1. Advanced Research Skills : Environmental Change & Management Autumn 2012 Sue Bird Bodleian Subject Librarian Geography

2. Elective Essay Assessment  Aims: Does the essay have a clear aim, question or perspective that is relevant to the literature or an issue?  Presentation: You are expected to know how to cite references  Literature: Does the essay address a range of relevant literature, and demonstrate a good level of understanding of the literature on the topic.  You need to conduct initial scoping lit review – key themes, etc. Followed by a more focused & deeper literature review. Peer- reviewed literature acts as a form of substantiation

3. This session More on Bibliographic Databases Searching techniques for journal articles, conference papers, book chapters etc Keeping up to date

4. Subject searching Better to use specialist indexes covering the world’s literature to find articles Access via OxLIP+ (http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Use inter-library loan for items not held in Oxford and not online

5. E-Journals “I didn't check for the hard copy -so used to getting online access!” “I had just googled the article rather than using SOLO, so that was the issue & why I’d been asked to login, or use Athens”

7. Newspapers Electronic newspapers Some are freely available. Alphabetic list on OxLIP+ Best source for the “Text Only” of huge range of newspapers and magazines is Nexis UK. Goes back approximately 10 yrs in most cases and is very current i.e. today’s daily news items

12. Newspapers Electronic newspapers Factiva - from Dow Jones & Reuters Company Business news & challenges, market trends & info. 14,000 + sources inc. local & global newspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, etc. Archive back to 1969 - 28 languages from 159 countries Dun & Bradstreet company profiles, Reuters Fundamentals, etc.

16. Newspapers Legal information, cases etc. Lexis Library WestLaw – both UK & US editions But there are a lot more (if necessary ask the Law Library for help)

18. Bodleian Maps

19. Databases vs. Search engines Contents are indexed by subject specialists Subject headings Limiting functions e.g. publication types, language Allow you to View Search history Combine searches Mark and sort results Print/save/email/export Save searches Set up alerts Searches done by automated “web crawlers” No thesaurus / subject headings – just free text searching No limiting functions Usually none of these!

20. Databases (Scopus or Web of Science) enable you to: Refine results overview to find the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest. Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. Find out who is citing you or your supervisor, and how many citations an article or an author has received. Use Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h- index Use Journal Analyzer to provide quick insight into specific journal performance Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year. Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily. Use Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX

21. Bibliographic Databases Abstracting and Indexing Services Vast range. SCOPUS (includes GEOBASE) OVID SP ProQuest Web of Knowledge

22. Search Strategies Boolean logic Truncation Wild cards Synonyms Which language are you using?

23. Boolean connectors AND – combines terms to restrict results OR – useful for covering synonyms NOT – excludes unwanted areas of research

24. OR, AND, NOT Environmental policy Climate change E.U. / European union

25. SCOPUS THE bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Environmental Sciences Scopus -- Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, including 325 book series. 47 million records: 26 million records with references back to 1996 (of which 78% include references). 21 million records pre-1996 which go back as far as 1823. 4.9 million conference papers from proceedings and journals.

36. eReader Formats The eReader Formats application allows users to convert ScienceDirect articles as seen in the browser into ePUB or Mobipocket format, whichever is appropriate for the user's electronic reader device. Interactive Map Viewer Interactive Map Viewer displays supplementary geospatial data from Elsevier online articles as an interactive map. Methods Search Methods Search application helps you find the methods you need for your research.

40. Bibliographic Searching Search Tip : 1 –Important to remember that although each database covers thousands of journal titles no single database is ever comprehensive. –If you are having difficulty finding material on a topic use the keywords you find in any relevant reference and search again.

41. Bibliographic Databases ProQuest Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Environmental Impact Statements‎‎ IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Sustainability Science Abstracts (under ESPM) EconLit PAIS International‎ Worldwide Political Science Abstracts‎‎

49. Bibliographic Databases OVIDSP CAB Abstracts – biogeography Forest Science - biogeography GeoRef – physical geography & geology Zoological Abstracts (1864-2009 only)

54. Web of Knowledge Similar but not the same : a.k.a. Web of Science WEB of Science: ISI citation indexes Broad Coverage – all subject areas (Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area)

67. Bibliographic Searching Search Tip : 2 Take time to explore the various databases & platforms available. Some will be more useful to you than others. Scopus OvidSP ProQuest Web of Knowledge http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser

68. Bibliographic Searching Search Tip : 3 Boolean Logical Operators AND, OR, NOT Proximity operators Adj (literally adjacent); Near(same sentence); With(same field) Field descriptors: AU(author); TI(title); AB (abstract); SO(source or reference); DE (general descriptor) etc are likely to be specific to each database and won’t operate in ‘cross searches’ Combining searches: #1 and #2

69. Other tricks: Use symbols for wildcards and truncation ? or $ for a single character globali?ation / globali$ation (is it an ‘s’ or a ‘z’) * for truncation or variant spellings govern* for governance, governmentality, etc use quotation marks for searching for phrases e.g. “resource management”

73. Synonyms & Language Topic = Personal energy use reduction Search: A) personal energy use B) “personal energy use” C) “energy use” OR “energy consumption” AND personal OR private OR household Context : “carbon footprint” OR “carbon neutral” (including food mile* (i.e. miles or mileage)? )

75. Bibliographic Searching Search Tip : 4 Consider subject synonyms & British and US spellings. Apply truncation, usually * to find plurals/alternative word endings and ? to replace a single character. Expand search by following hypertext links esp. subject headings Authors names: Check the online help for formats. Use the database index to find different forms of author’s name otherwise truncate first initial.

76. Bibliographic Searching Three ways to keep up to date: E-mail alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at chosen intervals or Zetoc will tell you when the next issue of a journal is available. Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future. Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular article is cited in another WoK or Scopus indexed article.

78. Bibliographic Databases Search :Food security following global warming or climatic change & its effects on behaviour (2009-2012 only) Scopus = 31 articles ProQuest = 16 articles (adds another 13 to the total) Ovid = 18 (overlap of 5 with Scopus giving a further13 unique items – all from CAB abstracts) Web of Science = 14 articles (9 overlap with 1 or more databases – so a further 5 unique items) RefWorks de-duplication = 62 unique items!!

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