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Finding and managing information for your part-time or distance PhD (including Endnote) Laura Jeffrey and David Heading
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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
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Online support www.dur.ac.uk/library Catalogue and library record Information for … – Off site and Distance Users – Researchers Subject pages www.dur.ac.uk/its and itservicedesk@dur.ac.uk www.dur.ac.uk/its itservicedesk@dur.ac.uk
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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
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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
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Access to printed material Catalogues – Durham University – COPAC Access – DDS – Copy service – SCONUL Access – Other UK Research libraries British Library
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Online resources Databases – Journals – Conference proceedings – Theses – News – Primary resources Off site access eresource.enquiry@dur.ac.uk
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Keeping up to date Saved searches Alert services – Content: Acquisitions, Citation, Search terms or Tables of Contents (ToCs) – Format: email or RSS
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Contacts Endnote – contact David via the IT Servicedesk itservicedesk@durham.ac.uk Library – Laura Jeffrey l.k.s.jeffrey@durham.ac.ukl.k.s.jeffrey@durham.ac.uk – contact your liaison librarian via your subject page http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/
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