33. When working at a distance, or tight for time, limiting results to electronic copies can be useful… … but not everything is available in electronic format
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37. Catalogue contains entries for the e-books that we have in a collection called ebrary and ScienceDirect. To restrict your catalogue search to these e-books Limit search to Electronic Books BUT – Can do more powerful and effective searches from ebrary website and from the ScienceDirect website than in catalogue
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43. Finding information to support your course work - JOURNAL references on your reading list
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50. Record for an electronic journal: holdings difficult to decipher - use the SFX button to check holdings …
51. Look at the holdings/availability information provided in grey under each supplier. Select the supplier and click on GO …
52. Now on home page for the journal. Need to get to the year/volume/issue/pages that are given in your reference …
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56. Citing through the text - acknowledging the work/ideas as published by others…
57. List of references (or bibliography) given at the end. Vancouver system = numbered system…
58. Sometimes we hold paper format and electronic format (but check the time span for each by going into the library record – they may be different) …
59. Paper copy of the journal: Important info is shelfmark and holding …
60. Finding information to support your course work – what research has been published on my topic?
68. Essay/Project title: Techniques used in the reduction of medication errors OR AN D concepts alternative keywords Idea 1 medication error* prescription error* Idea 2 colour coding color coding checklist* Idea 3
76. This database has 38+ million references and found zero results. Q: Why? A: No match for the exact terms you used. Need to think about alternative words and structure the ideas/concepts
77. “ Quick and dirty” search. Two separate ideas. Using only minimal aspects of the search rules …
78. Small number of hits. there is material here that may be useful. Now just need to improve the search terms…
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91. When off campus you may need to prove that you are entitled to access the resource. Look for Shibboleth/Institution Login …
92. Select UK Federation (no matter where you are, geographically). Then select University of Aberdeen (under U, not A)…
93. Type in your University computer username and password in the Authentication pop-up window…
94. Wait a few seconds for the system to recognise that you should be allowed in…
95. Once you are into the site there is normally some indicator that it has recognised that you are an authenticated user…
96. If not already at the article you wanted you’ll need to navigate to it - use year, volume number, issue number…
97. Can read this on screen, print off or download for your own research/study purposes…
106. Example of a more positive result where item is held in paper format
107. Check the Summary Holding field and Shelfmark. It is impossible for us to subscribe to (= pay for) an electronic version of every journal that is published. Sometimes you have to come into the library ….
108. Cited By information (for slightly older material) allows you to jump forwards in time from when that paper was published…
109. They probably don’t share the keywords used in the search but as they cited a paper that was of interest they may also be of interest...
110. Mark relevant items. Can output to email/print/reference software. Can create a simple formatted bibliography of the marked references …
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146. Essay/Project Identify sources Prepare search string/strategy (keywords, truncation and Boolean) Databases Catalogue Go direct to database or use MetaLib to identify relevant sources. Apply correct search rules. Carry out search. Modify and refine. Evaluate results. Use SFX to link to full text or catalogue to check paper holdings. Print, save or send to email account. Use RefWorks to hold references and create bibliography Web Search engine (e.g. Google Scholar or Google or portal (http://www.intute.ac.uk) or direct to site. Access and read papers. Prepare work. Check Boolean and truncation. Carry out search, modify as necessary Obtain items
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