search50 – using search results

With search⁵⁰ you can select the areas you want to search in, and define your search much like a CompartheMarket.com for library resources. Instead of cheaper car insurance you are presented with lists of search results from different resources.

The results page displays results in the order they are returned. The activity bar on the right hand side of the screen indicates if the search is completed, but you can interact with the search results as soon as the first list is displayed. Search results are displayed in sets. You can click on the database name in the list below the activity bar to go to the first set of results returned from that resource. You can click on Next Set… for more results. At the top of the results page you have the option to reorder the results returned by Author, Title or Date.

For more information on a search result, click on View. This will be displayed in the resource that result was returned from. You can also link directly to the full-text of a journal article, where it is available, from the results screen. It’s not uncommon to search an online database only to find that you do not have full-text access to the article you find. In most instances this is because the Library does not maintain the necessary subscription.

If there is no Full-text or PDF View link, the seven thousand online academic journals and 150 online databases we do subscribe to can be found on the Databases and Journals pages on the Library website. It is also possible to order articles located through search50, but unavailable in online full-text, through inter-library loan. There’s an icon on the resource list in search⁵⁰ indicating whether access on a particular resource is to full-text, partial full-text, or in the case of library catalogues, no full-text.

You can select all results returned from a specific resource, or make your own selection. This information can then be printed out, emailed to your choice of email account or saved. There are various options for the format in which you can save results, whether as a text file or for use with EndNote or other bibliographic software. You also have the option to export directly into EndNote or RefWorks.

For more information or assistance with any aspect of online searching or support for EndNoteWeb contact the Library, browse through some of our previous postings on this blog, and look out for our information skills workshop sessions.

Iain Young
Resources Manager

How to use EndnotWeb – Library workshop 15th October

Are your reference notes in a mess?  Do you find citing and referencing a bit of a chore?  This could be the session for you!

Come along to find out how EndnoteWeb can help you:

• collate, annotate and organise your references
• create reference lists and add citations in your text automatically
• cite-while-you-write, saving time and effort

If  you’re jotting down details of sources you read for your course work on scraps of paper that get lost or if you often can’t find the page number of the really good quote you want to use, EndnoteWeb can help.

This session could be useful if you don’t want to spend 3 days typing up your reference list!

Venue: Anderson Room, Library top floor
Date: Thurs 15th October OR Wed 11th November
Time: 12.15-13.15 (optional additional half hour for questions afterwards)

No need to book. Just come along. You can bring your lunch and we’ll provide the tea and coffee.

For more information on the Library’s workshop programme see our programme webpage.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Library Workshop slides available

Library Staff have so far presented two sessions as part of the Lunchtime Workshop Programme.  If you want to view the PowerPoint slides from either of these sessions, these are now available.  If you missed the session and/or have any further questions regarding the information presented, please get in touch with the presenter.  The slides and contact details are available from the Library Workshops page.

If you have attended one of the lunchtime workshops and didn’t complete our short feedback form, we’d very much appreciate your comments – please use our feedback form and return by email or hand in to Library Sttaff.

Sarah Kelly
Subject Librarian

How to use EndnoteWeb workshop

 

Do your reference notes look a bit like this?

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Are you jotting down details of sources on scraps of paper that get lost?  Maybe you can’t find the page numbers of that really good quote and you need them to cite and reference it properly?

Find out how EndnoteWeb can help  -

• collate, annotate and organise your references
• create reference lists and add citations in your text – automatically
• cite-while-you-write, saving time and effort

Why not come along to this  library workshop on -

How to Use EndnoteWeb
Friday 30th January or Tuesday 3rd February
Both at 12.15-13.45 in the Anderson Room, top floor of the Library

This session is ideal if you don’t want to spend 3 days typing up your references!

Training (for staff and PG students only) on using the desktop version of Endnote desktop is available from UICS. 

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Upcoming library workshops

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The Cite is Right
Thursday 29th January, 12.15-13.45, Anderson Room, Library
Are you clueless about citing and referencing? Do you think it’s a lot of hassle and don’t see the point?  Do you want citing and referencing to be as easy as  . . . well  . .  citing and referencing?  Come along to this session to find out more about it, what the benefits of citing and referencing are and how it can help in avoiding PLAGIARISM. 

How to Use EndnoteWeb
Friday 30th January and Tuesday 3rd February, 12.15-13.45, Anderson Room, Library
Are you jotting down details of sources on scraps of paper that get lost? Can’t find the page numbers of that really good quote? Find out how EndnoteWeb can help you -

• collate, annotate and organise your references
• create reference lists and add citations in your text – automatically
• cite-while-you-write, saving time and effort

This session is ideal if you don’t want to spend 3 days typing up your references!

Training (for staff and PG students only) on using the desktop version of Endnote desktop is available from UICS. 

Under Pressure
Thurdsay 5th February, 12.15-13.45, Anderson Room, Library
Too much coming at you? All at the same time? Four assignments, three presentations and two lab reports? And what about that night out? And then there’s your washing to do! AARGH!  But, wait a minute. There’s no need to PANIC. Come along to this session on time management to find out how to make time to work, rest and play!  Find out how to

• plan and organise your work
• identify effective learning strategies that work for you
• work steadily through the semester and avoid cramming

This workshop is run by Isabelle Pottinger, Effective Learning Advisor  

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The Write Stuff – how to write essays and other things
Thursday 12th February, 12.15-13.45, Anderson Room, Library
Come along to this session to find out more about what kind of essay gets good marks, how to analyse titles, how to organise the material you collect and how to plan, develop and write a good argument. This session is run by Isabelle Pottinger, Effective Learning Advisor.

All workshops held in the Anderson Room, top floor of the library. Tea and coffee is provided. Bring your own lunch

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian