Hello, I'm Carol Rhodes and I'm faculty librarian at the University of Liverpool.

In this video, I'll give you some tips on how to search library and electronic information sources, how to summarize and reference.

I look after the School of Engineering, so the sources that we look at and the examples that we use are going to be relevant to engineering.

You'll be able to.

Find some good quality sources of academic information. So now you're studying at University. You need to be using academic information, so articles published in journals.

Conference papers everything that you do.

In your academic life will be based on research that's already been done before in your field, and you need to be able to find this research.

Will look at how you distinguish between different information sources and weigh up which are the good quality sources.

I would also look at how to reference your sources correctly so everything that you do will be based on the work of others and you need to give them credit for the sources that you're using.

At the start of your search, be specific and know what you're looking for and why, so you need good quality information to provide an academic context for your work.

This in turn will give your work credibility 'cause your work is based on all the academic work that's gone before.

And you can use the work of others as a platform in which to base your own ideas and discussions.

This will help you to get good marks in your assignments and be successful in your degree.

Today we're going to look at web searching and library searching.

Are we going to play up the benefits of these two ways of searching? The good news is that library searching these days is as easy as web searching, so a lot of information is available online. You can do your searching really easily.

Library searching provides you with really good quality academic information, so will show you some sources for finding that.

Now this is most people starting point. Most people when they start thinking about a subject, type it into Google, get some background information.

So that's absolutely fine.

But do you remember what you're searching when you're searching the Internet?

Who can put up web pages?

Pretty much anybody.

Do they have to be a professor or an expert in the subject? No, they don't.

So in that case, how can you be sure about the information that you've retrieved?

You're going to need to evaluate information that you receive from the Internet. You're going to need to be critical.

Www.whowrote it who published it? What type of website is it?

The address of the website can give you some clues, so if it's a.ac.uk site, that's a UK University that's likely to be a good source of academicinformation.gov.uk is a UK governmental site, so again you can probably trustthat.edu is an academic institution in the United States.

Dot com, on the other hand.

Anybody can put up a.com website, so just be a little bit more careful when accessing informationfrom.com sites.

Do a few checks, check if the information is accurate.

See if there's any bias. See if the person who's put up the webpage is Tyler. Persuade you of something.

Does it reference the sources? Can you weigh up whether it is a valid site by checking out other sources of information?

And see if the information can be verified.

Also very important is how up to date is the web page that you're looking at. So the web page should have a last updated date on it.

At information on the web is changing all the time. So in fact when you reference anything that you find on the web, you need to put the date when you accessed it, because in between the time of you finding the information and then your supervisor looking at your paper that you've written the information on the web might have changed and it's really important to have up-to-date information.

So here's an example search in the first year, engineering students do a piece of work on 3D printing, so I've just typed into Google here 3D printing and we'll see what comes up, you'll see.

Things coming up at the top of your search notice this little add. These are people that have paid to have their web pages come up at the top of your search.

Also, near the top of any web page search, Wikipedia is often there, so we'll have a little look at Wikipedia.

There are some problems with Wikipedia, as we can see here.

It's flagged that this article has issues.

Wikipedia is a common resource. Anybody can edit the content or keep you dear, so it could be that somebody edits the content.

Put something wrong up there and it's not spotted for awhile, so just be cautious about information that you get from Wikipedia. Quite often your lecturers won't want you to base a whole paper on just information that you found from Wikipedia.

So this is Wikipedia in an academic context, and if they actually say citation of Wikipedia and research papers may be considered unacceptable because Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

Who sang these nasty things about Wikipedia? Actually, it's Wikipedia themselves. They admit that they are not an academic site on any.

An encyclopedia should just be a starting point for your research. It just should get you going in the right direction. It shouldn't necessarily be the bill on the end, or.

The good thing about Google is it can do more than you probably realize.

So.

Here's our 3D printing search.

Under settings, there's actually an option for an advanced search, and this can give you a bit more detail when searching Google.

In the advanced search you've got options to find pages.

With all the words or an exact word or phrase.

Another useful tip for using Google.

Is to put quotation marks around your phrase and that tells Google that.

Those words have to occur together as a phrase.

