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Searching Information Resources
for Projects
October 2010
Debra Avent-Gibson
By the end of this presentation
you should be able to:
• Understand structure of the literature and
resources available for your topic
• Understand the importance of constructing
a search strategy
• Be able to identify key resources
Where should you look?
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Research Process
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Starting out
Search strategy
Review & evaluate
Locating your references
Writing up
Starting out: Thinking about
your topic
Reference books and textbooks
• Provide structure of subject area
• Locate concepts and keywords
Mind maps and brainstorming
bubbl.us
Simplemind – ipod/iphone app
Mind map
Search strategy planning
• Select appropriate subject database
• Use keywords for your search terms
• Use refine and limit options
• Boolean operators – AND, OR, NOT
• Truncation - *$?
• Parenthesis – ( )
• Thesaurus
Review & evaluate results
• Read the abstract – is it relevant?
• Mark useful references and either save or
email them
• Keep a list of your references and details
of the search strategy
Locating your references
• Library Catalogue for print
• Full text via the butt button
• Material not held in the Library
Demo
Writing up
• Plagiarism
• Citing and referencing – acknowledging
your sources
• Endnote Web
Library lunchtime sessions
Endnote Web - web-based referencing service
• Collects, stores, imports, exports and shares
references
• Creates reading lists, bibliographies and
references
• Searches academic databases and
catalogues to find resources
Want to know more?
• Look out for the orange posters in libraries,
departments and halls of residence
• Sessions this term running across the campus
during October and November
• No booking required – just turn up
• Check the website
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/is/library/findinginformation/induction_sessions2010.html
• Further sessions will run in Spring Term
Subject Team
• Faculty Librarian - Debra Avent-Gibson
• Subject Librarians
• Meg Humphries (Aerospace and Civil)
• James Webley (Computer Science, Eng
Mathematics, Electrical & Electronic, and Mechanical
Engineering)
• [email protected]
• Extension number 87942