Searching Library Resources NM3210 – Cybercrime and Society Gan Kim Hong Rahimah Md Moasi [email_address] [email_address] August 2009

What we will cover Boolean Logic Database Searching Proxy Bookmarklet NUS Libraries’ InfoGate

Boolean Logic

Database Searching

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Topic : Cybercrime Possible search queries: 1. cybercrime 2. cyber crime 3. cyber crimes 4. internet crimes 5. computer crimes

Possible search queries:

1. cybercrime

2. cyber crime

3. cyber crimes

4. internet crimes

5. computer crimes

Boolean Operators or = any of the terms may be present and = all terms must be present not = excludes specific search term using “and” operator narrows the search

or = any of the terms may be present

and = all terms must be present

not = excludes specific search term

Truncation & Wildcard Truncation: crime * retrieves “crime”, “crime s ” (anything that comes after “crime”) Wildcard: wom ? n retrieves “wom a n” and “wom e n” (symbol ? replaces one character)

Truncation:

crime * retrieves “crime”, “crime s ” (anything that comes after “crime”)

Wildcard:

wom ? n retrieves “wom a n” and “wom e n”

(symbol ? replaces one character)

monitor* and (cybercrime* or (cyber crime*) or (internet crime*) or (computer crime*)) and Singapore [topic] Monitoring cybercrime in Singapore (concept 1) monitoring (concept 3) Singapore Singapore monitor* (concept 2) cybercrime (cybercrime* or (cyber crime*) or (internet crime*) or (computer crime*)

Keyword Search using Boolean Logic Identify the key concepts enclose each concept in parenthesis string the concepts using and Within each concept list as many synonyms as possible string the synonyms using or Use truncation to capture variant forms of a search term Phrase search use quotation marks to group words into a phrase

Identify the key concepts

enclose each concept in parenthesis

string the concepts using and

Within each concept

list as many synonyms as possible

string the synonyms using or

Use truncation

to capture variant forms of a search term

Phrase search

use quotation marks to group words into a phrase

Mechanics of Database Searching Formulate search query using Boolean logic Sort by relevance Refine search (e.g. narrow down the results) Mark Save

Formulate search query using Boolean logic

Sort by relevance

Refine search (e.g. narrow down the results)

Mark

Save

LexisNexis Academic

Specify source: Singapore

Sort by relevance Mark records Save records: Print, email or download

Log In to Factiva

Specify source: Hong Kong

Search Straits Times

Searching for Journal Articles in LINC Hinduja, Sameer, and Patchin, Justin W. (2008). Personal information of adolescents on the Internet: a quantitative content analysis of MySpace. Journal of Adolescence , 31 (1). 125-146. title of article title of journal In LINC, which title do we search? journal title

Hinduja, Sameer, and Patchin, Justin W. (2008). Personal information of adolescents on the Internet: a quantitative content analysis of MySpace. Journal of Adolescence , 31 (1). 125-146.

EbscoHost InformaWorld Project Muse Proquest Sage ScienceDirect See Library portal for a complete list Searching Full-text Databases

EbscoHost

InformaWorld

Project Muse

Proquest

Sage

ScienceDirect

See Library portal for a complete list

ScienceDirect

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Searches multiple resources via one interface

Useful when:

you are not sure of which databases to choose when starting a search

you want to find out other databases are relevant to your research topic

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CNM Resource Librarians’ Contacts Gan Kim Hong (Ms) Librarian, Central Library [email_address] 6516-2022 Rahimah (Ms) Assistant Librarian, Central Library [email_address] 6516-2022

Gan Kim Hong (Ms)

Librarian, Central Library

[email_address]

6516-2022

Rahimah (Ms)

Assistant Librarian, Central Library

[email_address]

6516-2022