You need to use appropriate methods for finding information
effectively and efficiently. Being able to recognize items on reading lists
is necessary before you can decide on the best method of locating material.
Reading Lists
In this section you'll learn how
to use a reading list to find recommended books, book chapters, and journal articles. Academics
may provide you with a reading list to get you started on the life long
task of keeping up with developments in your field of study. Reading lists
are often used for teaching students who have little experience of finding information
by themselves. The items on these lists should be appropriate to your academic
level. You can reasonably expect that every item on a reading list
will be in the Barr Smith Library or MyUni.
The Catalogue is the most likely tool to help you locate
citations on a reading list from The University of Adelaide. Citations
(also called references) are brief descriptions of books, chapters, and
journal articles which provide enough information for you to actually find
them. To find records of these citations in The Catalogue, you must know
which are citations to books, to book chapters, and to journal articles.
In the figure below are 4 citations. There are 3
book citations including a citation to a chapter in an edited book, and
one citation to a journal article.
You'll find various citation styles used in different
bibliographies and reading lists. Some lists might use italics, underlining,
journal abbreviations, a different order for the elements of the citation
such as having the date last, but the distinguishing characteristics in
the examples to follow, are common to most reading lists.
Identifying Citations to Books
You can identify a citation to a book by the presence
of:
author(s) or editor(s), date, book title,
publisher, and place of publication.
For example:
Later you will see how to search for books in
the catalogue by the title, the author, or by combining keywords from the
title and the name(s) of the author(s).
Chapter in a book
You can identify a citation to a chapter in a book by
the presence of the word 'in' before the title of the book, or sometimes before the editor(s) of the book. Here is an example of a citation to a chapter.
It is important to identify citations to chapters.
When you search for a chapter in The Catalogue, you'll need to
search for the book containing the chapter,
not the chapter itself.
Using the example above, you would search The Catalogue
for the book title Experimental neuroanatomy: a practical approach
not the chapter title.
Exception
The only exceptions are some book chapters on Faculty reading lists:. These chapters may be scanned and included in MyUni. Your lecturers will tell you about these chapters.
Citing References
Information literacy includes
understanding your responsibilities under the law about how you use and
acknowledge the work of others.
When you use information from books and journal articles
in your essays and other assignments, you must acknowledge this.
You must give credit to the authors you quote by citing
them in a bibliography (list of citations) at the end of your assignment.
If you don't do this you commit plagiarism.
Right click on the link then click on Open in New Window to read Avoiding Plagiarism by Helene Hipp & Ursula McGowan from the Uni of Adelaide Centre for Learning and Professional Development.
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Your username is in the format "axxxxxxx"
where xxxxxxx is the 7 digits that form your student
number.
Your password is on your
enrolment receipt. Clicking on the button below opens a new browser window.
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Citation Styles
There are many citation styles that can be used for producing a list of references at the end of each of your assignments.
Citations must include a note in the text that refers your readers to the bibliography, or list of citations at the end of your assignment.
You should always follow the citation style recommended by your University
School or Discipline. If there is no recommended style you should choose
an internationally accepted style.
Click on the button below to see a list of citation styles
compiled by B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University.
Harvard Citation System
Students are often told to use the Harvard Citation system.
This can be confusing because there is more than one system that uses this
name. You can find a useful version of Harvard at the following
web site produced by Leeds University Library.
The Uni of South Australia also has a useful web site on using Havard
Summary
You should now know how to:
distinguish a citation to a book from a citation to a chapter in a book.
identify the parts of a citation (author, title, etc.).
identify which part of a chapter citation would be searched in the Library catalogue.
find a citation style that's acceptable to your discipline.
Now logon to MyUni to
Answer Question 1 from the Library Health
Sciences Tutorial
Click on the button below to open MyUni in a new window.
If you are a BDS student,
Click on the course General Studies ID Part 1
If you are a BOH student,
Click on the course Library Skills Questions BOH I 2009
If you are an MBBS student,
Click on the course
MBBS Health Sciences Tutorial Questions 2009
For all students
Next click on Course Material.
Click on Health Sciences Library Tutorial Questions.
Click on Question 1.
If you get a question wrong, you can try again, but you
are likely to get a different question of the same type. If you have trouble with any question
ask Mick Draper for help.
Once you have opened a question make sure you give an answer. If you leave the question without selecting an answer you will be locked out of the question when you try it again later. Let me know if this happens to you.
Keep track of your result for each question to make sure that you get at least 5 questions right..
Once you have answered the first question return to this
screen to continue the tutorial.
