Finding and managing information for your PhD (including Endnote): advanced Laura Jeffrey and David Heading.

Finding and managing information for your PhD

(including Endnote): advanced

Laura Jeffrey and David Heading

Session overview

• Overview of basics course• Scholarly communications• Tracing academic references

• Break

• Styles of referencing in Endnote• Keeping up to date• Questions and advice

Scholarly communications

• Theses– Print and online– Durham and other institutions – Access those not freely available, via DDS

• Conferences– Web of Science– ProceedingsFirst

Open Access

• Journals– DOAJ

• Repositories listed on OpenDOAR – Institutional e.g. Durham Research Online– Subject based e.g. arXiv

• Harvesters– OAIster– DRIVER– Google Scholar – not exclusively Open Access material

Tracing academic references

• References and bibliographies• Cited by• Citation alerts• Related articles

• Journal impact factors

Databases

Evaluation

Please fill in our survey at

www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/trainingor

www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/fmiadv040210

by the end of today’s session

Keeping up to date

• Saved searches• Alert services– Content: Acquisitions, Citation, Search terms or

Tables of Contents (ToCs)– Format: email or RSS• Feed readers: browser, web or desktop

www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/

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Alert Services

• Books– Durham University Library – new books by email

(FMI basics) and RSS• Articles – Databases e.g. Web of Science will alert you by

email when a new article cites an article you have already read or re-runs search history

– ZETOC – British Library journals• Keywords in titles/ authors by email

Alert Services

• Table of Contents – ZETOC• British Library journals ToCs by RSS or email

Alert Services

• Table of Contents – ZETOC• British Library journals ToCs by RSS or email

– ticTOCs• Use publishers’ data and therefore more up to date.

ToCs by RSS only

Contacts

• Endnote– contact David Heading via the IT Servicedesk

[email protected]

• Library – Laura Jeffrey [email protected]

– contact your liaison librarian via your subject page http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/

Evaluation

Please fill in our survey at

www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/trainingOr

www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/fmiadv040210

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