FSA1201 Library tutorial

Discover Your Library Resources

Hayati Abdul [email_address]

14 Jan 2009

Objectives

To show you how to:

Use Library portal to access resources and services

Search LINC & databases using

Keywords, synonyms

Boolean operators

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the session, you will be able to:

Be able to locate materials & services from LINC and Library portal

Be able to search databases for:

journal articles

conference papers, book chapters

full text articles

Outline

Sources for research

Search strategy

Search databases

Scopus

Sociological Abstracts

Perind

Search LINC

Getting help

This is a hands-on session

Sources for Research

Books

Overview of topic with a fair amount of detail.

Good source for further reading.

Journals

Academic/By scholars for scholars

Latest developments & research findings

Databases

Collection of e-journals, e-books, conference proceedings, book chapters, statistics, newspaper articles, etc.

Evaluating Sources

Authority

What credentials are listed for the authors?

Objectivity

Is the information presented objective or biased?

Accuracy

Is the information well supported by references?

Currency

Is the information updated?

Appropriateness

Is the information what you need?

Search Strategy

List keywords & synonyms to describe your topic

E.g. Finding love online

Love, romance, dating

Online, cyberspace, internet

Combine keywords with Boolean operators

AND, OR , NOT

Use truncation symbols

Group words to be searched together

Boolean Operators

AND

Results must match both terms

dating AND college students interethnic interracial

OR

Results must match one or more of the terms

Truncation * Round parentheses ( )

Use asterisk  to retrieve variant forms of term

roman * = romantic, romance

teen * = teen s , teen agers , teen aged

Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases

( interethnic OR interracial ) and dating

= interethnic dating, interracial dating

( love OR roman * OR dating ) and online

= online love, online romance, online dating

Databases

E-Resources

Databases

E-Journals

E-Books

E-Newspapers

Statistical Data

Major Databases for Humanities & Social Sciences

Scopus

Sociological Abstracts

Web of Science

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

PsycInfo

PERIND

Expanded Academic Asap

Social Sciences Abstracts

Scopus http://www.info.scopus.com/setup/promo/promo_material/docs/00000_Scopus_User_Guide_General_4WEB08.pdf Databases

About Scopus

Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to

peer reviewed & open access journals

conference proceedings, books…

web sources, author homepages, university sites, articles-in-press, preprint servers…

Coverage, 1966-

Focused on Scientific, Technical, Medical & Social Sciences literature.

Content originates from Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region

Cross-searching Scopus & CSA Illumina databases .

Let’s search Scopus! Does race matter? Interracial dating among college students interracial interethnic dating college students (interracial OR interethnic) AND dating AND college students

Let’s search Scopus!

Scopus search results Click to download menu for full-text

Scopus Results Refine results Sort results by relevance View full-text via publisher site Toggle to LINC to access source title

Output results  Mark records Output records Download full-text Read abstract via CSA databases. Continue searching CSA databases e.g. Sociological Abstracts

View abstract on CSA You are accessing Sociological Abstracts Read abstract Continue to search in Sociological Abstracts

Databases Sociological Abstracts Alternative ways to directly access Sociological Abstracts from Library portal sociological abstracts sociological abstracts

About Sociological Abstracts

Premier resource for research literature in Sociology

Provides indexes & abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, conference papers & dissertations.

Coverage, 1979-

Culture, social structure, social differentiation, social psychology, sociology of the arts, business, education, studies in violence and power and more……

Search LINC for full-texts of references retrieved

Some overlap in literature coverage between Scopus & Sociological Abstracts.

Let’s search Sociological Abstracts! The significance of romantic love for marriage: perceptions of young adults romantic love relationships marriage young adults romantic love AND marriage AND young adults

Search Sociological Abstracts May limit search by date range, journal articles, etc. Enter search terms in boxes May limit search by specific fields Boolean operators

Sociological Abstracts: Search Results Results by publication types Sort by relevance  Mark records View full record & abstract

Search source title in LINC

PERIND Per iodical Ind ex to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN How to search http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/d/perind.html Databases

LINC L ibrary IN tegrated C atalogue

L ibrary IN tegrated C atalogue

Use it to check:

Books

Journals

Microfilms

Multimedia

Newspapers

Theses

Use it to view:

Table of Contents

E-Journals

E-Books

Digitized videos

LINC  : Enhanced Library catalogue Sort by Relevance Status, location, call number Summary Faceted browsing Recently Added Tag Clouds

MyLINC My Reading History

Getting Help

L ibrary I nstruction ON line Click here

Subject Guides

Good starting point for research

Writing & Citation Style

Subject guides > Research and Writing

Library Instruction Online

How to cite references

American Psychological Association Style

Bibliographic software manager

EndNote

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FSA1201 Library tutorial

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