Scientific information sources 2016

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SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

SOURCES

Contents


Scientific articles

Conference papers

Scientific books

OTHER TYPES OF INFORMATION

Master and PhD thesis

INFORMATION SOURCES

Scientific articles databases

Digital repositories

Aggregators

LITERATURE REVIEW

Questions?

1.

What sources should I use for

researching scientific information on

the Web?

2.

How to select the appropriate

sources?

3.

Where to start?

“ To explore the full potential

of Web search tools, it is

essential to know how the

information is collected,

described and structured

“ Critical understanding of the science

communication and formal publication

Key competencies for academic and

lifelong learning

SCIENTIFIC

INFORMATION

What is scientific information?

What distinguishes it from other information?


▪ Certified through peer

review

▪ Published in scientific

journals

OTHER TYPES OF INFORMATION

▪ No peer review

▪ Not published in scientific journals


What is peer review?

▪ It is the process used in the publication of articles in scientific

journals

▪ Consists of submitting the scientific work to the evaluation of one or

more specialists in the area

▪ This process certifies the quality of the articles published in a

scientific journal

Scientific

information

Articles

Papers

Books

WHAT IS A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

▪ A scientific paper is written by scientists

▪ Has peer review

▪ Is the primary way for the formal communication of science

▪ Allows researchers to communicate to peers the results of an

investigation

▪ Is published in journals with knowledge certification mechanisms


Scientific articles

ELEMENTS TO COMPOSE A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

Abstract

Brief summary of the article where its objective is included,

methodology used to solve the problem and the results achieved

▪ Introduction

It situates the reader in the context of the researched subject, offering a

global vision of the study. It presents the problem of study (what), the

objectives (for what purpose) and the methodology used in the study

(how and where)


Scientific articles


▪ Method

Describes the method used with accurate information, so that the

experiment can be repeated by another person, with the same or

identical results

▪ Results

The author describes what he observes in the experiment. It presents

arguments and results that support their data. May have schemas and

pictures


Scientific articles


▪ Discussion

Interpretation of results. The author highlights all the knowledge acquired,

through the discussion of the results obtained

▪ Conclusion

Response to the hypotheses presented in the introduction and the

objectives of the study. They synthesize the main results

▪ Bibliographic references

Articles or other works consulted and quoted in the article


Scientific articles

TYPES OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

▪ Article

The author describes for the first time the study and the results of a

research paper

▪ Review article

Review articles are critical reviews in which the author organizes,

integrates and evaluates previously published studies


Scientific articles

PAPERS

Papers are often published in Proceedings and are the result of

communications at conferences organized in scientific institutions

▪ It is usual that the works that appear in the Proceedings have been

previously published

▪ Before being published, the work is usually released as a preprint


Published conference papers

SCIENTIFIC BOOKS

In many cases are publications with a scientific editor, consisting of

several parts of different authors

May be the published contents of academic and scientific conferences


Scientific books

OTHER

INFORMATION

Other information

Research results

not published by

traditional way

▪ PhD theses and master’s dissertations

▪ Scientific and technical reports

▪ Preprints

▪ Working papers

▪ Unpublished conference papers

Other information

Research results not published by

traditional way

“ In many cases is the best way to

update on certain topics

INFORMATION

SOURCES

“ Finding information depends

mainly on the efficient use of

search tools

Information

Sources

Databases

Repositories

Aggregators

Know to better

select

Where to

search?

VERY

IMPORTANTScientific

Databases

Aggregators

Repositories

Libraries

catalogues

Theses

Reports

Articles

Scientific books

Scientific books chapters

Theses

Scientific books

Articles

Journals

Dictionaries

Library collections

(books, journals,

scores, CD…)

Scientific articles

Conference papers

Review articles

Scientific books

Scientific books chapters

The practices, means and

mechanisms of scientific

publication are different

according to the areas of

knowledge and research

practices, varying also the

platforms and strategies for

research and information

discovery

Scientific databases

▪ Bibliographical collections of scientific articles

▪ Collects journals from different editors and they became a global access

point to the most of published scientific literature

▪ Due to their scope, they are the most appropriate tools for the literature

review on a subject

▪ International bibliography

▪ Quality control of the contents included

▪ Some scientific databases includes article citation counting by article and

other data important for evaluation


What is it?

