Advanced Library Skills for Physics Research
About This Book
1 Evaluating Information Learning Objectives After completing this chapter you will: - Critically examine resources and information - Evaluate journals and understand Journal Impact Factors - Understand how science is presented and misinterpreted in the media Why do we evaluate information? We evaluate information to ensure we are using the best resources. Over 3 million research articles are published each year1. With so much information out there, it is important to critically examine each res
| Category | technology |
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| Subject | Library and information services |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 12 |
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| Institution | University of Alberta |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 4 Evaluating a Journal
- 5 Science and Science News
- 6 Predatory Publishing
- 9 Hijacked Journals
- 11 Building a Search
- 13 Searching Academic Databases – Web of Science
- 15 Recommended Databases by Discipline
- 17 Accessing Library Materials Remotely
- 18 Citation Management
- 19 Citation Management with Zotero
- 20 Citing in LaTeX
- 21 Avoiding Plagiarism