2. Housekeeping
• How’s it going?
• Can you find the books
on your reading lists?
• Can you renew and
reserve books?
• Do you know who to
contact for help?
• Library Subject Guides?
3. Getting started
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0)], via Wikimedia Commons
4. Access from myUniHub > My Study page > My Library > Library Subject
Guides
Hover your mouse over Resources to see pages on specific topics, e.g.
Finding Journal Articles
6. Summon
Searches journals,
books and more
Good starting point
for a basic search
NOT specific to sport!
Doesn’t do specific or
complex searching
7. Refine, refine, refine
Full text
online
Scholarly &
peer review
Journal
Articles only
Discipline,
e.g. recreation
& sports
Date range
8. Levels of searching
• Summon alone is not enough!
• How deep / broad / careful do you need to be?
9. Keywords
• Really worth a 5 minute brainstorm before you
search – it will save you time later!
• Searching one word for your concept will not bring
you all the results! And sometimes none.
Not everyone uses the same terminology for one
idea
• Can use the library worksheet if you like (also helps
you organise how to combine the terms with ‘AND’
or ‘OR’)
• Examples follow
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10. Planning your search - keywords
Boring but WORTH IT!
1. Pick out your concepts and separate them
– Concentration, performance, tennis etc
2. Think of other words that are similar to your
key words but represent the same concepts
– Attention control, focus, attentional
strategies etc
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11. Planning your search - keywords
3. BE PREPARED
Think of narrower words that fit into your terms and wider
concepts that your terms fit into.
You will often need to:
A. widen your search by using larger terms or concepts to
produce more results
OR
B. OR narrow your search if you produce too many results,
by using narrower terms that fit into your concept
• NOTE: if you narrow or widen ALL your concepts you will
make your life too hard – choose one or two
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12. concentration
What research has
been conducted on
improving
concentration and
performance in
tennis players?
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•
•
•
Concentrat*
Attention
Focus
“Attention control
training”
• “Attentional strategies”
Performance
Specific
egs
• Ways of measuring
performance
• Perform*
• Specific groups of athletes
tennis
• Racquet sports
•Age?
• Type of competition
•Gender?
•Level – elite etc?
13. Over to you...
• Using the worksheet
• Briefly summarise your topic in the first box
• Narrow it down to some key words
• Swap with your neighbour – add some they
haven’t thought of
20. The DEEP web
•Intranets (internal
internet sites)
•Academic databases
•Unlinked sites which
haven’t told Google
they exist, or have
asked to remain unlisted
•Basically, anything that
needs a password
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper
/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/
21. Avoid the filter bubble – sign out of
Google when you search
More about the filter bubble
23. Personalising Google Scholar
• Did you know you can set up Google Scholar to link
to everything you have paid access to through the
University?
• Please follow along and personalise your GS
• Google Scholar > Settings
24. Personalising Google Scholar…
• Click on Library
Links on left hand
side
• Search for and
select Middlesex
University, then
Save
28. Sport Discus
• After a short demo...
• Try searching for some articles on your topic
• Use the ‘check for full text’ links
29. Getting Full text of journal articles
• Troubleshooting guide can be found here
– http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/accessingelectronicresources
• If you’re not lucky! REMEMBER – it won’t always be directly
available to you – especially at MSc level
– Double check the library catalogue by copying journal name into the
‘journal search’. If we have it there’ll be a record and a link with the
dates we have access to.
– Go to Google Scholar and look for PDF signs
– Go to Author’s website/institution’s repository, often they have
uploaded a pre publication version
– Order a copy via the inter-library loan service (£3.00) (usually you’ll be
emailed with a link to a PDF)
http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/resources/ill/index.aspx
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30. Citation indexes
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Which articles have cited an earlier article
Find articles on similar/related subject
How many times an article has been cited
Best journals in your field
33. Staying up to date in your area
• Most of the databases have an option to set
up an account, so you can save searches and
set up alerts or RSS feeds for new articles
35. Staying up to date – citation alerts
• In Science Citation Index
• For articles significant to your work/dissertation – get
an alert when it is cited in new research
36. Zetoc alerts service – get info as it’s
published
• Access through myUniHub > Databases
39. • You can build a list of searches – by keywords or
author
• You can also add searches by journal and be
emailed every time a new issue is published
40. Exercise - Zetoc
• Access through MyUniHub > Databases
• Set up some alerts and add searches relevant
to your modules / topics
• Remember you can add multiple searches for
all of the synonyms to each alert
43. Shows you how to reference just
about any source using Harvard
referencing style
Other referencing styles e.g. APA are
available for the main resource types
Access via MyUniHub / Subject guides
44. Online site to manage references,
subscribed to by the University
Access through the Databases list on
MyUniHub
Generate your references in many
different styles – including journals
Help available on Subject Guides
45. Freely available software
Online and desktop
versions
Store and annotate PDF
files
Available to you after
you’ve left MDX
Share references and notes
with groups
46. Need help?
• Librarians in the Specialist Zone (1st floor of Sheppard
Library) during core hours Mon-Fri
• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/
• SES Library Subject Guide – Jo’s contact details and
presentations/helpsheets
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/sport
Hinweis der Redaktion
Other things included e.g. Books/articles on literature searching/research methods/statsHelp guidesContact detailsS&C guide
S&C: Plyometrics and footballSES etc Hamstring injuries / athlete stress
e.g. Tennis < Racquet sportsConcentration > Self talk
Breaking down concepts, similar terms, narrower terms. The narrower terms come in useful if you are inundated with results. What are my 3 concepts? Where are the synonyms? Where are narrower terms?
Eli PariserDuck Duck GoWolfram for stats etc
Also useful for institutional repositories etc
Which articles have cited an earlier articleie. Way of looking forward in the literature-if have found excellent article, can use a citation index to see which articles have subsequently cited it Find articles on similar/related subjects: Citation implies subject relationship, so can find papers on a similar topic without using any keywords or subject termsFind out how many times a paper has been cited ie. gauge the usefulness/quality. esteem of a paperDetermine which are the best journals in your field: citation data used to rank journals within particular subject areas…..useful way of seeing how journals perform in relation to others in the same subject area
Citation data and journal citation reports available from Web of Science (Knowledge).Have a look on Web of Science:Citation infoJournal Citation Reports