MultidisciplinaryThematics

Commercials

(for only one

editor)


Types

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

SCOPUS

WoS

ProQuest

Academic Search

Complete

THEMATICS

▪ PubMed

▪ Medline

▪ Eric

COMMERCIALS

(for only one editor)

▪ ACM

▪ IEEE

▪ Science Direct

▪ Emerald


Types

More information:

http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/artigos


UA

VPNFreeLogin

password


Access

FREE

PubMed

ERIC

UA | VPN

SCOPUS

WoS

Academic Search

Complete

Science Direct

Emerald

LOGIN

ProQuest


Access

More information about VPN configuration:

http://www.ua.pt/stic/teletrabalho_vpn

http://http/www.ua.pt/stic/teletrabalho_vpn

REPOSITORIES

▪ Information systems with scientific and academic contents available

in open access

▪ They include journal articles, conference papers, master's dissertations

and doctoral theses and documents that result from the research

activities of an institution

▪ Usually they are associated with a teaching and / or research institution

Repositories

What is it?

▪ They have the great advantage of including the digital file of the

referenced document, in Open Access

▪ Essential tools for the research and discovery of gray literature: theses,

preprints, reports, conference papers, etc.

▪ Contribute to the increase of the scientific literature in open access,

promoting in the network its visibility

Repositories

Features

RCAAPRIA OpenAIRE

Repositories

Some examples

More information:

http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/teses

http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/teses

AGGREGATORS

▪ Add multiple databases and other platforms in a single point of search

▪ They are usually appropriate when the goal is to have an overview of

the recent publication of a certain subject

▪ Great advantage of saving time because they are very wide systems

▪ Disadvantage: they don’t include a structured indexing language nor

structured information, because they collect information from sources

with different languages and fields

▪ When the goal is to perform a fine and more specialized research, they

are not adequate

Aggregators

Features

Google

ScholarB-onIntegrated

Search

Aggregators

Some examples

More information:


https://scholar.google.pt/

http://www.b-on.pt/

http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/pesquisa


LITERATURE

REVIEW

▪ Research and collection of literature in an area or subject

▪ Comprehensive analysis of the literature and its synthesis of scientific

production in an area or theme

▪ "State of the art" on a certain theme

▪ It aims to provide context and justification for the investigation to take

place

Literature review

What is it?

▪ Define the subject of the search in keywords

▪ Select and adapt the sources of information▪ Define the research strategy

▪ Collect and analyze information

Literature review

Essential steps

Some tips for the steps:

“Define the subject of the research in keywords”

and

“Define the research strategy”

Literature review

Tips

DEFINE THE SUBJECT OF THE RESEARCH IN KEYWORDS

Once the research question has been determined, the subject topics or

associated ideas must be identified

Select the search terms - the keywords that identify the subject

(relevant or most important words in the research for a subject)

Define geographical or chronological limits

Translate to English language the terms for searches in scientific

international databases

Literature review

Tips


▪ HOW TO IDENTIFY THE TERMS?

▪ Controlled vocabulary should be used whenever necessary, which

means the use of controlled subject terms. These terms may be

referred to as subject headings or indexed keywords

▪ Some databases includes thesaurus or subject indexes

▹ ERIC (Education and Psychology)

▹ MeSH – Medical Subject Headings

Literature review

Tips


▪ HOW TO IDENTIFY THE TERMS?

