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 New Web of Science Interface Web of Science have updated their interface, so if you haven't used this literature database for a while it may look a little different. The default search interface still works in the same way as before, allowing you to choose fields to search and to add extra search boxes. For an overview of searching in Web of Science see their video on  Build Better Searches in Web of Scienc e . "Learn how to use search operators, truncation, and proximity searching to build better searches in Web of Science." Advanced Searching - Search History If you have used the Search History function in Web of Science in the past to build up complicated, systematic searches then this option has now changed. Instead you can build up searches using the  Advanced Search Query Builder . See their videos on: Using the Advanced Search Query Builder Combining Search Sets in Advanced Search

  When you're doing a literature search there may be lots of variations of words you want to search on, to ensure you're finding all the different ways someone may have written about a topic. Truncation searching and using wildcards helps you to search for word variations without having to type in every single variations yourself. These techniques only work in specialist literature databases that support truncation or wildcards. Search engines such as Google and Google Scholar do not support these options. Some databases do automatically look for variations in spellings and the singular/plural of words, but you can ensure they are doing this by using the tips below: Truncation Searching If you want to search on the plural, singular and other variations of the same word you can use truncation: exercise* = will find exercise, exercises, exercising, exercised Do not truncate too early in a word – e.g. exer* = would find the above but also exercycle, exergonic, exertion, and other ...

Phrase searching Normally when you put two words into a database search it will find those two words anywhere in the title/abstract/keywords: It will do an AND search = diabetes AND mellitus If you want to force the database to do a phrase search then enclose it in “speech marks” “diabetes mellitus” = those words next to each other, in that order Most of the main literature databases we subscribe to at the University of Leicester support phrase searching using speech marks, as do the search engines Google and Google Scholar. However, Scopus treats phrases in "speech marks" as loose phrases, so to do an exact phrase search in Scopus use {curly brackets} around the phrase instead. Extra Tip: Make sure when typing in speech marks that you use the double speech mark symbol " rather than typing in two apostrophes. Proximity (Adjacency) Searching Finds one keyword within a specified number of words of the other, in any order: Diabetes ADJ4 “Type 2” = will find Diabetes withi...

When looking for health and medicine research it is very easy to stick to the well known databases. However, they don't always cover research from all countries, so if you want search in a more diverse range of databases here are some others you could try: Global Index Medicus "The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information." African Journals Online "African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is an online service to provide access to African-published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship." SciELO Citation Index "Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and...

PubMed recently introduced a new search interface. It's pretty similar to the old interface, so should be fairly simple to pick up. If you'd like more information and tutorials on the new interface then take a look at the PubMed Online Training Page . Below are a few tips you might find useful. How does PubMed do a keyword search? Even if you use PubMed a lot you may not realise how it is searching, as it automatically adds keyword variations and maps your keywords to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). If you want to see exactly what search PubMed has conducted, based on the words you typed in, then you can now do this under the Advanced Search option.  Conduct your search: This will take you directly to the results page: From the results page click on the ADVANCED option just under the search box. Once on the Advanced page scroll down to your search history and click on the Details Arrow: Now you can see exactly what PubMed searched on when inputt...

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...

Finding University of Leicester Theses Browse the theses in your Department If you want to look at previous theses within your Department or subject then choose the 'Research Archive' search on the library homepage and search on 'your department theses' e.g. geography theses: This will open the Leicester Research Archive - scroll down and you will see the Theses Collection for the Department: You can then browse the theses: If you would like to read or download a particular thesis - click on the link and scroll down to the PDF option: You will then be able to read or download the thesis unless it has an embargo in place, in which case the record will state there is an embargo: Search by keyword or author Go to the Leicester Research Archive homepage:  https://lra.le.ac.uk/ Use the search box in the top right hand corner. Finding UK Theses Try searching: EThOS - Electronic Theses Online System  which is availa...

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities! It's a good time to reflect on achievements of the year past and set intentions for the year ahead. If one of your intentions is to improve your research methods, adopt a new approach or increase your productivity come and talk to us for advice! You can book onto any of our January sessions using the links below - Researcher@Library  T ools and services to support your research When: 11th January 2019, 09:30-10:30 Where: Attenborough Second Floor TR 205 Book via PROSE Planning your literature search When: 14th January 2019, 10:00-11:00 Where: Seminar Room 0.02, Leicester Learning Institute, 105 Princess Road East Book via PROSE Conducting your literature search When: 18th January 2019, 10:00-11:00 Where: David Wilson Library - IT Room 2 (Ground floor) Book via PROSE EndNote reference management software When: 22nd January 2019, 10:00 - 12:00 Book via this link Managing your r...

