Transcript Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography

Information search
Bachelor thesis in human geography
110226 Magnus Olsson, Umeå University library
Phone: 786 91 81
[email protected]
Web page:
http://www.ub.umu.se/om/personal/tjanstesidor/magnus-olsson
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Evaluation of information
Scholarly articles and journals
Search strategies
Libris
Leisure tourism and Academic search elite
Google scholar
Zotero
Guidelines for evaluating information
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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
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• Discussion
Sources
Encyclopedias/dictionaries
Books
Libris
Articles (databases)
Leisure tourism
Academic search elite
(choice of database depending on subject)
Internet
Google scholar
Search strategies in databases
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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?
Keywords
• Descriptors, subject words, key words, A-Z, Index etc.
• ”Tags”
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
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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
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• Create own account to save on Zotero server