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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is the scientific counterpart of Google. You can search for books, (peer reviewed) articles, reports, conference papers, and so on. You can narrow down your list of results by selecting a time period and/or language in the left-hand column.
Note that Google Scholar does not check the quality …
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database
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Article: requesting an article from another library
Your looking for an article, but the University Library does not have access to the full text. There are two ways you can find the full text after all:
Via a database
If you're searching via a database, you can use the …
Read moreScholarly article: where to find it?
Search a bibliographic database
The best way to find qualitative scholarly articles is to use a bibliographic database. There are multidisciplinary databases (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science) as well as discipline-specific databases (e.g. PubMed for health sciences). These databases give an overview of published scholarly information, whether …
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article
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Assess the quality of a scholarly journal
Researchers can choose from tens of thousands of scholarly journals to disseminate their research results. It's not always easy to find out which ones are reliable.
General guidelines- Think. Check. Submit is a checklist to help you identify trustworthy journals and publishers.
- Have (many of) your trusted peers published in …
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Biblio
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journal
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open science
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Google Books: what is it?
Google Books is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and scientific works.
Google formed the collection via contracts with publishers and by scanning the collections of libraries all across the world.
You can find a part of the collection of Ghent University Library in Google Books. Only print works without copyright …
Read morePublish: how to submit an article in a scholarly journal?
How do you get your article published in a journal? How do you choose the right journal?
The Knowledge Center for Health Ghent (KCGG) lists several tips on getting published for the medical sciences. Here's a selection of generally applicable tips.
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Google: search tips
Google is a powerful search engine. But the results list can be endlessly long and at page 3 you still haven't found what you were looking for. These tips and tricks will help you specify a better search question.
- Use unique, specific terms (keywords, not sentences). E.g. search for headache …
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research question
search engines
search strategy
Collaborating on an article: what are your options?
These days, many projects are done as a team, and writing assignments are no exception. It can be challenging to collaborate efficiently on the same text, especially if you and your co-authors mostly communicate online. Fortunately, there are a number of online tools that allow you to write, edit, …
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academic writing
article
V&A ((Dutch) reference style for law school)
If you are a student or researcher at the faculty of law, you are expected to use the legal references and abbreviations in your (Dutch) publications (thesis, scientific articles). In EndNote you will find this reference style as V&A.
Since EndNote is an American software package, a separate version of …
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Searching scientific literature: an example from psychology by prof. dr. Brosschot
Almost every scientific study starts with an extensive literature search. You look for the articles written on your subject of interest and you'll gradually discover unanswered questions or new lines of thoughts worth exploring.
When you start writing your own article, you'll usually include a literature review summarising the …
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article
database
FPP
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systematic review
Medische onderzoeksartikels: tips en tricks bij het schrijven
Tips en tricks vind je op de webpagina’s over “Schrijven voor onderzoekers” op de website van het Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg Gent.
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academisch schrijven
artikel
FFW
FGE
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
ODNB (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) is een biografische databank met meer dan 60.000 biografieën van personen uit de Britse geschiedenis. Deze nationale biografie bestaat ook in print en wordt 3x per jaar geüpdatet.
Je kan zoeken op naam van de persoon of op andere zoektermen maar ook …
Read moreOneNote: wat is dit?
OneNote kan je eigenlijk zien als een digitaal notitieblok. Het is perfect om tijdens vergaderingen te gebruiken door middel van touch of pen.
Je kan er:
- notities in maken,
- je ideeën opschrijven,
- afbeeldingen invoegen,
- content als documenten, e-mails, video's en audiobestanden in bewaren.
Een grote digitale map waar je dus alles in kwijt kan …
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academisch schrijven
Rapporteringsstandaarden: aan welke criteria moet mijn artikel (studie, systematische review) voldoen vóór publicatie?
Een overzicht van de internationale rapporteringsstandaarden vind je op de webpagina’s over “Schrijven voor onderzoekers” op de website van het Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg Gent.
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academisch schrijven
artikel
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Artikel: hoe vat je een wetenschappelijk artikel samen?
Een tekst samenvatten is een belangrijke vaardigheid voor elke student en onderzoeker. Als je de essentie van een artikel kan herleiden tot enkele regels, dan toont dat aan dat je de inhoud goed begrepen hebt. Ook maakt dat het makkelijker om de inhoud te studeren of het overzicht te bewaren …
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academisch schrijven
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FPP
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) is a bibliographic database of international literature on linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences (e.g. applied linguistics, learning disabilities, phonology, psycholinguistics, etc.).
