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Are you looking for statistics and analysis of markets, industries or national economies?  Credit:   CLEVER °FRANKE. L icensed under  CC BY-NC 4.0  We subscribe to several databases for this kind information, but Passport (EuroMonitor) remains the most user friendly and straightforward to use. More details are available  here . There is also a video tutorial here . Find out how to get the most out of this nifty database on Friday 26 July.  Ashton Moses of Euromonitor will be demonstrating Passport to all Leicester staff and students.  Attendance is free, but please email Andrew Dunn (Academic Librarian for the School of Business) to confirm.  Date: Friday 26 July Time: 13 .00-14.00  Location:  George  Porter Lecture Theatre              

March is Library Trials Month!  We are currently running trials to the following six databases.  Please do promote them to staff and students in your department, and ask them to provide the library with feedback using the form or email provided. African Diaspora The African Diaspora is a collection of primary historical sources on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. Of interest to: Geography, History, Politics. Click here to access trial (on-campus only).  Trial is available until 30 April 2019.  Please provide feedback to librarians@le.ac.uk . British Officers' Diaries from World War 1 (1914-1919) 54 digitised WW1 war diaries from officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, and others including chaplains, and allied prisoners of war. Of interest to: Archaeology, History, History of Art. Click here to access trial (on-campus only).  Trial is available until 3 April 2019.  Please provide fe...

In Business and Management Studies, researchers undertaking a literature review sometimes search across a defined group of journals. This is a way of focusing the literature search to make the results more relevant to the questions in hand. Groups are often chosen from the Association of Business Schools (ABS)'s  Academic Journal Guide . Read more how about how they put together the guide here . There are several ways to search across ABS journals. Here is how to do it in Business Source Premier, a leading literature database for this subject area.  1.     Login into the ABS journal guide. If you have never used it before you will need to create an account. 2.     You can use the guide to draw up a group of journals either by using the Rankings information or the Fields. Fields divides up the journals into categories of research focus e.g. Accounting, Finance etc. In this example we will use the Fi...

Over the last few months we've gained access to a number of new resources that might be useful to researchers, so here's a round-up for you: BenchSci Built by a team of scientists, BenchSci was developed with one thing in mind: to quickly and easily identify published data that support the use of antibodies . For more information about BenchSci:  https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies Learn how to use BenchSci with this short video:  https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4 Campbell Collaboration Online Library The Campbell Collaboration Online Library (Campbell Library) contains the full text of published systematic reviews and protocols in  Crime and Justice  Disability  Education  International Development   Knowledge Translation and Implementation   Nutrition  Social Welfare  There is also a series of research methods papers. CINAHL CINAHL indexes more than 5000 journals in nursing, m...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) recently unveiled a new look and new features. ODNB is one of the best resources for anyone interested in the history and culture of Britain and its former Empire. Here are a few changes worth knowing.  Login If you have logged in via the Library you do not need to login for a second time. The 'Sign In' options on the left-hand side are for creating a personal account with the ODNB; it doesn't unlock the content for you. (It could be a good idea to create an account however, as it will allow you to save searches and annotations.)  ODNB already knows I am from Leicester. There are more ways to browse the content.  You can now browse biographies by Occupation and Religious Affiliation. For example, browsing by Occupation > Law and crime > Crimes of deception reveals 90 biographies of forgers, fraudsters and swindlers. This includes the intriguing entry for "Carter, Henry  [Harry]  ( 1749 1829 ...

Relevant data for research can turn up in some unexpected places. For example, we subscribe to a number of financial databases such as SNL , EIKON and Bloomberg . Their main purpose is to provide financial data on companies, stocks and markets. But to aid the industry analysts who use them, the databases also provide wider macroeconomic and demographic data. They even have information on infrastructure and geography.  SNL, to focus on one, is strong on US statistics and  contains t he populations, age structure,  household size and incomes, and unemployment rates of US states. This information can also be mapped, along with: World airports, cities, ports, railroads, roads and utilities Real estate mortgage information across US counties  Numbers of businesses by  NAICS classification.  Maps created can be exported, like this one of the population density of Houston: ...

