1. HOW TO WRITE A SUCCESSFUL
THESISResearch and Aerospace Project Management
Master’s Degree in Space and Aeronautical Engineering
Face-to-face session 3
2. Module Syllabus
1. Assessing information and its value in the research process
2. Ethical use of information
3. Search strategy
4. Types of documents
5. Information search tools
6. Accessing stored information
7. Organizing information
8. Written communication
9. Keeping up-to-date on information
10.Scientific communication
Module 1: INFORMATION RESEARCH
4. 1. Be brief.
2. Use your own lenguage (without copying).
3. Be faithful to the issue and to the autor’s
point of view.
4. Cite the original paper.
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7. Organizing information
Take notesSummarize
5. We must always take note of the source of
the documents we used for our research
Include ideas that reading
has suggested
Include fragments or
images from others as a
citation
Paraphrase
7. Organizing information
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6. 1. Organització de la informació
SOFTWARE FOR TAKING NOTES
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7. Organizing information
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7. 1. Organització de la informació
Main idea
Main idea
Complementary
ideas
Details
Details
Complementary
ideas
Details
Main idea
Complementary
ideas
Details
Complementary
ideas
Main idea
Complementary
ideas
7. Organizing information
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8. 1. Organització de la informació
7. Organizing information
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source
9. 1. Organització de la informació
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7. Organizing information
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13. 7. Organizing information
To show your reader you've done proper research by listing
sources you used to get your information
To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other
researchers and acknowledging their ideas
To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other
authors
To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by
citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a
bibliography or reference list
source
WHY CITING IS IMPORTANT
14. 7. Organizing information
Citations consist of standard elements, and contain all
the information necessary to identify and track down
publications
Citations may look different, depending on what is
being cited and which style was used to create them.
source
ABOUT CITATIONS
Choose an appropriate style
guide for your needs
15. 7. Organizing information
CITATIONS STYLES
L. Maritano, S. Amoroso, and F. Castelluccio, “Heliport network planning through OR
methods and use of GIS,” Aircr. Eng. Aerosp. Technol., vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 365–373,
May 2016.
Maritano, Luigi, Salvatore Amoroso, and Francesco Castelluccio. 2016. “Heliport
Network Planning through OR Methods and Use of GIS.” Aircraft Engineering
and Aerospace Technology 88(3): 365–73.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/10.1108/AEAT-01-2015-0016 (March 20,
2019).
Maritano, Luigi, et al. “Heliport Network Planning through OR Methods and Use of
GIS.” Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 88, no. 3, May 2016,
pp. 365–73, doi:10.1108/AEAT-01-2015-0016.
Maritano, L., Amoroso, S. i Castelluccio, F., 2016. Heliport network planning through
OR methods and use of GIS. A: Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology [en
línia]. Vol. 88, núm. 3, p. 365-373. ISSN 0002-2667. DOI 10.1108/AEAT-01-2015-
0016. [Consulta: 20 març 2019]. Disponible a:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/10.1108/AEAT-01-2015-0016.
IEEE
APA
MLA
ISO-
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17. WHAT IS A REFERENCE MANAGER?
Before… Nowadays…
+ easy + fast + features
7. Organizing information
18. Reference managers are programs that allow you to:
1. Manage bibliographic citations
2. Search in a database and import the results
3. Create bibliographies and in-text citations
WHAT IS A REFERENCE MANAGER?
7. Organizing information
19. It is a free reference manager and academic
social network that can help you organize your
research, collaborate with others online, and
discover the latest research.
7. Organizing information
21. MENDELEY INSTITUTIONAL EDITION
100 GB of storage space for individual users.
100 collaborators.
Private groups up to 25 members.
Unlimited number of private groups.
Mendeley suggest in the desktop utility to receive
article recommendations based in your personal
library.
7. Organizing information
22. HOW TO OBTAIN THESE ADVANTAGES
Visiting www.mendeley.com and signing into
Mendeley using the 'Sign in' button that appears in
the top right corner.
Clicking on eBIB button (it would be on your
bookmarks bar) and signing into it with your UPC
username and password
7. Organizing information
25. LET’S START
Sign up for Mendeley online
Download Mendeley Desktop
Build your library
7. Organizing information
26. Document
details
Folders
Read, no read and
favourite
Add
references
manually
References
search
Groups
MENDELEY DESKTOP OVERVIEW
7. Organizing information
27. Adding entry manually
Web Importer
Mendeley Icon
Dragging and dropping PDFs
Introducing an identifier
Importing your references from RIS, BibText, etc.
Finding new articles in the Mendeley Reseach Catalog
and in the Mendeley suggest
BUILDING OUR LIBRARY
7. Organizing information
28. Adding entry manually
ADDING DOCUMENTS
7. Organizing information
29. Gonzalez, Rafael C.; Woods, Richard
E. Digital image processing. 4th ed.
Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2017.
ISBN 9781292223049.
Adding entry manually
7. Organizing information
ADDING DOCUMENTS
30. Import documents in just in click!
Web Importer
ADDING DOCUMENTS
7. Organizing information
31. Use the Web Importer to add from online databases
2
Web Importer
ADDING DOCUMENTS
7. Organizing information
38. Introducing an identifier
Mendeley adds
missing info
automatically
Enter the DOI, PubMed or Arxiv ID
and click IDs d’ArXiv o PubMed and
click on the to start to look up
1
2
3
7. Organizing information
ADDING DOCUMENTS
39. Let’s try searching for a
document by its identifier
7. Organizing information
40. Importing from RIS, BibText, etc.
Copy-and-paste (or drag and drop) the
RIS, BibText file into the Mendeley
folder you want
7. Organizing information
ADDING DOCUMENTS
41. Let’s try importing a document
with RIS format
5 items from Materials Science &
Engineering Database
7. Organizing information
42. Let’s try creating a folder and
checking for duplicates
7. Organizing information
44. Documents and people suggested by Mendeley
depending on your Library content
Suggesting documents from Mendeley
7. Organizing information
ADDING DOCUMENTS
49. Let’s try creating a private
group and inviting two
classmates
7. Organizing information
50. The Citation Plugin allows you to quickly
and easily cite materials that you’ve
added to your Mendeley library - as well
as generating a full bibliography of the
materials you’ve referenced in the paper.
