Step by step search process for Corporate Social Responsibility
1. EG1413 Critical Thinking and Writing Project: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - How to search for information Karen Yap Engineering/Computer Science Resource Team, NUS Central Library Feb 2010
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4. Source: Engineering Management Conference CSR issues: health, etc. Possible solutions: govt support, etc. Effects of measures taken: motivated worker, etc. CSR Project
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18. Comparison of Sources (a) to (c) Friends, bk, website (d) and (e) Databases Advantages - More direct - More easy -More up to date -More variety -Very useful when you have decided which issue to write on Disadvantages -Less variety -More difficult to use
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22. ii) Some Alternative/Related Terms for Concepts of Slim 10 Slimming Pills Health risks Obesity Drugs Safety Fat Treatment Adverse effects Weight loss Medicine Scarring Procedures Hospitalized Program Death
23. Alternative/Related Terms for General Concepts related to CSR Corporate Social responsibility Law Measures Operations Business Ethics Regulation Recommendation Employee, personnel, workplace Accountability Guideline Reform Purchasing Transparency Policy Steps Disposal Disclosure Practice Internal control Environment Standard Marketing
24. iii) Boolean Operators OR represents a union of sets. The resulting set gets bigger. Set A: Fruits Durian OR Mango OR Lettuc e OR Tomato Durian Mango Set B: Vegetables Lettuce Tomato Set A OR Set B:
25. iii) Boolean Operators AND represents an intersection of sets. The resulting set gets smaller. Tomato Fruits AND Vegetables (Durian Mango Lettuce Tomato ) Set A AND Set B
40. Selected items appear here Type in search statement ( slim* OR fat OR obesity OR weight loss ) AND ( pills OR pill OR medication* OR medicine* OR procedure * OR program*) AND (health risk* OR safety or effect*) here Change date. You can choose a future date like 1/3/2010
41. 1010 hits, many irrelevant Click Modify Search Can change sorting to by relevance
43. Click here to change field from Full Article to Headline and Lead Paragraph
44. 28 mainly relevant hits … the Health Sciences Authority.. …New lead: Check web-site or do search on it
45. Interesting article Menace of online drugs ….might make you consider changing topic to online drugs
46. .. Yuzhitang Health Products … Another possible lead Slow-to-react Chinese officials slammed … Might not look relevant, but good to read it all the same
47. Suggests possible solutions if you have not thought about them yourself: regular checks, transparency, effective ways to warn public about danger, power to revoke sales licence immediately ..Checks …regularly.. .Government.. transparent.. ..yet to revoke sales licence..
48. Click on link at end of article to get similar articles but articles are no longer confined to sources you selected at beginning of search. In this article, there were no similar articles, but you should feed in your own keywords to try
49. Click Return to Headlines after viewing full text of article
50. 344 hits some new ones which are relevant If the hit list is not useful enough, you can broaden your search by cutting down the number of concepts, i.e. ( slim* OR fat OR obesity OR weight loss ) AND ( pills OR pill OR medication* OR medicine* OR procedure * OR program*) and (health risk* or safety or effect*)
51. Remember to click Logout when you have finished
63. workplace and safety Enter the keywords with AND in the middle workplace and safety
64. There are 1128 articles Default: Articles sorted by Publication Date Sort by Relevance
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67. How to confine your search to subject of your choice e.g. enter high rise or highrise in the Search Within Results box at the top right hand corner Note: high rise will cove high-rise as well
69. This is one of the articles for this search Look at the different pieces of information an article gives you Name of government body Statistics Government’s plans ..1.8 deaths for every 100,000.. 25 people.. ..Workplace Safety and Health Council.. .train ..professionals..
70. Comparison of Source (d): Newspapers Databases i) Factiva ii) Lexisnexis Advantages -Covers more titles including Channel NewsAsia -Unlimited no. of concurrent users -Easy to narrow down by broad categories like industry Disadvantages -Limited no. (10) of concurrent users -More difficult to access Singapore newspapers
82. Key in Singapore or Asia Change to GE Geographic Terms
83. 39 hits You need to sort by Relevance again You need to change years again. It is now 1978 - 2009
84. 35 hits left after you changed years You need to sort by Relevance again
85. One of the Hits … appalling workplace practice… … information on other companies…
86. Categories like Academic Journals or Magazines that you can choose
87. Click Search History if necessary You can search different words in different fields. In this case, you are searching: - corporate social responsibility in the default field - environment* in TI Title field
88. If there is no full text icon, click Check NUS Libraries holdings . Library might have hard copy of Journal of Asian Business 2007, Vol 23, issue 2 How to get full text If this icon is shown, just click to get full text
92. Click to see subjects A journal specifically on CSR Click to get full text
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94. Key in search terms here Very broad disciplines. DO NOT choose now. Narrow by disciplines in result page first
95. Sort by relevance . Default is by Date Result Page Click to display more than 5 Only 5 subjects listed Option to add categories
96. Search History is available Many more subject areas to choose from. Note they are quite narrow like “Energy” “Chemical engineering”, click Limit to
97. Click for link to full text If View at Publisher button is not available, click to check if Library has hard copy Click for full text
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99. .share of workforce in agriculture decreased from 48.8% in 1999-2000 to 42.1% in 2001-2002… Should you need statistics like this, go to subject guide for Economics in the Library portal From Engineering Management Conference article retrieved from source (e) (iii)Scopus
100. Statistics by: Region -broad subjects e.g. Singapore - Climate, Energy and Environment Statistics on Climate and air quality -Etc Subject Guide for Economics
108. There is a lot of information in Subject Guides Click on Subject Guides to see more databases relevant to a particular subject
109. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Databases : Engineering Village 2, etc. Library Instructions & Tips How to use Engineering Village 2 How to use Scopus
1. Self-introduction 2. This library session was requested by your lecturers to help you search for information for your position paper on Workplace Safety.
