Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
Year 9 Research Success - BGS Libraries
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2. • DEPTH
• PRECISION
• QUALTIY
• BREADTH
• VOLUME
YOU WORK HARDER
Shortcuts to
quality
information
3. Evidence must be obtained by researching
scientifically credible sources, such as:
•scientific journals (see our databases),
•books by well-credentialled scientists (see our
databases),
•websites of governments, universities,
independent research bodies or scientific
manufacturers (see our research guide).
Credibility and Reliability
5. The problem with Google
is that it does some things so well
it’s easy to see it as the primary tool of research.
The point of senior research is not in
getting an answer…
it's in getting the right answer!!
You need to learn how to learn –
how to access, analyse, and interpret the information you find –
and how to distinguish authoritative from non-authoritative sources.
6. If you use Google,
you have to do more work…
Check the URL,
Cross-check the information,
Create your own citations.
7. Google Scholar
An easily searchable repository of scholarly materials.
Content is from:
● Academic publishers
● Professional societies
● Preprint repositories
● Universities & other
scholarly organizations
Content includes:
● Peer-reviewed papers
● Theses
● Books
● Abstracts and articles
If you see this, it means that you
can access the full text via one of
our databases.
8. Google Search Tips
• Use Google’s advanced search features.
• Limit your search results to a credible domain - .gov, .edu
• To find tables, charts, graphs and statistics, try searching in Google images.
• If you find a good scientific diagram, click on the website it's associated with (but verify first
that it's a credible source).
• You can use a reverse image search engine (eg images.google.com) to try to find the original
source of an image.
9. Boolean Searching
Image retrieved from https://biblio.csusm.edu/capsules/psci-350-find-scholarly-articles
AND (or a space) Limit your results to
where those words
overlap
OR Widen your results
NOT Exclude certain words
"exact phrase" Search for the exact
wording in order
word* Search for variations
of a word
-word Exclude words from
your results
Create search strings –
“heat transfer” AND metal AND “reusable coffee cup”
10. Popular vs Scholarly Articles
POPULAR SCHOLARLY
Written by journalists or non-specialists
Summarises ideas and events in an easily
understandable format
Often contain images and advertisements
Intended to be understood by a wide variety of
people
Entertainment, current events, opinions
Carnegie Vincent Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN8S4CbzGXU
Written by researchers or specialists with in-depth
subject knowledge
Often the results of research, uses subject-specific
jargon
Often contain charts and graphs
Intended for a narrower audience – written by
specialists for specialists
Objectivity is key, reports research rather than opinion
Often contain long lists of supporting references and
evidence
13. MySearch
Our Library subscribes to many useful databases and MySearch is the entry point
(portal) for searching 12 of these, giving you quick and easy access to a vast range
of resources. Additionally, it also searches for books from the Library collection.
14. Click on the LIBRARY link once you
have logged in to MyGrammar.
Where to find MySearch
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You can find the MySearch
portal on each research
guide for each assignment.
You can also find it on
each of our subject-specific
eResources pages.
Where to find MySearch
16. Make sure you are signed into
MyGrammar before trying to access our
databases.
If your login defaults to a screen like this,
choose ‘Institutional Login’ and you should
then be redirected via SSO login.
Access from home
21. Tick these source
types on or off.
Always choose ‘full text’
and ‘available’ options.
Refine your search
22. Use an Advanced Search to refine your
results even more. Each of these options
below gives a slightly different results list so
you could try conducting both searches.
Advanced searching
23. Some results will just give
you an abstract of an article,
but there are tools included
to help you find the full text
or similar articles.
Full Text Finder/ Similar Results Finder
24. Some resources may be located outside MySearch at open
access sites.
Open Access refers to resources that are freely available for
viewing and/or use, and many scholarly and peer-reviewed
journals have opened their back issues as open access.
Open Access results
25. The links to Open Access resources
are not always obvious.
You will need to look for the links
and keep following them until you
find the full text of your article.
Follow links for Open Access
26. If you’re in a hurry, you can tag possible articles by clicking the
blue folder for each one. This will place them into the yellow
folder at the top of the screen. Select and email these to
yourself, or create an account to save them in the folder.
Tagging resources
27. If you want to save or share the link to an article,
always use the Permalink as this does not change.
Permalinks
28. All databases accessed through MySearch will
also provide APA referencing details, but you
must double-check that these are accurate.
APA referencing
29. Cite all of your references
• Easily create citations from URLs and ISBNs.
• Easily create your reference list and
bibliography in alphabetical order BUT you
need to double-check for accuracy.
