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Dissertation Skills for
Anthropology M.Sc
(MedAnth + C&EA): Hilary 2016
Sue Bird Tylor Librarian for Anthropology
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This session
Introduction to Reference Management Software
Google Scholar v. Bibliographic Databases
Introduction to Bibliographic Databases
Searching Techniques & Keeping up to Date
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How reference managers work
1. Collect
bibliographic
information
2. Create a
personal online
reference
database
3. Annotate, edit and
share your reference
database
5. Automatically
create a bibliography
for your work
4. Insert citations as
you write
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Adding a reference
Add manually
Direct export from
a database
Upload from a
text file
Grab website info
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Software available
• Many different packages are available
• The principles are the same but the details are
different
• Variations in price and features
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LibGuide for Reference Management
http://ox.libguides.com/reference-managementhttp://ox.libguides.com/reference-managementhttp://ox.libguides.com/reference-management
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Direct export
• Easiest way to move references into your library
WoS
SCOPUS
ProQuest
OVID
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RefWorks Overview
Dropdown menus Search your
references
Brief view of
references in
your collection
Folders list Quick function buttons
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Additional citation styles 1. Click on the ‘Bibliography’ menu
2. Choose the ‘Output Style Manager’
3. Search for and select styles to add to you
favourite styles
4. Use the arrow icons to move a selected style
across to your favourites
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Citing your references
Just a few of the more common points
An article in an online journal which also exists in print should be cited in the same way as print.
To cite something which only exists electronically, e.g. a web site, follow special rules which include the date viewed.
A specific quote must include the page reference in the citation. (This also applies to tables & diagrams you have taken directly from another source.)
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Citation practice
A large number of manuals are available to give
guidance and sound practice.
1:Doing a literature review / Chris Hart (London, 1998) [H 62 HAR ]
2:Manual for writers / Kate Turabian (7th ed. Chicago, 2007) [LB 2369 TUR ]
3:Cite them right /Pears & Shields (2013 ed.) [LB 2369 PEA]
4: Complete guide to referencing & avoiding plagiarism / Neville (2nd ed. 2010) – available on-line via E.B.L.
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Bodleian Maps
SOLO Map
Search
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/homehttp://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=mapshttp://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=maps
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Illustrations
Interesting new resource now available
Glass Lantern Slides from Oxford collections
Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR)
Algiers
Majorca
St. Ebbe’s Oxford
http://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk/pages/home.phphttp://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk/pages/view.php?ref=37599&search=city&offset=192&order_by=field8&sort=ASC&archive=0&k=&
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Newspapers
Nexis UK (has international coverage) News coverage offered by Nexis UK - Global news &
business information service has over 20,000 sources of authoritative news
Ethnic NewsWatch
interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) & comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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SOLO: Oxford Collections The most comprehensive tool for finding journals covering
Oxford’s electronic and printed collections
OU ejournals Covers most ejournals but NOT all ejournals and NOT printed journals.
Journal coverage on
SOLO and OU eJournals
SOLO Articles & More Covers a random selection of electronic articles but does not include print or even the full range of ejournals
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Electronic Legal Deposit
restrictions
The Legal Deposit Act 2003 imposes restrictions on electronic
items received under Legal Deposit:
Items may only be read on Library owned computers within the
Bodleian Libraries
Saving, copying and pasting is forbidden
But PRINTING is allowed using the PCAS system
Each item may only be viewed by one person at a time
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E-books
Reference books Blackwell Reference Online
SAGE Research Methods Online
Text books EBL (officially) the E-Book Library
Oxford Scholarship Online
Ebrary Academic Complete
NetLibrary now hosted by EBSCOhost Ebook Collection
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SAGE Research Methods Online
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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!
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Bibliographic Databases
Vast range
SCOPUS
OVID
ProQuest
Web of Knowledge
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Search Strategies
Boolean logic
Truncation
Wild cards
Synonyms
Which language are you using?
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Boolean connectors
AND – combines terms to restrict results
OR – useful for covering synonyms
NOT – excludes unwanted areas of research
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Search Strategies
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
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• Use Boolean operators
– AND – narrows down
– OR – broadens out
– NOT – excludes
• Use brackets to group operations
• “Altruism” OR “altruistic behaviour”
• “(social PRE/3 cooperat*)” AND
• (“altruism” OR “altruistic behavio*r”)
Haplotypes Inheritance
Inheritance
AND Haplotypes
Divine Retribution
Retribution
NOT Divine
Human Homo
Human
OR Homo
(Sapiens)
Improving Searching –
Boolean Operators
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Other tricks:
Use symbols for wildcards and truncation
? or $ or even # for a single character
organi?ation / organi$ation (is it an ‘s’ or a ‘z’)
behavio*r (is there an extra ‘u’ or not?)