And the use of quotation marks will work in Google and in many other databases.

There's some further options in the advanced search, so you can limit by language or limit by region.

So the civil engineers, in their first year do a piece of research called Engineers Without Borders and they look at a specific part of the world. So if they were looking at India for example, they could limit things that they find to just those that are actually published in India and thereby find out what the people in India think about a particular topic. So that's a way of limiting by region. You can also limit by site or domain. So if you're having trouble finding something.

On the Liverpool website, for example, you can put liverpool.ac.uk into this box and do a Google search and limit things just to Liverpool.

So in this case I've done my 3D printing search and I have limited just to Liverpool, so we'll see what we find for 3D printing at Liverpool University.

And we get results that are extremely relevant and limited to University Liverpool.

If you like Google, you might like Google Scholar, which looks very similar, but instead of searching web pages, it searches Journal articles and conference papers so the scholarly.

The scholarly literature.

So an example of a Google Scholar search. Here again, we've done 3D printing, but instead of bringing back web pages, we're bringing back in this case Journal articles.

You'll also note that we have this, is it at Liverpool link, so we at the Universal Liverpool have the rights to subscribe to a lot of really good quality information. We have the rights to access full text Journal articles.

That the normal person just Googling would not have the rights to access and he can get through to these via. Is it at Liverpool?

If you are on campus, visit Liverpool. Links will appear automatically if you're not on campus, go to Google Scholar and just set up your preferences so that is it. At Liverpool will appear.

So you go to the menu in Google Scholar and you go to settings.

And within settings you got library links, so if you're on your PC at home, just pop in Liverpool here and then Tick University at Liverpool and that will get the. Is it a Liverpool links to appear for you.

Then

once we follow through and is it at Liverpool link we see what the University subscribes to. So in this case we found.

This particular paper through Google Scholar and Weird University had the rights to access the full text of this paper, so we can just follow the link through.

And we get through too.

Journal.

I mean get through to the PDF so the full text of that particular Journal article.

So that was a quick look at web searching.

Now to look at library searching. This is actually a lot easier for you than web searching because the material has been pre selected so you know that what you're searching is good quality academic information rather than searching Google, which could be absolutely anything.

So what you'll find doing a library search is books published by experts in the field and peer reviewed Journal articles. So good quality academic information.

Because of our deals with publishers, you will get access to full text information.

And you don't have to come on campus. You as a Liverpool student have the rights to access all this information wherever you are in the world. So just make sure that you come in through the library's website and that will automatically give you access to the information that you need.

So I would say whenever you start your search. So if you're starting searching at home.

Come in through the Liverpool University website so just come to the University of Liverpool Home page and sign yourself in as a student. At this point you will enter your managed Windows Service username and password and login.

So you want the student Internet you already identified yourself as a Liverpool student and you can start your search from here.

Under the quick links on the left hand side, you have a link through to the library.

Follow this and you'll get through to the library's home page and there's a lot of information for you here on this page right at the top.

We have some basic information about using the library, so we put this information up at the start of the academic year.

And it gives you some tips about using the library.

This academic year, some things are changing, so I think we'll leave that page up to highlight any changes that might come into play during the year. So you've got this getting started at the library.

Page to help you with the basics. You've also always got help and support further down the library page. So if we have a look at getting started with the library that just gives you an idea about the basics of finding things, getting access to information in the library itself.

We've got plenty of help and support available to you.

Lots of meaning of asking questions if you need to find that information so we have our FA cues are quick answers to things. So if you just want a quick answer, try typing that into the box here and you will find an answer.

We have chat available.

Again from the library home page, if you've got a quick question you can get in touch with the Librarian at anytime of the day or night to give you a quick hand.

With finding information and we've also got the library's email address, so that's a quick source of information as well. If you want to email library at liverpool.ac.uk.

We also have a lot of information appearing on our Twitter feed, so that's at Live Uni Library and that again can keep you up to date with the latest developments.

So let's have a look at a few of the sources that are available to you from the Library's home page.

And we got the library catalog. You can use that to find a specific book or Journal type in your Journal title. You'll find out if we take a particular Journal.

We've gotta get it for me. That's for things that we don't have, but you do want to get hold of.

