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Dissertation Skills for
Anthropology M.Sc
(SCA + VMMA): Hilary 2016
Sue Bird Tylor Librarian for Anthropology
This session
Introduction to Reference Management Software
Google Scholar v. Bibliographic Databases
Introduction to Bibliographic Databases
Searching Techniques & Keeping up to Date
How reference managers work
1. Collect
bibliographic
information
2. Create a
personal online
reference
database
3. Annotate, edit and
share your reference
database
5. Automatically
create a bibliography
for your work
4. Insert citations as
you write
Adding a reference
Add manually
Direct export from
a database
Upload from a
text file
Grab website info
Software available
• Many different packages are available
• The principles are the same but the details are
different
• Variations in price and features
LibGuide for Reference Management
Direct export
• Easiest way to move references into your library
WoS
SCOPUS
ProQuest
OVID
RefWorks Overview
Dropdown menus Search your
references
Brief view of
references in
your collection
Folders list Quick function buttons
Citing your references
Just a few of the more common points
An article in an online journal which also exists in print should be cited in the same way as print.
To cite something which only exists electronically, e.g. a web site, follow special rules which include the date viewed.
A specific quote must include the page reference in the citation. (This also applies to tables & diagrams you have taken directly from another source.)
Citation practice
A large number of manuals are available to give
guidance and sound practice.
1:Doing a literature review / Chris Hart (London, 1998) [H 62 HAR ]
2:Manual for writers / Kate Turabian (7th ed. Chicago, 2007) [LB 2369 TUR ]
3:Cite them right /Pears & Shields (2013 ed.) [LB 2369 PEA]
4: Complete guide to referencing & avoiding plagiarism / Neville (2nd ed. 2010) – available on-line via E.B.L.
Bodleian Maps
SOLO Map
Search
Illustrations
Interesting new resource now available
Glass Lantern Slides from Oxford collections
Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR)
Argentina Naples 1893 Papua NewGuinea
Newspapers
Nexis UK (has international coverage)
News coverage offered by Nexis UK - Global news & business information service has over 20,000 sources of authoritative news
Ethnic NewsWatch
interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) &
comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
E-books
Reference books Blackwell Reference Online
SAGE Research Methods Online
Text books EBL (officially) the E-Book Library
Oxford Scholarship Online
Ebrary Academic Complete
NetLibrary now hosted by EBSCOhost Ebook Collection
SAGE Research Methods Online
Databases vs. Search engines
• Contents are indexed by subject specialists
• Subject headings
• Limiting functions e.g. publication types, language
Allow you to
• View Search history
• Combine searches
• Mark and sort results
• Print/save/email/export
• Save searches
• Set up alerts
• Searches done by
automated “web crawlers”
• No thesaurus / subject
headings – just free text
searching
• No limiting functions
• Usually none of these!
Bibliographic Databases
Vast range
SCOPUS
EBSCOhost
ProQuest
Web of Knowledge
Search Strategies
Boolean logic
Truncation
Wild cards
Synonyms
Which language are you using?
Boolean connectors
AND – combines terms to restrict results
OR – useful for covering synonyms
NOT – excludes unwanted areas of research
Search Strategies
Boolean Logical Operators AND, OR, NOT
Proximity operators
Adj (literally adjacent); Near(same sentence); With(same
field)
Field descriptors: AU(author); TI(title); AB (abstract);
SO(source or reference); DE (general descriptor) etc are
likely to be specific to each database and won’t operate in
‘cross searches’
Combining searches: #1 and #2
• Use Boolean operators
– AND – narrows down
– OR – broadens out
– NOT – excludes
• Use brackets to group operations
• “Altruism” OR “altruistic behaviour”
• “(social PRE/3 cooperat*)” AND
• (“altruism” OR “altruistic behavio*r”)
Shamanism Art
Art
AND Shamanism
Consumerism Commodities
Commodities
NOT Consumerism
Human Homo
Human
OR Homo
(Sapiens)
Improving Searching –
Boolean Operators
Other tricks:
Use symbols for wildcards and truncation
? or $ for a single character
organi?ation / organi$ation (is it an ‘s’ or a ‘z’)
behavio*r (is there an extra ‘u’ or not?)
* for truncation or variant spellings
shaman* for shamans, shamanism, shamanic, etc
use quotation marks for searching for phrases e.g. “material culture”
Identify the search concepts in your research question:
Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies
For each search concept, think of keywords, broader and narrower terms, synonyms etc:
Research Question: Visual depictions of Nuer initiation ceremonies
Row 1
Concept 1: Visual
Concept 2: Nuer
Concept 3: Initiation ceremonies
Row 2
Visual
Film
Photography
Nuer
Sudan
Tribal
Initiation
Ceremony
Culture
Customs
Row 3
#1 = Visual OR film* OR photog*
#2 = Nuer OR Sudan*
OR trib*
#3 = init* OR ceremon* OR
cultur* OR custom*
Row 4
#1 AND #2 AND #3
Creating a search string How you might do it….
Databases (Scopus or Web of
Science) enable you to:
• Refine results overview to find the main journals, disciplines and authors that
publish in your area of interest.
• Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make
connections.
• Find out who is citing you or your supervisor, and how many citations an
article or an author has received.
• Use Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to help you stay up-to-date
• Data export via bibliographic managers such as RefWorks
SCOPUS
Good general bibliographic database
Abstract & citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature.
22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers.
Now starting to include more book material
60 million records:
• 36 million records with references back to 1995
• 24 million records pre-1996 which go back to 1823
• Details from over 110,000 books
Anthropology Databases
Anthropology Plus //
AnthroSource
Bibliographic Platforms
Bibliographic Platforms
Web of Knowledge
Similar but not the same : a.k.a. Web of Science WEB of Science: Core Collection Broad Coverage – all subject areas (Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area)
Bibliographic Databases
Search :- “Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective”
(2010-15 only)
Scopus = 32 articles
ProQuest = 37 articles (35 not found by Scopus)
Web of Science = 17 articles (but 8 were in Scopus & others were in ProQuest)
RefWorks de-duplication = 69 !!
Your Paper/ Thesis
Good book on methodology
Paper supports my argument in
chapter 2
Classic paper to use
in the introduction
Useful literature review in
this paper
Lots of
country
data on
this site
NGO project evaluation,
good evidence for
chapter 5
Supervisor recommended
this book
Good comparison study in this
paper
Grey literature
Key sources for anthropology working papers, conference papers and policy briefs include:
MigrationOxford FMO Eldis CIAO PolicyFILE IOM UNBISnet
See the for other useful links LibGuides
RESEARCH DATA
Current Awareness
Three ways to keep up to date:
Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it
again in the future.
E-mail alerts / RSS feeds:–
– Specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at
chosen intervals or on a continuous basis
– Select your favourite journal(s) & the database will tell you when
the next issue of a journal is available.
Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular
article is cited in another WoS or Scopus indexed article.
SCOPUS ALERTS
Conclusion
• Maintain a balanced diet!
• Five a day…
– WoS, Scopus, Solo, subject-specific database,
Google Scholar…
Advanced Bibliographic Skills
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