Information Literacy Skills (Advanced)

Information Literacy Skills (Advanced)

Reference & Research DivisionPerpustakaan Hamzah Sendut

Main Objective

To introduce some of the research support tools which can help the researchers to produce

high-quality research with efficiency

Main Outline

Part 1: Searching the literature

Objective: To explore some of the useful

research-related platforms/websites which can be used to find high quality

articles related to your topic

Part 1: Searching the literature

OUTLINE

Krisalis Discovery@USM

Thesis (USM)

1. Go to OPAC in Library Website

2. Click advanced search3. Type your keyword (first box)4. Choose [subject] and type

dissertations (second box)

Thesis (USM)

1. Choose and click the title of thesis to browse further2. Get the details info of the thesis, then proceed to Malaysiana & Archive Division,

PHS to read the full text (printed version)

Thesis (Myto)

1. Go to: http://myto.upm.edu.my/myTO/myto.html

2. Type your keyword3. Click search

Thesis (Myto)

1. Choose a thesis to browse

2. Click on the title

Thesis (Myto)

1. View the detail to verify the relevancy to your topic

2. Take note of the location of the thesis (Holding Library)

Thesis (International)

1. Go to:http://search.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/index?accountid=14645 OR via Library Website [Resources – Subscribed Database – Proquest]

2. Type your keyword in search box

Thesis (International)

1. Check the result & choose a thesis to browse further 2. Click on full-text-PDF to download full textNote: If you try this outside campus, please login via ezproxy (off campus login)

Thesis (International)

List of theses repositories based on country

Thesis (International)

Open Access

1. Go to : https://doaj.org/2. Type keyword in search box (tick articles)

Open Access

1. Click on title to browse further2. Click Full Text to download the article

Google Scholar

Google Scholar - search

Microsoft Academic

MYCITE

1. Go to MYCITE http://www.mycite.my/

2. Type in your keyword to search

MYCITE

1. Browse the result 2. Click on the title or

download fulltext

Web of Science

1. Go to Web of Science via Library Website [resources-subscribed databases]

2. Type in your keyword to search

Web of Science-find highly cited article in your topic

1. Sort by: times cited—highest to lowest2. Click on the title to browse further3. Click on times cited to get other related articles

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Web of Science

1. Once you click on the title, detail view will be displayed2. Identify the keyword relevant to your topic from KeyWords Plus (based on

highly appeared keyword in the titles of citing articles)3. Get another articles from citation network

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Web of Science – find most popular journal for your topic

1. Click on results analysis 2. Rank the record by source titles

to find the most relevant journal to your topic

3. Based on the list, you can start following the journal closely (eg. alert to table of content)

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Web of Science – find productive author about your topic

1. Click on results analysis

2. Rank the record by authors to find the most relevant author to your topic

3. Based on the list, you can start following the author closely (eg. alert to his publication)

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Web of Science – trend of your topic

1. Click on citation report from the main list2. Trend of publication of your selected topic will be displayed3. Citation trends also will be provided (to identify hot topic)

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Scopus

1. Go to Scopus via Library Website [resources-subscribed databases]2. Type in your keyword to search

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Scopus

1. Click on cited by to browse highly cited articles2. Click on the title to browse further3. Or click analyze search results to analyze deeper

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Scopus – narrow down search by filtering

Make sure you use the filtering function to get most relevant articles

Scopus – analyze result to get more relevant articles

Analyze the results to get other important information such as Prolific Author, Main

Journals etc

Alert Services

• Web of Science• Scopus• Google Scholar• Specific Journals

Alert Services - WOS

1. Login into Web of Science (please register for first timer)2. Click ‘create alert’

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Alert Services - WOS

Customize your alert

Alert Services - WOS

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view your saved alert here

Alert Services - Scopus

1. Login into Scopus (registration is needed)2. Type your keyword to search

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Alert Services - Scopus

click ‘set alert’ & customize your alert

Alert Services-Google Scholar

1. Login into Google Scholar2. Type your keyword

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Alert Services

Click ‘create alert’

Alert Services

Customize your alert

Alert Services- follow prolific figures

1. Search for prolific author in GS2. Click ‘follow’ to be alerted about new

publication or new citation

Alert Services – by Journal

1. Go to specific journal page & login

2. Customize your alert

Alert Services – notification via email

Alert Services – notification via email

Part 2:Research Writing

Objective: To explore some of the beneficial

research support tools to ease your research writing process

Part 2:Research Writing

OUTLINE

MS Word Advance

Microsoft Words

Advance

Changing Page

MarginsFormatting Graphics /

Figures

Navigation Pane

Header&

FootersAPA style template

Adding symbols &

Superscript

Adding Captions

Footnotefor

Tables

MS Word Advance

Smmry

Helpful in summarizing the article within seconds

Smmry1. Copy & paste the content of article2. Choose to summarize into how

many sentences3. Click Summarize

Bibliographic Management Software

Endnote (desktop view)

Endnote (cite while you write)

Mendeley

Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley Cite-o-matic

Mind Map- Mindmeister

Helpful in preparing mind map for your research flow, topic & subtopic, literature map etc

Mind Map- Mindmeister

1. Create your map2. Customize your map (it can be

public or private)

Mind Map- Mindmeister

Cloud Storage

Reference: http://ipadinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/iPad-Cloud-Storage-Comparison.jpg

Cloud Storage- Google Drive

Cloud Storage- Dropbox

Cloud Storage- Mega

Data Analysis - NVIVO

Plagiarism Checker – Turnitin

Please refer to your respective School for further information

Part 3:Publishing Strategy

Objective: To identify the best journals to publish

your research articles

Part 3:Publishing Strategy

OUTLINE

Journal Evaluation

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)Evaluates and compares journals using citation data drawn from the Web of Knowledge scholarly journals. Shows most frequently cited and highest impact journals in a given field.SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank)Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains

JCR

1. Go to Library Website [Resources-Subscribed Databases-Journal Citation Reports]

2. Select your category (based on your research area)

JCR

1. Rank of journals will be displayed according to impact factor

2. You may choose to browse by other indicators

3. Click on Journal title to browse further

JCR

Details of the selected journal (citation data, indicators, quartile etc) will help you to identify the best journal to publish in.