▪ In dictionaries / encyclopedias

▪ Collect subject terms and indexed keywords used in articles related to

the topic / subject, after a generic search in a scientific database or

Google Scholar

Literature review

Tips


▪ BE ALLERT…

▪ Synonyms / alternative terms: ‘young people’ or ‘adolescents’

▪ Singular / Plural: child, children

▪ Abbreviations: UML, Unified Modeling Language; UK, United Kingdom

▪ Language variants

▫ organisation – UK or organization – USA

▫ behavior – UK or behaviour – USA

▫ physiotherapy – UK or physical therapy – USA

Literature review

Tips


▪ BE ALLERT…

▪ Use the (*) truncation symbol

▪ When entering the search term in the singular, it will only retrieve

records that contain the word in this form

▪ The * symbol next to the root of the word retrieves records with possible

different endings:

▫ child* = child; children; childhood

▪ Consult the help pages of the scientific databases to confirm the

truncation symbol

Literature review

Tips


▪ BE ALLERT…

▪ Use the (?) symbol to replace a character, in case of a linguistic variant

▫ Organi?ation = retrieves organization and organisation

▪ Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

▪ Use quotation marks "" for compound terms

▫ “information literacy”

Literature review

Tips

DEFINE THE RESEARCH STRATEGY

▪ EXPLORE THE FUNCTIONALITIES OF THE DATABASES

▪ Search by author

▪ Limit options - allows you to set limits, such as:

▫ Document type – ex: “review articles”

▫ Chronological period

▫ Subject area

Literature review

Tips



▪ Discover information from a selected registry

▪ Analyze the list of bibliographic references

▪ Explore the "related records" option

▪ Check the list of articles that cited the document - "cited by“

Literature review

Tips



▪ Keeping up-to-date - most databases allow you to subscribe to alerts

via email or rss feed from the results of a particular search or

publication

Literature review

Tips

SUMMARY

1. BEFORE STARTING INFORMATION RESEARCH, YOU SHOULD:

Clearly define the subject / terms to be searched for

Select the type of information to be collected

Select the information source according to the information type

Literature review

Summary

2. BUILDING THE SEARCH QUERY

Choose research terms

Define geographical or chronological limits

Translate to English language the terms for searches in international

scientific databases

Literature review

Summary

3. WHEN CHOOSING THE RESEARCH TERMS, YOU MUST ALSO

THINK AT:

▹ Synonyms

▹ Plural/singular

▹ Abbreviations

▹ Linguistic variants

Literature review

Summary

Literature review

Summary

Always remember your

purpose for study.

When collecting and

organizing your literature,

ask yourself: How does this

relate to my study? Is it very

important, moderately

important?

What do you want to

search?

▪ Scientific articles

▪ Other articles

▪ Theses and dissertations▪ …

Where to search?

▪ Database

▪ Repository

▪ Library catalog▪ …

What subjects to search?

1. What are the subjects in PT

2. Check synonyms

3. Check plural and singular

4. Check abbreviations

5. Translation to EN

6. Verify language variants

Obtaining the article

Steps…

It may take several steps

to get the article!

If the reference you

searched for is important to

your work, do not give up

locating the document. Ask

for help of a Library

Reference Service

technician!

1. Databases – Find the fulltext link (PDF, Fulltext)

2. AtoZ – Verify that the journal is subscribed in electronic form by

the UA and which chronological period is available

3. AtoZ da eLibraryUSA (login/password required) – Verify if the

journal is available in electronic format and which chronological

period is accessible

4. OPAC – Check if the journal exists in printed format in the UA

libraries

5. Google Scholar – Search the article title


http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/atoz

http://dos-sfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/dosiip/az

http://www.ua.pt/sbidm/biblioteca/elibraryusa

http://opac.ua.pt/

http://scholar.google.com/

Obtaining the article

Steps…

Good luck!6. Google – Search the article title in pdf format (filetype:PDF)

7. Integrated Search – Search the article title

8. Databases – Check the author's affiliation and search in Google

the repository of the institution to which the author belongs. In

the repository, search the author / title of the article

9. Databases – Check the author's contact and send him an e-mail

10. Interlibrary Loan Service – Request to other national or foreign

library a copy of the article

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Where to find the

information

sources?

UA LIBRARIES WEB

SITE

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