You also need to answer the following two questions on your answer sheet:
1. In which library would you find the History collection?
2. Books are classified by subject using a numerical system (Dewey Decimal Classification scheme). What is the number for books on Music?
Have you used the British Library? If you haven’t but are interested in going there and (to quote them) exploring the world’s knowledge these videos will give you tips before you go (so it is a little less scary).
It is a great resource for researchers, staff and dissertation students.
1. Registering with the library
2. Using the Reading Rooms
There are a few rules about using them so this is a great video so you know what to do before you go.
3. Exploring the Collections – Researcher
4. Exploring the Collections – Designer
Even if you don’t want to use it I’d recommend visiting the permanent Treasures of the British Library exhibition (see Jane Austen’s writing desk, The Magna Carta and Gutenberg Bible or any of their temporary ones.
This tool allows you to create an unique online profile that shows your publication history.
Add your publications
1. Click on “Add Publication”
2. There are five ways of adding
publications via:
– ISI Web of Knowledge
– Web of Science®
1. Click on one of the links in “Add Publications“ to add a publication.
2. Enter last name and initials to search for records of relevant articles.
3. A list of records from the search will be shown.
4. Browse through all records and select the records for research papers you have written by clicking on “Add Selections to List”.
– Web of Science Distinct Author Set
– EndNote® Web
1. Click on the “Go to Endnote Web” link in ”Add To: My Publications” to add a publication.
2. a. If you are not currently a user, or are not currently signed in to EndNote Web you will be prompted to register or log in. (More Information on Endnote Web is available here)
b. If you are already logged into EndNote Web via your integrated ISI Web of Knowledge or Web of Science
login, you will automatically be taken to your “My References” page.
3. Registered, logged in EndNote Web users will be taken to their “My References” page. From there you can select existing references to add to any of your 3 Publication Lists in ResearcherID. Select the references you
want to add and choose the preferred ResearcherID publication list in the “Add to group…” drop-down menu
– RIS file from EndNote, Reference Manager (RefMan) or other reference software
1. Click on one of the links in “Add Publications” to add a publication.
2. You can upload an RIS formatted text file which can be exported from EndNote, RefMan or other reference
software. The RIS format is a tagged file format for expressing bibliographic citations.
ResearcherID interactive Labs
ResearcherID includes an interactive Labs environment for exploration of author-level metrics. These tools allow for visual analysis of research networks based on:
The tools include:
Find Other Authors
You can also search for other authors in your field:
Note: If you have not logged into ProQuest through your institution for a period of 76 days, you will be notified by email that your My Research account will become inactive after 90 days.
SimilarPages is very good for finding new content. Simply enter a URL you know and it finds related pages.
It indexes over 50 million websites and allows you to branch out further based on new sites found.
The SimilarPages Add-On is the free Web Discovery and Search Tool by SimilarPages. For any page you land on, SimilarPages add-on automatically generates a list of similar websites. All you have to do is to follow the links you are interested in.
Type a URL into the search box.
You will then get suggested sites (unless the URL is too obscure).
You can create your own log-in within these databases and save results to your own personal folder.
To create your account, simply click on the ‘sign in’ option along the top menu and then choose to create an account.
The next time you log into an EBSCO database you can then ‘Sign in’ using your EBSCO user name and start adding things to your folder. That way you’ll always have a record of the useful articles and reports you found.
When you are logged into your account the EBSCO symbol next to the search box will look like this:
Something which always causes concern when people mention social media or Web 2.0 is privacy and managing a professional personal balance.
One aspect of privacy is the information we choose to share and how that reflects on our professional identities.
This presentation from the University of Bath gives a very good overview of how to manage your professional identity:
Not everybody will want to be totally anonymous but in our online world it is important to be informed about privacy.
Take note of the privacy options available and adjust the settings where necessary when signing up to a new service. Many sites will give you a variety of options allowing you to set the privacy settings at a level to suit you. This will include an option to keep your whole profile private, or open to only those users you choose to share your information with.
But remember the more information we share the less control we have of it (This light hearted video is a good reminder).
Fact: Facebook’s privacy policy is longer than the United States Constitution (minus amendments) (Bilton, N., 2010. Price of Facebook? Start clicking! New York Times 12 May, p.B8 )
This page has some advice on how to keep social media private – it is aimed at teachers but the instructions are relevant.
The University has some social media guidelines which I would suggest you take a look at.
If you wish you can set your blog so search engines won’t find it easily by going to Dashboard > Settings > Reading then select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site.”
Adapted from http://23thingswarwick.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/managing-your-online-identity.html under creative commons license and Emily Allbon’s presentation on Upgrade from City
This is the key standard for Impact Factor data. Available at RHUL: http://eresources.rhul.ac.uk/kb/JCR
Download the application from the website – you should be able to install it on your PC. It uses data from Google Scholar, so it picks up titles not included in JCR, such as reports and other non peer-reviewed materials. The results are therefore widely different from JCR and should not be directly compared.
Data is still being developed as this service is quite new. It’s more about the number of author citations than about journal impact factors.
Good subject coverage, but uses a different way of calculating impact factors from JCR so it is not possible to compare between the two. Available at RHUL: http://eresources.rhul.ac.uk/kb/Scopus
Takes data directly from JCR, but doesn’t usually include the most recent report data.
The tips below are useful when searching Google and other databases.
| Search term example | Explanation |
| “ethical consumer” | Use double quotes (“”) if you want Google to search a phrase in that exact order |
| beverages -tea | Type a minus (-) sign immediately before the term you want to exclude. The minus sign should be placed immediately before the word preceded by a space. This search retrieves items on various beverages other than tea |
| “fair trade” tea OR coffee | Google’s default is to search all the words you type in your search. If you want it to search either one or several words, you can use the OR operator (note that OR must be typed in upper-case) |
| “student protest” 1960..1970 | If you want to limit the result to pages covering the subject within a specified date (e.g. 1960-1970) type the date separated by two stops (..) and no spaces |
| ~school | If you want to search for synonyms place the tilde ~ immediately in front of the word or phrase. Eg ~school will retrieve pages on college, academy, university, education, etc. |
| consum* | Insert an asterisk (*) as a wildcard symbol. This allows stem or word variation searches. For example typing consum* will retrieve material on consumer, consumers, consumerism, consumption, etc. |
Evernote is a web application which is also available to download on to mobile devices, desktop PCs, lap tops and just about every computer. This means that you can literally use it anywhere and it will sync with on all your devices and the website.
Why use it?
* You can log on to the web version (http://www.evernote.com/) anywhere with an internet connection and you can share your notes so it is a great way of quickly creating a simple web page or putting a plan together.
* You can clip all or part of a webpage into a note by using the web clipping tool (this is easier to install at work on Firefox than on Internet Explorer).
* You can create checklists so you can tick the boxes to keep track of what you have done.
* You can tag notes so notes in different notebooks can all use the same tage and be found on a search.
* If you are using it on a mobile device you can add a location so you can see all notes made at that location by you.
Evernote is particularly useful for projects as this video shows:
Examples of Evernote uses
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