Finding online information:

HIPS Research Skills

Information search

Research project

1. Plan

2.Search3. Evaluate

4. Organise

Stage 1. Plan

Think of idea, topic, title for project.

Define key elements, sub-topics.

Identify key words, phrases, people, spellings

Set limits: time, place

Map your ideas

HistoryModern

conflicts statistics

Cold war magazine articles

Scottish

books ebooks

Civil rights Key figures biographies

Stage 2. Search

Library Lending books Reference books Magazines

Learning Centre• Internet

Searching the web

Surface web: includes parts of the internet thatare easily found and indexed by search engines Bing http://www.bing.com Google http://www.google.com Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

Deep web: information found within special databases Credo http://www.credoreference.com Scran http://www.scran.ac.uk

Subscription databases

Type Title eBooks ebrary Reference works Credo, KnowUK, Oxford Reference Online Journals/newspapers Gale Journal archives Oxford Journals Archive, Periodicals Archives Online Statistics Issues Online, FactFile, KnowUK (see Social Trends) Images Scran, Newsfilm Online Specialist subject Childlink, FBIS, Oxford Music Online, Company information Marketline

Heritage Online – library cataloguehttp://www.stevenson.ac.uk/heritage

All the databases that follow are listed on Heritage Online Search Heritage by title of online database (ebrary, Gale)

Catalogue records show resource links to websites

Athens: authentication for remote accesshttp://www.athens.ac.uk

Go to MyAthens

Login with username: stexxxxxx

Enter password

Select resources

Click title of resource

***Apply at library for an Athens account ***

Ebrary e-bookshttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/stevenson/home.action

An online library of approx. 3000 books you can

read on screen covering many different subjects:

Algebra Biology Diversity History Immigration Mathematics Psychology Statistics

Oxford Reference Onlinehttp://www.oxfordreference.com

Browse or Search(visual & written sources)

e.g. Olaudah EquianoSubject and books including:Oxford companion to Black British

History

Credohttp://www.credoreference.com

Searchbasic or advanced search options

e.g. Jane Austen,

Find a book

All topics including philosophy: titles include

e.g. Great thinkers A-Z

Political philosophy A-Z

KnowUKhttp://www.knowuk.co.uk

Search, browse publications and lifeevents.

Search e.g. Andrea Levy

Advance searche.g. options to search for an exact phrase

Local Informatione.g. Select an area, local links – politics,

press & media

Publicationse.g. Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Debretts people of Today Social Trends – population statistics

Gale: Magazine, newspaper, encyclopaedia articles http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/stevensc

Search or browse subjects

e.g.

dementia

Dolly the sheep

medical ethics

Browse publications

Look at individual volumes & issues, many full-text.

e.g. Biological Sciences Review

Psychology Review

Scotsman

Periodicals Archive Onlinehttp://pao.chadwyck.co.uk

Article search

e.g. DNA Freud Great War William Wilberforce

Find journal

e.g. British Journal of Psychology (1904-

1995) History Today (1951-1995) Philosophy Today (1957-1995

Cambridge Journals Digital Archivehttp://journals.cambridge.org

Contains 171 journals

Archive date range 1827-1996

Subject collections include: Scientific, technical medicine Humanities, social sciences Economics, history, law, politics

Advanced search Refine search by date. (end 1996)

Oxford Journals Archivehttp://www.oxfordjournals.org

ARCHIVE ONLY – pre-1996 articles full-text Access Humanities/Law/ Life Sciences/Mathematics/Medicine/Social Science Archive

articles, many full-text,1878-1995 Browse collection titles e.g. 20th century British History, Political Analysis, Social History of Medicine

Search articles: e.g. influenza, vaccination

IOP Journal Archivehttp://www.iop.org/EJ/welcome

Access to many journals including: Astronomical Journal Journal of Physics Physics in medicine and biology, 1956-1998 Physiological measurement, 1993-1998 Quantum Electronics

**** USE ATHENS LOGIN***

ACS Legacy Archiveshttp://pubs.acs.org

Access to ACS journals Analytical chemistry Biochemistry Inorganic chemistry

Archive date range journals published between

1879 and 1995

Advanced search Enter keywords, author or title Restrict by date range. End

1995

The Scientific World Journalhttp://www.thescientificworld.co.uk

Searchopen access articles on variety topicse.g. forensics, osteoporosis

Table of contents2001-date

Browse domainse.g. Analytical chemistry

motor processesneuroscience

Browse clusterse.g. development & embryology

environmentholistic health &

medicine

House of Commons Parliamentary Papershttp://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk

Over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.

Search e.g. immigration, race relations

Browse e.g. 18th, 19th, 20th century

Other specialist databases

Newsbank FBIShttp://infoweb.newsbank.com

Special reports

- e.g. Infectious diseases

Oxford Music Onlinehttp://www.oxfordmusiconline.com articles on composers, performers, conductors,

e.g. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor articles on instruments , notation, forms and genres,

Other specialist databases

The John Johnson Collectionhttp://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk

An archive of printed ephemera:

- advertising, book trade, crime, entertainment

ICE Virtual Libraryhttp://www.icevirtuallibrary.com

Institution of Civil Engineers access to: full text papers between: 1836-2001

Issueshttp://www.independence.co.uk

Issues Online

Citizenship & participation Human rights, Migration and population Racial discrimination Refugees

Discover Topic articles Key facts Key statistics

***see also Research Guides***

Fact File Onlinehttp://www.carelpress.co.uk

***No remote access - only available in College***

Automatic login to PDFs for many topics Britain & it’s citizens Law & order War & conflict Wider world

Scranhttp://www.scran.ac.uk

Images- view

-save- create posters

Pathfinder packs e.g.

Citizenship - Global issues – slave trade

NewsFilm Onlinehttp://www.nfo.ac.uk

Search for news from the

ITN/Reuters archive.

1910s – 2000s

Browse subjectse.g. Social Issues – minority group – national/ethnic group

e.g. Politics - Human Rights, Migration, Refugee

Searche.g. Notting Hill Carnival

Film and Soundhttp://www.filmandsound.ac.uk

Search & view film segments

Browse subjects & collectionse.g. Social & human science

- ethnic questions - ethnic groups

Company information

Marketlinewww.marketlineinfo.com/library/Default.aspx

Company information - browse by industry sectorMedia - television broadcasting, television programme production

Industry profiles - browsemedia – broadcasting

Products and services

SWOT analysis (often available)

Stage 3. Evaluate

Think carefully about the information retrieved: Is information up-to-date, relevant, objective?

Who supplied the information?

Apply the PROMPT framework to assess information retrieved from your search.

Presentation Relevance Objectivity Method Provenance Timeliness

Organising citations

Free tools to help you organise citations and references include: Cite u Like http://www.citeulike.org Connetea http://www.connotea.org WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org

Microsoft Office Word 7- select references tab

- citations & bibliography tools