1. Your Library Services: Resources for Academic Success Jo Gardner, Bodleian Social Science Librarian John Southall, Bodleian Data Librarian and Subject Consultant
Introduce self, welcome to Oxford/back to Oxford
Main presentation themes:
1) Library services in Oxford
2) Usernames and passwords you need
3) SOLO – library catalogue
4) Beyond SOLO – clear research question, identify databases
5) Guides and workshops to help you

2. The Bodleian Libraries offer:
29 libraries including
The Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Camera, Social Science Library, Law Library, Education Library, Philosophy & Theology Faculties Library, Radcliffe Science Library and more…
Over 80,000 ejournals, 850,000 ebooks
More than 12 million print volumes
1,000 items added daily to the collections
3,800 study spaces
600 PCs and 3 wireless networks
Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include the famous  Bodleian Library plus 28 other libraries across Oxford including major faculty, department and institute libraries.
Every second someone accesses our electronic collections. Every 14 seconds someone visits one of our libraries. Every 21 seconds someone borrows one of our books.

3. Legal Deposit College Libraries LEGAL DEPOSIT:
Bodleian has been a library of Legal Deposit for 400 years
One of the 6 Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK
Legal Deposit has existed in English law since 1662, and it ensures that the nation’s published output is collected systematically and made available.
Means that all UK publishers are legally required to deposit all of their publications in these libraries.
Legal Deposit items (books and journals) CANNOT BE BORROWED, but they are available or can be ordered to most of the Bodleian Libraries including the Social Science Library
Since April 2013 we have been receiving electronic items such as ejournals via Legal Deposit - only available on Bodleian Libraries PCs.
COLLEGE LIBRARIES:
Each of the Oxford Colleges has its own library – generally for the use of College members only
ONE EXCEPTION = Nuffield College Library, which is open to all graduates at the University.

4. Connecting to Library services
Single Sign On
Bodleian-Libraries

5. Single Sign On Issued to you by University IT Services
Log onto SOLO (library catalogue)
Access online resources off-campus
SSO – issued to you by the University IT Services.
You use it for lots of things, including logging into your University , accessing library e-resources when you’re outside the University network and to log into SOLO.
SOLO – library catalogue, easy to find.
Remote Access Account – register for this on the IT Services website, and install software on your device. This means that the device thinks it is on the University network.
Now to passwords. You will all have now received your single sign on which is the username and password used for . This is always in the format abcd You will need this to login to SOLO, MyAccount to access eresources off site.

6. Bodleian-Libraries Your username is the
7-digit number on your University Card.
Your default password is your DOB (e.g. 01JAN1990).
For accessing Bodleian Libraries PCs
Bodleian-Libraries wifi PCAS [Print, Copy and Scan]
Bodleian Password – to log onto all library PCS and to connect to Bodleian-Libraries WIFI, also to log into all library PCs
USERNAME = 7-digit number on your University Card
PASSWORD = date of birth in format
STRONGLY advised to reset password – go to
WIFI – you can use Eduroam wifi in libraries. However if you are using Eduroam you will need to log into Library e-resources with your Single Sign On.

7. The Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL)
Opening hours in
Term (Weeks 0-9)
Mon – Fri 09:00 – 22:00
Saturday 10: :00
Sunday 11:00 – 19:00
SSL – your main library service on the ground floor, supports all departments and centres located in the Manor Road Building
You are ALREADY REGISTERED to use the library – just swipe your University Card to access
More than 200,000 books all together, plus journals, Discussion and Working Papers, pamphlets, statistics.
OPENING HOURS- long, 7 days a week
No food and drink in the library, bottled water is allowed.

