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ABC: information literacy

and bibliographic research

by ABC group

Information Literacy in the Social Sciences area

Last rev. 26/01/2015

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Crucial importance of the information…

“We have become like the most primitive

Paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but

information gatherers rather than food gatherers.

From now on the source of food, wealth and life

itself will be information.”

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan,“Agenbite of outwit”


The 5 rules of information literacy…

Research is a process

Using

Searching

Locating

Evaluating

Investigating

Public domain: Sidney Paget, 1892

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Paget_holmes.png


Has your professor recommended you a book and you

want to read it?

You have to investigate to find out :

book’s title

the author

the edition

where...or if...you could buy it

Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davvyk/407737977

(1) Investigating

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davvyk/407737977/


Bibliographic research is like an investigation:

Identify a topic! What’s your goal? Report, Paper, Thesis…

Are you able to use the proper sources?

Not every topic can be supported by adequate (and

linguistically approachable) bibliography .

Plan your writing process Presentation, analysis, scientific debate

Introduction, analysis of the primary sources and secondary

ones, debate, metodology used, conclusions, bibliography,

annexes…

Umberto Eco, How to Write a Doctoral Thesis: The Humanistic Subjects, 1977

Investigating


Why is investigation so

important for your research?

how you ask

+ where you look

= What you get

Creative commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_like_thumb.png

Investigating


How?

Where?

When?

Why?

What?


Searching

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Strand_paget.jpg


make a list of key-words, use ‘tag cloud’ …

CALCIO

: how Searching


: how

browse subjects

Searching

http://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ricerca.php


: how Searching

Use a Thesaurus or

a Glossary to find

the proper

statistical terms.

For example:

Glossary of

statistical terms

by the Organisation for

Economic Cooperation

and Development .

http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/

http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/


And + between concepts to

narrow your search

Or between concepts to expand

your search

Not - before a concept to keep it out

“ “ Full sentence

: how

use Boolean operators

http://www.pinterest.com/stkateslibrary/library-fun/

Searching





: where

Search by topics, key-words, author, etc. in:

Bibliographies List of documents dealing with a specific topic or produced by a specific author…

Catalogues To locate bibliographic informations

Bibliographic databases A systematic collection of bibliography and abstracts of journal, report or newspaper articles listed in it. Sometimes full-text is available.

Meta-search portals To search simultaneusly different databases (Digital library Padova, Portale AIRE)

Web Scholarly search engines (Google scholar, Google books), institutional web sites and archives (Padua@Thesis, Padua@Research)

Searching

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/




http://metaricerca.cab.unipd.it:8332/V/SR39589IL7GTSF77C61X17HYY3FVDBFTN1F4UVJUAT8M6SBJR1-07345?&pds_handle=GUEST

http://scholar.google.it/


http://books.google.it/

http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/

http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/


: what

Different kind of documents…

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=120818398

Searching

http://www.pathfinder.com/time/index.html


: what?

Weber, M., The methodology of the social sciences, Glencoe, the

Free Press,1949.

Balestrino, Alessandro. Kind of black: the musicians' labour market

in Italy. “Labour”, (26) 2012, 4, pp. 472-491.

Honneth, A. “Scuola di Francoforte” in Dizionario delle scienze

sociali, a cura di W. Outhwaite …[et al.], ed. italiana a cura di P.

Jedlowski, Milano, il Saggiatore, 1997, pp. 650-653.

“Research in economics: an international review of economics”.

Amsterdam : Elsevier , 1997-

Fiume, Raffaele. Dialogue with standard setters. “Financial

reporting’’, (1) 2013, pp. 169-173.

Searching


: Catalog Searching

OPAC

OPAC means on-line public access catalog.

It is the comprehensive catalog of books, journals, e-books and e-journals of all the libraries of the University of Padova, togheter with the main libraries of the city of Padova.

It is used to locate and retrieve a document.

It is free and it can be used by everybody who has access to the web.

http://catalogo.unipd.it/F?func=find-b-0


: Catalog Searching


: what? Searching


: Catalog Searching


: Databases Searching

– Databases:

1. Bibliographic databases: organized digital collections of references to academic literature, especially journal and newspaper articles

(e.g. Scopus, Population Index, …);

2. Full-text databases: collections where you can find the whole text of the document you are looking for

(e.g. Eurostat , EconLit, Socindex …).

http://www.scopus.com/home.url

http://popindex.princeton.edu/search/index.html

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?sid=93760041-59ba-4758-b3e3-3178358c62a6%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&hid=108



: Meta-search portals Searching

Biblioteca digitale Padova provides you with a single

access point to all the digital resources and the related

services of UNIPD libraries (proxy, RefWorks, document

delivery, interlibrary loan, courses…)




Try the Easysearch service of BDP!

