Your Library Services: Resources for Academic Success Jo Gardner, Bodleian Social Science Librarian John Southall, Bodleian Data Librarian and Subject Consultant Introduce self, welcome to Oxford/back to Oxford Main presentation themes: 1) Library services in Oxford 2) Usernames and passwords you need 3) SOLO – library catalogue 4) Beyond SOLO – clear research question, identify databases 5) Guides and workshops to help you

The Bodleian Libraries offer: 29 libraries including The Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera, Social Science Library, Law Library, Education Library, Philosophy & Theology Faculties Library, Radcliffe Science Library and more… www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries Over 80,000 ejournals, 850,000 ebooks More than 12 million print volumes 1,000 items added daily to the collections 3,800 study spaces 600 PCs and 3 wireless networks Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include the famous  Bodleian Library plus 28 other libraries across Oxford including major faculty, department and institute libraries. Every second someone accesses our electronic collections. Every 14 seconds someone visits one of our libraries. Every 21 seconds someone borrows one of our books.

Legal Deposit College Libraries LEGAL DEPOSIT: Bodleian has been a library of Legal Deposit for 400 years One of the 6 Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK Legal Deposit has existed in English law since 1662, and it ensures that the nation’s published output is collected systematically and made available. Means that all UK publishers are legally required to deposit all of their publications in these libraries. Legal Deposit items (books and journals) CANNOT BE BORROWED, but they are available or can be ordered to most of the Bodleian Libraries including the Social Science Library Since April 2013 we have been receiving electronic items such as ejournals via Legal Deposit - only available on Bodleian Libraries PCs. COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Each of the Oxford Colleges has its own library – generally for the use of College members only ONE EXCEPTION = Nuffield College Library, which is open to all graduates at the University.

Connecting to Library services Single Sign On Bodleian-Libraries

Single Sign On Issued to you by University IT Services Log onto SOLO (library catalogue) Access online resources off-campus SSO – issued to you by the University IT Services. You use it for lots of things, including logging into your University email, accessing library e-resources when you’re outside the University network and to log into SOLO. SOLO – library catalogue, easy to find. Remote Access Account – register for this on the IT Services website, and install software on your device. This means that the device thinks it is on the University network. Now to passwords. You will all have now received your single sign on which is the username and password used for email. This is always in the format abcd1234. You will need this to login to SOLO, MyAccount to access eresources off site.

Bodleian-Libraries Your username is the 7-digit number on your University Card. Your default password is your DOB (e.g. 01JAN1990). For accessing Bodleian Libraries PCs Bodleian-Libraries wifi PCAS [Print, Copy and Scan] Bodleian Password – to log onto all library PCS and to connect to Bodleian-Libraries WIFI, also to log into all library PCs USERNAME = 7-digit number on your University Card PASSWORD = date of birth in format STRONGLY advised to reset password – go to https://register.bodleian.ox.ac.uk WIFI – you can use Eduroam wifi in libraries. However if you are using Eduroam you will need to log into Library e-resources with your Single Sign On.

The Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL) Opening hours in Term (Weeks 0-9) Mon – Fri 09:00 – 22:00 Saturday 10:00 - 18:00 Sunday 11:00 – 19:00 SSL – your main library service on the ground floor, supports all departments and centres located in the Manor Road Building You are ALREADY REGISTERED to use the library – just swipe your University Card to access More than 200,000 books all together, plus journals, Discussion and Working Papers, pamphlets, statistics. OPENING HOURS- long, 7 days a week No food and drink in the library, bottled water is allowed. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ssl

SSL Services and Help SSL Services - Lending (up to 30 books, normal loans 7 days, short loans 2 days, up to 7 renewals, fines 20p or £1 a day ) - Self-Issue machines - Bodleian stack requests - Enquiry services & friendly staff - Graduate study rooms - Study carrels - Book discussion rooms - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Borrow equipment (Nooks, laptop locks, ethernet cables etc.) - Buy stationery - Free spiral binding - Subject Consultant appointments - Training courses SSL Services - Lending and enquiry services - stack requests - Study carrels - Discussion rooms - 400 study spaces - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Subject Consultant appointments - Efficient and friendly staff The SSL is the busiest lending library in Oxford. As graduates you can borrow up to 30 books with standard loans being 1 week and short loans two days. You can renew up to seven times unless another reader has requested your books. Some books are confined to the library for reference use only. These have yellow stickers on the spine. Subject Consultants – make appointment for 1-to-1 advice.

