Finding Information

Effective searching, Google Scholar and beyond

James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline- Effective searching- Getting the most from Google

Scholar- Other types of information

Theses / Newspapers- Library Services for the part-

time researcher

Part 1 Effective Searching

Intelligent Searching

- Define your information need- Broaden your search- Narrow your search- Evaluate your results- Make your results work for you

Re-search

Broaden your search

(1) Alternative terms

Broaden your search

zebra Equus quagga

zebra OR Equus quagga

Broaden your search

Changes in terminology :

Mental retardation ORIntellectual disability OR

Cognitive disability

Broaden your search

(2) Alternative spelling

Broaden your search

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Donut

Doughnut

Broaden your Search

Think about Americanised and Francophone word spellings:

• colour or color• centre or center• licence or license• organised or organized

Broaden your searchStyle guides:

Guardian : al-QaidaSunday Times : al-Qaeda

Broaden your search

• Broadening your search– Alternative spellings (wildcard searching)

– organi?ation will find: organisation and alternative letters

organization

– labo?r will find: labor and missing letters labour

– d?nut will find: donut and multiple missing lettersdoughnut

Broaden your search

(3) Word stems

Broaden your search

• Broadening your search– Word stems (truncation searching)– negligen* will find:

“the police were accused of negligence”“the police were accused of acting negligently”“the police were accused of being negligent”

Broaden your search

• Broadening your search - Summary– Synonyms butterfly OR

lepidoptera– Alternative spellingsorgani?ation

labo?r – Word stems negligen*

Terminology and symbols vary, depending on which database or catalogue you are using

Narrow your search

(1) Focussing your search

Narrow your search

“copyright”

photograph

Focussing: copyright AND photograph

AND

Narrow your search

(2) Proximity Connectors

Narrow your search

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Adding context…

truthwithin #

reconciliation

Narrow your search

• Narrowing your search– Proximity Truth within 3

reconciliation

Narrow your search

(3) Phrase searching

Narrow your search

• Narrowing your search– Phrase searching “Truth and Reconciliation

Commission”

Narrow your search

(4) Excluding terms

Narrow your search

• Narrowing your search– Excluding irrelevant results NOT

South Africa

Narrow your search

• Broadening your search - Summary– Focussing repository AND open

access– Proximity searching negligen* w/5 police– Phrase searching “duty of care”– Excluding terms property NOT

intellectual

Terminology and symbols vary, depending on which database or catalogue you are using

No standard language

Truth within 5 words reconciliation

Truth w/5 reconciliation

Truth /5 reconciliation

Truth N5 reconciliation

Truth adj5 reconciliation

Example

Examining the impact of crime

enacted by teenagers in the

inner city

teen*

youth

juvenile

adolescen*

crim*

shoplift*

“Anti-social

behavio?r”

theft

“inner city”

urban

cities

London

Example

(teen* OR youth OR juvenile OR adolescen*)AND

(crim* OR shoplift* OR “anti-social behavio?r” OR theft)

AND(“inner city”OR urban OR cities OR London)

(teen* OR youth OR

juvenile OR adolescen*)

(“inner city”OR

urban OR cities OR London)

(crim* OR shoplift* OR “anti-social behavio?r” OR theft)

Exercise• From the envelope, arrange some or

all of the terms and symbols available to provide an efficient initial search for the topic.

• In this exercise...! = truncation/word stem? = wildcardw/3 = ‘within 3 words of’

Making your results work for

you

Citation searching & References

• Connection in academic debate both backwards (references) and forwards (citations) in time

• May be a positive or negative connection to other literature

• Give you a quality controlled list of material to consult if you establish the context in which it has been cited

Article B

Article C

Book1

Article D

Book 2

20102008 20092007 2011 2012 2013

Article G

Article E

Book4

Article F

Book 3

Paper A

DemoWeb of Science

- citation searching

Hands-on• Citation searchingo Durham - http://bit.ly/1CBBLrw o Newcastle - http://bit.ly/1INDhwV o Northumbria –

http://bit.ly/1R6adCM o Sunderland – o Teesside - http://bit.ly/1dJ3emx

Part 2

Getting the most

from Google

& Scholar

Getting the most out of Google

Getting the most out of Google

Getting the most from Google

How to search effectively:Tsunami defences assumed ‘AND’ returns results with both termsProperty –intellectual excludes all results that include ‘intellectual’Butterfly OR lepidoptera searches for either of your search terms“early warning system” returns results with exact phrase

Getting the most from Google

How to search effectively:intitle:endochronology returns results with term in document titlesite:.gov.uk only returns results from specific site/domain1562..1598 returns results within a range of dates/prices/measurements"Pay the * wage“ wildcard to pick out unknown terms in a phrase~ghosts returns related terms, eg paranormal, haunted

Google Scholar• Scholarly literature

• Articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions

• Advanced features

Citations, versions, related articles, alerts, set up ConneXions off campus, links to Endnote downloads

Google Scholar

DemoGoogle Scholar

- settings, citations, versions & alerts

Hands-on

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• Link to Google Scholar• Set up preferences• Search using advanced search

screen• Explore advanced options e.g.

alerts• How does it compare with library

databases you use?

Part 3 Theses &

Newspapers

Theses• Theses in the UK• Durham e-Theses

- http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/ - http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/theses - https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/ - http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/ - http://tees.openrepository.com/tees/

• Index to Theses• EThOS

Theses• International Theses• Proquest/Dart/Trove/OAIster

http://bit.ly/1FldsiI

News resources• Both current and historic• Local, Regional, National and

International.• Print media and archive film

Key resources

DemoNexis UK- search tips,

exporting, international sources

Additional resources

- Times Literary Supplement [1902 - ]

- Times Higher Education Supplement [1995- ]

- The Economist [1843- ]

- JISC Mediahub [ ITN/Reuters archives 1900 - 2007 ]

- News on screen [1910- 1983]

- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Key Resources (historic)

• Gale News Vault

• Times Digital Archive 1785-2006

• British Newspapers 1600-1900

• Eighteenth century journals 1685-1815

•EEBO and ECCO for pamphlets

•19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)

•Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

•Historic Australian newspapers 1803-1954

DemoGale NewsVault

Additional resources

- Shen Bao [1872-1949 ]

- Ren Min Ri Bao [1946-2011]

- Guang ming ri bao [1949-2010 ]

- FT historical archive [1888-2010] - Daily Mail historical archive [1896-

2004]

- (Gale NewsVault)

Historic News on Microform

• Some national and local, e.g. - Sunderland & Durham County Herald 1839-67

• International, e.g. - Kabul Times 1969-79, - Milliyet (Istanbul) 1970-86, - Pravda 1921-1953, - Jerusalem Post 1950-2007

Hands-on

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• Explore any of the resources identified

• Theses - http://bit.ly/1FldsiI

• Newspapers• Durham - http://bit.ly/1FldsiI

• Northumbria - http://bit.ly/1j3672T

• Newcastle - http://bit.ly/1G1sb4c

• Sunderland - http://bit.ly/1dJ586A

• Teeside - http://bit.ly/1GrIfhY

Part 4

Library services for Part-

time researche

rs

Part-time service• Copy services• Postal Loans• Document Delivery Service• Sconul Access Scheme (all)

http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/part-time/

Additional Image Credits

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[Slide 21] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by ShironEuro. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/41893519@N07/4040697914/

[Slide 48] Via Flickr Creative Commons, by Alan Cleaver. Original available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/11121568@N06/4122176776/

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