8. SSL Services and Help SSL Services
- Lending (up to 30 books, normal loans 7 days, short loans 2 days, up to 7 renewals, fines 20p or £1 a day ) - Self-Issue machines - Bodleian stack requests Enquiry services & friendly staff - Graduate study rooms - Study carrels - Book discussion rooms - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Borrow equipment (Nooks, laptop locks, ethernet cables etc.) - Buy stationery Free spiral binding - Subject Consultant appointments - Training courses
SSL Services
- Lending and enquiry services - stack requests
- Study carrels - Discussion rooms study spaces
- Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning
- Subject Consultant appointments
- Efficient and friendly staff
The SSL is the busiest lending library in Oxford.
As graduates you can borrow up to 30 books with standard loans being 1 week and short loans two days. You can renew up to seven times unless another reader has requested your books.
Some books are confined to the library for reference use only. These have yellow stickers on the spine.
Subject Consultants – make appointment for 1-to-1 advice.

9. SSL House Rules

10. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Search for Books and E-books
Journals and E-journals
Grey literature
Digital collections
Request
SSL books out on loan
Books in ‘Closed Stack’
Manage your account
Renewals
View fines Save and export references
SOLO:
Best starting point for searching for everything in the Oxford libraries – Bodleian Libraries and college libraries, print and online -Google “SOLO Oxford” first, save time later on
Log in here (with your SSO) to request books and journals
Log in here to manage your account (e.g. see how many books you have, and renew).
SOLO LIVE HELP: If you have any problems searching or questions there is a live chat box on the front Instant response, staffed 9-5 Mon-Fri.

11. Common search problems
I’ve searched SOLO but I can’t find any relevant publications
I get too many ‘hits’ when I search online
I need to find different kinds of information (journal articles, newspaper articles, data) and I don’t know where to start

12. Stay focused, keep a search log
Beyond SOLO
Reference ‘chasing’
You know relevant books and papers already
Ask people
Recommendations are a good start
Not comprehensive
Google / Google Scholar
Arguably the largest ‘database’
Secret recipe search syntax – hard to replicate
The Systematic Approach
a) Plan your search, list your search words
b) Identify relevant databases and websites
c) Manage your references
Stay focused, keep a search log

13. Search question: Main concepts
Plan your search: Create a question
Search question: Main concepts
Do improved skills in
information literacy increase the academic achievement of
university students?

14. Plan your search: Keywords and synonyms
Information Literacy
Academic achievement
University students
Information skills
Academic success
Undergraduates
Search skills
Academic assessment
Postgraduates
Bibliographic instruction
Academic result
Graduate students
User education
Academic standard
MSc students
Educational achievement
PhD students
Educational assessment
DPhil students
Educational result
Educational standard

15. Plan your search: CommandsOR
Information skills or search skills
BROADENS SEARCH
AND
Information skills and academic success
NARROWS SEARCH

16. Plan your search: More commands
Truncation and wildcards
e.g. feminis*, wom?n
Search for a phrase by using quote marks
e.g. “graduate students”
Parentheses
e.g. (academic OR educational) AND achievement
Limit to particular fields
e.g. title, abstract, keywords
Apply search filters
e.g. date, format

17. Research Question: Search string
Search 1: information literacy
“information literacy” OR “information skills” OR “search* skills” OR “bibliographic instruction” OR “user educat*”
Search 2: academic achievement
academic AND (achiev* OR success* OR assess* OR result* OR standard*)
Search 3: university students
“university student*” OR undergraduate* OR postgraduate* OR graduate*
Final Search: Search 1 AND Search 2 AND Search 3

18. Research Question: Applied to a database
ASSIA

19. Find relevant databases

20. Find other sources for Internet Studies

21. Find relevant sources for data

22. Choosing your reference manager
What is important to you?
Exporting/importing references from databases
Cost
Integration with word processors
PDF management
Cross-platform support (Mac, Windows, mobile)
Online storage and syncing
Sharing and social networking
So what things should you consider?
[Talk to slide]

23. Choosing your reference manager
Further information
Choosing your reference manager
Reference management LibGuide
Bodleian Libraries RefWorks updates
Bodleian Libraries EndNote updates
Links

24. Workshops for postgraduates & researchers Topics covered:
Workshops for postgraduates & researchers
Topics covered:
Finding scholarly materials
Reference management (Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley)
Measuring research impact
Copyright and intellectual property
Open access publishing
Managing research data

25. Further training

26. Any questions? jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk