I thought it best to put down in writing the two research techniques that i shared with you in the session on Thursday. One is the use of Digiplay...
(This is an image from the search terms "video game research")The Digiplay Initiative - The Digiplay games research bibliography is the largest database of academic and research articles on game freely available on the web. On digiplay you can create an account, or just browse content. It has been having difficulties because the site database grows exponentially as more and more people publish work on Games and Gaming Culture. It is a searchable database of articles, it supplies links to the resources and abstracts. Quite a lot of the resources you might need to log into as they are online journals, guidance on this can be found on the Salford University Library site.
Zotero - is a plugin for the firefox web browser, sites that link into zotero include Amazon and Digiplay. It works as a way to tag and organise your research, sites that subscribe to zotero will provide a one click save option that will supply you with all of the bibliographic information you need and zotero means you can export a bibliography for an essay in just a few clicks (but be warned there are different versions of the Harvard referencing system so you might need to tweak the layout). Zotero also has a plugin for word downloadable from thier site.
WorldCat - Worldcat is the database that zotero draws all of its information from, it is a searchable catalogue of books/dvds etc. that is a good place to start searching for broad topics, it also has catalogued sections of peoples PhD thesis.
Zotero - is a plugin for the firefox web browser, sites that link into zotero include Amazon and Digiplay. It works as a way to tag and organise your research, sites that subscribe to zotero will provide a one click save option that will supply you with all of the bibliographic information you need and zotero means you can export a bibliography for an essay in just a few clicks (but be warned there are different versions of the Harvard referencing system so you might need to tweak the layout). Zotero also has a plugin for word downloadable from thier site.
WorldCat - Worldcat is the database that zotero draws all of its information from, it is a searchable catalogue of books/dvds etc. that is a good place to start searching for broad topics, it also has catalogued sections of peoples PhD thesis.
Zotero Formatting - For those who know XML it may be worth altering your code to fit salford standard referencing systems (guidence on how to do this can be found here http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles).
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