It’s the easiest way to find an electonic resources.

Are you looking for ebooks or articles about your thesis

argoment? Do you want to check if the full-text of a

specific article is available online? Looking for a Doctoral

dissertation?

Select the proper field of Easysearch and make your

search.

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/en/easysearch



Are you looking for articles about statistics of corruption?

Select the bibliography field, then the disciplinary area

and finally digit one or more key-words.



If you need to make a more specific and accurate search

enter the Portale AIRE from the Articles and more field of

Cercafacile.

http://metaricerca.cab.unipd.it:8332/V/H3LGY9VAEEY6TMKIBKGQ9QDYL6ML421U2ME5UBA39I5NSAYJRC-05538?&pds_handle=GUEST



You can use AIRE also to find all the electronic resources

available for your disciplinary area. Click on Trova risorse and

search them by title or categories.

For the Economic & Statistics area you have access to 54

electronic resources.



Another comfortable tool to see all the resources

selected by the Library System for single

disciplinary areas is the Digital Library’s

Resources shelf

With this service you can select the electronic

resources also by language and by type (fulltext

databases, eprints, multimedia, thesis, online

newspapers, search engines…)

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/resourcefacetednavigation/#c9=all&b_start=0


: Inst. archives & thematic websites Searching

For Theses and Doctoral dissertation of the University of Padova

search the Institutional archives:

• PaDUA@thesis

• PaDUA@research

• Istat: the website of the Italian National Institute of Statistics,

which represents a strategic resource for statistics available for

public access.

• Eurostat: it gathers and analyzes figures from the different

European statistics offices in order to provide comparable and

harmonised data. The data cover the European Union, its

member states, and its partners.

…and thematic websites

http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/cgi/search/simple_modified

http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/

http://www.istat.it/en/



: Scholar Searching

Not only basic-search Google!

Did you ever try Google Scholar?

Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that

indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array

of publishing formats and disciplines.



& : where

…different way to search

Searching Locating

http://catalogo.unipd.it/F/I9655JRMKQ18BT4PB1GGMSB2SC3S8KVKFV3QQSEN79TACTHDRN-83281?func=file&file_name=find-d


University of Padova’s

Libraries

wi-fi

Auth-Proxy everywhere

Pc stations for searching:

& : where Locating Searching

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/collezioni_navigazione/cartella-servizi/auth-proxy-1




And if you don’t find what you are

looking for…

Document delivery

Articles

Book chapters

Interlibrary loan

Books from other italian libraries

and the Web?

Locating

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/collezioni_navigazione/cosa-cerchi/fornitura-documenti




http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/collezioni_navigazione/cosa-cerchi/prestito-interbibliotecario



http://biblio.scipol.cab.unipd.it/system/files/Nilde_definitivo.pdf


(1)

Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3638834128

Evaluating


(2)

Web resources

quantity vs quality

reliability

information noise

Information overload

http://tip.uwyo.edu/categories.html

Evaluating


(3)

Is it pertinent?

Is it relevant?

Is it reliable?


Evaluating

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Strand_paget.jpg


(4)

Currency Information can quickly become obsolete. When was the information published or last

updated? Are links or references to other sources up to date? Is your topic in an area that

changes rapidly?

Rilevance Does the information answer your research question? Does the information meet the stated requirements of the assignment? Is the information too technical or too simplified for you to use? Does the source add something new to your knowledge of your topic?

Authority What are the author's credentials? Is the author affiliated with an educational institution or prominent organization? Can you find information about the author from reference books or the Internet? Do other books or articles cite the author?

Accuracy Are there statements you know to be false? Are there errors in spelling, punctuation, or grammar? Was the information reviewed by editors or subject experts before it was published? What citations or references support the author’s claims? What do other people have to say about the topic?

Purpose Why did the author or publisher make this information available? Is there an obvious bias or prejudice? Are alternative points of view presented? Does the author omit important facts or data that might disprove a claim? Does the author use strong or emotional language?

Evaluating


Different planning:

how to find sources

how to write a dissertation

Title page, layout, graphic objects, summary

Cfr. Laboratorio Sezione Elaborazione Dati

…and how to cite?

: and your dissertation? Utilizing

http://www.scipol.unipd.it/repository/laboratori/HTML/tesi.htm



: why to cite

Citations:

state every source you use

give scientific credit to your work

M. C. Escher Drawing Hands, 1948

Utilizing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands




i.e. “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas

and passing them off as one’s own (Oxford Dictionaries

2014)

It means to steel words, ideas, creative works, and it’s:

illegal, because of the copyright law;

(L.633/1944 and other rev.);

reprehensible, because it runs against intellectual honesty – the basic

rule of our University.

