Finding and managing information for your doctorate David Heading Suzie Kitchin Nicola Siminson

Session overview useful databases for Education research importing references into Endnote further sources of research information EndNote Web keeping up-to-date with the literature

Materials on DUO Postgraduate Research Training (new)  Training Programme  Courses  Library Courses

Education journals and databases which journals does Durham subscribe to?  Durham University Library catalogue: All Journals using bibliographic databases to trace (and find) articles  Library web pages: Quick links: –Databases [full A-Z listing] –OR Subject information - Education - Databases

Off-campus access important to access databases via the Library web pages – especially off-campus –see also: Information for… Off-site and Distance Users:

Database examples ERIC (within FirstSearch collection) Web of Knowledge –Web of Science covers Arts and Humanities; Sciences; Social Sciences cited reference searching –searching for articles which have “cited” a particular article since it was published  tracking how research is being taken forward by other researchers –ISI Proceedings - conference proceedings online tutorials available

Further sources of research information (1) theses –database examples: Durham University Library catalogue –need to request Durham theses in advance Index to Theses ProQuest digital dissertations

Further sources of research information (2) “Open Access” E-print archives / institutional repositories –produced on an institutional or subject basis –examples: Durham Research Online (DRO) OAIster OpenDOAR

Further sources of research information (3) Open access journals –DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Using other libraries –plus SCONUL Access: letters of introduction Document Delivery Service (DDS) –  check with your supervisor(s) / Department to see if they fund DDS requests  look out for trial “Copy Service” for part-time / distance researchers (News on Library home page)

Keeping up-to-date (1) Alert services –alerts from Durham University Library catalogue: –Tables of Contents alerting services (TOCs) example: –ZETOC (British Library’s electronic table of contents service)

Keeping up-to-date (2) RSS feeds –general information on RSS feeds: –Library RSS feeds: / /  select: Library RSS feeds including new books by subject

Any questions?

Thank you! Evaluation: Future training session: Referencing, avoiding plagiarism and using Turnitin Wednesday 23 rd July, – 1.30pm Contact us: –Liaison Librarians: –General enquiries: