http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:22:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has done a very nice and easy to use tutorial on how to use EndNote. In the tutorial you find texts and illustrations as well as short films on how to get started with EndNote, how to create a ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2009/02/26/endnote-tutorial/ In this guide we look into these parts in the art of referencing: * Introduction * What's in a reference? * How to make a reference (from book) * How to make a reference (from catalogue) * Using references * Using references-test your knowledge * Using a bibliography * Reference citation styles The easy guide to referencing http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2008/12/15/the-easy-guide-to-referencing/ In the Swedish library catalogue for university libraries, LIBRIS, there is a very useful tool for creating citations to books and other publications. With the aid of this function you won’t need to write down all your citations by hand, as you can simply cut and paste them into your ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2008/12/11/creating-citations-in-libris/ Google Scholar is a search engine that specializes in finding scholarly literature on the World Wide Web.  Through the user-friendly interface you can search the web for peer-reviewed papers and articles, theses, books, abstracts, citations and other scholarly literature from many different areas of research. The big advantage of using Google ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2008/12/11/google-scholar/ Since quite a long time many libraries have had public open access catalogues (OPAC) which facilitates book searching considerably. BTH subscribes to both print and electronic journals and they are registered mainly in two different ways. We will take a closer look at some of the most important book and journal catalogues ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2008/02/06/books-and-journals-introduction/ Libris is a national union catalogue which contains information on what material can be found in Swedish research and special libraries. Here you will find references for printed books, e-books, journals, e-journals, articles, maps, sheet music and more. LIBRIS is a national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2008/01/10/libris-union-catalogue/ Journals are published periodically, e.g. once a month. They are often published by commercial publishers, but the publisher can also be an institution or organization. Journals address different groups of readers and have different purposes and use. Amelia and Science are entertainment respectively popular science journals and their target group is ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2007/10/22/journals/ The ability to search for information is becoming increasingly important in our society. To be able to find, evaluate and organize information is gaining in importance as the amount of information grows. Before you begin to search it is important to carefully consider what type of information you need. The preparations ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2007/06/13/search-guide-introduction/ Consult the Search guide, librarians, your tutor, your teachers and handbooks in essay writing to solve these issues. Do you have a clearly defined seach topic? When you have a clearly defined search topic and you know what you want to address in e.g. a paper, it is easier to start ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2007/06/12/cheklist-for-information-seeking/ It is treacherously easy to find information on the Internet, you will always find something. But surfing through numerous amounts of not so great search results is not very nice and above all very time consuming. Making more effective searches is fully possible though, by learning to handle the search ... http://www.searchguide.se/bth/en/2007/05/17/internet-introduction/