Finding and managing information for your part-time or distance PhD (including Endnote) Laura Jeffrey and David Heading

Session overview Durham University Library web pages Search strategies Library catalogues Accessing other libraries Using bibliographic databases to find journal articles Keeping up to date Endnote – reference management software

Online support Catalogue and library record Information for … – Off site and Distance Users – Researchers Subject pages and

Search strategies Important to plan your searches Consider – Synonyms survey OR questionnaire – Alternative spellings behavio?r – Word stems educat* Combine search terms “”, AND, OR, NOT, () Database led limiting – Year, language, resource type

Examining the impact of teenage crime in the inner city “inner city” cit* London Leeds teen* youth juvenile adolescen* crim* shoplift* “anti-social behavio?r” theft AND OR

Access to printed material Catalogues – Durham University – COPAC Access – DDS – Copy service – SCONUL Access – Other UK Research libraries British Library

Online resources Databases – Journals – Conference proceedings – Theses – News – Primary resources Off site access

Keeping up to date Saved searches Alert services – Content: Acquisitions, Citation, Search terms or Tables of Contents (ToCs) – Format: or RSS

Contacts Endnote – contact David via the IT Servicedesk Library – Laura Jeffrey – contact your liaison librarian via your subject page

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