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What can the library do for you?
Mikael.Rosell@liu.se
013 - 28 22 48
Aims with todays lecture!
The University library: resources, services &
support!
information retrieval
Reference management Software: Mendeley
Academic Honesty!
Linköping University library
www.bibl.liu.se
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Library services and support!
• How to use bibliometric data to evaluate
academic research
• How to cite and refer in a correct way
• How to avoid palgiarism and respect
copyright
• How to find the Information you need
• How to publish and register electronically
Support on your way!
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Access the libraries
resources!
• Resources (articles, conference papers, books
etc.)
• Electronic resources (LiU-ID and password,
access off-campus)
• Printed resources (LiU- card, 3 weeks loan
period)
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Information retrieval- in a context!
Research process
Search process
Pic from Swets (2012-0802)
Information retrieval: strategy & iteration!
Formulate
a search
question
Evaluate
critically
Analyze the
search process
Find full
text
Search
Find
keywords
Choose
search
tools
Saves your time!
Import
References directly
from…
Insert references
directly into your text
Library catalouges
Create reference lists
directly in your document
Internet
Databases
Whats out there?
References!
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Mendeley.com
• Create an account
• Download & install
• Import references
 Export your references to LaTeX/BibTex
• Insert references
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How to find scientific publications?
Subject Guides are a good starting point for
your research
• Computer Science
(http://guide.bibl.liu.se/computerscience)
Search operators
EXPAND

Combine keywords!
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
Hurricanes global warming, tropical cyclones climate
change
Use search operators!
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LIMIT
Boolean operators, truncation, phrase search
Boolean operators
• Global AND Warming
• Hurricanes OR storms OR cyclones
• Storms NOT Hurricanes
Create a search query!
(Hurricanes OR Cyclones) AND ((Global AND Warming)
OR (Climate AND Change))
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Truncation
What happends if you search on
Environment* ?
Truncation
You will retrieve several inflections and endings of a
word:
Environment
Environment – s
Environment – al
Environment – alism
Phrase searching
Try two different search queries:
” Climate change”
Climate change
Whats the difference?
Phrase searching
” Climate change”
Retrieves: terms exactly in the order they are written in
the search field.
Climate AND change
Retrieves: terms, regardless of the order in which they
appear in.
How to find scientific publications?
Google Scholar!
• LiUB Proxy: Access e-resources off campus
• Citations
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How to find scientific publications?
How to find scientific publications?
General databases
Scopus & Web of Science
• Multidisciplinary databases in science, engineering, medicine,
social sciences etc.
• Sort by: number of citations
• Save your search history!
• H-index & Impact Factor!
• WoS: Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
• Access
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How to find scientific publications?
Subject-related databases
ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Inspec & SpringerLink –
computer science
• Subject-related databases
• Ovelapping each others content
• Relevant sources not found elsewhere
• Use multiple databases
• Different Interfaces, Search techniques & Limiters
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Why cite & refer?
• Giving credit to the original author
• Strengthen your arguments
• Increase your credibility
• Make it possible to verify information
• Avoiding plagiarism!
The increasing frequency of massive hurricanes and storms is due
to the emission of greenhouse gases [*].
* add reference to literature that supports the claim!
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Plagiarism: What is it?
”Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work,
whether intentionally or unintentionally, as your own for
your own benefit.”
Carroll, J. (2002) A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education (Oxford Brookes
University)
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QUIZ
Is it plagiarism if you...
1.Use the ideas of another author without providing a reference,
even if you write them in your own words?
2.Incorporate text from another source, changing one or two words
and providing a reference?
3.Copy a diagram or data table from a web site, providing a
reference for the source underneath?
4.Submit all or part of one essay that you have already received a
grade for in another course without providing a reference?
5.Copy words from a book into your own work, but place quotation
marks around them and provide a citation?
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http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering
What strategies can I use to
paraphrase?
 Use synonyms for all words that are not generic.
 Change the structure of the sentence.
 Change the voice from active to passive and vice versa.
 Change clauses to phrases and vice versa.
 Change parts of speech.
 Combine a number of strategies!
 A direct translation from your native language is not
enough!
 You are a writer give thext your own ”voice”!
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How to cite & refer?
 In-text citations and bibliography
 Output styles (IEEE)
 Consistency & correct!
Copyright: how may I use
illustrations?
• Wikimedia Commons
•
commons.wikimedia.org
• Illustrations (photographs, figures & tables)
with copyleft license
•
GFDL
•
Creative Commons
• The license explains how you may use the
Illustrations
Four limitations
There are 6 different CC- licenses!
Attribution
BY
For maximum distribution
Attribution, Non-Commercial
BY-NC
Attribution, No Derivatives
BY-ND
Attribution, Share Alike
BY-SA
Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share
Alike
BY-NC-SA
Attribution, Non-Commercial, No
Derivatives
BY-NC-ND
Always give attribution!
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Most restrektiv
Summary & Questions!
• Information retrieval:
strategy & iteration
• Academic Honesty
• Scientific Publications
• Mendeley
• Databases
• LiUB proxy: Off Campus
access
Mendeley
• Getting started with Mendeley: http://resources.mendeley.com/
• Mendeley Video Tutorials: http://www.mendeley.com/videostutorials/
• Mendeley FAQ: http://support.mendeley.com/
• Mendeley on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mendeley&aq=f
• Mendeley on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendeley
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Useful litterature!
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Rumsey, S. (2008) How to find information: a Guide for Researchers
[Elektronisk]. Buckingham: Open University Press Tillgänglig:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/linkoping/docDetail.action?docID=10229839
(2013-08-15)
Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer!
- Resources at LiU!
Cite & refer!
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Linköping University Library. Citation styles. http://www.bibl.liu.se/citera-ochreferera/citeringsteknik?l=en
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Linköping University Library. RefWorks. http://www.bibl.liu.se/RefWorks.
Copyright and Plagiarism!
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Linköping University Library. Copyright and plagiarism.
http://www.bibl.liu.se/upphovsratt-och-plagiering?l=en
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NoPlagiat: self-study tutorial. http://noplagiat.bibl.liu.se/default.en.asp
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Academic English Support at Linköping University
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Linköping University http://www.liu.se/ikk/aes?l=en&sc=true
Avoid Plagiarism - Cite & refer!
• Academic Integrity at MIT: A Handbook for Students. MIT:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , https://integrity.mit.edu/
• Carroll, Jude, Zetterling, Carl-Mikael, (2009), Guiding students
away from plagiarism, KTH Learning Lab,
http://people.kth.se/~ambe/KTH/Guidingstudents.pdf
• Citation and Research Management Tools. Metropolitan
NewYork library council,
http://libguides.metro.org/content.php?pid=198894&sid=166349
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• Blekinge Institute of Technology, The easy guide to referencing,
http://tuba.bth.se/stora/Writing/reference/
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