Finding information: Effective searching, Google Scholar and beyond
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Finding information: Effective searching, Google Scholar and beyond
- 1. Finding Information Effective searching, Google Scholar and beyond James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)
- 2. Session outline - Effective searching - Getting the most from Google Scholar - Other types of information Theses / Newspapers - Library Services for the part-time researcher
- 4. Intelligent Searching - Define your information need - Broaden your search - Narrow your search - Evaluate your results - Make your results work for you
- 5. Re-search
- 6. Broaden your search (1) Alternative terms
- 7. Broaden your search zebra Equus quagga zebra OR Equus quagga
- 8. Broaden your search Changes in terminology : Mental retardation OR Intellectual disability OR Cognitive disability
- 9. Broaden your search (2) Alternative spelling
- 10. Broaden your search Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Pink Sherbert Photography. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/70873497@N02/6935006104/ Donut Doughnut
- 11. Broaden your Search Think about Americanised and Francophone word spellings: ⢠colour or color ⢠centre or center ⢠licence or license ⢠organised or organized
- 12. Broaden your search Style guides: Guardian : al-Qaida Sunday Times : al-Qaeda
- 13. Broaden your search ⢠Broadening your search â Alternative spellings (wildcard searching) â organi?ation will find: organisation and alternative letters organization â labo?r will find: labor and missing letters labour â d?nut will find: donut and multiple missing letters doughnut
- 14. Broaden your search (3) Word stems
- 15. Broaden your search ⢠Broadening your search â Word stems (truncation searching) â negligen* will find: âthe police were accused of negligenceâ âthe police were accused of acting negligentlyâ âthe police were accused of being negligentâ
- 16. Broaden your search ⢠Broadening your search - Summary â Synonyms butterfly OR lepidoptera â Alternative spellings organi?ation labo?r â Word stems negligen* Terminology and symbols vary, depending on which database or catalogue you are using
- 17. Narrow your search (1) Focussing your search
- 18. Narrow your search âcopyrightâ photograph Focussing: copyright AND photograph AND
- 19. Narrow your search (2) Proximity Connectors
- 20. Narrow your search Via Flickr Creative Commons, by the waving cat. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/138657496/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Adding context⌠truth within # reconciliation
- 21. Narrow your search ⢠Narrowing your search â Proximity Truth within 3 reconciliation
- 22. Narrow your search (3) Phrase searching
- 23. Narrow your search ⢠Narrowing your search â Phrase searching âTruth and Reconciliation Commissionâ
- 24. Narrow your search (4) Excluding terms
- 25. Narrow your search ⢠Narrowing your search â Excluding irrelevant results NOT South Africa
- 26. Narrow your search ⢠Broadening your search - Summary â Focussing repository AND open access â Proximity searching negligen* w/5 police â Phrase searching âduty of careâ â Excluding terms property NOT intellectual Terminology and symbols vary, depending on which database or catalogue you are using
- 27. No standard language Truth within 5 words reconciliation Truth w/5 reconciliation Truth /5 reconciliation Truth N5 reconciliation Truth adj5 reconciliation
- 28. Example Examining the impact of crime enacted by teenagers in the inner city
- 30. Example (teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*) AND (crim* OR shoplift* OR âanti-social behavio?râ OR theft) AND (âinner cityâOR urban OR cities OR London)
- 31. (teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*) (âinner cityâOR urban OR cities OR London) (crim* OR shoplift* OR âanti-social behavio?râ OR theft)
- 32. Exercise ⢠From the envelope, arrange some or all of the terms and symbols available to provide an efficient initial search for the topic. ⢠In this exercise... ! = truncation/word stem ? = wildcard w/3 = âwithin 3 words ofâ
- 33. Making your results work for you
- 34. Citation searching & References ⢠Connection in academic debate both backwards (references) and forwards (citations) in time ⢠May be a positive or negative connection to other literature ⢠Give you a quality controlled list of material to consult if you establish the context in which it has been cited
- 35. Article B Article C Book1 Article D Book 2 20102008 20092007 2011 2012 2013 Article G Article E Book4 Article F Book 3 Paper A
- 36. Demo Web of Science - citation searching
- 37. Hands-on ⢠Citation searching o Durham - http://bit.ly/1CBBLrw o Newcastle - http://bit.ly/1INDhwV o Northumbria â http://bit.ly/1R6adCM o Sunderland â o Teesside - http://bit.ly/1dJ3emx
- 38. Part 2 Getting the most from Google & Scholar