LLBA contains a thesaurus in which you can select search terms from a controlled vocabulary and include them in your search. …
Read moreDyabola
Het Dyabola project is een portaalsite die toegang geeft tot verschillende bibliografische databanken van publicaties m.b.t. archeologie. Wij hebben een abonnement op de volgende collecties:
- Archaeological Bibliography (enhanced Version of Realkatalog) 1956-... (in Duits, Engels, Frans of Italiaans). Onderwerpen: klassieke archeologie, Etruscologie, Minoïsche archeologie en prehistorie
- The Annual Archaeological Bibliography …
PhilPapers
PhilPapers is een bibliografische databank en citatie-index voor wetenschappelijke literatuur over filosofie. Het bevat ook het Open Access archief PhilArchive en een online gids voor filosofen: PhilPeople.
ToegangDeze databank is volledig toegankelijk binnen het UGentNet.
ZoekenZowel in de bibliografische databank als in het Open Access archief kan je zoeken op …
Read moreScopus versus Web of Science - de verschillen
In de markt voor multidisciplinaire citatiedatabanken zijn Web of Science (kortweg 'WoS'; van uitgever Elsevier) en Scopus (van uitgever Clarivate Analytics) de twee grote spelers.
Web of Science bestaat al lang (sinds 1961) en heeft een gevestigde reputatie. Scopus is jonger (2004) maar is intussen ook wereldwijd bekend als 'de …
Read moreACL Anthology
ACL Anthology is a digital archive linked to the Association for Computational Linguistics. It currently contains nearly 90.000 conference papers on the study of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
AccessThe database is freely available.
Search operatorsOn the homepage you can search for conferences of the Association for …
Read moreEndNote: hoe kan je grote aantallen referenties importeren vanuit Embase?
In Embase kunnen tot en met 10.000 referenties tegelijk geëxporteerd worden naar EndNote. Werkwijze: - Zorg ervoor dat je EndNote library waarnaar je wil exporteren, geopend is; - Open een webbrowser via Athena waarna je via https://lib.ugent.be de databank Embase opent. Dit maakt het mogelijk om referenties direct … Read more
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Citing: how to
The information below has been translated from "Citeer" on Studentenportaal (Dutch).
When you copy literal phrasings of another author (or your own, previous work), you're citing another text. Some quick guidelines:
- Always use quotation marks: "..."
- Refer to the source immediately after the citation
- If you use a …
Reference style: what is it?
A reference style defines the rules you have to follow to refer to sources. There are many different reference styles, often linked to a certain field. Also certain scientific journals have their own reference style. Some examples of reference styles are: MLA, APA, Vancouver, IEEE, OSCOLA,...
PointersReferences have to …
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Database search: how to use search terms?
Each database has its own method to make the contents of that database accessible and consultable. Most databases use "Basic search" and "Advanced search".
Via "Basic search" you can filter the search results after performing a search.
"Advanced search" allows you to choose more specific search …
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databank
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FEA
onderzoeksvraag
search engines
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zoekstrategie
Authorship: conditions to be included as an author
The conditions
Researchers who contribute significantly to the creation of the publication are added to the authors list.
This involves 4 (cumulative!) conditions:
- a significant contribution to the design of the research, relevant data collection, its analysis, and/ or interpretation;
- drafting and/or critical reviewing the publication;
- approval of the final …
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academic writing
academisch schrijven
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artikel
ethics
ethiek
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integrity
journal
tijdschrift
Authorship: what is the Ghent University policy?
Authorship
Authorship is related to the actual contribution someone makes to a scientific publication.
Various stakeholders in science (research institutions, faculties, funders, publishers, journals, etc.) have developed standards to regulate this aspect of scholarly publishing.
Authorship is an important (co-)factor for the academic impact and reputation of individual researchers …
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ethiek
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integrity
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Authorship: authorship roles (contribution disclosure – author(ship) contribution statements)
Authorship
Recognition for a person's effective contribution to a scholarly publication is done primarily through the inclusion, or not, of the names of (individual) contributors on a (more or less) limited list of names associated with that publication.
The place on this list determines in most cases the "importance" of …
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academisch schrijven
article
artikel
ethics
ethiek
integriteit
integrity
journal
tijdschrift
Chapterscan: searching and finding references and content tables of books
It is possible for researchers and students at UGent to request chapter scans of some of the books via the catalogue (lib.ugent.be). You can find a blue button "Get chapter scan" if we provide this service on a book.
Here are some tips & tricks to make this …
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databank
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FBW
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FEA
FEA - architecture
FEA - engineering
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FGE
FLW
FPP
FPS
FRE
FWE
FWO
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Referring: how to do it correctly
When you mention (the ideas in) previously published work, you are referring to said work. You can do this by paraphrasing the ideas or findings in other papers, or you can cite them. Correctly referencing your sources is essential in academic writing (bachelor paper, master thesis, PhD dissertation). There are …
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Embase: comparison with PubMed and tips & tricks for searching
Embase is regarded as the European equivalent of PubMed/MEDLINE. When using the Embase search engine, you automatically browse not only the Embase database but also articles in PubMed/MEDLINE that have already been assigned MeSH terms.
AccessEmbase is only accessible via the UGent network.
Search operatorsEmbase can be …
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database
FFW
FGE
search engines
search strategy