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Academic Information Seeking - Coggle Diagram
Academic Information Seeking
Preparation
Log Book
Documentation and evaluation tool
Consists of 2 Documents
Work Document for information search
The actual log book
Generating Search Terms
Abbreviations
Synonyms
Homonyms
Spelling Variations
Broad and Narrow Terms
Fill out the work document with relevant search terms
Identifying Different Types of Material and Literature
Material Type
Books
Journal Articles
Conference Proceedings
Report
Literature Type
Research in a specific field
Description of a subject area
Discussions
Statements
Teaching resources
Primer
Educational textbook
Methodology
Distinguishing between 3 Literature Types
Popular Science Literature
For non-specialists
For layman
For Overview
For introduction
Generalised
Secondary Scientific Literature
Condensates, interprets and evaluates knowledge, trends and scientific results from primary scientific literature.
Wikipedia, Britannica
For identifying search terms
Review Articles (But are nonetheless published in peer reviewed journals).
Rather than presenting new knowledge, review articles are typically very condensed presentations that outline how trends, research results and scientific paradigms within a given research field have evolved over a period of time.
No materials and methods section.
Primary Scientific Literature
Scientific Articles
Pre-Print
Before peer review, in manuscript form, lack journal layout.
Post-Print
After peer review, in manuscript form, lack journal layout.
Identifying Information Sources
Where to search?
Internet Resources
Search Engines
Google Scholar
Add library links.
Libraries
Databases
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
References Management
Purpose of references
Documentation for the part of your text which draws upon other people's efforts.
Identifying documents in question in Bibliography
Reference Management Tools
Advantages
Structure and optimize your information seeking process
Keeping track
Provide, references, quotation and bibliography a professional a consistent look
Mendeley
Searching and Finding
Setting Up Search Strategy
What type of literature?
What materials?
Where to look?
Do you want to restrict your search to a specific geographical area?
Doing a random search
Making a Cited Reference Search
Web of Science
Time cited count
Related records
Scopus
Google scholar
Moving in Time
Backwards
Bibliography
Forwards
Articles that have cited an article
More citations does not mean high qualiity
Using Search Techniques
Boolean Operators
And
Or
Not
Truncation
Masking
Performing a Building Blocks Search
Many facets
Write down the various facets
Use OR, AND and NOT
Accessing the Full Text
Going through with university library
Evaluating, Using and Documenting