Finding and managing information for your doctorate (including Endnote): part 2

David Heading and Laura Jeffrey

Part 2 overview

• Using citations and references• Finding related material• Styles of referencing in Endnote

• Break

• Managing references - Endnote groups• Keeping up to date with new research

References and citations

• Demonstration of connections in academic debate both backwards (references) and forwards (citations)

• May be a positive or negative connection to other literature

• Give you a quality controlled list of material to consult if you establish the context in which it has been cited

Paper A – a journal article that you are interested in

Article B that is referred to by Paper A

Article C that is referred to

by Paper A

Article D that is referred to

by Paper A

Book 2 that is referred to by

Paper A

Book 1 that is referred to by

Paper A

Article E that refers to Paper A

Book 3 that refers to Paper A

Article G that refers to Paper A

Article H that refers to Paper A

Article F that refers to Paper A

Citations

References

Related material

• Making connections between similar resources

• Criteria vary significantly depending on the database or catalogue you are using

• Sometimes the process is human, other times automated

Finding Information - Hands-on

• Pick a key article and look for it in a database• Trace academic debate using citations and

references• Find related material in – Databases– Catalogues

Keeping up to date

• Automates the process of searching to save you time

• Saved searches– For you to re-run at convenient time

• Alert services– Brings material to you by email– Acquisitions, citations, articles matching search

terms or tables of contents (ToCs)

www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/keepuptodate/

Alert Services

• Books– Durham University Library Catalogue: new books

that match search terms • Articles – Citations: Web of Science and Google Scholar– Keywords: Google Scholar and ZETOC – Table of Contents: ZETOC

Summary

• Features enable you to make connections between related research material

• Endnote styles are important for controlling the look of in text citations and references

• Groups help you manage your library• Keeping up to date with new research can be

automated and so save you time

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