Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 2

David Heading and James Bisset

Part 2 overview

• Using citations and references• Finding related material• Styles of referencing in Endnote

• Break

• Managing references - Endnote groups• Keeping up to date with new research

Citation searching and references

• Demonstration of connections in academic debate both backwards (references) and forwards (citations)

• May be a positive or negative connection to other literature

• Give you a quality controlled list of material to consult if you establish the context in which it has been cited

Paper A – a journal article that you are interested in

Article B that is referred to by Paper A

Article C that is referred to

by Paper A

Article D that is referred to

by Paper A

Book 2 that is referred to by

Paper A

Book 1 that is referred to by

Paper A

Article E that refers to Paper A

Book 3 that refers to Paper A

Article G that refers to Paper A

Article H that refers to Paper A

Article F that refers to Paper A

Citations

References

Article B

Article C

Book1

Article D

Book 2

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Article G

Article E

Book4

Article F

Book 3

Paper A

Related material

• Making connections between similar resources

• Criteria vary significantly depending on the database or catalogue you are using

• Sometimes the process is human, other times automated

Finding Information - Hands-on

• Pick a key article and look for it in a database• Trace academic debate using citations and

references• Find related material in – Databases– Catalogues

Referencing style in your department

• Look at Durham e-Theses to find online examples of recently passed theses in your subject area.

• The bibliography will give you an indication of the sort of referencing style that you could use.

Durham e-Theseshttp://etheses.dur.ac.uk/

Keeping up to date

• Automates the process of searching to save you time

• Saved searches– For you to re-run at convenient time

• Alert services– Brings material to you by email or RSS feed– Acquisitions, citations, articles matching search

terms or tables of contents (ToCs)

www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/

Alert Services

• Books– Durham University Library Catalogue: new books

that match search terms • Articles – Citations: Web of Science and Google Scholar– Keywords: Google Scholar and ZETOC – Table of Contents: ZETOC

Summary

• Features enable you to make connections between related research material

• Endnote styles are important for controlling the look of in text citations and references

• Groups help you manage your library• Keeping up to date with new research can be

automated and so save you time