1. Information Skills for first year Geographers Roger Mills & Sue Bird OULS Bio- & Environmental Sciences October 2008

2. Today’s session  Using tools:  SOLO / OLIS  Oxford e-journals  OxLIP+  Finding items on reading lists  Citation and plagiarism  Subject searching  WoK  SCOPUS  Reference books

3. First  Login computer if necessary:  Username: rslreadertraining  Password: rslreadertraining  Open web browser  Go to www.ouls.ox.ac.ukwww.ouls.ox.ac.uk

4. SOLO  Searches the library catalogue OLIS and some other catalogues  Use it as a starting point for all searches  Links from many web pages including libraries home page www.ouls.ox.ac.ukwww.ouls.ox.ac.uk  Or go direct to http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.ukhttp://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk

7. Search for a book  Carolyn Merchant (2004) Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture, Routledge

11. Search for a periodical  Amin A and N Thrift (2005) 'What's Left: Just the Future', Antipode: a radical journal of Geography, 37, 2, 220-238

19. Exercises  Try exercise 1

20. Citation and Plagiarism  Note the statement on the OUCE web site: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/info/fhs/plagiarism.php http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/info/fhs/plagiarism.php  Avoid trouble by getting into good habits now – always record your source, and the date you found it  Learn to cite references in a standard way – e.g. the Harvard system  Useful guide available in Blackwells £1  Software is available to manage references – e.g. EndNote, RefWorks

23. Subject Searching  To find information about a topic, rather than a specific reference, use a database that indexes articles – e.g.:  Web of Knowledge (WoK) / Web of Science (WoS)  SCOPUS  Online reference books and newspapers are good for finding facts and biographies

24.  Find some articles on biodiversity politics. Which have been the most influential?

32. Find a book review  For The slum and the ghetto by TL Philpott  Search for the book title in inverted commas:  “The slum and the ghetto”  Restrict search by document type ‘Book Review’

35. SCOPUS  Elsevier’s alternative to WoK  Includes data from GEOBASE - The bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Ecological Sciences

38. tidal inlets AND Canada

40. “tidal inlets” AND Canada

41. “tidal inlet” AND Canada

42. (“tidal inlet” OR “tidal inlets”) AND Canada

43. Book reviews

44. Export

45. Exercise 2 Now try these:  1. Find some articles on the drying up or desertification of the Aral Sea  2. Find a reference to a book review of David Harvey’s book “Spaces of Hope”

46. Reference works  If you wanted to find a general introduction to the topic of Gaia, where might you look?

57. Biographical Resources  You have been asked to give the vote of thanks to Ron Johnston who is coming to speak to the Herbertson Society. Where might you start to look for information about him? What hobby does he have outside his geographical interests?

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