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Electronic information resources
for PhD students
Mgr. Pavla Martinková
Ústřední knihovna FF MU
24. 11. 2021
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Introduction

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Electronic resources 101
What’s out there
̶journals & articles
̶books & chapters
̶news(papers)
̶video & audio materials
̶images (e.g. museum collections)
̶specific materials (e.g. manuscript scans)
̶data
̶facts
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Scientific databases
̶full texts & other media
̶bibliographical data / abstracts
̶citation databases
̶factographic
̶subject-specific or multi-subject
Electronic resources 101

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Electronic resources 101
Why
̶“all in one”
̶curated and (should be) trustworthy
̶peer-reviewed materials
̶library / provider curation
̶basic and advanced search options
̶browsing (e.g. thesauri)

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Electronic resources 101
Where and how
̶MU portal ezdroje.muni.cz
̶Discovery service discovery.muni.cz
̶Google Scholar scholar.google.com
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̶different strategies
̶tips & tricks

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Strategies
̶use precise keywords
̶topic description
̶combinations
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̶start with specific resource / query
̶e.g. relevant source you already know
̶start broadly and refine later
̶refining queries with wildcards and booleans
̶refining results with database / search engine specific filtres
̶browse

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Tip 1: controlled vocabularies / thesauri
̶browsing tools
̶selected terms for describing database content
̶thesaurus has hierarchy
̶usualy in subject-specific databases
̶example: EBSCOhost web

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Tip 2: refining queries
̶"" for exact phrase
̶"art brut"
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̶* asterisk ? question mark (wildcards)
̶wom?an = woman OR women
̶futur* = futurism OR futuristic OR futurists OR future

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Tip 3: booleans
̶art AND society (both terms)
̶art OR artists (at least one of the terms)
̶art NOT digital (without the second term)

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Tip 4: citation management tools
̶one place for organizing all your citations
̶desktop or web apps
̶free or paid
̶personal or shared libraries
̶plug-ins for browsers and text editors
̶different functions: notes, file upload, tags, …
̶e.g. Citace PRO, Zotero, Mendeley, and many more

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ezdroje.muni.cz
̶list of everything available at MU
̶updates (trials, new resources)
̶guides (remote access, Full Text Finder)

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discovery.muni.cz
̶one query to most (not all) of the databases available at MU
̶advanced search options and results refining
̶user account to save sources, queries, create alerts, and more

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scholar.google.com
̶open and also licensed resources
̶for MU resources: active VPN + Settings > Library links > Masaryk
̶advanced search options and filtres (less then Discovery)
̶Google account to save sources, create alerts, and more
̶Google Scholar Button (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)

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Tip 5: Have you tried…
1.use Full Text Finder
2.check List of available books and journals in Discovery
3.contact the library
4.search for printed version
5.utilize Open Access
̶browser plug-ins (Unpaywall, OA Button)
6.SciHub or Libgen or not?

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Printed books
Examples I | Books
Electronic books
̶Library catalogues
̶katalog.muni.cz (MU libraries)
̶Knihovny.cz (Czech libraries)
̶Worldcat.org (world libraries)
̶E-prezenčka (E-loans) service
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🗸 = available via Discovery
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̶Digital libraries
̶FA Digital library
̶Czech digital library
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̶E-books
̶🗸 ProQuest Ebook Central
̶🗸 Oxford Handbooks
̶🗸 Sage Knowledge
̶Project Gutenberg
̶Standard Ebooks

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Multi-subject databases
Examples II | Databases
Subject-specific databases
̶🗸 JSTOR
̶🗸 Taylor & Francis
̶🗸 Science Direct
̶ProQuest Central
̶🗸 SpringerLink
̶🗸 Wiley
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̶GALE Literary Sources
̶Arts & Humanities (ProQuest)
̶🗸 Oxford Music Online
̶Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
̶PressReader
̶Artsor
̶only until Dec 2021
̶more in our Subject Guides

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Examples III | Open Access
̶open repositories
̶CORE: meta-search
̶DOAR (Directory of OA Repositories)
̶Re3data: data repositories
̶DOAJ
̶Directory of OA Journals
̶arXiv
̶preprints
̶Internet Archive
̶public domain works and other content
̶Europeana, Google Arts & Culture
̶cultural herritage

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Central library in a nutshell
̶research support
̶lessons and consultations
̶academic publishing
̶Open Science (publications and data)
̶resource acquisition
̶both printed and electronic
̶purchase suggestion form
̶ILL (Inter-Library Loan Service)
̶place for study
̶individual study places
̶group study rooms
̶makerspace
Central Library, autumnal picture

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Thank you for your time
Mgr. Pavla Martinková
I‘ll gladly answer your questions at martinkova@phil.muni.cz
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