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Getting your money’s worth out of your library
Objectives
1. Best tools for the job
2. How to use them
3. Free full text
4. Evaluating sources
5. Academic Integrity
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools
Which tools would you prefer your surgeon to use?
Images : http://commons.wikimedia.org
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools
• Airfare comparison -reservations
• Finding out what friends are up to
• Getting health information
• Movie reviews, theatres and locations
Images: www.movies.com, www.expedia.com, www.orbitz.com, www.medlineplus.gov, twitter.com, www.wikipedia.org, www.facebook.com
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools
Business Resource Types• Scholarly, peer reviewed or referred articles Business Source Premier, ABI Inform,
Google Scholar• Trade or professional journals, newspapers ABI Inform , Lexis-Nexis, Regional
Business News, Google News• Country Reports EIU (Euromonitor), Stat-USA, MarketInsight, World Bank Business
Planet• Company Reports (Private) Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis, RefUSA• Company Reports (Public)All of the above and..ValueLine, Mergent,, MarketInsight• Industry Reports Datamonitor, MarketInsight, BizMiner• Market Research MarketResearch.com, Mintel, GMID (Euromonitor)• StatisiticsStatisiical Lexis-Nexis, GMID, State & Federal Government (ie. Census
Bureau), Trade Associations
Internet Resource Types• Paid (subscribed) or free (supported by ads or owner)• Mediated or unmediated (paid editors, no editor, community editor)• Commercial (.com), trade association (.org), educational(.edu), personal
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Search Techniques
Multiple databases, multiple searches
1. Keywords or phases (synonyms) v. subject terms, controlled vocabulary, descriptors
2. Boolean AND / OR
3. Limit or Narrow search by document type, year, language
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Getting Full Text
In Falvey collection Through Falvey
Within database
Article in another database
E-Journals A-Z
Catalog
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Getting full text
APA Style Reference Components Author, A. (Publication date). Title of the article or chapter. Periodical or Book Title. vol, pages or Publication place: Publisher Retrieved from ….
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Academic Integrity
Works Cited Methods1. Cut & Paste from database
2. RefWorks
3. Scratch
PowerPoint Presentations4. Note sources for data, exhibits and graphs
5. Avoid using full images lacking permissions
6. Use images in the public domain or with creative commons permissions.
Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Evaluate Quality
• Ownership of site• Purpose of site or publisher• Authors expertise, credentials• Independent verification• Appropriate for purpose
Evaluating Sources