Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography Magnus Olsson, Umeå University library Phone: Web page:

Today you´re going to learn more about… Evaluation of information Scholarly articles and journals Search strategies Libris Leisure tourism and Academic search elite Google scholar Zotero

Guidelines for evaluating information Author Subject and tendency Purpose and target group Currency Edition Publisher References

How do I determine if an article is scholarly (”scientific”) or not? Who has written the article? Where is the article published? Has the article been peer-reviewed?

Elements of a peer reviewed original article Introduction Methods and material Results And Discussion

Sources Encyclopedias/dictionaries Books Libris Articles (databases) Leisure tourism Academic search elite (choice of database depending on subject) Internet Google scholar

Search strategies in databases What words should I use when searching? How do I expand my search? How do I limit my search? How do I search using keywords?

Keywords Descriptors, subject words, key words, A-Z, Index etc. ”Tags”

Libris Contains references to books from all Swedish university libraries Related articles English or swedish keywords

Leisure tourism “Access to over 70,000 research abstracts from the last 30 years of research with 400 publications abstracted every year.” 1974-

Academic search elite “general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.” Peer-review Thesaurus

Google scholar Introduced november 2004 Specialises in academic material on the internet Everything in GS is not scholarly Advanced search Use english terms when you are searching

Access to databases, e-books and e-journals off-campus

What is Zotero? Zotero is a freely available reference management system which helps you to sort and arrange your references. It will help you to: import references from various databases into one place keep track of your references spell correctly create references and a reference list in your Word document adapt the layout of the references in accordance with different reference systems

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