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Information Skillsfor first year Geographers
Sue BirdOULS Reader Services Librarian Geography
October 2009
Today’s session Using tools:
SOLO / OLIS Oxford e-journals OxLIP+
Finding items on reading lists Citation and plagiarism Subject searching
Reference booksSCOPUSWoK
SOLO
Searches the library catalogue OLIS and some other catalogues
Use it as a starting point for all searchesLinks from many web pages including
libraries home page www.ouls.ox.ac.uk Or go direct to http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
Search for a book
Carolyn Merchant (2004) Reinventing Eden: Routledge
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
Reading List Tips
What you need to look up in the catalogue should be indicated somehow
Italics or underlining
(Antipode, Global geomorphology )Remember that explanatory text could be
inserted between the elements of the reference (c.f. Dr. Currah’s list last week)
Book?, Chapter?, Article? - TIPS
Books – Year only
Chapters – Use the word “IN”
Articles- Many more numbers for volume, part (or issue), pages.
Exercises
Try exercise 1http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk
/science/training/biosciences
Citation and Plagiarism
Note the statement on the OUCE web site: 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
Reference works
If you wanted to find a general introduction to the topic of Gaia, where might you look?
Or give a definition of S.I. units
Subject Searching
To find information about a topic, rather than a specific reference, use a database that indexes articles – e.g.:
SCOPUSWeb of Knowledge (WoK) / Web of Science (WoS)
Online reference books and newspapers are good for finding facts and biographies
Suggested Essay Topic
Find some articles on biodiversity politics.
Which have been the most influential?
SCOPUS
Includes data from GEOBASE - The bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Ecological Sciences
Export
Web of Knowledge
Similar but not the same
Also known as Web of Science
Are there any other sources ?
Well there is Google Scholar
Rough & readyCan’t order your searchCan’t amend or refine your searchRemember it is a Search Engine not a
database – no human is involved
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”
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?
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science/training/biosciences
Reading a Reading List
This presentation will be available at http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science/training/biosciences
More useful links from the subject page http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science/subjects/geography
(There is also a link from within S.o.G.E. Intranet)