social Science Open Access Repository),

http://www.ssoar.info

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Theses and dissertations

Theses and dissertations in Lithuanian (ETD), http://etd.library.lt/

NDLTD, http://search.ndltd.org/

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal,

http://www.dart-europe.eu

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

(OATD), http://oatd.org

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Patent search

Lithuanian Technical Library

http://www.tb.lt/knygos/patentu_paieska.htm

Patent Information Centre

http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm

Google Patents, http://www.google.com/patents

The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of

Lithuania http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=lt&n=140

Esp@cenet, http://worldwide.espacenet.com

FreePatentsOnline,

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

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Search for standards

Lithuanian Technical Library,

http://www.tb.lt/knygos/Standartu_paieska.htm

Catalogue of Standards,

http://www.lsd.lt/standards/catalog.php

The International Organization for Standartization

(ISO), http://www.iso.org

The European Telecommunications Standards

Institute (ETSI), http://www.etsi.org/

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Search for statistics and legal documents

Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuaniahttp://osp.stat.gov.lt/

International websites and databases:

Eurostat, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

SourceOECD, http://www.oecdilibrary.org

Passport GMID (Euromonitor International) http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt

The World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/

Legal documents and drafts registered by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

https://www.e-tar.lt/portal/lt/index

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Research networking tools

Researcher ID

http://www.researcherid.com/

Research GATE

http://www.researchgate.net/

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com

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Publishing your research results

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Highly ranked journals

Web of Science žurnalai,

http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

Evaluation criteria (IF, H-index): WoS, Journal

Citation Reports,

http://apps.webofknowledge.com

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Publishers’ help for authors

Elsevier for authorshttp://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/home

Springer Journal Selectorhttp://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author

Emerald for authorshttp://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/index.htm

Journal Author Gatewayhttp://www.sagepub.com/journalgateway/authorGateway.htm

Taylor &Francis http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/info/authors/

http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/choosing.asp

Predatory or highjacked journals

Predatory Journals present themselves as ranking higher than they are in fact; they seek profit.

Hijacked Journals have stolen the identity of other journals. Their aim is also profit.

http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/

Criteria for identifying predatory journals (e.g., http://www.researchjournali.com/):

• Imitation of real publishers’ behaviour. • Very quick process of review. • Only electronic contacts provided but not the publisher’s

address. • Grammar mistakes on the website text. • Editorial boards consist of scholars who have not given

consent to be editorial board members. • Indexing strange directories and databases

http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/

List of journals and publishers that are not recommended: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ or http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers

Assistance in writing and publishing your article

Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/early-

career-researchers/training-and-

workshops

Language editing services

http://www.charlesworthauthorservices.

com/~Emerald

Oxford language editing

http://www.oxfordlanguageediting.com

Exemplar

<http://www.springerexemplar.com/>

(trial version) gives you an opportunity

to check if specific words and phrases

are used in academic texts.

Reference management tools

• Paid (subscribed at the moment): • RefWorks, http://www.refworks.com (group code RWLithMBA)

• EndNoteWeb, http://myendnoteweb.com (register from theuniversity computer network)

• Free of charge:• Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/

• Zotero, http://www.zotero.org

• Citeulike, http://www.citeulike.org/

• Delicious, http://delicious.com

Opportunities:

• Saving bibliographic data, summaries and files. Many databases allow

direct transfer of bibliographic data.

• Organizing your list of references in line with a particular citation style.

• By using the Word plugin, inserting references into the text and creating

a list of references.

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Copyright and plagiarism

Plagiarism is using another author’s idea, opinion,

theory as your own or paraphrasing without a

proper acknowledgement of the source.

Prevention:

• Using special programmes to check for plagiarism: EPAS, CrossCheck

• Storing research publications on open access repositories that check for plagiarism automatically.

NB: incorrectly cited references may be considered plagiarism.

“Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, see http://www.elsevier.com/postingpolicy), ... To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service CrossCheckhttp://www.elsevier.com/editors/plagdetect.“

Self-citation and self-reference

“The available literature on self-plagiarism is concerned

with four major problems: The publication of what is

essentially the same paper in more than one journal,

but without any indication that the paper has been

published elsewhere (i.e., redundant and duplicate

publication), the partitioning of a large study which

should have been reported in a single paper into

smaller published studies (i.e., salami-slicing), copyright

infringement, and the practice of text recycling.”

Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other

questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing,

http://ori.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/plagiarism.pdf

Citation styles

ISO 690:2010 Standard

http://www.medline.org.cn/attachment/201364/1370309271657.pdf

Requirements for dissertations (KTU Mokslas ir inovacijos Doktorantūra http://ktu.lt/sites/default/files/bylos/Studentams/Doktorantura/Dokumentai/disertacijos_tekstui_reikalavimai_20100527.pdf

Citation styles: • APA is used in Psychology, Educational Science and other

Social Sciences;

• MLA tends to be used in Humanities;

• AMA is used in Medicine, Health Sciences and Biology;

• Chicago style is a multidisciplinary citation style;

• Vancouver style is used in Biomedical Sciences.

Learn to manage information!

use the Library Information System

and learn about the library services in

more detail;

find resources for your course

papers;

cite and develop a list of

references;

use reference management tools.

We invite you to the training sessions organized by

the Library in September. You will learn to:

For more details and schedule please visit

ktu.edu/biblioteka -> mokymai

Individual assistance and

consultations

temos.ktu.edu

ktu.edu/biblioteka