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The LibraryYour research Link to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Presenters:
Monica Raszewski, Liaison Librarian, School of Culture and Communication
Appy Laspagis, Education Librarian
Mary-Louise Edwards, Liaison Librarian, Business and Economics
Katie Wood, University of Melbourne Archives
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Overview
• Introduction to the Library’s quality research resources
• Strategies for finding Information
• Tips to effectively use the Library catalogue
• How to access Discovery to find electronic resources including, journals and indexes
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Borrowing books
Your student card is your Library and printing card borrow 100 items
at a time
Renew up to 10 timeson 28-day and 7-day loans
No renewals on hourly or overnight loans
Renew up to 4 times on
Music Scores
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Room and Computer Bookings
400 PCsBook for up to 30 minutes or 3 hours
Group study spaces Book for up to 2 hours
32 Rooms over 6 locations
Book anytime anywhere
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Where can you find us?
12 libraries
Discipline Specific
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Arts Students
Baillieu Library
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Business, Economics and Education Students
Giblin Eunson Library
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The University holds over 30 cultural collections including:
• University of Melbourne Archives• Rare books / Special Collections
• Classics and Archaeology• Medical history, botany… and much more
Services:• Access unique and valuable research collections
• Receive support from staff who are subject experts
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Research Cycle
Analyse the Problem
Identify concepts, keywords,
authors
Create a search
strategy
Identify search tools
Search and Retrieve
Information
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2: Brainstorm words to describe each concept
Identify synonyms Use dictionaries,
encyclopaedias or thesauri
Do searches and look at the subject
terms used
Consider singular vs. plural and
different spellings
1: Identify the main concepts in your topic
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Example
1. Identify main concepts
Television Children Behaviour
Topic: Media Violence and Influence on Children’s Behaviour
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Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Keyword 3
Television Violence children
Media Aggress* youth
Internet Bullying Young adults
Brainstorm keywords
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Use operators
Combine search terms using operators
Boolean Operators:• AND• OR• NOT
Phrase “”• Search for an
exact phrase• “educational
research”
Wildcard ?• Matches any
single character anywhere in a word
• organi?ation finds: organisation organization
Truncation *• Matches
characters at the end of a word
• Child* finds:• children• childhood• child
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Online Search Statements
Narrow or broaden your search using the Boolean Operators and, or, not
1. Television and violence and child
2. (Television or media or internet) and violence
3. Television or Media not (Social Media)
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Where to start!
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Subject Research Guideshttp://www.unimelb.libguides.com/
• Literature Reviews• Research Support• Getting Published • Finding Theses• Staying Current• Managing References • Research Impact• Tracking Citations• Finding News• Measuring Research• EndNote for Windows• EndNote for Mac
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Library Catalogue
E-Books Bonus
Interlibrary LoansCAVAL & national
borrowing schemes
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Discovery
Journal articlesEbooksBooksExam papersReadings online and more…
http://www.unimelb.libguides.com/discovery
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Why Use Individual Databases?
Subject based and a focus on specific content
Advanced search options, publication type, thesaurus, cited by
Targeted and manageable number of hits
Discover the important publishing sources – peer reviewed journals, conferences in your subject area
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Useful Education databases
A+ Education- Australian Focus Sources include published and unpublished material, theses, book chapters, conference papers, journal articles
ERIC- US Focus on all aspects of education. Sourcesjournal articles, conference papers, reports, theses and book chapters.1966-present over1.2 million references
Education Research Abstracts- Taylor and Francis
Publishers database includes Taylor and Francis
RoutledgePsychology Press
CRC PressGarland Science
Proquest Digital DissertationsFull text theses over 2million entries from 700 countries
Web of Science
Sage Research Methods OnlineOutstanding new resource
collection of ebooks, videos journals, dictionaries ,
encyclopedias in social sciences
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Useful Arts databases
APAFT - Australian Focus Sources include published and unpublished material, theses, book chapters, conference
papers, journal articles. Some full text.
JSTOR (Archive) provides full-text access to a range of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities and social
sciences.Lacks the most recent 2-5 years of journals.
Academic Search Premier a scholarly database that includes full text for
1,800 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study.
Proquest Digital DissertationsFull text theses over 2million entries from 700
countries
Web of Science
Project Muse provides full-text, online access to a comprehensive selection of scholarly humanities and social sciences journals.
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Checklist for evaluating sources of information
•Who is the author? •What are his/her qualifications?Authority
•Is there bias? •How are the claims justified? Objectivity
•Practitioners or academic community?Intended Audience
•Facts/figures/dates cited and references included? Website – what domain?Accuracy •How up to date is the information?Currency
Evaluating Sources
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Citing & Referencing
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Citing & Referencing Tips
Which Style?
•Check with your supervisor
Style manual or guidelines
•Re-cite
Bibliographic management
software
•EndNote •RefWorks
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Take Home Message
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Researcher@Libraryhttp://library.unimelb.edu.au/research/
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Get in touch!
• Visit us in person• Chat to us online• Call us via 13MELB• Visit our mobile website
Monica Raszewski
Liaison Librarian
School of Culture & Communication
Telephone: 8344 7796
Appy LaspagisEducation LibrarianE: [email protected] : 8344 7119
Mary Louise EdwardsLiaison LibrarianBusiness and EconomicsTelephone : 9035 7884 E: [email protected]
Katie WoodUniversity of Melbourne Archives Telephone : 8344 6848E: [email protected]
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