1. Getting started with academic information
September 10, 2018
Getting started with academic information
Emma Coonan
Information Skills Librarian
Accompanying materials:
* Info management handout
* Library flyer
* IT Services booklet
* Timer/bell
* Sign-in form
* Feedback poster + post-its

2. Image credit: William Warby, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
September 10, 2018
Your encounter with academic information, with knowledge, is a bit like playing a board game: you start from a clearly defined space and then work your way out, travelling further and further away from that starting point as you go deeper and deeper into an understanding of your subject.
This session will map out the starting point and will also tell you the places you’re likely to be exploring next, and give you some tips to help along the way.
Image credit: William Warby, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0

3. Taming Google for academic study RefME Expert help and advice
September 10, 2018
5 things to know about
Reading Online
Library Search
Taming Google for academic study
RefME
Expert help and advice

4. How will you manage your time?
September 10, 2018
2 things to talk about
How will you manage your time?
How will you stay on top of your reading?

5. Start here: Reading Online
September 10, 2018
Start here: Reading Online
Has anyone used this? Can you say what it is/does?
Over 70% of UEA undergraduate reading lists have been loaded into Reading Online, our reading list software. It makes life quicker and easier for you by bringing all your core reading for your modules together and letting you click straight through to it in digital form.
Ask a participant to say how to navigate through to Reading Online and try to find a relevant reading list
Get to it: from the ‘Learn’ page, or from the Library home page, linked on right.

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On Reading Online you’ll see material in categories like ‘core texts’, ‘desirable’, ‘other useful texts’ and ‘background reading’.

7. Explore your subject: Library Search
September 10, 2018
Explore your subject: Library Search
Has anyone used this? Can you say what it is/does?

8. Explore your subject: Library Search
September 10, 2018
Explore your subject: Library Search
Get to it: from the ‘Learn’ page, or from the Library home page, linked up at the top right; or just Google for it : )
What is it?
- a catalogue of everything we have in the library – both physical, printed stuff and digital
- it’s like a walled garden of organised, carefully chosen material that’s been bought by UEA
- it doesn’t contain everything out there, just like the library doesn’t contain every book ever written: just a slice, not the whole pie.
Has anyone used Library Search yet? Can you remember what you looked up? Let’s try it again.

9. Tracking things down in the Library
September 10, 2018
Tracking things down in the Library
[Brandish Library flyer]

10. Use PrintPlus to print, copy and scan
Print, copy, scan …
Use PrintPlus to print, copy and scan
Scan your campus card to collect and pay
Use ‘web print’ to send from your laptop - stays in queue for 2 hours
Add credit at the floor 0 pay station or top up online:

11. How will you stay on top of your reading?
September 10, 2018
How will you stay on top of your reading?
Divide into groups and share your ideas and strategies.

12. Further afield: Taming Google
September 10, 2018
Further afield: Taming Google
Here are 3 ways of making Google work harder for you and help you find academic information

13. Taming Google for academic study
See the most current results
The joys of Google Scholar
See links to full-text journal articles

14. If you find a lot of older material in your searches, customise the setting under ‘Search tools’.

15. No ‘Google doodle’ – but Scholar brings back results ONLY from academic journals and books.
In that respect it’s like Library Search, but …
Do you already know what the difference is? Or can you guess?

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… it’s not just looking at the material that UEA has chosen and paid for: it’s finding a much bigger piece of the pie. Including things that we DON’T have access to.

17. September 10, 2018
But you CAN make it show you what UEA has access to, and get to that stuff quickly and easily. Here’s how …

18. September 10, 2018
But you CAN make it show you what UEA has access to, and get to that stuff quickly and easily. Here’s how …

19. September 10, 2018
As if by magic – clicking on the links on the right-hand side will connect you with the full article, where we have a subscription to it.

20. Keep track of what you find: RefME
September 10, 2018
Keep track of what you find: RefME
Video demo:

21. Keep track of what you find: RefME
September 10, 2018
Keep track of what you find: RefME
Video demo:

22. Keep track of what you find: RefME
September 10, 2018
Keep track of what you find: RefME
RefME is FREE
Download the app
Sign up to the website with Facebook, Google or (doesn’t have to be your UEA )

23. How will you manage your time?
September 10, 2018
How will you manage your time?
Divide into groups and share your ideas and strategies.

24. September 10, 2018
Useful handout with tips for reading, notemaking and file management – all of which should help save you time and keep you on top of the task of managing your academic info!

25. Expert help and advice: Librarians
September 10, 2018
Expert help and advice: Librarians
Dr Liz Clarke: SCI
Rachel Henderson: SCI & Research
Sarah Elsegood: HUM
For in-depth queries, track down your subject librarian on Floor 1 – or just start with the online subject guides.
Carly Sharples: SSF
William Jones: HSC
portal.uea.ac.uk/library/subject-guides

26. Expert help and advice: Learning Enhancement
Learning Enhancement Team (Dean of Students’ Office)
portal.uea.ac.uk/dos

27. 5 things to know about Reading Online Library Search Taming Google
September 10, 2018
5 things to know about
Reading Online
Library Search
Taming Google
RefME
Expert help and advice

28. Image credit: Francodavi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
September 10, 2018
Evaluation
Image credit: Francodavi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

29. UEA Information Skills
portal.uea.ac.uk/library/information-skills