Geology/Geophysics 9560:The Library Lecture/Workshop

Dan Sich

Earth Sciences, Physics & Astronomy Librarian

Sept 16th, 2008

I want you to be able to…

• find books using Library Catalogue

• find articles using databases

• find articles that cite particular articles

• build a list of references, bibliography

• get article full text, print/paper copies

schedule

• RefWorks account set-up• overview: type of sources• library catalogue (find books)• GeoRef (find articles)• Web of Science (citation database)• get article full text• exporting citations to RefWorks• RefWorks (creating a bibliography)• Questions & feedback

Register for RefWorks

• You’ll use your RefWorks account later in the session

@uwo.ca email address works best

This diagram has been adapted from Evolution of Scientific Information. [From Allan Kent and Harold Lancour, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (New York, 1979), s.v. ”Scientific Literature,” by K. Subramanyam, 394]. Available at http://library.wooster.edu/sciref/Tutor/EvSciInfo/evsciinfo.php (retrieved Sept 3, 2008). Thanks to Timken Science Library, College of Wooster.

Books are good for finding…

• introductions to topic

• reliable information

• lists of references

• numerical data

Library Catalogue

• Where the books are, along with…

• everything the library owns, including…

• journals (not journal articles), conferences

• Search by keyword, author, publisher, etc.

• E.g., United States Geological Society, Geological Society of America

Your turn

• 2-3 minutes

• Find books on your topic in the library catalogue

• Ask us questions & help each other

Journal Articles & Databases

• Scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, review articles

• GeoRef (geology)

• Web of Science (citation searching)

• SciFinder Scholar (chemistry)

Peer-review process

1. author writes paper, sends to publisher

2. publisher sends to referees (experts)

3. referees send feedback to publisher

4. publisher decides to publish or not

5. paper is published

6. journal is distributed

Scholarly vs. popular pubs

• availability• audience• aesthetics• authors• topics• length• language• advertizing• Sources,

credits

Search tips

• identify key words & concepts, synonyms

• use AND, OR, NOT, *

• E.g., mineral* AND (mars OR martian) AND soil*

• mineral* = mineralogy, mineral, minerals, mineralogy…

• limit by date, language, document type(s)

• use Descriptors to refine your search

Interlibrary Loan (RACER)

• For articles (photocopies) and books (loans) that UWO doesn’t have

• $5 per article

• Takes 4-10 business days (on average)

• Standards and theses are difficult to obtain through ILL

Your turn

• 10 minutes

• Find articles using GeoRef

• Find article fulltext using Get it @ Western

• Export article citations to RefWorks (instructions are linked from the Geology/Geophysics 9560 page)

• Ask questions & help each other

• Publication date?• Brand new articles =

usually not yet cited

• Read abstracts• Refine Results• Get it @ Western

• Times cited?• The older the article,

the longer it’s been around to be read & cited by others

• Which are the most highly cited articles?

• Create Citation Report

• What are the most highly cited articles on this specific topic?

• See who has cited this article (Times Cited)

• See who this article has cited (References)

• List of articles that have cited this article (and that have been indexed by Web of Science)

Your turn

• 10 minutes• Search Web of Science• View Cited References• Find highly cited, ‘classic’ articles• Find new articles (latest research)• Find relevant articles (any date)• Get article full text• Export citations to RefWorks (instructions are

linked from the Geology/Geophysics 9560 page)• Ask questions & help each other

Other Databases

• SciFinder Scholar (chemistry)

• Compendex (engineering)

• GeoBase

• Scopus (another citation index)

• Find all of these under “Databases by Title”

RefWorks

• Web app for citation management• automatically formats notes, bibliographies• works with many of our databases (not just

GeoRef & Web of Science)• Database-specific export & import

instructions are linked from my Geology/Geophysics 9560 page

• Use the Write-N-Cite plugin for Word; it’s linked under “Tools” in RefWorks

• We want to make a Bibliography

• We need to add a more appropriate style to our list of Favorites

• E.g., American Geophysical Union, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, etc.

• Choose the appropriate Output Style(s) from the list of the left, and Add to Favorites

• Select Output Style from drop-down

• Select References to Include (e.g., Last Imported folder or other folder, All References, etc.)

• Create Bibliography

• No need to worry about formatting (commas, spaces, italics, etc.)

• …but you should double-check for errors in the data

Your turn

• 5 minutes

• Create a bibliography using RefWorks

• What citation style did you use?

• Ask questions & help each other

Questions & feedback

• On a piece of paper, briefly describe the one thing that you’re still confused about

• It doesn’t have to be something I covered in the session

contact info

Dan Sich, Earth Sciences Librarian

phone: 519.661.2111 ext. 80962

eMail/MSN: dsich2@uwo.ca

Subject: Geology/Geophysics 9560 question

Skype: dansich