Uwa library information, learning technologies july17
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Brief introduction to the UWA Library catalogue OneSearch and how to find out more about using library services and resources.
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Uwa library information, learning technologies july17
- 1. Use OneSearch to search across a range of resources the UWA Library has purchased or made available on your behalf. Your University Library http://guides.library.uwa.edu.au/onesearch
- 2. Academic Journals • Peer Reviewed • Regular publication • Journal/Article title • Volume, issue, page
- 3. Full Text Journal Titles
- 4. Jump to a Database Platform
- 5. Journal Title within Sage Journals Database Platform
- 6. Digital Object Identifier Article Level View
- 7. UWA Library Guides http://guides.library.uwa.edu.au/ Expert Guides Link
- 8. UWA Library Support Find out more: Visit our New to UWA Guide http://guides.library.uwa.edu.au/newtouwalibrary
Editor's Notes
- OneSearch, not just any system but your ticket to hundreds of high quality resources we have purchased on your behalf. Search individual items and within a wide range of specialist databases for online full-text articles and ebooks. When starting up your research at UWA, the UWA Library catalogue is a good place to start… it is the easiest way to access all of the content we have purchased on your behalf. It’s the best place to find the wide range of resources available for you. To get the full advantage of OneSearch and resources within it – get into the habit of signing in (with your pheme and password) especially from home.
- There are a wide range of journal formats but some of the most important to new research are academic journals that have been peer reviewed. This still is a core way in which research is shared, questioned and verified by the academic community through the peer review process (unlike populist magazines). Perhaps some questions about what they understand about the what this process is? So its important to be able to recognise these and to be able to record all of the relevant details for your reference – that is the Journal title, the article title within it you are using and the volume, issue number and page numbers of your article. Show sample Journal Titles we have: When these came as physical resources it was easier to distinguish that a piece of research or article originated in a journal particular journal volume and issue. Traditionally libraries then bound these different issues into volumes (representing or the issues published in a given year for instance) and much of my time as a researcher was spent trawling through shelves like these. You may still have to hunt these down physically at some times.
- We have been looking at Print Journals (to understand their origins, and how to reference them ) however searching in OneSearch will more often than not provide links to the full text of a journal title - and of specific articles within them -from the database platform that has indexed it. We can see that this Journal title Annals of Clinical Biochemistry is available online in the One Search catalogue, and that it is associated with the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemist and published by the London Royal Society of Medicine. Good indicators of its authority and relevance. Note: Searched this title in OneSearch, using advanced search option limiting “Journals as a material type” and to Title. Note Also: Invitation to sign in “to get complete results and ability o request items”
- Going into the record details for this journal title we can see that it is available from 3 different database platforms. Just choose one of them, in time you will come to know the platforms you like using best. I am going to choose the Sage Journal platform in this instance.
- Here is the landing page on Sage for this particular journal. Showing as some important information, such as the Journals Impact Factor (a measure of the number of citations it has received from the research community) and you are provided with a number of different ways to browse issues. We can see that this journal title is published six times a year and that the 2016 publications are grouped together into volume 53, and that it has been in publication since August 1960. You might have also noticed that the University of WA is mentioned in the top right.. This tells you the UWA library has subscribed to this database in order to provide access to the article as full-text. It means you have been identified as a UWA student and should be given access to the full text of articles.
- Here is the individual article level view of this journal. When you select a particular article to refer to in your own writing you need to remember to record the journal volume, issue and page numbers as part of your reference list. If you have accessed the article online then you need to also record the DOI (digital object identifier) or the database that you accessed the article from. In this instance these details are provided under this I nformation button. These are all of the details you need to look out for – in addition to the article title and authors - to make sure you record the full referencing details of an article you are citing in support of your own arguments.
- Our expert help guides, developed by librarians to provide you an entry point to searching on a specific subject area or how to reference in a particular style and how to search for a wide range of things.
- Use the Stay in touch options at the bottom of the UWA Library home page to find out more about us. The Contact us page for contact details for each of our six library (BJM for Science) AskUWA for a bank of searchable questions asked by other students and answered. Get social with us on Facebook and twitter and Youtube for short instructional videos.