Prep 2014 - STEM library & eresources

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARY

STEM libraries & e-resources: make sure you’re fully PREP’ed

Isla Kuhn - Deputy Medical Librarian

Dr. Matt Cole - Director of Studies in Engineering, Admissions Tutor


One of only five copyright libraries in the UK…

Distributed across the city, 31 Colleges, 100 Departments and 6 Schools…

More than 7 million books…Books are quite literally everywhere!

on-going digitisation & development of associated e-learning infrastructure


Newton Catalogue- encompasses the distributed texts across the University - consists of College libraries, the Central Science Library, the Medical Library, the Moore Library, and the University Library.- Includes theses as well as standard texts.

Janus Archive- easy remote access to locate information about archival collections held within Cambridge- Largely historic texts (history of science / medicine)




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Reading lists

Keeping track

Reading off list

Working from home

References / Plagiarism

Working in Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYReading Lists


Reading Lists – chapter, article, book?

Grubb, N., Spratt, J., Bradbury, A.. 2013 The Cardiovascular system. In Douglas G., Nicol, F., Robertston, C., eds 2013 Macleod's clinical examination. Edinburgh Churchill Livingston

Which bit would you search for in Library Search to see if we had it?


Wicker, S.B. 1995 Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice Hall




Gourville, J.T. (2006). Eager sellers and stony buyers, Harvard Business Review, 84(6): 98-106



CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYReading beyond the list

Work out what you want?

Heart disease?

Or

benefits of eating chocolate to help prevent heart disease?

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Rapid heating?

Or

Impact of rapid heating on particle structure in plastics


Where to find more reading?

•Web of Science – http://wok.mimas.ac.uk •Scopus – http://www.scopus.com •PubMed (Cambridge version) – http://tinyurl.com/campubmed

•If you’re going to use Google Scholar…..

• More subject specific databases

•More subject specific help


Cambridge has subscriptions to many leading journals

Accessed directly when on the University network or via VPN portal to the University Network

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYKeeping track

What have you read?

Was it any good?

-Evernote www.evernote.com/ -Google drive drive.google.com/ -Delicious delicious.com -Endnoteweb www.myednoteweb.com -Mendeley www.mendeley.com -Zotero www.zotero.org

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYWorking from home?

RAVEN

help.lib.cam.ac.uk

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYWorking in Cambridge

• uni of cam – use RAVEN to login

• College & Departmental WANs

• eduroam - set up your device: • http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/wireless/eduroam/localusers• Allows access to most University WANs in the UK and abroad


http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/google_maps/cam_libs_map_key.htm

Working in Cambridge


• Syllabus, Reading Lists, Lecture Schedules, Past Tripos Paper & (occasionally) Solutions

• Depends on the Department• Many have digitised lecture schedules• Take a look at your specific Department’s website

e-infrastructure – Dept. Websites

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYCamSIS

• CamSIS – http://www.camsis.cam.ac.uk/• Secure management system to monitor and disseminate (to your

College, Tutors and DoSs) your personal and academic information

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYCamTools

• CamTools – https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/• Cambridge Universities authorised sharing platform

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYeBooks@Cambridge

• ebooks@cambridge - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/ • A collaborative venture to purchase and promote electronic books to all

University Members.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYDspace@Cambridge

• ebooks@cambridge - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/ • The University’s institutional repository, preserving and providing access to

content created by members of the University.


• Showing how widely you’ve read around the subject;

• Demonstrating your understanding of the context and research up to this point;

• Highlighting points of view that differ to yours;• Backing up your own points of view;• Avoid plagiarism.

http://theuniversityblog.co.uk/2012/07/24/need-references/

Why reference?

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYWhat to reference?

Anything/everything/anyone that you refer to or quote from directly:

Can include: •Books and chapters of books•Articles from journals•Papers presented at conference•Legal documents•Internet sources (including webpages, email correspondence)•Illustrations•Works of art and design•Legal documents•Notes supplied by a lecturer•Illustrations•DVD/CD databases•Radio/television/ video/audio •etc.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYWhat is plagiarism

“Plagiarism is defined as submitting as one’s own work, irrespective of intent to deceive, that which derives in part of in its entirety from the work of others without due acknowledgement. It is both poor scholarship and a breach of academic integrity.”

(Cambridge University, 2011)http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/statement.html

(and it can come back to bite you) It is a serious offence & it’s better to be safe than sorry


http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/24/raj-persaud-psychiatry-maudsley

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/17/university-of-alberta-medical-school-dean-resigns-after-plagiarizing-speech/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg


Examples of plagiarism include copying (using another person's language and/or ideas as if they are a candidate's own), by: •quoting verbatim another person's work without due acknowledgement of the source; •paraphrasing another person's work by changing some of the words, or the order of the words, without due acknowledgement of the source; •using ideas taken from someone else without reference to the originator; •cutting and pasting from the Internet to make a pastiche of online sources; •submitting someone else's work as part of a candidate's own without identifying clearly who did the work. •colluding with another person

(Cambridge University, 2011)http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/statement.html

What is plagiarism

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYGet a system

Know our e-infrastructure

Reference management software?•Keep track of every bibliographic reference you use (even if you don’t end up using it directly)•Back up this system•Keep organised•Connect with word – “cite while you write”•Ensure you use the right referencing style (check with your dept/ tutor re the correct style for your piece of work)•Save time, minimise stress

•Endnoteweb – www.myendoteweb.com •Mendeley – www.mendeley.com•Zotero – www.zotero.org •LaTeX – www.latex-project.org

• Free• Easy to use• Essential?

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARYHelp!

Isla Kuhn - Deputy Medical Librarian

Matt Cole - Director of Studies in Engineering, Admissions Tutor

email: [email protected]

twitter: @ilk21

phone: (01223 3) 36750

web: http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk

Thank you. Any Questions?

Or any librarian Or your DoS/Tutor

Education

Prep 2014 - STEM library & eresources