Information search Bachelor thesis in human geography

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Today you´re going to learn more about…• Evaluation of information• Scholarly articles and journals• Search strategies• Libris• Leisure tourism and Academic search elite• Google scholar• Zotero

Guidelines for evaluating information

• Author• Subject and tendency• Purpose and target group• Currency• Edition• Publisher• References

How do I determine if an article is scholarly (”scientific”) or not?• Who has written the article?• Where is the article published?• Has the article been peer-reviewed?

Elements of a peer reviewed original article

• Introduction• Methods and material• Results

And• Discussion

Sources

Encyclopedias/dictionaries

BooksLibris

Articles (databases)Leisure tourismAcademic search elite

(choice of database depending on subject) Internet Google scholar

Search strategies in databases

• What words should I use when searching?• How do I expand my search?• How do I limit my search?• How do I search using keywords?

Keywords

• Descriptors, subject words, key words, A-Z, Index etc.• ”Tags”

Libris

• Contains references to books from all Swedish university libraries• Related articles• English or swedish keywords

Leisure tourism

• “Access to over 70,000 research abstracts from the last 30 years of research with 400 publications abstracted every year.”

• 1974-

Academic search elite

• “general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.”

• Peer-review• Thesaurus

Google scholar

• Introduced november 2004• Specialises in academic material on the internet• Everything in GS is not scholarly• Advanced search• Use english terms when you are searching

Access to databases, e-books and e-journals off-campus

• http://www.ub.umu.se/sok/atkomst-utanfor-campus

What is Zotero?

• Zotero is a freely available reference management system which helps you to sort and arrange your references.

It will help you to:• import references from various databases into one place• keep track of your references• spell correctly• create references and a reference list in your Word document• adapt the layout of the references in accordance with different

reference systems

Zotero continued…

• Mozilla Firefox webbrowser• http://www.zotero.org/ download program och plug-in for word.• Create own account to save on Zotero server