Are you a new Postgraduate Research Student? Come along and find out about the tools and services the library provides to support your research. Including information resources, reference management software and research data management. 11th January 2019 09:30 am - 10:30 am Key Learning Outcomes •How to use the library search to find articles and books. •Discover the specialist academic databases available in your research area. •How to request items for your research •Look at the reference management tools the University provides (EndNote & RefWorks). •Learn about the fundamentals practices of good research data management. Attenborough Tower Second Floor TR 205 Book your place via PROSE -- If you can't make it to that session or are based off-campus then contact us via librarians@le.ac.uk to book a 1to1 appointment. We can see you in person or via a webinar. We also offer 1to1 inductions for new research staff. Just contact us as above.

The Research Services Team in the library don't run our usual courses over the summer, but we're still here to help. We will be running Research Elevenses events and webinars in July - more news on that soon. Online Help We have lots of online help available: Our Researcher pages include advice on literature searching and requesting items for your research. Information and advice on conducting a systematic review . Making your publications open access (articles are required to be open access for REF). Managing your research data . ...and more 1to1 Appointments If you would like any help or advice on literature searching, systematic review search strategies, open access, data management or bibliometrics then please get in touch. We are happy to answer enquiries or provide 1to1 appointments (in person, via phone or webinar). Email: librarians@le.ac.uk Phone: 0116 252 2018 If you are a new PGR/PhD student and would like a library induction then just let...

Proximity (Adjacency) Searching vs Phrase Searching When you're searching literature databases you might want to find a phrase. The easiest way to do this is to put the phrase in "speech marks". E.g. "heart disease" This will find that exact phrase - with the words next to each other in that order. BUT... You may be interested in variations on that phrase e.g. heart disease, disease of the heart, diseases of the heart, diseases of the human heart. In that case it might be better to use a proximity/adjacency search - this allows you to find one keyword next to another. Or one keyword within a specified number of words of the other keyword. When using a proximity search the keywords can be in any order. Different Databases Use Different Proximity Operators In Ovid Medline : heart adj disease finds the word heart next to the word disease, in that order.    (This is the same as searching for the phrase, of course) heart adj2 disease fin...

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...

Library Research Services are running several training sessions for staff and PGRs in May: PGR Training The following sessions are all available to book via PROSE Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Introduction to EndNote Introduction to RefWorks Tools for note taking Finding grey literature (online/webinar) Copyright and your thesis (online/webinar) Advanced Endnote What you need to know about Open Access publishing Finding images for research Staff & PGR Training Click the links to book via Researcher Development: Advanced literature searching Mapping data with google fusion tables Introduction to Research Data Management Communicating your research with comics We are also happy to provide 1to1 training and support in person, via webinar, via email or via telephone. Or bespoke group training sessions. Just contact us via librarians@le.ac.uk 

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar if you have a Google Account. Go to Google Scholar and sign into your Google Account. Conduct your search. Click on the Star icon (Save) under each reference you want to export. Then click on My Library in the top, right of the screen. Select all the references and click on the Export option: Click the Star/Save Icon Choose Export Option To Export into EndNote Choose the EndNote option. Open the EndNote file that is created. The references should automatically import into EndNote. To Export into RefWorks Choose the RefMan option. Save the RIS file that is created. Login to your RefWorks account. Click on the plus (+) button. Choose Import References. Add the RIS file you just saved. Set the file import option to RIS - Reference Manager. Click import and your references will be imported. --- Good Practice Tip: Always check that all the reference information you need has been...

Doctoral College Reading Room 1st floor, David Wilson Library As usual the Library is providing a raft of training and workshops during Autumn term, as part of the Researcher Development program: Planning your literature search Conducting your literature search Introduction to EndNote Introduction to RefWorks Advanced literature searching Visualising your data Search strategies for systematic reviews Tools for note taking Finding grey literature Planning lit search (online) Conducting lit search (online) Research Data Management Copyright and your thesis Advanced Endnote Click on the link to book your place. Those without links can be booked via  PROSE . If you cannot make a training session you are interested in then book a 1to1 appointment (in person or online) by emailing librarians@le.ac.uk   We also have online training resources for literature searching , EndNote and RefWorks . New PhD Students: Introduction to the Library, referenc...