Advanced Techniques for Managing PhD Research: Endnote, Scholarly Communications, and Staying Updated
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Dive deep into finding and managing information for your PhD with a focus on Endnote, scholarly communications, academic references, and staying current. Learn about databases, alert services, and evaluation methods to enhance your research. Don't miss this essential session.
Advanced Techniques for Managing PhD Research: Endnote, Scholarly Communications, and Staying Updated
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Finding and managing information for your PhD (including Endnote): advanced Laura Jeffrey and David Heading
Session overview • Overview of basics course • Scholarly communications • Tracing academic references • Break • Styles of referencing in Endnote • Keeping up to date • Questions and advice
Scholarly communications • Theses • Print and online • Durham and other institutions • Access those not freely available, via DDS • Conferences • Web of Science • ProceedingsFirst
Open Access • Journals • DOAJ • Repositories listed on OpenDOAR • Institutional e.g. Durham Research Online • Subject based e.g. arXiv • Harvesters • OAIster • DRIVER • Google Scholar – not exclusively Open Access material
Tracing academic references • References and bibliographies • Cited by • Citation alerts • Related articles • Journal impact factors Databases
Evaluation Please fill in our survey at www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training or www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/fmiadv040210 by the end of today’s session
Keeping up to date • Saved searches • Alert services • Content: Acquisitions, Citation, Search terms or Tables of Contents (ToCs) • Format: email or RSS • Feed readers: browser, web or desktop www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/
Alert Services • Books • Durham University Library – new books by email (FMI basics) and RSS • Articles • Databases e.g. Web of Science will alert you by email when a new article cites an article you have already read or re-runs search history • ZETOC – British Library journals • Keywords in titles/ authors by email
Alert Services • Table of Contents • ZETOC • British Library journals ToCs by RSS or email
Alert Services • Table of Contents • ZETOC • British Library journals ToCs by RSS or email • ticTOCs • Use publishers’ data and therefore more up to date. ToCs by RSS only
Contacts • Endnote • contact David Heading via the IT Servicedesk itservicedesk@durham.ac.uk • Library • Laura Jeffrey l.k.s.jeffrey@durham.ac.uk • contact your liaison librarian via your subject page http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/subject/
Evaluation Please fill in our survey at www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training Or www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/fmiadv040210 Thank you for your feedback