School of Geography Library Geographical Skills - Information Skills Session To complete this exercise you must log on to the University network. You will be using WebCat - the University of Southampton catalogue, TDNet and GeoBase. Note: The “Introduction to Hartley Library” and WebCat PowerPoint presentations are available from the Geography support pages in the Information Skills section www.soton.ac.uk/library/subjects/geography/informationskills Searching WebCat: library catalogue of the University of Southampton. These exercises will assist you to find the books and journals you need for your course. They will also help you to develop skills in analysing information and forming a search strategy that you can use elsewhere.  Log on to the network  Open Internet Explorer, log on to SUSSED and go to the Library section. [Alt. use direct url: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library)]  Click on the link to WebCat [In SUSSED –Catalogues – WebCat; on Library website -Quick links on the right hand side- select WebCat]  Log on to WebCat with your username and password. Section 1 Books – Advanced search WebCat provides a number of different ways to search for material. You may have used the quick search as part of the exercise you did in the library. There are times when this will return too many results and you need to reduce the number retrieved. You can do this by combining search terms using the advanced search. Note: You can only enter a single author (or editor) in a search line, if you want to search on two then you need to go to the next line and change the search field. Exercise 1 Sometimes you will be directed to read a chapter in a book rather than the whole book. WebCat allows you to search on information held in specific fields shown in the drop down menus, e.g. author or editor, title or keywords, but this does not include chapter authors or chapter titles. Here is a reference to a chapter within a book: DICKEN, P., Peck, J. and Tickell, A. 1997, Unpacking the global, in Lee, R. and Wills, J. eds. Geographies of economies, Arnold, London, pp. 158-166. 1. What is the name of the book? 2. Who is responsible for the book? Search for this book in the advanced search option by using the title (or keyword) and author/editor fields. Search tips  Enter only the keywords from the title in the first search box  Enter only the last name or family name of the first author or editor in the second search box  If you want to search for a second author or editor at the same time use a new line and change the search field.  Check if there are any other limits you might want to select 3. What did you search on? Field Search term Field Field Did it retrieve any results? If not, think about what you searched and try again using different information. 4. How many records did you retrieve that were a true match? Now answer the questions below: 5. How many copies does the library hold? 6. What is the call number? 7. Can you borrow copies, and if so for how long? 8. What other information might you need to check for? Ones to try on your own (or now if you have time): Herbert, D. 2000, ‘The Chicago School’, in Johnston, R., Gregory, D., and Smith, D.M. (eds), The Dictionary of Human Geography, 4th edn Basil Blackwell, Oxford, pp78-80. DeVerteuil, G. 2009 ‘Inequality’, in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, pp. 433-445. Search for these using the most appropriate search option(s). Search tips  Check what you are searching – keywords, author, title etc. – use the drop down options to change.  Consider how few or how many terms you need to enter to retrieve the information you want.  Searching for a specific item is one kind of search. Searching for a topic relies on keywords or words from a title. Section 2: Journals As well as textbooks you will be directed to use journals in your work as they are important sources of information. For example, the following are examples of useful sources in Geography first year module handbooks. Progress in Physical Geography Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Geomorphology Journal of Geophysical Research F (Earth Surface) Progress in Human Geography Urban Geography Gender, Place and Culture Antipode Worked Example Progress in Physical Geography      Using TDNet (www.tdnet.com/soton) enter the keywords from the journal title. Search. To find an article written from 1999 onwards, click on the tick under ‘Full Text Access’ To find if it is held in print, click on the under ‘Print Holdings’. This will take you to WebCat. Choose the print record. Click on the title(s) that match(es). Note the call number. Click on “full catalogue details” on each record to find what our holdings are. On TDNet you should retrieve two records. The first relates to a previous name for this title and this is not unusual. On WebCat you will also retrieve two. These should be exact matches and relate to the formats we hold the title in, that is, print and electronic. Note: TDNet provides access information and availability which can be useful if you aren’t sure when electronic access starts. Exercise 2 Search for the journal below and complete the