Install it from mendeley Desktop: Tools –
Install … Plugin
HOW TO GENERATE CITATIONS
7. Organizing information
51. We used standard CIE responses, neglecting more recent and accurate photopic
responses known as Judd (Judd, 1951) modified V(l), Judd-Vos modified VM(l) (Vos,
1978) and Stockman and Sharpe (Stockman and Sharpe, 2000) V*2ðlÞ, because for
now tandardiza-tion of the ratio has priority over accuracy.
Preventing the blue component from reaching the eye by means of filters blocking
wavelengths under 530 nm, preserves nocturnal melatonin production in humans
(Leonid et al., 2005). This implies that the blue component of light has the severest
consequences for the environment and human health.
Judd, D.B., 1951. Proceedings of the Twelfth Session of the CIE. Bureau Central de la CIE, Paris. 11
Leonid, K., Casper, R.F., Hawa, R.J., Perelman, P., Chung, S.H., Sokalsky, S., Shapiro, C.M., 2005. Blocking low-
wavelength light prevents nocturnal mela-tonin suppression with No adverse effect on performance during
Simulated shift work. J. Clin. Endocrin. Metabol. 90 (5), 2755-2761.
Stockman, A., Sharpe, L.T., 2000. The spectral sensitivities of the middle- and long-wavelength-sensitive cones
derived from measurements in observers of known genotype. Vis. Res. 40, 1711-1737.
Vos, J.J., 1978. Colorimetric and photometric properties of a 2 fundamental observer. Color Res. Appl. 3, 125-128.
7. Organizing information
73. CHANNELS TO COMMUNICATE IN SCIENCE
• “Invisible colleges”
• Professional networks
• Interests groups in social media
• E-mail distribution lists
10. Scientific communication
74. • Scientific papers: article journals or conference
proceedings and doctoral theses
• Monographs
• Reviews
• Technical reports
• Social media
• General news
10. Scientific communication
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
75. • Subject affinity (Web of Science, library catalogues...)
• Prestige, impact (Journal Citations Report, Scimago
Journal Rank)
• Belonging to an association
• Review process (peer review)
• Delay in publishing
• Copyright transfer
• Publishing formats
• Diffusion and visibility (electronic version, indexed
by databases, open access...)
10. Scientific communication
CHOOSING A JOURNAL TO PUBLISH...
77. International movement that promotes dissemination of scholarly
literature through immediate, permanent and not-paid online access
to the full text of a work
Allows to erase legal barriers so a work can be freely reproduced,
distributed, transformed, publicly disseminated, always
acknowledging the autor and respecting the works’ integrity
Promotes the green road so authors can autoarchive their works
without intermediaries
Generates a golden road promoting new ways of publishing, like
open access journals and institutional repositories
78. OA journals OA repositories Search
engines
Open access documents can be found in...
10. Scientific communication
79. SOME ISSUES ON COPYRIGHT
Authors have the right of being acknowledged moral rights (always
belong to the author)
Any use of a work (copy, distribution, transmittion or creating derivative
works) are ways to exploit a work exploitation rights (exclusive of
the author, but can be transferred)
we can NOT use a work freely if all rights
are reserved, we have to ask for permission
we must cite sources
not doing so implies plagiarism
unpublished works are also protected
10. Scientific communication
80. Attribution (by): you are allowed to copy, distribute, transmit,
adapt and make a commercial use of the work. You must attribute
the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Non-Commercial (nc): You may not use this work for commercial
purposes.
No Derivative Works (nd): You may not alter, transform, or build
upon this work.
Share alike (sa): If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,
you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or
similar license to this one.
10. Scientific communication
81. HOW WE CAN INCREASE MY WORK’S VISIBILITY
Chose journals according to their impact and dissemination
If there is more than one author, put the author with higher impact first
Self-citation
Send articles to mates and experts (use your social networks contacts)
Present your works at seminars, conferences…
Choose the title article and keywords well
Provide a good abstract
List your work in a personal website or blog
Include your articles in other webs or search engines (open access)
Check that you appear on directories, repositories...
Use always the same signature
10. Scientific communication
82. HOW WE SIGN OUR WORKS
Using the SAME signature for ALL scientific works ensures their retrieval
and visibility on databases
Andrés García Pérez → García-Pérez, A. o García, A.
Anna M. Masó → Masó, Anna M. o Masó, Anna-Maria
UPC authors recommendations:
• If you want to use both surnames, join them with a hyphen
• Use full names, not abbreviations
• Words like De, De la… should be linked to surnames, not name
Universitat Politència de Catalunya (UPC)
Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
(UPC). Barcelona Tech
Follow your institution recommendations when stating the
name of the university
10. Scientific communication
84. Promoting an article
10. Scientific communication
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125073/building-a-professional-identity-from-research-to-impact
85. Van Noorden, Richard, Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature 13 August 2014
http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711
10. Scientific communication
86. Collaborative research + Tools 2.0 = Science 2.0
10. Scientific communication
SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACADEMICS