schulich faculty development - saving research time

Saving Research TimeNov 10, 2009

Robin FeatherstoneClinical Medicine Librarianrfeathe@uwo.ca(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383

Research Life-cycle Literature

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Pubget• Searches PubMed and displays full-text PDF

articles for Western’s subscriptions within your results

Getting Startedhttp://www.lib.uwo.ca

Make sure to sign in if you’re off campus

Exercise

• Find full-text PDF articles on undergraduate medical education

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Literature Search

RefWorks

RefWorks – Key Features

• Free to UWO students, staff and faculty• Web-based – can access anywhere• Allows you to share citations with colleagues• Creates bibliographies in any style (CSE,

Chicago, etc...)• Works with MS Word to format your in-text

citations• Data is backed up on a server in Toronto

Getting Startedhttp://www.lib.uwo.ca

Make sure to sign in if you’re off campus

Exercise

• Login to RefWorks or sign up for an individual account

• Tip: make sure to use your UWO email address

Exercise

• Once you have an account, create a new folder called “Research Workshop”

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Scopus• Large, multidisciplinary database• Supports “citation chaining”

Getting Startedhttp://www.lib.uwo.ca

Make sure to Sign in!

Select Databases by Title

Exercise

In Scopus, find the following article:

Gareri P, De Fazio P, De Fazio S, Marigliano N, Ferreri Ibbadu G, De Sarro G. Adverse effects of atypical antipsychotics in the elderly: a review. Drugs Aging. 2006;23(12):937-56

How many articles reference it?

Select the 12 citations that reference the Gareri article

Use the “Output” button to send them to RefWorks

Exercise

Exercise

• In RefWorks, move your citations from the “Last imported folder” into your “Research Workshop” folder

Put in folder....

Exercise

• Format a bibliography in Chicago (15th Ed.) style from the citations you exported from Scopus

• Create an ‘Word for Windows’ document and save it to your desktop with the title “Bibliography”

10 min break

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Google Docs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

Getting started: http://docs.google.com/

Exercise

• Create a Google account (if you don’t have one already) – will send you an email verification

• Upload the bibliography document

• Invite me to share the file as a collaborator robin.featherstone@gmail.com

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COS Funding Opportunities

• World’s largest funding database• Data obtained directly from the sponsoring

agencies• Covers all disciplines• Opportunities for undergraduates, graduates

and professionals

Getting started:

• IP authenticated subscription database (paid for by Research Western)

• From off-campus, login to www.lib.uwo.ca

• Follow the link to “Research and Scholarship”

• Then select “Grants & Funding Opportunities”

Exercise

• Use the Search Wizard to locate funding opportunities of interest to you

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Allows you to:• Evaluate a particular journal in terms of its

Impact Factor (IF)• See the most influential journal within a

particular subject• See the most influential journal for a

particular geographic region

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

• Draws citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals

• Incorporates journals from over 3,300 publishers in 60 nations.

• Published yearly in two editions– Science edition– Social sciences edition

Make sure to Sign in!

Select Databases by Title

Getting Startedhttp://www.lib.uwo.ca

Exercise

• Find the journal Lung in the 2008 JCR Science Edition

1.What is its Impact Factor?2.What is the most closely related journal? 3.Which one had a higher Impact Factor?

Exercise

• Conduct a subject search in the 2008 JCR Science Edition for Geriatrics & Gerontology

1.Which journal in this subject had the highest Impact Factor?

2.Which journal has the highest Immediacy Index?

Research Life-cycle Literature

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Questions?

Robin Featherstone Clinical Medicine Librarianrfeathe@uwo.ca(519) 661-2111 ext: 86383