- 40. Getting the most out of Google
- 41. Getting the most out of Google
- 42. Getting the most from Google How to search effectively: Tsunami defences assumed âANDâ returns results with both terms Property âintellectual excludes all results that include âintellectualâ Butterfly OR lepidoptera searches for either of your search terms âearly warning systemâ returns results with exact phrase
- 43. Getting the most from Google How to search effectively: intitle:endochronology returns results with term in document title site:.gov.uk only returns results from specific site/domain 1562..1598 returns results within a range of dates/prices/measurements "Pay the * wageâ wildcard to pick out unknown terms in a phrase ~ghosts returns related terms, eg paranormal, haunted
- 44. Google Scholar ⢠Scholarly literature ⢠Articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions ⢠Advanced features Citations, versions, related articles, alerts, set up ConneXions off campus, links to Endnote downloads Google Scholar
- 45. Demo Google Scholar - settings, citations, versions & alerts
- 48. Hands-on Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Š Stuti Sakhalkar. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/ ⢠Link to Google Scholar ⢠Set up preferences ⢠Search using advanced search screen ⢠Explore advanced options e.g. alerts ⢠How does it compare with library databases you use?
- 50. Theses ⢠Theses in the UK ⢠Durham e-Theses - http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/ - http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/theses - https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/ - http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/ - http://tees.openrepository.com/tees/ ⢠Index to Theses ⢠EThOS
- 51. Theses ⢠International Theses ⢠Proquest/Dart/Trove/OAIster http://bit.ly/1FldsiI
- 52. News resources ⢠Both current and historic ⢠Local, Regional, National and International. ⢠Print media and archive film
- 53. Key resources
- 54. Demo Nexis UK - search tips, exporting, international sources
- 55. Additional resources - Times Literary Supplement [1902 - ] - Times Higher Education Supplement [1995- ] - The Economist [1843- ] - JISC Mediahub [ ITN/Reuters archives 1900 - 2007 ] - News on screen [1910- 1983] - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- 56. Key Resources (historic) ⢠Gale News Vault ⢠Times Digital Archive 1785-2006 ⢠British Newspapers 1600-1900 ⢠Eighteenth century journals 1685-1815 ⢠EEBO and ECCO for pamphlets ⢠19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR) ⢠Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ⢠Historic Australian newspapers 1803-1954
- 58. Additional resources - Shen Bao [1872-1949 ] - Ren Min Ri Bao [1946-2011] - Guang ming ri bao [1949-2010 ] - FT historical archive [1888-2010] - Daily Mail historical archive [1896-2004] - (Gale NewsVault)
- 59. Historic News on Microform ⢠Some national and local, e.g. - Sunderland & Durham County Herald 1839-67 ⢠International, e.g. - Kabul Times 1969-79, - Milliyet (Istanbul) 1970-86, - Pravda 1921-1953, - Jerusalem Post 1950-2007
- 60. Hands-on Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Š Stuti Sakhalkar. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackcanvas/2945878325/ ⢠Explore any of the resources identified ⢠Theses - http://bit.ly/1FldsiI ⢠Newspapers ⢠Durham - http://bit.ly/1FldsiI ⢠Northumbria - http://bit.ly/1j3672T ⢠Newcastle - http://bit.ly/1G1sb4c ⢠Sunderland - http://bit.ly/1dJ586A ⢠Teeside - http://bit.ly/1GrIfhY
- 62. Part-time service ⢠Copy services ⢠Postal Loans ⢠Document Delivery Service ⢠Sconul Access Scheme (all) http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/part-time/
- 63. Additional Image Credits [Slide 3] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Stefan. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/3951143570 [Slide 21] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by ShironEuro. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/41893519@N07/4040697914/ [Slide 48] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Alan Cleaver. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11121568@N06/4122176776/ [Slide 46] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by GuidosPortaal. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/38239176@N04/3843484756/ [Slide 36] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Kirsty Andrews. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/47745961@N08/5169765739
Hinweis der Redaktion
- - Now itself perceived as not politically acceptable and being replaced by terms including âintellectual disabilityâ. - Still in use in the United States and by the WHO sometime after the phrase became less commonly used in United Kingdom. - Changes in terminology and spelling especially important when searching historic sources such as newspapers, official publication and pamphlet collections.
