Researcher's Checklist
New to CSU?
If you have recently started as a researcher at CSU, you may want to work your way through our checklist so that you can make sure that you are getting the most out of your Library Service.
Have you:
- Booked an appointment with your Faculty Liaison Librarian for a Library Induction?
- Booked a Librarian for a one-on-one consultation?
- Made sure that you have a current student/staff ID card? You'll need this to borrow material at the library and for photocopying in the library.
- Checked out the Library Orientation Toolbox? Worked out where we are located and when we're open?
Do you know how to:
- Use Primo Search effectively to find items, place holds, place interlibrary loan requests, renew items and check your library record?
- Locate journal databases that are important for your area of research?
- Use Boolean searching and special characters to make your searching in databases easier and more effective?
- Save searches, create journal table of contents (TOC) and search alerts for your research topics and use the more advanced functions on databases?
- Set Google Scholar preferences to include links to CSU online journals, and allow you to save references to your EndNote library?
- Use specialised research databases such as ISI Web of Science (or Scopus) to conduct literature searches, work forwards through citing articles, backwards through references, and analyse results to determine the immediacy and impact of a scholarly work?
- Use Journal Citation Reports to determine journal impact factors?
- Locate information about the ERA initiative, and access the journal ranking lists for your discipline?
- Access EndNote, to help you manage your references & associated electronic PDFs? We run training classes on EndNote as well. Why not register for one?
- Use EndNote to easily add in-text citations and references in your Microsoft Word documents?
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