We have reading lists Liverpool, so your lecture will recommend specific textbooks for your module. You can go into reading little Liverpool and find out what those recommendations are.

And we've got discover, which does a quick search across all of the kualiti library information, so it's a bit like searching Google, but it's searching the library information.

And we've also got specific information for each subject area. So for the engineering students we have the Engineering library guide and that highlights really good sources of information in engineering.

And if you need any help with referencing, there's also the referencing library guide.

So just to look at a few of these in a bit more detail.

From the Libraries Home page will go and have a look at the library catalog.

So this will search by keyword. In this case we've done search for introduction to mechanical engineering. Don't have to write the whole thing. We can do a search that way.

You can also keep track of books that you've got out on loan by looking at my library account, so that's worth doing to keep track of what you've got out on loan. So if we do our search for introduction to mechanical engineering.

We come up with.

Books of that title.

In this case, we've got the book in two different formats, so we've got the book as an ebook, and we've got it as a print book.

To view the ebook, just click on the title and you'll get through to a page where you can view this ebook online.

I'm from here. You can read the book online. You can download parts of it.

We try and make information available to you in electronic format wherever possible. We have E books from a lot of different suppliers. They might look slightly different when you get through.

But we are trying to make sure that information is available to you electronically and remotely. Wherever possible, would try and get hold of an ebook. Sometimes we can't get hold of an ebook because the publisher doesn't make it available in that format. But we will always try and make it available electronically so that the maximum number of students at any one time can get access to the materials that your lecture is recommending.

And E books can be quite useful. You can go through and highlight things. You can make your own notes, you can search them quite easily as well, so search within the book for particular topics.

The other option would be to get this book as a print book an. At the moment you would reserve it and we would collect it from the shelves and then you would come into the library and collect it. So in this case you can reserve this book come into the library and collect it. You can see under status.

Weather the books available as well.

And this is how you would click and collect. Well, request your book and then come and collect it when it's ready. So you just log in with your library ID the first time you do this you will need to create a pin.

So you can just put your name in here the University ID. That's your number from your card, and then create a library pin and then remember your library pin thereafter.

OK, so that was how to get hold of a book in electronic format and how to get hold of a book in print format.

What is the thing that you want isn't available in the library where we're very happy to get hold of things for you as a student?

Even if we don't have immediate access to it and the easy way to do that is just click get it for me.

Get it for me is a completely free service and we will get things.

That aren't immediately accessible, so it might be a book that you've found that's really relevant to your course that we don't have any copies in the library. You can request it with the book request form. Similarly, you can get hold of an article or a chapter from elsewhere.

Also, if

you can't get hold of a copy of the book that you need, you can use get it for me and will buy extra copies.

So this is a completely free service. We aim to get the information that you need to use. So do use this service if you're having any trouble finding things that you need.

So we can also have a look at reading lists.

This is reading list Liverpool.

Each module should have its own reading list.

And your lecturer will be recommending specific texts on that reading list, so you can get through to your reading list.

From your module in the Valley.

Or directly via reading this to Liverpool and here you can type in your module code or your lecturers name and you'll be able to track down the reading list for that module.

So in this case.

We get through to the reading list. We see who the module leader is.

And we have a whole list of books here, so this particular one.

Is a print book actually, but because it's really popular, we've digitized a chapter from it and you can view that chapter online. So these are the recommendations of your lecturer and they will highlight which of these are the most important feature. Look at so this is a key book, for example, on this particular reading list.

Having looked at reading lists, we might want to look at discover, which I mentioned is like the library Google, so that's.

Good for a quick idea on a subject and it searches across all of our resources.

It will limit to things that we've got in media access to as well.

So discoveries on the library home page here you would.

Type in whatever you are looking for into the single search box here.

So where to look for 3D printing on discover?

We would find a mixture of resources, so we might find.

E books or print books or Journal articles as well.

And to get through to any of these we can just click get full text and that will take us through to the ebook or the Journal Article. So we've done a nice search across everything. It's really simple, search here.

It is limited to what we have immediate access to, so the things that we have full text online or the things that we have in print in the library. If you want to search more broadly than that, you can take that limit off and then if you find things that you want that way you can get hold of them through, get it for me.