- - Many publications have their own terminology and spelling style guide. Will return to alternative spellings in a minuteâŚ
- Using various tools we have just mentioned:- Truncation tool Wildcard Phrase searching
- chain growth, condensation reaction, copolymerisation, plastics, synthetics Polymerisation âpolymer chainsâ Polymers
- You do need to check for each database what search tools are available and how to use them⌠these are just five examples used by some of our key databases which work in roughly the same way.
- Demo 1
- Reason 1 for not typing in a sentence â order and proximity of terms affects search results. Inclusion of unnnecessary words and stopwords could potentially affect results unintentionally.
- [animations on slide] GOOGLE. Shows use of different search tips to narrow down from over 12 million results, to 8 results. Phrase searching: reduces number of results by 90% (25% in June 2013) Additional keywords: Focusses search, reduces by 40% (75% in June 2013) Exclude results: filter out 99% of results Limit to UK academic sites: Filters out 90% of resultsâŚ. Good indicator of range of content covered by Google (note, not perfect as by doing this are filtering out academic blogs, most news coverage etc.) Faceted search: Searching a particular part of a document to add focus. In title of document (in part reliant on authors following web standards).
- [animations on slide] GOOGLE. Shows use of different search tips to narrow down from over 12 million results, to 8 results. Phrase searching: reduces number of results by 90% (25% in June 2013) Additional keywords: Focusses search, reduces by 40% (75% in June 2013) Exclude results: filter out 99% of results Limit to UK academic sites: Filters out 90% of resultsâŚ. Good indicator of range of content covered by Google (note, not perfect as by doing this are filtering out academic blogs, most news coverage etc.) Faceted search: Searching a particular part of a document to add focus. In title of document (in part reliant on authors following web standards).
- AND â the more search terms you include, logically the fewer the number of results as results have to mention all terms. Reason 2 for not typing in a sentence - stop words â Google ignores many terms in searches you might enter, meaning entering a sentence or question is often just a waste of time typing⌠can include: HE, SHE, AT, THE, A, ZERO, DESCRIBED, UPWARDS, LEAST, THIRD (refer to handout). NOT â be careful, may remove results which may have been useful and just happened to mention a term in passing, or in reference to something else OR - broadens your search
- Phrase searching â as seen, can have a significant effect. Doesnât always work (even though Google promote use on their own help pages) but is much better now than was a few years ago Intitle â does rely on authors of web pages coding their site properly, and the term you are searching for being the key focus of the document (and not just one of several focuses) but can massively reduce number of results. Site limitation - I personally find this useful, but if you wish to search different domains/sites I find it easier to run separate searches, especially given different terminology between countries/regions (eg retardation used far more recently in US healthcare terminology than in the UK, whilst homicide is obviously a US term so if limiting to UK sites will be of less use). Synonyms and related terms â useful but difficult to always identify what terms are being searched.
