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Introduction to resources
Useful things to make your (academic) life easier
Housekeeping
• How’s it going?• Can you find the books
on your reading lists?• Can you renew and
reserve books?• Do you know who to
contact for help?• Library Subject Guides?
Getting started
By tableatny (BXP135671) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Access from myUniHub > My Study page > My Library > Library Subject Guides
Hover your mouse over Resources to see pages on specific topics, e.g. Finding Journal Articles
Starting your search
Summon
Searches journals, books and more
Good starting point for a basic search
NOT specific to sport!
Doesn’t do specific or complex searching
Refine, refine, refine Full text online
Scholarly & peer review
Journal Articles only
Discipline,
e.g. recreation & sports
Date range
Levels of searching• Summon alone is not enough!• How deep / broad / careful do you need to be?
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Keywords• Really worth a 5 minute brainstorm before you search
– it will save you time later!
• Searching one word for your concept will not bring you all the results! And sometimes none.Not everyone uses the same terminology for one idea
• Can use the library worksheet if you like (also helps you organise how to combine the terms with ‘AND’ or ‘OR’)
• Examples follow
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Planning your search - keywords
Boring but WORTH IT!
1. Pick out your concepts and separate them – Concentration, performance, tennis etc
2. Think of other words that are similar to your key words but represent the same concepts– Attention control, focus, attentional
strategies etc
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Planning your search - keywords3. BE PREPARED
Think of narrower words that fit into your terms and wider concepts that your terms fit into.You will often need to:
A. widen your search by using larger terms or concepts to produce more results
OR
B. OR narrow your search if you produce too many results, by using narrower terms that fit into your concept
• NOTE: if you narrow or widen ALL your concepts you will make your life too hard – choose one or two
concentration
• Concentrat*• Attention• Focus• “Attention control
training”• “Attentional strategies”
Performance
• Ways of measuring performance
• Perform*
tennis• Racquet sports• Type of competition
What research has been conducted on improving concentration and performance in tennis players?
Specific egs
• Specific groups of athletes
•Age?
•Gender?
•Level – elite etc?
Over to you...
• Using the worksheet
• Briefly summarise your topic in the first box
• Narrow it down to some key words
• Swap with your neighbour – add some they haven’t thought of
AND / OR.....WHY?
...won’t find everything!
Estimated size of Google’s index
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/
Google searches this bit...
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/
The DEEP web
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/
The DEEP web
•Intranets (internal internet sites)•Academic databases•Unlinked sites which haven’t told Google they exist, or have asked to remain unlisted•Basically, anything that needs a password
Avoid the filter bubble – sign out of Google when you search
More about the filter bubble
...is free and full of stuff!
Personalising Google Scholar• Did you know you can set up Google Scholar to link
to everything you have paid access to through the University?
• Please follow along and personalise your GS• Google Scholar > Settings
Personalising Google Scholar…
• Click on Library Links on left hand side
• Search for and select Middlesex University, then Save
Searching Google Scholar
Key databases for Sport
• Sport Discus
• Medline
• PsycInfo
• Science Citation Index
And more...
• Science Direct
• Ovid Journals • (includes the main S&C journals)
Sport Discus
• After a short demo...
• Try searching for some articles on your topic
• Use the ‘check for full text’ links
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Getting Full text of journal articles• Troubleshooting guide can be found here
– http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/accessingelectronicresources
• If you’re not lucky! REMEMBER – it won’t always be directly available to you – especially at MSc level– Double check the library catalogue by copying journal name into the ‘journal
search’. If we have it there’ll be a record and a link with the dates we have access to.
– Go to Google Scholar and look for PDF signs– Go to Author’s website/institution’s repository, often they have uploaded a
pre publication version– Order a copy via the inter-library loan service (£3.00) (usually you’ll be
emailed with a link to a PDF)http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/resources/ill/index.aspx
Citation indexes
• Which articles have cited an earlier article• Find articles on similar/related subject• How many times an article has been cited• Best journals in your field
Science Citation Index
Google Scholar citations
Staying up to date in your area
• Most of the databases have an option to set up an account, so you can save searches and set up alerts or RSS feeds for new articles
Staying up to date in your area
Staying up to date – citation alerts• In Science Citation Index• For articles significant to your work/dissertation – get
an alert when it is cited in new research
Zetoc alerts service – get info as it’s published
• Access through myUniHub > Databases
Create an alert and name it
Add searches or journals that you want to bealerted about
• You can build a list of searches – by keywords or author
• You can also add searches by journal and be emailed every time a new issue is published
Exercise - Zetoc
• Access through MyUniHub > Databases
• Set up some alerts and add searches relevant to your modules / topics
• Remember you can add multiple searches for all of the synonyms to each alert
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Attribution
Referencing tools
• Cite Them Right
• RefWorks
• Mendeley
Shows you how to reference just about any source using Harvard referencing style
Other referencing styles e.g. APA are available for the main resource types
Access via MyUniHub / Subject guides
Online site to manage references, subscribed to by the University
Access through the Databases list on MyUniHub
Generate your references in many different styles – including journals
Help available on Subject Guides
Freely available software
Online and desktop versions
Store and annotate PDF files
Available to you after you’ve left MDX
Share references and notes with groups
Need help?
• Librarians in the Specialist Zone (1st floor of Sheppard Library) during core hours Mon-Fri
• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/ • SES Library Subject Guide – Jo’s contact details and
presentations/helpsheetshttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/sport