starting out as a researcher 2017
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Starting out in Higher Degree Research
Beth Crawter
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This Session Will Cover
• Starting Research• Information Sources– Libguides– Databases
• Endnote• Document Delivery• Current Awareness
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Starting Research
• Develop and Analyse your Topic
• Develop a Plan
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Meet your Liaison Librarian
Shan Courtney
Karen
Roger
Sue Brenda https://www.usc.edu.au/library/library-help/liaison-librarians
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Important Tools
•Online QDA: learning qualitative data analysis on the
Web • From the University of
Huddersfield, UK. Online support which defines different methods of qualitative data analysis and provides instruction in the use of selected software.
Sage Research Methods Online
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•Endnote
•Endnote (online version)
•Finding suitable journals
•Publish Your Research, Measure Its Impact
•Research Data Management
•Research Metrics
•Researcher Identifiers and your Online Research Profile
•Resources For Researchers
•Systematic Reviews
Help Guides for researchers
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Search Strategies
• Choose good quality search resources
• Use Advanced Search Techniques
• Keep a record of your search history and terms• Use references, “cited by” and similar
documents suggestions on the databases pages
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Library catalogue• Books, journal titles,
video
Databases• Indexes• Full Text
Discover• Everything -
Books, journal articles, journal titles, video **sometimes too much
Choose where you search options
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Is this journal refereed / peer reviewed?
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Searching for quality journal articles
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The Databases Researchers Use – Citation Indexes – start with these databases which have many full-text articles and also act like an INDEXthen link out to the full text if you need to
• Scopus • Web of Science • Google Scholar• PubMed
these databases link into …….
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….Full Text SourcesMany only cover articles from one publisherArticles usually (but not always) available
• Emerald• Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins: LWW • Oxford University Press (OUP) Journals• Taylor and Francis Journals (via Informaworld)• ScienceDirect (all journals included in Scopus)• SpringerLink• Wiley • Directory of Open Access Journals• Cochrane Library
…and many more
Use the citation indexes to maximise your searching opportunities
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Theses Resources
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
• Trove (National Library Australia)– www.nla.gov.au
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - www.ndltd.org
Find out what other people are doing, when their work isn’t necessarily published anywhere else. Look at the references and sources hey have used to kick off your own research.
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Manage your Research
Have a plan
Use Endnote from the start
Keep a record of your searches – the terms you used, where you searched
Give your files meaningful names
Learn the language of your discipline and your topic
Know what “quality” is
Make your ethics as flexible as possible so you aren’t locked down for further research and collaborations
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BACK UBACK UP
YOUR WORK BACK UP EVERYTHING YOU DO
P EVERYTHING YOU DO
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Where are you going to put your research?
• Secure, safe, resilient storage (not Dropbox, usb drives, your laptop, your pc)
• Confidentiality, legal – the promises you make
• Size – are you creating big files like images or videos?
• Back-ups for your digital data• Plan ahead – your data is your career
http://libguides.usc.edu.au/researchdata
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Services you can should use
» Your Faculty Librarian – meet up with him or her early!!
» Document Delivery for material you know exists but we don’t own
» ENDNOTE – training and help (and rescue)
» Current awareness services and alerts
» Data storage space (check out the Research Data Management Library Guide)
» Help in finding good quality journals – to use and to publish in
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Document Delivery
• For books and journal articles not held by our Library
• Fill in the Student Document Delivery/Inter Library Loan Request Form
• http://www.usc.edu.au/university/Library/Services/Forms/DocumentDeliveryRequestForm.htm
• We’ll get it for you from another Library (free)
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Current Awareness and Alerting Services
• Keep up-to-date with progress in the field
• Services to send you newly published material that relates to your topic
• Save previous searches
• Scopus and Web of Science provide good current awareness updates. You need to register.
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