Method for finding informations & improve your information literacyGaëlle Rivérieux – Service IST

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Finding information in 3 steps

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1/ Delimit subject, define your research strategy

Increasing of information sources is so important that it is

necessary to carefully organize yourself

Clarify limits of your research topic, Prepare the ground

• Separate content…

• What are the borders of your research ?

• Find Keywords, leading « authors »

• Define date, location, technology, scientific discipline,

interdisciplinarity…  limits

• …and form

• Publications type…(article, book, chapter…)

• Informations repository…

• Informations sources..(grey literature, peer-reviewed

literature…..)

 

2/ Searching information

•1st step

• Classify documentary researchs sorted by « information

silos » (look next slide)

• Be careful not to forget resources potentially significant

• Use specialized MetaEngine : OIAster, Scirus, Google

Scholar…

• Don’t forget multimedia contents

• Avoid a random method

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Search stage Information Silos Type of information provided

Buidling Skeleton

Directories Find definitions, keywords, basics of research

Encyclopedia, Table datas

Find definitions, news concepts, new words, given by specialists

Libraries catalogs (Inria, Insa, Sudoc, UJF…)

Books, Manuals, Synthesis ; references ; notes, bibliographies ; index… Metadatas

Bibliographies Identify key resources : leading authors, books, conferences… Metadatas

BuildingMuscle

Editors websites (SpringerLink, ACM Digital Library…)

Articles journals, proceedings articles, conferences proceedings….. Full text available via INRIA subscriptions

Databases (Web of Science, Pubmed…)

Articles journals, proceedings articles, conferences proceedings….. Full text available via INRIA subscriptions

Open Archives Websites (Hal, ArXiv, OAIster…)

Full text, bibliographics references….(papers, phd thesis, courses, and more…) Full text available

BrainStage

Patents, standards (ISO…), Technical reports, European Projects (CORDIS)..

Define your technological position ; New opportunities ; Technical State of Art … Datas, grey literature…

Scientific events, Directories of scientifics events, Blogs, forums…

« Invisible college », news, scientific « integration », scientific « watch », define leading events to follow…. Meetings, Exchanges, Scientific Social Network…

2/ Search

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• 2nd step –

•Apply the same procedure every time as an industrial process 

•Use the « raking » technical

•To create a precise and thorough search for information you will need to spend some time gathering together relevant search terms

•You can practice many of the search techniques to improve your information literacy and search into the DeepWeb …

• Balance between noise and silence

Advanced search How to ?

Using the right keyword controlled vocabulary, using brackets «  »

Boolean logic AND +, OR | , NOT -

Nested searches (this type of searching is supported in many resources)

create more complex Boolean logic statements. :{pets NOT (cats OR dogs)} AND behaviour

Proximity SAME, NEAR, Wn

Truncation (right, left..) * % ?

Wildcard * ? Inside word

Saved searches Save a search to run at a later date particularly useful if your search statement is complex and lengthy to enter

3/ ExploitWhile visiting websites and reading papers collecting references

• save .pdf

• recording & using citations :

http://referencesbibliographiques.insa-lyon.fr/rediger-des-references

Using a reference management software is very usefull :

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

• http://iww.inria.fr/fabrica/ >> Gérer une bibliographie

• http://www.projet-plume.org/

• some of them are able to extract metadata directly from the .pdf,

• automatically generate bibliographies

• can help to collaborate with other scientists online

• easily import papers from other research software

• find relevant papers based on what you’re reading….

• and more features to discover….

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