- ADVANCED SEARCHING DEMO: Go to preferences first to make sure fully set up for ConneXions and Endnote. Then display advanced search options (click on down arrow in search box). with all of the words electron with the exact phrase "liquid helium" author: platzman Explain citations, Come back to âversionsâ in subsequent slide Related articles are based on ârelevanceâ and âhow similarâ i.e. use own algorithm which weâre not party too. Maximum number 101 Citation and key word alerts â âalertâ in citation, âalertâ after searching ConneXions works Endnote link â change preferences where necessary
- Demo 2
- Mention surprises you might receive with alerts
- Normal alertâŚ
- Refer to training pages: slides availability, sessions running which can be signed up to etc. Refer to theses pages: guidance on sources and submitting theses (need to cover copyright, embargoes and funder requirements)
- Anywhere searches within the full text of the article, and any attached subject terms, indexing and metadata attached to the article. This is therefore always likely to return the largest number of results. At the start will search for terms in the headline, and in the lead paragraph(s) of the newspaper article. Given the structure of newspaper articles, whereby the first couple of paragraphs outline the content of the article, this is often a useful means of limiting your search. In the headline is as would be expected. Major mentions searches for articles where the entered terms might appear in the headline, lead paragraph or indexing (for example, subject terms the database has attached to the article as being relevant). Point out access point from library website: Services and Sites / Other Online Resources / News Resources Titles range in coverage from 1980s / mid-1990s to present (although some include content from earlier than this for some titles). Lack of context (eg articles exploring different aspect of same topic may be separated) and text only (may lack fact/text boxes accompanying main article, will definitely lack accompanying images and graphics). ⌠but, useful to search multiple titles at once, identify key articles of interest⌠and can then use this information to see if can access articles on publishers own site separately. InfoTrac: Gale CENGAGE Learning: Full-Text Custom Newspaper Database - Coverage for Durham Uni: - Daily Telegraph 11/99 - current - Guardian 1/96 - current - Independent 1/96 - current - Independent on Sunday 1/96 - current - Observer 1/96 - current - Sunday Telegraph 11/99 - current - Sunday Times 1/85 - current - Times 1/85 - current. N.B. â up to previous day, not todays news. Nexis UK - Much larger number of resources (international, regional, local⌠and including present day) - Not just newspapers⌠includes global newswires, business wires etc. So important to select sources carefully before searching. Factiva â explain about separate login. Like Nexis, international content. Not as much UK content if looking at regional and local titles, but still from 545 UK Newspapers. Content from publications in 22 languages. Point out option to search social media.
- Demo 3
- Mention coverage might be across multiple services, so always check the library catalogue (use Times Literary Supplement as an example) TLS: Archive back to 1902 available via the same platform (works in a similar way rather than actually looking the same) as infotrac. TLS, TES and ThES: need different passwords, available from library catalogue screen (not Durham CIS password). Economist: NB â on web page indicates 1997-current only. In fact, we have a full text archive back to 1843 via the same platform (works in a similar way rather than actually looking the same) as infotrac. [screenshot on next hidden slide] JISC Media hub: TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music and includes the contents of Film & Sound Online and Newsfilm online. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. News on film: Documents almost 160,000 individual stories from twenty-two cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, 1910-1983. Mention when you first access, wonât be given immediate access to films. May need to click on âMovietoneâ logo and login/register. Offer to demo for anyone accessing it during hands-on. [screenshot on upcoming hidden slide]
- Times Digital Archive 1785-2006 Scanned pages = see news in context Search by article type Search vacuum cleaner in advertising British Newspapers 1600-1900 Two collections: C17th & 18th; C19th View pages or articles Varying coverage - e.g. Newcastle Journal only one issue but Newcastle Courant over 4000 issues Asks âstop running this scriptâ say no Browse publication by location England NE Newcastle
- Demo 3
- Mention coverage might be across multiple services, so always check the library catalogue (use Times Literary Supplement as an example) TLS: Archive back to 1902 available via the same platform (works in a similar way rather than actually looking the same) as infotrac. TLS, TES and ThES: need different passwords, available from library catalogue screen (not Durham CIS password). Economist: NB â on web page indicates 1997-current only. In fact, we have a full text archive back to 1843 via the same platform (works in a similar way rather than actually looking the same) as infotrac. [screenshot on next hidden slide] JISC Media hub: TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music and includes the contents of Film & Sound Online and Newsfilm online. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. News on film: Documents almost 160,000 individual stories from twenty-two cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, 1910-1983. Mention when you first access, wonât be given immediate access to films. May need to click on âMovietoneâ logo and login/register. Offer to demo for anyone accessing it during hands-on. [screenshot on upcoming hidden slide]
- For those of you who have used, want to use or excited to use⌠[demo offered at end of session]
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/5917135851