Databases & indexes, newspaper & article searching at FSU SLIS Intro to Info Services class, Florida's iSchool http://slis.fsu.edu/

1. “Indexes, Journals & Databases”
LIS 5603, Intro to Information Services
Dr. Lorri Mon, FSU SLIS, Florida’s iSchool
Florida State University

2. ProQuest
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com?accountid=4840

3. Just a few more examples in Newspapers…
 New York Times 1999 to current
 Historical New York Times (Legacy Platform) (1851-2007)
 The Times (London)Full-text access to the London Times 1985-
present
 The Times (London) Digital Archive Full-Text Access to the London
Times, 1785-1985
 America's Historical Newspapers Full-text, searchable access to
Series I,II, and III of the Readex collection, Early American
Newspapers, 1690-1922
 NewsBank InfoWeb A Web-based collection of primary source
information from regional, national and international newspapers,
newswires, government and international documents, regional
business journals and, periodicals.
FSU LibGuide on Newspapers
http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/newspapers

4. World News Connection® (WNC) is an online news service, that offers
an extensive array of translated and English-language news and
information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media
sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is
happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands
of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant
socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental
issues and events.
The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information
Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC), a U.S. government
agency. For over 60 years, analysts from OSC's domestic and
overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent open-source
materials, including gray literature. Uniquely, WNC allows you to take
advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of OSC.
http://wnc.fedworld.gov/description.html
(we don’t have this one @ FSU)

5. ERIC Database (Education)

6. Considerations in News Databases –
do you need…
National Newspapers (e.g. New York Times, Wall
St. Journal, Washington Post – ProQuest,
National Newspapers)
Local Newspapers (e.g. Tallahassee Democrat,
Times-Picayune – Infoweb Newsbank)
Community and Ethnic (GenderWatch, Ethnic
NewsWatch, Alternative Press Index)
International (Access World News, Lexis Nexis
Academic, World News Connection, Times)

7. Journal Databases
General: Expanded Academic Index, Proquest,
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature
Subject: LITA, Library Literature, PAIS (to 1915),
America History & Life, Historical Abstracts,
Psychinfo, INSPEC, ABI-Inform, ERIC, Medline
Older: Project MUSE, JSTOR, Readers’ Guide to
Periodical Literature (to early 1900’s) [News
equivalents: New York Times Index, Times of
London Index]
Publisher: Emerald, Science Direct (Elsevier)

8. Flying a Light Aircraft Question
Question: Where can I find another article
like this one?
Dewdney, Patricia and Catherine
Sheldrick Ross (1994), “Flying a Light
Aircraft: Reference Service Evaluation
from a User’s Viewpoint,” RQ, Winter
1994, 34(2): 217-230.
Brainstorming - thoughts about this?

9. Citation Searching
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/webofsci

10. CiteSeer
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

11. Google Scholar
Google Scholar via FSU (allows connection w/FSU holdings)
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/searchDB.php?keywords=google

12. Indexes for Citation Searching
ISI Web of Science – cross-disciplinary
citation search for top-rated journals only
– What other articles cite to my article / author?
– Citation chaining
Citeseer & Google Scholar – citation
searching on the web
– Limited in available items/disciplines
– Focus on authors who put articles online
Citeseer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

13. Index/Database Considerations
• What is the date of the needed item?
Yesterday? 200 years ago? (may mean looking in
a print index vs. online, and getting print or digital
or microfilm text)
• What level is needed? (local, national,
international; popular or scholarly; refereed?)
• The accessibility for the user? (eligibility for
licensed resources, physical access issues)
“I used a database at my library called (name).
This or another one like it may be available at
your local library. I searched (give strategy) and
here are some example results that I found.”
(give 2-3 example cites/quotes) Here’s how to
contact your librarian for help in getting access to
this in databases at your library.”

14. Indexes to Special Collections
Databases for microfilm collections (e.g.
ERIC, AccessUN)
Collections may have unique numbering
systems (ERIC: microfiche by accession
numbers, ED 123456)

15. Boolean Searching
+ AND digital AND reference (has both)
| OR e-mail OR chat (has either)
- NOT spice NOT girls (omits one)
(spice | spices) -girls +history
(spice OR spices) NOT girls AND history
Phrase searching with Boolean:
“digital reference” OR “virtual reference” NOT wiki
“digital reference” | “virtual reference” –wiki

16. Search Types
In general, these are types of searching. Check the ‘advanced help’
for a specific search engine, library catalog, or database
implementation (does it allow nesting, truncation, wild cards, what
symbols or operators are used)
Different
Boolean: (AND, NOT, OR) In Each
System
Phrases: (“hot dog”) NOT racetrack
Proximity (NEAR, WITH, ADJ, SAME): dog (w2) track
Nesting: ((beef OR chicken) ADJ bean) AND burrito
Search Sets: s s1 and s2 and “low fat guacamole”
Fielded: (k kuhlthau.au.), (S dog/DE)
Truncation: (S EMPLOY?), (K hyperactiv*)
Wild Card: (S organi?ation) , wom?n

17. PsychInfo
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/psycinfo

18. Questions for Index Searches
• Are there articles about the Japanese
internment camps written during WW II?
• I’m looking for articles about online
communities.
• How did American Indian news cover
gambling?
• I want more articles like this one by Dewdney.
• Where can I find foreign news and editorials
on the Iraq war?
• How many other authors have cited my
professor?

19. Index Types
• Indexes by Subject –
Library & Information Science (LITA, Wilson
Omnifile), Medicine (MEDLINE), Psychology
(PsychInfo), Policy/Government (PAIS), Literature
(MLAB) –and many more (see subject lists for dbs)
• Indexes by Format Type -
General Periodicals (Readers’ Guide),
Newspapers (National Newspaper Index),
Academic Journals (Expanded Academic Index),
Magazines (Proquest), Ethnic Newspapers (Ethnic
Newswatch)
• Special Feature Indexes -
citation indexes (Web of Science), special
collections (ERIC), historic coverage (NYT,
Times, Readers’ Guide, JSTOR, Project MUSE)

20. Upcoming Due Dates
Due Mon, Sep 24: IPL Practice Question
Due Mon, Sep 24: Week 2 Discussion Post
Due Mon, Oct 1: Week 3 Discussion Post
Due Mon, Oct 8: Question Set
Next class: Books/Bibliographic Sources!