Information Universe DIT Library Research Resources www dit

Information Universe DIT Library Research Resources www. dit. ie/library

DIT Library • Clicks & bricks • Borrowing • Library Sites • DIT Library A-Z • Ask a Librarian • Kevin St Library

10 items Study Skills e. Books Library Short Loan 1 renewal per item 90 days Lending Reference

Library Accounts & PIN ü ü ü View Renew Request Reading history Remote Access http: //www. library. dit. ie/

Library Resources: E-books for Computing • Library website www. dit. ie/library • Library catalogue www. library. dit. ie » Example Art of Software Testing

E-books

Library Community Letters of Introduction? Alcid? Sconul?

Information Retrieval : Class Overview 1. Lit Review 2. Search Strategy 7. References Plagiarism Thesis or Project 6. Evaluate Info Sources 5. Full Text E-Journals 3. Web. OPAC & Subject Gateways 4. Subject Databases

Research Question 1. What do I need to find out? 2. Where can I find the information? 3. Is the information reliable? 4. Is the information relevant?

Research Question Where to look? • Catalogues (Web. Opac) • Databases • Subject Portals • E-journals • Virtual Reference Desk

Library Resources - Hardcopy • DIT Library Web. OPAC • Other Academic libraries

Library Resources - Electronic • Subject Links • Evaluated Web-links • Databases & E-Journals • Ask a Librarian

Types of Academic Information Formal Informal • • • Library Catalogues Subject Portals Textbooks & Ebooks Databases Journals Theses & Projects Blogs, email Groupwork Wikis Web. Courses Peers & tutors Focus groups

Types of Academic Information Primary Secondary • • • Journal articles Standards Patents Reports Theses Lab results Textbooks Encyclopaedias Dictionaries Databases WWW Subject Portals

Where to Find Academic Information • Subject Databases & • Journals/E-Journals • Articles • Research • Conference proceedings • Standards • Reports

Journals • • Serials, Periodicals short articles subject specific published weekly or monthly reporting on research peer reviewed hardcopy v electronic e. g. Polymer 2008 Vol 49 No 20 (Sept) p. 8 -44

Magazines, Trade Journals • • Less academic Informative Weekly Editor driven

Finding Specific Journal Titles 1. DIT Library Catalogue – – hardcopy & e-journals. search by Journal Title 2. DIT Library Website – – e-journals only search by Title or Topic

Fulltext ? DIT Databases DIT E-Journals DIT Print Journals Inter Library Loan Academic Libraries

Databases & Searching Multiple Journals

DIT Library Science Databases Why use? • • Scholarly Indexes 1000 s key academic journals Peer reviewed Subject appropriate Updated & current Links to full text Personalisation and social networking links Current awareness services

DIT Library Computing Databases Which ones? Why Use more than one? • • • Science Direct ACM British Standards Online Web of Science IEEE Electronic Library DIT Library databases

Library Resources – Blogs & Mailing Lists • http: //blogsearch. google. com • http: //www. blogdigger. com • http: //www. bloggapedia. com/ » ISWORLD » SEWORLD » DBWORLD » uk-usabibility » JISC http: //www. jisc. ac. uk

Library Resources: Institutional Repositories § § § ARROW@DIT Open Access Repository Ireland http: //www. irel-open. ie Intute UK Research Repository ROAR http: //roar. eprints. org/ OAIster http: //www. oaister. org/ union catalog of digital resources OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). § National Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (US) http: //www. ndltd. org/

Library Resources: Open Access § Cite Seer: Scientific Literature Digital Library § Cogprints § Computing Research Repository (CORR) § ar. Xiv. org : E-Print Archive (Computing) § E-Print Network (Science) § Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) § Tech. Xtra

Library Resources: Subject Gateways q HEA q INFOMINE q BUBL q INTUTE http: //www. heanet. ie http: //infomine. ucr. edu http: //www. bubl. ac. uk http: //www. intute. ac. uk

Library Resources: INTUTE § www. intute. ac. uk

The tutorials help answer : § What are the key websites I should be using for research in my subject field? § How do I search the Internet effectively? § What can I trust on the Internet? § How do other people use the Internet effectively to support their research?

Infomine • http: //infomine. ucr. edu/

What about ? ‘In a 2002 survey of over two thousand US students only 9% used the library resources more than the internet’… - (O’Dochertaigh, N. , Internet Research Skills Sage: 2007)

What about Consider the following …. ?

What about ? § need to focus on high quality academic sources § need for critical thinking about Google results and hits. § need to learn about the main issues and academic debate on a topic § need to identify the central arguments, historical perspective and research context.

What about ? § concern over academic quality § unreliable sources (wikis, Web 2. 0) § need to evaluate information consistently

What about ? § Google Scholar § Develop evaluation skills

Web Resources: Academic Value Subject Databases & Peer Reviewed Journals Evaluated Weblinks E-Prints Google Advanced Search/ Google Scholar Wikis, Web 2. 0. Basic use search engines