SSL House Rules

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Search for Books and E-books Journals and E-journals Grey literature Digital collections Request SSL books out on loan Books in ‘Closed Stack’ Manage your account Renewals View fines Save and export references http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk SOLO: Best starting point for searching for everything in the Oxford libraries – Bodleian Libraries and college libraries, print and online -Google “SOLO Oxford” first, save time later on Log in here (with your SSO) to request books and journals Log in here to manage your account (e.g. see how many books you have, and renew). SOLO LIVE HELP: If you have any problems searching or questions there is a live chat box on the front Instant response, staffed 9-5 Mon-Fri.

Common search problems I’ve searched SOLO but I can’t find any relevant publications I get too many ‘hits’ when I search online I need to find different kinds of information (journal articles, newspaper articles, data) and I don’t know where to start

Stay focused, keep a search log Beyond SOLO Reference ‘chasing’ You know relevant books and papers already Ask people Recommendations are a good start Not comprehensive Google / Google Scholar Arguably the largest ‘database’ Secret recipe search syntax – hard to replicate The Systematic Approach a) Plan your search, list your search words b) Identify relevant databases and websites c) Manage your references Stay focused, keep a search log

Search question: Main concepts Plan your search: Create a question Search question: Main concepts Do improved skills in information literacy increase the academic achievement of university students?

Plan your search: Keywords and synonyms Information Literacy Academic achievement University students Information skills Academic success Undergraduates Search skills Academic assessment Postgraduates Bibliographic instruction Academic result Graduate students User education Academic standard MSc students Educational achievement PhD students Educational assessment DPhil students Educational result Educational standard

Plan your search: Commands OR Information skills or search skills BROADENS SEARCH AND Information skills and academic success NARROWS SEARCH

Plan your search: More commands Truncation and wildcards e.g. feminis*, wom?n Search for a phrase by using quote marks e.g. “graduate students” Parentheses e.g. (academic OR educational) AND achievement Limit to particular fields e.g. title, abstract, keywords Apply search filters e.g. date, format

Research Question: Search string Search 1: information literacy “information literacy” OR “information skills” OR “search* skills” OR “bibliographic instruction” OR “user educat*” Search 2: academic achievement academic AND (achiev* OR success* OR assess* OR result* OR standard*) Search 3: university students “university student*” OR undergraduate* OR postgraduate* OR graduate* Final Search: Search 1 AND Search 2 AND Search 3

Research Question: Applied to a database ASSIA

Find relevant databases http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Find other sources for Internet Studies http://ox.libguides.com

Find relevant sources for data www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/data

Choosing your reference manager What is important to you? Exporting/importing references from databases Cost Integration with word processors PDF management Cross-platform support (Mac, Windows, mobile) Online storage and syncing Sharing and social networking £ So what things should you consider? [Talk to slide]

Choosing your reference manager Further information Choosing your reference manager Reference management LibGuide http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/reference-management Bodleian Libraries RefWorks updates http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/finding-resources/refworks Bodleian Libraries EndNote updates http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sers/resources/endnote Links

Workshops for postgraduates & researchers Topics covered: http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshops Workshops for postgraduates & researchers Topics covered: Finding scholarly materials Reference management (Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley) Measuring research impact Copyright and intellectual property Open access publishing Managing research data

Further training http://researchtraining.socsci.ox.ac.uk

Any questions? jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk john.southall@bodleian.ox.ac.uk