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Navigating Textile Information Environment: Evaluating Sources for Graduate Seminar

Explore authoritative sources in textiles through exhaustive research. Learn to evaluate relevance, authority, accuracy, and currency of information. Utilize advanced search techniques and databases for comprehensive coverage.

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Navigating Textile Information Environment: Evaluating Sources for Graduate Seminar

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  1. Textiles Graduate Seminar Honora F. Nerz Head, Textiles Library and Engineering Services September 7, 2005

  2. Changing Expectations… • You must use authoritative sources of information • You must evaluate sources of information you choose • You must do exhaustive research • You cannot ignore print resources

  3. Authoritative Information Sources • Where do they come from? • You should be focusing on traditional academic literature, i.e., journal articles, conference papers and books. • And therefore, you should be mainly using databases (World Textiles, ABI Inform, etc.) to access the literature.

  4. Evaluating information sources • Relevance • Authority • Accuracy • Objectivity • Currency • Coverage

  5. Exhaustive Searching • Multiple searches • Advanced search techniques • Using indexing systems • Search alerts/saved searches/keeping track • Multiple databases • Multiple libraries • WorldCat • ILL

  6. Print Sources • Reality vs. our preferences • Books vs. e-books • Journals • Most textile journals only available in print • A lot of chemistry and engineering titles are available electronically • Some management articles are available full text through databases like ABI Inform

  7. Print, cont’d… • Databases (things are getting better…) • Full coverage in World Textiles (1970 - ) • Textile Technology Index • 1978 – present searchable electronically • 1945 – 1977 in print • Full coverage in Web of Science (1945 - ) • Full coverage in Compendex (1848 - ) • Full coverage in ABI Inform (1905 - )

  8. Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. - Helen Gurley Brown

  9. Questions? Thank you!

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