So that was discover.

If you want to go into more detail, you've got the library guides.

And there is a lively guide specifically for engineering where we gather together the resources that are relevant to you as engineers, and we recommend particular databases, so discover will do your nice broad search across all different subject areas. If you want to maybe later on in your degree when you are doing a third year project or a Masters dissertation or a PhD. These are the sort of databases that you'll find useful because they are very relevant to engineering and you'll find Journal articles and conference papers.

On your subject. By searching these databases.

As well as the subject guides, we have general guides, so you might find the referencing one useful as well, and this will give you some tips about how to reference your sources so you're finding all this information if you want to reuse it in your own work, you will need to reference it.

So let's imagine that you found some useful material through all these different sources that we've looked at.

Do keep track of things as you go along.

It's a lot easier to keep track of things as you go along, rather than trying to go back and find them again later, and you need to do that so that you or anybody else can find the information again. So note down the full information that would enable you to find your source.

That means that you can find it again.

If you're going to use somebody elses work in your own work, you will need to give them credit by referencing them.

And this is when you use their words. Or maybe their diagram or anything else that they've published that you want to use in your own work. You need to give them credit for that.

So referencing is important. It enables somebody to follow up on what you've said, so maybe you've based your piece of work on somebody else's work and your.

Lecturer read your piece of work and wants to follow up on what you've referred to.

It's really good to demonstrate how broadly you've read around the subject and the fact that you have based your work on work that's already been done by other people.

It can be used to support or develop your own points, so if you got an expert in the field and their view supports what you're trying to say, that can be really useful as a way of adding weight to what you are saying.

And by referencing you will avoid plagiarism.

So plagiarism is defined.

As you misrepresenting.

Somebody elses work.

As your own.

So there's there is.

But deception in there, so it's kind of claiming somebody elses work.

As your own work, and this is the University Liverpool definition and the Universal has an academic integrity policy.

So they try and ensure that within the academic context.

Work is referenced correctly, everybody gets.

Credit for what they've done.

And it does apply to all types of work, so you might think of quotation a direct quotation from a piece of work, but it will also apply to a graph or maybe a picture that you've just come across on the Internet that is somebody elses work. If you're reusing it in your own work, you need to say where that came from originally.

So the Guild of Students recognized that it's.

That quite often you're not trying to steal somebody elses work, almost represent it or cheat.

But it can be quite difficult. You need to understand what plagiarism is in order to avoid it.

There's plenty of sources of help with this, so we have a really good interactive tutorial from know how, so know they know how academic Integrity tutorial is available through canvas or vital, and it takes you through step by step and explains exactly what academic integrity is.

We got the library referencing pages, which I showed you briefly. They go through the process of how you reference different sources of information correctly.

And we've got cite them right, so this is a good source of information. Also available as an interactive online resource that you can type into the online site. Then right? How do I reference a Journal article and it will tell you exactly what you need to do?

And there's also turnitin at which your lecturers will use to check.

For correct referencing.

The Academic Integrity Tutorial looks like this. It goes through.

Three parts in some detail so that you can really get an understanding of what academic integrity is, and then you do a quiz.

That way you figure out that yes, you do know what you're doing.

So.

Your lecturer or your supervisor will likely spot any instance of plagiarism, and the University Liverpool uses the turnitin package and that checks.

The work that you submit against all of the submissions of that piece of coursework.

And all previous submissions of that piece of coursework.

And everything on the Internet.

And it produces something called an originality report. So this isn't a plagiarism report, it just.

Looks at sources of information and points out where the similarities.

So in this case.

This is an example of a turnitin report.

These instances.

What the student has written is similar to something elsewhere, so this particular bit in pink is a student paper submitted to the University already.

So this just highlights where this information has come to, where it's similar to other information that's out there, but you will notice that this particular student is referencing, so it doesn't matter that this information is visibly come from somewhere else because they said, yeah, it's come from this particular source, so they are citing things correctly.

So don't worry too much about Turnitin. Your lecturer may well give you the chance to.

Put your piece of work through turnitin and have a look at it yourself and then that may remind you that. Oh yes, I did find that on a website and I need to reference it there.

