7 Steps to Producing a Literature Review

Are you planning a literature review? Remember we have an online tutorial to guide you through the process!

7 Steps to Producing a Literature Review

 

 

 

 

You can also use our Information Skills Resource for advice on referencing, database searching, using Endnote and much more.

 

 

The University of Sheffield Research Data Management Survey

The University is undertaking a survey of research data management practices within its research community.  If you undertake research in any faculty at the University of Sheffield, the Research Data Management Service Delivery Group would like to gather feedback on how you manage your research data.

For the purpose of this survey, research data refers to any type of data created, collected, or generated in a digital or non-digital form that is analysed to produce original research results.

The questionnaire is designed to:

• Assist in the understanding the types of research data held by researchers
• discover the influences and barriers to managing research data
• establish what advice and support you require
• identify current levels of research data management practice in faculties

We will use the information you provide to:

• inform the RDM user requirements gathering
• assess what research data we are seeking to manage
• deliver tools, infrastructure, and policies to facilitate good research data management practice at The University of Sheffield

The survey should take you about 10 to 15 minutes to complete and it can be completed anonymously. If you would like further information on research data management or would be willing to participate in a follow-up interview, then please enter your name and email address at the start of the survey.

This survey is conducted by the University Research Data Management Service Delivery Group, which is exploring issues around a research data management infrastructure (technical and human) to support the research data lifecycle, acknowledging and responding to different practices across subject disciplines.

Take the survey

*Trial electronic resource* - BrowZine

The University Library has a trial subscription to BrowZine, a new tablet application (iOS & Android) that allows you to browse, read and follow scholarly journals in a format optimised for your iPad or Android tablet.

If you’d like to try this resource, then visit this page and remember to leave us some feedback on what you think to this resource! 

The trial to BrowZine will end on 1 March 2014

*New Resource* - BoB

The University has recently purchased a subscription to Box of Broadcasts (BoB). 

BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are due to be broadcast over the next seven days.  As well as this, you also have access to programmes broadcast over the previous week.  You can also create video clips and access transcripts of the programmes.

BoB has excellent video tutorials that take you through the basics of searching and recording, through to creating video and audio clips and searching transcripts.

BoB is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Cambridge Imaging Systems and Bournemouth University

Keep track of your WRRO stats

Sheffield's shared open access repository White Rose Research Online (WRRO) has recently unveiled its new statistics page where you can find out all the latest download stats.

The repository has had a fantastic 2,048,419 downloads overall for the full-text articles it holds with the most downloaded research paper getting a whopping 32,289 alone. 

Here are the top downloaded research papers from Sheffield;

Clark, C.D., Evans, D.J.A., Khatwa, A., Bradwell, T., Jordan, C.J., Marsh, S.H., Mitchell, W.A. and Bateman, M.D. (2004) Map and GIS database of glacial landforms and features related to the last British Ice Sheet. Boreas, 33 (4). pp. 359-375. ISSN 0300-9483

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/911/ 

Baxter, S. and Brumfitt, S.M. (2008) Professional differences in interprofessional working. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22 (3). pp. 239-251. ISSN 1469-9567

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/10569/ 

Wang, J.B., Wang, W.Y., Jewell, G.W. and Howe, D. (2005) Design of a miniature permanent-magnet generator and energy storage system. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 52 (5). pp. 1383-1390. ISSN 0278-0046              

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/820/ 

To find the stats you want simply use the 'filter items' option at the top of the page. From here you can find out exactly how many downloads each individual article, author or department has had for any given period. To look up a particular article all you need to search for is the EPrint id number which you can find at the end of every record's URL. 

We're developing the repository' statistic capabilities all the time so if there's further information that you think we should include just let us know. Contact us on eprints@whiterose.ac.uk 

January new items and new editions.

New editions and new items for the Health Sciences Library in January

New items in the Health Sciences Library this month:



Clarke, C.   (c.2009) Neurology: a Queen Square Textbook





Horrocks, C., & Johnson, S. (eds.).  (2012) Advances in health psychology: critical approaches.





Laverack, G.  (2009) Public health: power, empowerment and professional practice.  2nd ed.





New editions in the Health Sciences Library this month:



Watson, P.G.  (c.2012) The sclera and systematic disorders.  3rd ed.




Sines, D. (ed.) (2013) Community and public health nursing.
This title is also available as an ebook





Quick, C.G.R.  (2013) Essential surgery: problems, diagnosis and management.  5th ed.





Johnson, L.  (2013) Gastrointestinal physiology.  8th ed.





Cameron, A.C., & Widmer, P. (2013) Handbook of pediatric dentistry.  4th ed




McVeigh, E., Homburg, R., & Guillebaud, J.  (2013) Oxford handbook of reproductive medicine and family planning.  2nd ed.





Marcus, R., Feldman, D., Dempster, D., Luckey, M., & Cauley, J (eds.) (2013) Osteoporosis.  4th ed.




Hinkle, J.L.  (ed.) (2013) Brunner & Suddarth's textbook pf medical-surgical nursing.  13th ed.

Longmore, J.M., Baldwin, A., Wallin, E., Liakos, A & Hill, M.  (2014) Oxford handbook of clinical medicine.  9th ed.

*New Resource* - JoVE

The Library has recently purchased a new subscription to JoVE -  Journal of Visualized Experiments.

This fantastic resource is an online video journal which publishes peer-reviewed research in a video format. This allows you to see the experimental techniques in action making the presented research clear and immediately understandable. It also means that experimental techniques can be studied and learnt more quickly by fellow researchers. 

The journal content can be searched for straight from the homepage or you can browse by sections, which includes; Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection and Clinical & Translational Medicine. 

The journal is also indexed by Pubmed Central.