Publishing with IEEE Are you thinking of publishing, or not sure where best to submit your manuscript? The IEEE has more than 175 journals covering a broad spectrum of engineering and technology areas plus open access options. This practical workshop will talk through how to find the right journal/conference to submit to, overview of the process and some helpful tips to help give your paper the best chance of acceptance. This session will cover: An introduction and why publish with the IEEE Choosing the best fit periodical or conference for your research Preparing the manuscript Submitting the article Review process What editors look for Why a paper may be rejected IEEE Open Access Publishing (including university support available) Common best practices and errors when writing a paper Tools and resources to help authors Talk by Julia Stockdale All University of Leicester PGRs and researcher welcome. Thu 16 February...

The recording of our Elevenses talk on Finding Datasets for Research is now available . William Farrell  provides advice on finding data, and also looks at the specialist resources the Library provides access to.  Our guide to sources of data and statistics is  here .  If you would like help finding datasets, please email us at: librarians@le.ac.uk The next Elevenses  is  Join the webinar

The library now has access to three new resources to support your research. If you have any questions about using these databases  please email: librarians@le.ac.uk  Ancestry   Ancestry.co.uk  hosts the UK's largest online collection of family history records with more than 1 billion searchable records including: England, Wales and Scotland Censuses; UK birth, marriage and death records; military, immigration and parish records. Ancestry can be used for research on  local  and social  history; demography and population; family, kin and genetics. Note: access is on-campus only. Migration to New Worlds Migration to New Worlds contains primary source material on 350 years of migration  from Great Britain, Ireland, Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia .  Primary sources include:  Colonial Office files on emigration; diaries and travel journals; ship logs and plans; printed literature, objects, waterco...

If Google Scholar is one of the databases you use for literature searching then we recommend you link it to the University of Leicester library resources. This will make it a lot easier for you to access the full text of books and journals we subscribe to. Watch our 40 second video to find out how:

How to actively manage your research identities from the major citation services. When publishing academic work you will probably find that different publishers use different versions of your name (initials, full name etc.) and it becomes hard to link all those names together. This video shows how you can create research IDs to link your publications to all your names and see who is citing you.   If you have any questions about research IDs please email librarians@le.ac.uk

This blog post looks at how to create citation alerts for specific articles in the three main citation databases. You can see more details of how to set-up search alerts and RSS feeds in our previous blog posts: Search alerts for science and medicine databases Search alerts for arts, humanities and social science databases Setting up Author alerts or RSS feeds Web of Science Search Web of Science for the article you are interested in. If you find it, click on the article title and then click on the Create Citation Alert link on the right-hand side of the page. You will need to login to, or create, a Web of Science account to activate the alert. Scopus Search Scopus for the article you are interested in. If you find it, click on the article title and then click on the Set Citation Alert link on the right-hand side of the page. You will need to login to, or create, a Scopus account to activate the alert. You can also set-up an RSS feed by clicking on the Set Citati...

In most  literature databases you can set-up an author alert or RSS by doing an author search and then following the normal instructions for setting up a search alert or RSS feed. You can see more details of how to set-up search alerts and RSS feeds in our previous blog posts: Search alerts for science and medicine databases Search alerts for arts, humanities and social science databases Here are a couple of examples of setting up author alerts in popular databases: Web of Science Make sure you are searching the Web of Science Core Collection as below: Enter the author's name (Surname, Initial/s) and change the search field drop down box to author (as above). On the left-hand side of the results page you will see an option to Create Alert (as above). Click on this, login into, or create, a Web of Science account and then set as a search alert or RSS feed. EbscoHost (America: Life & History, Art Full Text, Criminal Justice Abstracts, EConLit, Historical...

