Finding and managing information for your doctorate

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Finding and managing information for your
doctorate

• David Heading
• Suzie Kitchin
• Nicola Siminson

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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

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Materials on DUO

• https//duo.dur.ac.uk/
• Postgraduate Research Training (new)
• ? Training Programme
• ? Courses
• ? Library Courses

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Education journals and databases

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

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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/

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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

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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

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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/
  
• OAIster http//www.oaister.org/
• OpenDOAR http//www.opendoar.org/

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Further sources of research information (3)

• Open access journals
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
• http//www.doaj.org/

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Using other libraries

• http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/otherlibraries/
• plus http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/online
  /catalogues/
• SCONUL Access http//www.access.sconul.ac.uk/
• letters of introduction
• Document Delivery Service (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)

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Keeping up-to-date (1)

• Alert services
• alerts from Durham University Library catalogue
• http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/curawar
  e/alerts/
• Tables of Contents alerting services (TOCs)
• example
• ZETOC
  (British Librarys
  electronic table of contents service)

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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/newsfeed
  s/
• Library RSS feeds
• http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/curawar
  e/
• ? select
• Library RSS feeds including new books by
  subject

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• Any questions?

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Thank you!

• Evaluation http//www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/ed
  djuly08
• Future training session
• Referencing, avoiding plagiarism and using
  Turnitin
• Wednesday 23rd July, 12.15 1.30pm
• Contact us
• Liaison Librarians
  http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/education/
• General enquiries http//www.dur.ac.u
  k/library/using/enquiries/