In your EG1413 resource book, you are asked to explore a topic by looking through Singapore newspapers such as Straits Times. Thus, we will be showing you Lexisnexis as it a newspaper database. As you are Engineering students, we would also like to show you some academic databases which will be useful to Engineering topics.
What is does this asterisk or star do? When Lexisnexis see regulat*, it searches for any article that has the root word regulat. So Lexisnexis will retrieve articles that have the word regulate or regulated or regulating or regulator or regulation or regulations. The assumption made is that if any of these words appear in any article, the article has to do with the concept of regulation.
Let’s start searching by going to our library portal. The url is as shown in this screen shot. To access any of our databases or E-resources, scroll down and look at the middle section of the page. Listed are some of our main databases.
At this screen, if you are on campus, click on Campus Login. If you are off-campus, in Spore or anywhere in the world, login by indicating the Student Domain and your NUSNET ID and password.
This is an important screen I want you to note. All databases we buy have licensing conditions specifying that they should only be used for academic research, learning and teaching purposes. The reports or articles you retrieve cannot be used for commercial reasons. This means if you are working as an intern with a company, you cannot retrieve any information and give it to your boss or colleagues. Read through the use policy and click on I accept.
The next screen may likely be a pop-up requiring you to enter your student domain. NUSNET ID and password. Remember to put in the backslash
Let’s start searching by going to our library portal. The url is as shown in this screen shot. To access any of our databases or E-resources, scroll down and look at the middle section of the page. Listed are some of our main databases.
1. Lexisnexis is not listed but you can search for it by typing lexisnexis as one word.
1. At this screen select, Lexisnexis Academic.
1. This is the Lexisnexis screen. 2. Instead of using the Easy Search, try Power Search. Easy Search limits your search to only certain categories of newspapers such as Major US newspapers. It does not include Singapore newspapers 4. So let’s go to Power Search.
1. Before you enter your keywords in the search box, click on More Sources to look for Singapore newspapers.
At the Country box, click to see the various countries you can choose from. Click on Singapore.
1. Once you click on Singapore, click on News.
1. Click on Newspapers.
1. A list of Singapore newspapers will appear, check all the newspapers.
Lexisnexis will bring you back to search box. Now you will be searching only from the Singapore newspapers you selected. Add the keywords workplace and safety. Remember to add AND in between the 2 keywords. Why?
Workplace and safety yielded 1529 articles! How relevant is your search? Click on Sort By Relevance to see the most relevant articles first.
Let’s proceed to confining your search to an industry. Lexisnexis has a limit feature in which you can limit or confine the 1529 results you had just now to a particular industry. Look at the left the results page and click on Construction for articles on workplace safety in the construction industry.
Instead of confining search to an industry, you could also have confined it to a subject assigned by Lexisnexis. Bear in mind the subjects here might be too broad for your topic. E.g. if you need articles on the construction of suspension bridges, the closest subject heading you can find is for construction of bridges in general.
Another way for you to make your search more relevant is to add a new keyword to your original workplace and safety. You can use keywords for subjects not catered for by LexisNexis or if the results for the LexisNexis assigned subjects are not satisfactory. Look at the top right hand corner of the results page, there is a Search Within Results box. This box allows you to add any keywords to be searched within the results of 1529. Let us search for articles that are on the regulation of workplace safety. We enter regulat* (asterisk or star).
Another way for you to make your search more relevant is to add a new keyword to your original workplace and safety. You can use keywords for subjects not catered for by LexisNexis or if the results for the LexisNexis assigned subjects are not satisfactory. Look at the top right hand corner of the results page, there is a Search Within Results box. This box allows you to add any keywords to be searched within the results of 1529. Let us search for articles that are on the regulation of workplace safety. We enter regulat* (asterisk or star).
This is an example of the articles from the workplace and safety search. A newspaper article will give you various types of information you require for your position paper as well as more keywords for you to do other searches. Eg. this article gives you the government target and statistics. It also tells you the name of the government body that is looking into workplace safety and the government’s plans. Why are these important? Because you can do another search on the name of the council to see reports on what this council is doing for workplace safety and these may lead to articles on how effectives these programs may be.
Let’s start searching by going to our library portal. The url is as shown in this screen shot. To access any of our databases or E-resources, scroll down and look at the middle section of the page. Listed are some of our main databases.
1. At the search screen, apply the biohazard search statement.
Apart from the databases we covered today, we have a whole lot more databases. At NUS Libraries portal, click on Subject Guides and select the particular subject you want.
This is the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Subject Guide listing databases relevant to Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. The database that is popular is Engineering Village 2. There are also instructions on how to search for information.
Last but not least, if you require any help to search for information, please approach us at Central Library. We will be glad to help you. Thank you.;
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