Research and Design Team Project Use it! Research and Design Team Project (MAT7400) School of Engineering and Material Sciences

Learning Outcomes After this session you will: Have a greater understanding of why evaluating information is essential Understand why you would want to use reference management tools Have a greater understanding of how you will work together as your group http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Seven Pillars of Research Identify Scope Plan Gather Evaluate Manage Present Identify Scope Plan Gather Evaluate Manage Present Identify: Know that you need to do a search Scope: Finding out what you don’t know Plan: Identify your search question, choose search tools and then pick keywords Evaluate, manage and present we will cover in this lesson… but let’s look back what we learned last year! http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Defining your topic

Clarify within your group! Allow 5-10 mins. What is your topic?

Choosing a database http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Choosing the right keywords Report on the force-extension behaviour of a polymer Report on the force-extension behaviour of a polymer http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR RESULTS Jack begins TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR RESULTS http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

What to do if you only get a few results? Include all possible synonyms. Use a thesaurus to find alternative terms that describe the subject you are researching   Use broader search terms http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

What to do if you only get a few results? Spelling – If you are using a US database you may need to use either US spelling or wildcards such as ? to replace the letter that is different in each spelling. E.g. to search a US database for organisations you could use the US spelling organizations or type organi?ations into the search box Snowballing – If you find one relevant reference you can use it to help you find others. Check the references and bibliography at the end of the article for related works Truncation – E.g. microscop* http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

What to do if you get too many results? Build a more specific search using additional search terms linked with AND between each term E.g. if you wanted to find references about cancer immunotherapy especially concerned with cytokine therapies, type cancer AND immunotherapy AND cytokine http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

What to do if you get too many results? Exclude irrelevant subjects by typing NOT before the term you wish to exclude E.g.: if you wished to find references about cancer immunotherapy, but not those about cytokine therapies, you might use immunotherapy NOT cytokine http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

What to do if you get too many results? Use the search fields to limit your results by date range. E.g. if you were looking for the very latest research on a particular subject you could type 2010-2014 in the date field of the search options   Limit your search to particular fields, e.g. enter your search terms in the title field of the search options Jack ends http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Discuss within your group! Allow 5-10 mins. How will you go about finding your information?

EVALUATING SOURCES

Explore within your group! Allow 5-10 mins. How would you judge if a text is of high-quality?

5 basic questions WHO WHAT WHY WHEN RELEVANCE Who wrote the text you are reading? Can you determine the author's credentials? WHO What is it? Is it a journal article or perhaps a passage from an e-book, or does it come from a company report, a tweet or a newspaper article? WHAT Why was this text written? Consider the motives of the author – are they trying to persuade, to demonstrate or prove something? WHY When was it written? It is not always the case that the most recently published information is the best so think carefully about this. WHEN Relevant to your own work? RELEVANCE I work with academic colleagues and other staff teams in the Library to ensure that research is appropriately supported – by developing the Library's print and electronic collections of books, journals, databases and audio-visual materials http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Tools for evaluating Within Academic research, there are tools for you to use to give more context to who wrote a text and in which journals you are likely to find high-quality articles. These measurements are called H-factor and Journal Impact. http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

H-index H-index was created by J.E. Hirsch to measure a scientist’s/researcher’s whole body of work. It put into correlation the amount of articles the scientist has published with how many times these articles have been cited. NOV 2015 http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Journal Impact Journal impact was first created for libraries to choose good material for purchase. It was important with shrinking or stagnant budgets and an ever growing field to have the journals which would benefit the most amount of users. NOV 2015 http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Journal Impact Journal impact captures how many times articles from the journal has been cited. As we established with H-index one statistical way of showing someone’s success rate is to see how much they have been cited. This is also true when it comes to journals. NOV 2015 http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Research materials are usually designed for single use Talking about copyright etc. Dichotomy between copyright and the collaborative nature of modern research. How will you share your material…

Reference Management Collect and organize references Import references and related PDFs directly from databases Insert citations and bibliographies into Word documents http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Desktop version free on networked computers Need to pay if you want it on your own computer Desktop version free on networked computers Need to pay if you want it on your own computer Cite while you write More functionality Some add-ins are only possible to access through the online version. On-the-go version http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Endnote: A hands-on exploration http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Collaboration in There are different ways of collaborate in Endnote. 1. Sharing groups (only references no attachments) 2. Sharing libraries (only works on Endnote Desktop x7.2+ for everyone but the primary owner of the library who can access the library with all his/her account) 3. Sharing an account (not recommended as you might end up with many duplicates and loose changes) http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Links to Endnote Sharing library: http://endnote.com/product-details/library-sharing Sharing groups: http://community.thomsonreuters.com/ts/attachments/ts/en-training/110/1/EndNote%20Collaboration.pdf http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Collaboration in Mendeley is popular for its collaboration options However you will need to pay if you are more than three members in your group http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Collaboration in In Knovel you can share folders where you can save and share all material you find in Knovel However, it is only possible to include material from Knovel and for this project you will most likely want to include other sources as well http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

Discuss within your group! 10 mins discussion, 5-10 minutes feedback How will you keep track of your material?

Discuss within your group! Allow 10 mins discussion – 5-10mins feedback. How will we do the reading?

Discuss within your group! Allow 10 mins discussion, 5-10 mins feedback. How will we present the outcome?

Discuss within your group! How will we present the outcome? http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk

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