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1 Finding and managing information for your doctorate David Heading Suzie Kitchin Nicola Siminson

2 Session overview useful databases for Education research importing references into Endnote further sources of research information EndNote Web keeping up-to-date with the literature

3 Materials on DUO https://duo.dur.ac.uk/ Postgraduate Research Training (new)  Training Programme  Courses  Library Courses

4 Education journals and databases which journals does Durham subscribe to?  Durham University Library catalogue: http://library.dur.ac.uk http://library.dur.ac.uk All Journals using bibliographic databases to trace (and find) articles  Library web pages: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/ Quick links: –Databases [full A-Z listing] –OR Subject information - Education - Databases

5 Off-campus access important to access databases via the Library web pages – especially off-campus –see also: Information for… Off-site and Distance Users: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/distance/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/distance/

6 Database examples ERIC (within FirstSearch collection) Web of Knowledge –Web of Science covers Arts and Humanities; Sciences; Social Sciences cited reference searching –searching for articles which have “cited” a particular article since it was published  tracking how research is being taken forward by other researchers –ISI Proceedings - conference proceedings online tutorials available

7 Further sources of research information (1) theses –database examples: Durham University Library catalogue –need to request Durham theses in advance Index to Theses ProQuest digital dissertations

8 Further sources of research information (2) “Open Access” E-print archives / institutional repositories –produced on an institutional or subject basis –examples: Durham Research Online (DRO) http://dro.dur.ac.uk/ http://dro.dur.ac.uk/ OAIster http://www.oaister.org/http://www.oaister.org/ OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/http://www.opendoar.org/

9 Further sources of research information (3) Open access journals –DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) http://www.doaj.org/

10 Using other libraries http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/otherlibraries/ –plus http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/online/catalogues/http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/online/catalogues/ SCONUL Access: http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/ http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/ letters of introduction Document Delivery Service (DDS) –http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/borrowing/dds/http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/borrowing/dds/  check with your supervisor(s) / Department to see if they fund DDS requests  look out for trial “Copy Service” for part-time / distance researchers (News on Library home page)

11 Keeping up-to-date (1) Alert services –alerts from Durham University Library catalogue: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/curaware/alerts/ –Tables of Contents alerting services (TOCs) example: –ZETOC (British Library’s electronic table of contents service)

12 Keeping up-to-date (2) RSS feeds –general information on RSS feeds: http://www.rin.ac.uk/why-subscribe http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/cms/newsfeeds/ –Library RSS feeds: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/curaware /http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/curaware /  select: Library RSS feeds including new books by subject

13 Any questions?

14 Thank you! Evaluation: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/eddjuly08 http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/eddjuly08 Future training session: Referencing, avoiding plagiarism and using Turnitin Wednesday 23 rd July, 12.15 – 1.30pm Contact us: –Liaison Librarians: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/education/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/education/ –General enquiries: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/enquiries/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/enquiries/


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