JCR

What is Impact Factor (IF)?The Journal Impact Factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.

You may consider to publish in higher Impact Factored Journal considering the tendency to get more citations as compared to lower IF journals.

JCR

What is Immediacy Index?

The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a given year by the number of articles published in that year.

The journal Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited. You may choose to publish in journal with higher immediacy index to get early citation.

JCR

What is Eigenfactor?The Eigenfactor Score calculation is based on the number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year, but it also considers which journals have contributed these citations so that highly cited journals will influence the network more than lesser cited journals.

References from one article in a journal to another article from the same journal are removed, so that Eigenfactor Scores are not influenced by journal self-citation.

SJR (SCImago Journal and Country Rank)

1. Go to: http://www.scimagojr.com/2. Click ‘Country Rankings’

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SJR

1. Choose your subject areas OR subject categories2. List of journals will be displayed based on SJR Rank Indicator (average

no. of citation received by documents published in 3 previous years)3. Click on journal title to browse further

SJR

Details of a journal like this will be helpful in deciding journal to publish in

Publishing in Open Access

DOAJ

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality and peer-reviewed Open Access journals (https://doaj.org/)

DOAJ

1. Search for journal in the search box 2. Or you can click ‘browse subjects’ to choose your own field

DOAJ

Based on the list , click on journal title to see the details

DOAJ

Based on the information provided, you may choose whether this journal is worth to be published in

Open Access (JCR)

1. Go to Library Website [Resources-Subscribed Databases-Journal Citation Reports]

2. Select your category (based on your research area)

3. Select / tick Open Access

Open Access (Scimago)

1. Choose your subject areas OR subject categories2. Tick ‘display only Open Access Journals

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Mycite

1. Go to: http://www.mycite.my/

2. Click ‘ MyJurnal’

Mycite

1. Choose your subject

2. Click on journal title to browse details

Mycite

Mycite

Springer Journal Suggester

Elsevier Journal Finder

Endnote Web

Endnote Web (manuscript match)

Endnote Web (manuscript match)

Reviewing Process - SciRev

Reviewing Process - SciRev

Reviewing Process - MedSci

Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch

Predatory/Blacklisted Journals – KPT/MOE

Copyright Checker – Sherpa Romeo

Copyright Checker – Sherpa Romeo

Copyright Checker – Sherpa Romeo

Part 4: Research Sharing & Monitoring

Objective: To identify the best strategy to make your research outputs more visible

and receive high impact

Part 4: Research Sharing & Monitoring

OUTLINE

Traditional vs Recent Scholarly Publishing Cycle

Images from the University of British Columbia, UBC Library, "Building Your Academic Profile"; http://help.library.ubc.ca/publishing-research/building-your-academic-profile/

Scientific Social Network

E-repository - USM

E-repository - search

E-Repository – deposit item

E-repository - Malaysia

E-repository - Malaysia

E-repository - ROAR

Researcher Profile

Google Scholar - profile

Google Scholar – profile search

Researcher ID

Scopus ID

ORCID ID

ORCID ID

Research Sharing - figshare

Research Sharing - slideshare

Author Impact

H-IndexThe most widely used research metric, measures, productivity and impact of an author's scholarly output. Tools for calculating your H-index include Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.

H-Index = number of papers (h) with a citation number ≥ h.

Example: a researcher with an H-Index of 37 has 37 papers cited at least 37 times.

Author Impact

M-quotientWhile the h-index is independent of the date of an academic's career, the m-quotient aims at weighing the period of academic endeavour. Divide the h-index by the number of years the academic has been active (measured as the number of years since the first published paper). (Hirsch, 2005).

G-Index - Accounting for highly-cited papers.Given a set of articles ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received, the g-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g articles received (together) at least g2 citations. (Egghe,2006)

Measuring Author’s Impact

i10-IndexIndicates the number of academic publications an author has written that have been cited at least 10 times by others. It was introduced in July 2011 by Google as part of Google Scholar

Faculty of 1000A directory to the top articles in biology and medicine, as recommended by over 5,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers.

Measuring Author’s Impact

Measuring Article ImpactWeb of Science

Measuring Article ImpactScopus

Measuring Article ImpactGoogle Scholar

Article Impact

AltmetricsAltmetrics are a very broad group of metrics, capturing various parts of impact a paper or work can have. Viewed - HTML views and PDF downloadsDiscussed - journal comments, science blogs, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook and other social mediaSaved - Mendeley, CiteULike and other social bookmarksCited - citations in the scholarly literature, tracked by Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef and othersRecommended - for example used by F1000Prime

Article Impact-Altmetrics

Altmetric.com in Scopus

Altmetric.com in Scopus

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