* for truncation or variant spellings
homin* for hominin, hominoid, hominid, etc
use quotation marks for searching for phrases e.g. “hunter gatherer”
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Identify the search concepts in your research question:
Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies
For each search concept, think of keywords, broader and narrower terms, synonyms etc:
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Research Question: Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies
Row 1
Concept 1: Visual
Concept 2: Nuer
Concept 3: Initiation ceremonies
Row 2
Visual
Film
Photography
Nuer
Sudan
Tribal
Initiation
Ceremony
Culture
Customs
Row 3
#1 = Visual OR film* OR photog*
#2 = Nuer OR Sudan*
OR trib*
#3 = init* OR ceremon* OR
cultur* OR custom*
Row 4
#1 AND #2 AND #3
Creating a search string How you might do it….
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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 Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date
• Data export via bibliographic managers such as RefWorks
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OxLIP+
http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
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SCOPUS
Good general bibliographic database
Abstract & citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature.
22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers.
Now starting to include more book material
60 million records:
• 36 million records with references back to 1995
• 24 million records pre-1996 which go back to 1823
• Details from over 110,000 books
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Anthropology Databases
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Anthropology Plus //
AnthroSource
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Bibliographic Platforms
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Bibliographic Platforms
ProQuest
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Ethnic NewsWatch
Sociological Abstracts
PAIS International – government & other ‘grey’ literature
Biological Sciences with 28 subsets inc.:-
Animal Behaviour Abstracts
Genetic Abstracts
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Bibliographic Platforms
OvidSP
BioSIS Previews Archive: (1926-1968) Archive for Biological Abstracts & BIOSIS Previews provides newly available access to 1.8 million records
Global Health (1973- )
MEDLINE – NB : records also included in SCOPUS
PsycINFO (1802- )
Zoological Record Archive (1864-2007)
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GLOBAL HEALTH
Specializes foreign language journals, research reports, conference proceedings, annual reports,
public health, developing country information, & other difficult to obtain material from 130+ countries
Covers human health & disease and combines from 1973:-
Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM)-previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD)
Human health & diseases extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
tropical diseases, i.e, diseases in the tropics (including field and experimental studies)
parasitic diseases and parasitology - medical entomology
human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional
disorders, and experimental aspects)
community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators,
the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology)
medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant
composition, allergens, and toxins)
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PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association
Covers psychological, social, behavioural, and health sciences.
More than 3.8 million records, back to 1802!
Professional coverage beyond psychology to include related disciplines such as
medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics,
engineering, and more
Obviously very strong North American bias but 30% is material of European origin,
while an additional 12% is from US dissertations.
Also PsycARTICLES® is a robust database offering complete access to the full
text of more than 100 landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields
ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience. (nearly 200,000
articles)
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Web of Knowledge
Similar but not the same : a.k.a. Web of Science WEB of Science: Core Collection Broad Coverage – all subject areas (Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area)
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Bibliographic Databases
Search :- “Palaeoneurology” (or paleoneurological) (2010-16 only)
Scopus = 37 articles (9 not found by W.o.S.)
Anthroplus = 28 articles (24 not found by either W.o.S. or Scopus)
Web of Science = 50 articles
RefWorks de-duplication = 78 !! (duplication within AnthroPlus)
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Your Paper/ Thesis
Good book on methodology
Paper supports my argument in
chapter 2
Classic paper to use
in the introduction
Useful literature review in
this paper
Lots of
country
data on
this site
NGO project evaluation,
good evidence for
chapter 5
Supervisor recommended
this book
Good comparison study in this
paper
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RESEARCH DATA
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Current Awareness
Three ways to keep up to date:
Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future.
E-mail alerts / RSS feeds:–
– Specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at
chosen intervals or on a continuous basis
– Select your favourite journal(s) & the database will tell you when
the next issue of a journal is available.
Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular article is cited in another WoS or Scopus indexed article.
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SCOPUS ALERTS
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Conclusion
• Maintain a balanced diet!
• Five a day…
– WoS, Scopus, Solo, subject-specific database,
Google Scholar…
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Advanced Bibliographic Skills
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