following: Library Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Call no. e-journal Y/N Holding (print) Hartley NOL* *NOL = National Oceanographic Library, part of the University of Southampton and the library for ocean and earth sciences. Also NOCL = National Oceanographic Centre Library, Liverpool Note: You can also search on WebCat for journal titles, but remember to change the search field to journal title Section 2 b: Finding the print or electronic full text of an article Your lecturers will direct you to read specific journal articles. An example of a journal reference is: Giocoechea, E.R. 2005, ‘Immigrants contesting ethnic exclusion: structures and practices of identity’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 654-699 These can be found either in the journal collection - Level 1 for print, Internet for ejournals or in our Reserve collection (Level 2 for print, WebCat for E-Reserve). Search tips Journal Collection Reserve Collection Search for journal title on WebCat or TDNet Search for article title and/or author – WebCat only Note: to be able to see a link to an E-Reserve item you need to login to WebCat. (To access from off campus you will need to login to the University network through the Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.) Exercise 3 Now try a search for this journal reference on TDNet. McGuirk, P.M. 2000, Power and policy networks in urban governance: Local government and property-led regeneration in Dublin Urban Studies, Vol. 37 (4), pp. 651-672 9. When do our print holdings start for this journal? Is it the same as the online coverage? Section 3: Finding your own material You will need to find journal articles and books for yourself, especially when you are given an assignment or essay. To do this you need consider your topic carefully. Search tips    Break topic down into the main themes or concepts. Identify the key words or terms that might describe these themes, either as single words or combined together. Consider limits to apply, for example articles published from 2000 onwards. The material you use needs to be of academic quality and the University provides specialist databases to help you. GeoBase and Web of Science are two important ones for Geography, but there are others – see Databases and Indexes section, Geography Subject Support pages (www.soton.ac.uk/library/subjects/geography/databases). Note: These are bibliographic databases, so you will need to use WebCat and/or TDNet to find the full-text. Exercise 4 We are going to look at GeoBase. Go to the Library homepage, select Information Skill, and then Tutorial (http://www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/). Click on GeoBase in the list of Database, and then select Compendex & GeoBase Informs tutorial. This will open the tutorial and the database. Note: You will be asked if you want to close a window – say ‘Yes’. Also you will need to temporarily switch off the browsers pop-up blocker. Locate the ‘Select Database’ section on the database page and remove the tick against ‘Compendex’. Work through the tutorial slowly. FOLLOW-UP EXERCISES – Complete by 13th October 2011 IMPORTANT: Off campus access to electronic resources. When you are away from the University you can still use many of the e-books and ejournals that the library provides for you. To find out how view the “Accessing resources from off-campus locations” presentation available from http://www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/offcampus/index.htm. You will need headphones. Exercise 5 Below is an example of an essay topic that you might be asked to write. a) How does an understanding of the spatial distribution of landforms help us interpret a landscape? b) Critically assess the ecological approach of the Chicago School Now try the following for both topics A. Identify the key words and concepts. B. Using the GeoBase Quick search the keyword(s), following the examples covered in the tutorial. Are there any terms that would benefit from using truncation (*). Review the results. C. Try a different combination of keywords. Review your results. Are they relevant? Do they list any other terms that you might need to consider? D. Click on Search History and compare your results. What else can you do on this screen? Investigate some of these options. What difference might it make to the way you enter your searches on the main search screen? E. Having completed some searches try to locate the full text. Exercise 6 3. Draw a line or lines between the type of search and the resource you might use. Book on a reading list Journal article Google or Google Scholar – Internet search engine WebCat – University library catalogue TDNet – University Journal catalogue Essay topic General information GeoBase – geographical database indexing the content of journals, conference proceedings, research monographs Specific Journal title Web of Science – science database indexing the content of journals, conference proceeding Dorothy Byatt, Academic Liaison Librarian, School of Geography. Contact [email protected] Sept. 2011 Dorothy Byatt, Academic Liaison Librarian, School of Geography. Contact [email protected]