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Finding online information:
HIPS Research Skills
Information search
Research project
1. Plan
2.Search3. Evaluate
4. Organise
Stage 1. Plan
Think of idea, topic, title for project.
Define key elements, sub-topics.
Identify key words, phrases, people, spellings
Set limits: time, place
Map your ideas
HistoryModern
conflicts statistics
Cold war magazine articles
Scottish
books ebooks
Civil rights Key figures biographies
Stage 2. Search
Library Lending books Reference books Magazines
Learning Centre• Internet
Searching the web
Surface web: includes parts of the internet thatare easily found and indexed by search engines Bing http://www.bing.com Google http://www.google.com Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Deep web: information found within special databases Credo http://www.credoreference.com Scran http://www.scran.ac.uk
Subscription databases
Type Title eBooks ebrary Reference works Credo, KnowUK, Oxford Reference Online Journals/newspapers Gale Journal archives Oxford Journals Archive, Periodicals Archives Online Statistics Issues Online, FactFile, KnowUK (see Social Trends) Images Scran, Newsfilm Online Specialist subject Childlink, FBIS, Oxford Music Online, Company information Marketline
Heritage Online – library cataloguehttp://www.stevenson.ac.uk/heritage
All the databases that follow are listed on Heritage Online Search Heritage by title of online database (ebrary, Gale)
Catalogue records show resource links to websites
Athens: authentication for remote accesshttp://www.athens.ac.uk
Go to MyAthens
Login with username: stexxxxxx
Enter password
Select resources
Click title of resource
***Apply at library for an Athens account ***
Ebrary e-bookshttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/stevenson/home.action
An online library of approx. 3000 books you can
read on screen covering many different subjects:
Algebra Biology Diversity History Immigration Mathematics Psychology Statistics
Oxford Reference Onlinehttp://www.oxfordreference.com
Browse or Search(visual & written sources)
e.g. Olaudah EquianoSubject and books including:Oxford companion to Black British
History
Credohttp://www.credoreference.com
Searchbasic or advanced search options
e.g. Jane Austen,
Find a book
All topics including philosophy: titles include
e.g. Great thinkers A-Z
Political philosophy A-Z
KnowUKhttp://www.knowuk.co.uk
Search, browse publications and lifeevents.
Search e.g. Andrea Levy
Advance searche.g. options to search for an exact phrase
Local Informatione.g. Select an area, local links – politics,
press & media
Publicationse.g. Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Debretts people of Today Social Trends – population statistics
Gale: Magazine, newspaper, encyclopaedia articles http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/stevensc
Search or browse subjects
e.g.
dementia
Dolly the sheep
medical ethics
Browse publications
Look at individual volumes & issues, many full-text.
e.g. Biological Sciences Review
Psychology Review
Scotsman
Periodicals Archive Onlinehttp://pao.chadwyck.co.uk
Article search
e.g. DNA Freud Great War William Wilberforce
Find journal
e.g. British Journal of Psychology (1904-
1995) History Today (1951-1995) Philosophy Today (1957-1995
Cambridge Journals Digital Archivehttp://journals.cambridge.org
Contains 171 journals
Archive date range 1827-1996
Subject collections include: Scientific, technical medicine Humanities, social sciences Economics, history, law, politics
Advanced search Refine search by date. (end 1996)
Oxford Journals Archivehttp://www.oxfordjournals.org
ARCHIVE ONLY – pre-1996 articles full-text Access Humanities/Law/ Life Sciences/Mathematics/Medicine/Social Science Archive
articles, many full-text,1878-1995 Browse collection titles e.g. 20th century British History, Political Analysis, Social History of Medicine
Search articles: e.g. influenza, vaccination
IOP Journal Archivehttp://www.iop.org/EJ/welcome
Access to many journals including: Astronomical Journal Journal of Physics Physics in medicine and biology, 1956-1998 Physiological measurement, 1993-1998 Quantum Electronics
**** USE ATHENS LOGIN***
ACS Legacy Archiveshttp://pubs.acs.org
Access to ACS journals Analytical chemistry Biochemistry Inorganic chemistry
Archive date range journals published between
1879 and 1995
Advanced search Enter keywords, author or title Restrict by date range. End
1995
The Scientific World Journalhttp://www.thescientificworld.co.uk
Searchopen access articles on variety topicse.g. forensics, osteoporosis
Table of contents2001-date
Browse domainse.g. Analytical chemistry
motor processesneuroscience
Browse clusterse.g. development & embryology
environmentholistic health &
medicine
House of Commons Parliamentary Papershttp://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk
Over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Search e.g. immigration, race relations
Browse e.g. 18th, 19th, 20th century
Other specialist databases
Newsbank FBIShttp://infoweb.newsbank.com
Special reports
- e.g. Infectious diseases
Oxford Music Onlinehttp://www.oxfordmusiconline.com articles on composers, performers, conductors,
e.g. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor articles on instruments , notation, forms and genres,
Other specialist databases
The John Johnson Collectionhttp://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk
An archive of printed ephemera:
- advertising, book trade, crime, entertainment
ICE Virtual Libraryhttp://www.icevirtuallibrary.com
Institution of Civil Engineers access to: full text papers between: 1836-2001
Issueshttp://www.independence.co.uk
Issues Online
Citizenship & participation Human rights, Migration and population Racial discrimination Refugees
Discover Topic articles Key facts Key statistics
***see also Research Guides***
Fact File Onlinehttp://www.carelpress.co.uk
***No remote access - only available in College***
Automatic login to PDFs for many topics Britain & it’s citizens Law & order War & conflict Wider world
Scranhttp://www.scran.ac.uk
Images- view
-save- create posters
Pathfinder packs e.g.
Citizenship - Global issues – slave trade
NewsFilm Onlinehttp://www.nfo.ac.uk
Search for news from the
ITN/Reuters archive.
1910s – 2000s
Browse subjectse.g. Social Issues – minority group – national/ethnic group
e.g. Politics - Human Rights, Migration, Refugee
Searche.g. Notting Hill Carnival
Film and Soundhttp://www.filmandsound.ac.uk
Search & view film segments
Browse subjects & collectionse.g. Social & human science
- ethnic questions - ethnic groups
Company information
Marketlinewww.marketlineinfo.com/library/Default.aspx
Company information - browse by industry sectorMedia - television broadcasting, television programme production
Industry profiles - browsemedia – broadcasting
Products and services
SWOT analysis (often available)
Stage 3. Evaluate
Think carefully about the information retrieved: Is information up-to-date, relevant, objective?
Who supplied the information?
Apply the PROMPT framework to assess information retrieved from your search.
Presentation Relevance Objectivity Method Provenance Timeliness
Organising citations
Free tools to help you organise citations and references include: Cite u Like http://www.citeulike.org Connetea http://www.connotea.org WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org
Microsoft Office Word 7- select references tab
- citations & bibliography tools