So, provided you reference correctly, it's not a problem at all.

So throughout your degree, keep track of things so that you could find them again.

And distinguishing your notes when you are finding things what your own idea and where you got an idea from somebody else.

Do try and express other peoples ideas in your own words, but always make sure you reference their work so that they get proper credit.

A Quick guide on how to quote so quotation is using somebody elses exact words and you would then enclose the words in quotation marks.

Particularly in engineering and science subjects, keep your quotation short and make them fit in with what you yourself are trying to say, and you can edit things slightly. You can give three dots if you want to miss any words out. You can use square brackets to add in any words that make the quotation make sense in the context that you are using it.

And keep those quotations to a minimum. Really less than 5%. Your assignment should be in your words rather than anybody else is.

Paraphrasing would be rewording.

And a particular sentence or a paragraph, but keeping the same meaning.

Summarizing would be when you read a whole paper and you want to provide a brief account of somebody elses ideas and in both cases you would just acknowledge the source.

So referencing is always done in two parts. Does the citation, so this is.

A brief little note that's in your text, and it highlights that you have referred to somebody elses work, and this then refers the reader to your bibliography.

And then the bibliography is a full list of all the sources that you've consulted.

And that's usually at the end of your report. So in the report itself, you highlight.

Wait, you've used somebody elses ideas or words or diagram.

That's the citation, and then the bibliography is the reference list, so it's the full details of all the sources at the end of the report.

So the School of Engineering uses North the date style of referencing, and it's called cite them right Harvard.

So the little.

Bookmarking your text.

Is the author's name and the date.

Within brackets.

And then in your bibliography or your reference list that is arranged in alphabetical order by author.

So an example here where we've quoted from this particular book, we've got a direct quote, so refuse quotation Marks and here within the brackets right after the quote, we've got the authors and the date. And because it's her quote, we've given the page numbers as well.

So we don't have to use exactly those words. We can paraphrase and we can work in the authors names into our piece of work. So in this case.

We're referring to the authors, so we just need the date within brackets after the authors names.

If you were to use a diagram again, you would use the authors names.

And a comma and the date.

And the page number.

Within brackets right next to where you use the diagram.

Referencing a web page can sometimes be tricky because you don't obvious. You don't always have an obvious author.

And it's sometimes quite difficult to see the date. So in this case we do have an author's name. If you don't, you can use the name of the company, maybe, or the organization that produced the web page. They will do as an author and just have a look at the date when the page was last updated and that's your date to use in your reference as well.

So in this case, a citation.

Would look like this. We did have an obvious author.

And we've got the data when the web page was updated and then in the bibliography.

You would have the authors name.

And the date and the title of the page and also have the web address of the page.

So that somebody could go and access it.

It might have changed since the time that you've looked at it, so you say exactly the date when you accessed it.

So if you don't have an author, don't worry, just use the organization, or failing that, the title of the webpage.

So an example here of a bibliography or reference list. We've got a book.

Authors names dates.

Title of the book. Publication details.

We've got a web page here. Again, authors name, date, title, the page, how to find the web page.

And when it was accessed and here we've got a Journal article as well so authors names date.

Title of the article, details of the Journal and how to access the Journal here. So this one. This is like an online address or DOI for the Journal.

If it was a print Journal, you'd give the page numbers here.

So that was a quick run through of how to find information and how to reference it.

So start out with the library pages.

Accessible from the Liverpool homepage.

Forward slash library and that will ensure that you're finding good quality academic information.

Be judicious about the sources that you use, so think about what you are using the critical. If you're retrieving information from the web.

Choose choose wisely.

And use your sources to underpin your argument so it needs to be your argument, your words, your report, and these sources need to back you up to say what you want to say.

Always acknowledge your sources by referencing if you're in the School of Engineering, the style that you use is called. Cite them right. Harvard and this will avoid plagiarism. It'll be very clear where you've got your information from.

So I hope that's helpful to you.

And I wish you the best of luck in searching. Hopefully you'll find some good quality information and you'll be able to reference it correctly.

If you have any questions and you're an engineering student at the University of Liverpool, please do get in touch. My email address is there.

Thanks for listening.