Virology: Investigating ResearchLaksamee PutnamResearch & Instruction Librarianlputnam@towson.edu

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First… Laksamee Putnam lputnam@towson.edu Cook Library Reference:

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Phone: 410.704.3746. Twitter: @CookLibraryofTU Albert S. Cook facebook profile! Slides: http://bit.ly/spring2014BIOL428slides

On the side … Women’s History Month

National Library of Medicine – Yellow Paper exhibit 3rd Floor

Blood Will Out: Women, Kinship, and Popular Medicine, 1750-1860 Book discussion on

Aristotle's Masterpiece CK 507 Wed, March 12th 12:30-

1:30PM

Agenda Plagiarism reading discussion Investigating Journals Investigating Articles For your future research

Plagiarism Using someone’s ideas or expression

of those ideas (words, pictures, music, etc)

Without giving proper credit

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/09/12/copy-cat/

It’s out there, why not reuse it?• Gladstone, K. (2013) Plagiarism:

Maybe it’s not so bad. On the media podcast. Retrieved from: http://wny.cc/1dNVisf

• Godin, S. (2014, Feb 3) Why I want you to steal my ideas. TED Blog. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/1oNRm3Z

• Knox, R. (2013) Some online journals will publish science, for a fee. NPR Morning Edition. Retrieved from: http://n.pr/MwuB5P

What’s more important, to create new ideas or to point to a useful idea?

Intellectual property is a big business, what changes would need to take place in order to make it ok to “steal” ideas? Or should that happen at all?

Critique the “open access sting” operation. Did it work, were there problems with the study?

Investigating Journals Small groups will investigate author

submission requirements for their assigned journal Start here: http://www.journalguide.com/

Use the worksheet as a guideline

Small groups will report/discuss their findings in 15 minutes

Investigating Journals Journal of Virology

Virology

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Investigating Articles Does the library subscribe to your

journal?

Download a research article published in 2011 from your journal

Investigating Articles Does your article follow the structure

guidelines required by the journal?

How many references does your article list?

Investigating Articles Find you article in Google Scholar

Find your article in Scopus

How many times has your article been cited?

For your future research Consider where your information is

coming from even when searching library databases

Cite your sources

If we have time… Please provide feedback on the session:

http://bit.ly/sp2014virologyfeedback

My favorite TED Talk http://youtu.be/0snNB1yS3IE

Questions? Laksamee Putnam lputnam@towson.edu Cook Library Reference:

410.704.2462. IM/email

Phone: 410.704.3746.