: plagiarism (1) Utilizing


: plagiarism (2)

There can be different kinds of plagiarism.

Some are more evident…

Utilizing

You have to use the ‘quotation marks’ and to cite the source !!!

You read:

The emancipation from economic traditionalism

appears, no doubt, to be a factor which would greatly

strenghten the tendency to doubt the sanctity of

religious tradition, as of all traditional authorities.

But it is necessary to note, what has often been

forgotten, that the Reformation meant not the

elimination of the Church’s control over everyday life,

but rather the substitution of a new form of control for

the previous one.

You write:









the previous one.

(Max Weber, The protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism, Allen & Unwin, 1930, p. 36)


: plagiarism (3)

…other are more hidden.

Utilizing

If you reword a book’s passage you have to cite the source!

You read:









the previous one.

You write:

The emancipation from economic traditionalism gave

strenght to the tendency to doubt the sanctity of

religious tradition.

But the Reformation meant only substitution of the

Church’s control on every day life whith another form

of control, not the elimination of it.

(Max Weber, The protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism, Allen & Unwin, 1930, p. 36)


: citation styles

Different citation styles

(international and sector-based standard) Chicago A/Chicago B?/Harvard?/or…

Every citation style establishes rules about:

Details

like author, title, publication date, retrieval date, etc.

Key frame and format

Series of details (according to the type of material!)

Punctuation, fonts, space.

Utilizing


: RefWorks

It’s a web based application that can be used to collect

bibliographic references, and to create and manage

personal bibliographies. Users can:

import, organize and save references

taken from bibliographic databases,

books, web pages or other sources

format bibliographies automatically

in several referencing styles

insert bibliographies and

citations directly into a text.

Cfr. RefWorks

Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariocaruso/246356668/

Utilizing

http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/collezioni_navigazione/cartella-servizi/gestione-bibliografie-1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariocaruso/246356668/





To consult other theses

To submit your thesis and

make it more visible

To avoid plagiarism


Utilizing

http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/cgi/search/simple_modified


Padua@research

Padua@research is the Istitutional Repository for University of

Padova Research Works.

This Archive contains digital documents derived by the

scientific activity of teaching staff, researchers and fellow-

workers of this Athenaeum. In Padua@reaserch are also

stored Ph.D thesis.

The self-archiving procedure makes visible on the web the full

text of the stored works.

http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/about.html

http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/helpArchiviazione.html









Training courses…

Don’t miss your train!

Check the schedule and sign in.

http://www.cab.unipd.it/Corsi-SBA-Iscrizione


Investigation go on…

Lesina, Roberto. Il nuovo manuale di stile. 2. ed.

Bologna, Zanichelli, 1994.

Eco, Umberto. Come si fa una tesi di laurea. 10 ed.

Milano, Bompiani, 1995.

De Francesco, Corrado e Delli Zotti, Giovanni. Tesi

(e tesine) con pc e web. Milano, F. Angeli, 2004.

Riediger, Hellmut. Scrivere tesi, saggi e articoli.

Milano, Bibliografica, 2009.

Sala, Virginio B. Tesi di laurea con computer e

internet. Milano, Apogeo, 2009

Guida alle citazioni bibliografiche

https://it.bul.sbu.usi.ch/learning/guide_to_citing_ref

erences

Per una sintesi del Chicago Manual of Style cfr.

http://www.aib.it/aib/contr/dellorso1.htm

Per il sistema Harvard cfr.

http://www.economia.unipd.it/sites/decon.unipd.it/fil

es/DIDATTICA_Guida%20riferimenti%20bibliografi

ci%20TEM.pdf

Pubblic domain: Sidney Paget, 1892


https://it.bul.sbu.usi.ch/learning/guide_to_citing_references

https://it.bul.sbu.usi.ch/learning/guide_to_citing_references

http://www.aib.it/aib/contr/dellorso1.htm

http://www.economia.unipd.it/sites/decon.unipd.it/files/DIDATTICA_Guida riferimenti bibliografici TEM.pdf





Credits

Riarranged from:

Open Publication Licence: TIP - Tutorial for InfoPower,

University of Wyoming Libraries 2010

http://tip.uwyo.edu/categories.html

(grazie a Cheryl E. Goldenstein!)

‘ABC della ricerca: competenza informativa & indagini

bibliografiche’ di Massimo Ferrante (vers.11/2011).

Translated in English by Costantina Bruno and Michele Visentin.

Images by: Costantina Bruno, Gianluca Drago, Michele Visentin.

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