There are many PhD students and researchers within the University who are undertaking research in the form of a systematic review, particularly within medicine, health and psychology. We wanted to highlight the stages of a systematic review where the Library Research Services Team can provide help and support.  We can advise on any of the stages in red and with reference management. What is a systematic review? A systematic review is a type of literature review that attempts to find all published and unpublished material on a specific research question. The studies found are then appraised against specific eligibility criteria. Data is extracted and synthesized from the eligible studies to produce a summary of evidence from the relevant research. Scoping Search To identify existing systematic reviews in the research area. To check the scope of the research available and help inform the research question. To help find appropriate databases, keywords and subject terms ...

Following on from our 'Making research information come to you' session we're rounding up some more guides and videos on how to set-up search alerts from various resources. You can find guides for Web of Science (Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences Citation Index) and Scopus in our previous blogpost . Business Source Premier/Historical Abstracts/Art Full Text Written instructions for creating RSS search and journal alerts Written instructions for creating an email alert   Sociological Abstracts/ASSIA/ERIC/British Education Index/MLA Written instructions for creating search alerts Written instructions for setting up RSS feeds JSTOR Written instructions on setting up search alerts in MyJSTOR

Some journal homepages will have an option to set-up an email alert or have a RSS feed as a way of letting you know when a new issue is published, and what's listed in the table of contents. However, not all journal offer this, so there are a couple of services that specialise in providing table of content alerts and RSS feeds: Zetoc To use the alerting service form Zetoc you will need to login using the institutional login procedure. Creating Zetoc Alerts: Zetoc RSS Feeds: JournalTOCS Setting up alerts: More help on using JournalsTOCS .

Following on from our 'Making research information come to you' session we're rounding up some guides and videos on how to set-up search alerts from various resources: Web of Science Written instructions for saving search history and setting up search alerts . You can also set-up author alerts and citation alerts. Note: Search alerts can only be set-up using the Web of Science Core Collection. They do not work is you are searching All Databases. Scopus Written instructions for creating search, author and citation alerts in Scopus. PubMed Written instructions on setting up search alerts in PubMed.   Medline Written instructions for creating and saving search alerts in Ovid Medline. Online tutorial on using AutoAlerts in Ovid Medline. PsycINFO (via EbscoHost) IEEE Explore Written instructions on saving searches and creating search alerts (PDF) .

If you can't make it along to one of our training sessions, here are some resources you might find useful: Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Tutorial and guides for searching arts & humanities literature databases: All arts & humanities JSTOR http://about.jstor.org/video-tutorials Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/about/tools/pdf/quick_search_guide.pdf Expanded Academic ASAP https://connect.le.ac.uk/p34868643/ SCOPUS http://help.scopus.com/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.html Web of Knowledge (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) https://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/searchtipswok5_v2 History Historical Abstracts https://connect.le.ac.uk/ahlha/ Bibliography of British and Irish History http://apps.brepolis.net/bbih/manual/bbih_en/pages/bbih_en/bbih_1_en.html Museum Studies/Art & Film Art Full Text http://support.ebsco.com/help/index.php?help_id=DB:874 English ABELL (Annual Bibliography of Engl...

If you can't make it along to one of our training sessions, here are some resources you might find useful: Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Tutorial and guides for scientific literature databases: All Sciences Web of Science https://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/searchtipswok5_v2 Scopus http://help.scopus.com/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.html Chemistry Reaxys http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/reaxys/training-and-support#guides-and-manuals SciFinder http://www.cas.org/training/scifinder Computer Science & Engineering IEEE/IET Digital Library (IEEE Xplore) http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/clientservices/training.html Engineering Village http://www.ei.org/trainingpresentations Geology GeoRef via Geoscience World http://www.geoscienceworld.org/help/ http://youtu.be/s04R0O0Ex9U Mathematics MathSciNet http://www.maths...