How a presentation could help your students?

• Shows main aspects of scholarly literacy in a lecture situation.

• Can be targeted specifically to the requirements of the subject.

• Can be included in the timetable

• Gives students the tools they need before researching for their assignments.

• Allows students to identify librarians so they can ask for further assistance.

What librarians put in their presentations?

• How students can determine the information needed

• How to find information, identify sources

• How to evaluate information – is it authoritative, useful?

• Organise and document information – citing, avoid plagiarism

Determining information needed

Identifying keywords for searching.

Topic:

Water pumping and storage systems for remote settlements

Using Boolean searching

pumping AND ‘storage systems’ AND remote

‘water pumping’ OR ‘water supply’

aquifers NOT rock

Sources of Scholarly Information

Web search engines

Google

Google Scholar

University of Melbourne

search tools

Library Catalogue

Discovery

Databases

Scopus

Inspec

IEEE Xplore

ACM Digital Library

Sources of Information: Journals

• Mass market/popular, newspapers, magazines

• Industry/trade journals, professional magazines

• Scholarly academic journals

Types of periodicals

• Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by a panel of experts

Peer reviewed or

refereed journals

Databases to access

Compendex - Inspec

*

Evaluate all sources

C• Is it CURRENT?• Check the date

R• Is it RELEVANT?• Does it have relevant information for my assessment task?

A• Who is the AUTHOR?• What are his/her credentials in this field?

A• Is it ACCURATE?• Cross check new information/facts with other sources

P• POINT OF VIEW? Biases: political, cultural, religious, personal?• PURPOSE? To inform, persuade, sell, entertain?

Documenting information

• Avoid plagiarism• Help readers trace the sources you used

Acknowledge the work of others:

• Quotations, • Paraphrased comments, and • Any ideas originally presented by other

authors.

You should attribute:

http://academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au/

Documenting information

Citing APA style

In text citations:

…was summarised (Hanson, 2010).

OR

Hanson (2010) summarised…

Reference list:

Hanson, L. (2010). Global citizenship, global health, and the internationalization of curriculum: A study of transformative potential. Journal of Studies In International Education, 14(1), 70-88