1. 1 Electronic Databases Research Information Research Certificate Section 2 Presented by Charles Wu Reference Librarian Revised on 3/5/2008

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3. 3 Library Databases: catalog vs. index Two types / tools in a library Books > Catalog Articles > Index databases Catalog > http://library.accd.edu/http://library.accd.edu/ Find records of items that the ACCD owned: books, journals, magazine, newspapers Catalog – only titles of journals, magazine … Index databases: In-depth to the article level Index databases > ProQuest, EBSCO … In-depth to the article level full text online at least citation of articles article from journals / magazines / newspapers

4. 4 How to access a database Access to Databases Deepens on what info you have Then you get Link 1 Research Tool Database by Topic Click L > Literature … > Literary Criticism Literary Criticism > CLC > Hemingway (By Critic Michael Reynolds, also in CLC Vol. 80, p.145) Link 2 Research Tool Database by Title Click P >> P P roQuest database ProQuest Index (Full text) ……

5. 5 How to get articles from databases Two scenarios You have a topic You have a citation of an article, like this: Will, George F. "About Cocaine and Bananas." Newsweek 138.12 (17 Sep. 2001): 78. TDNet TDNET – a database itself that answer: Which database has magazine xyz with full text online, and what is date coverage … E.g.: Newsweek > EBSCO > by year with + sign > Issues > full text of articles

6. 6 TDNET: e-journals in TexShare Databases

7. 7 Any articles relevant to my topic Sample Topics How violence in TV programs influences teenagers Is the media biased in election coverage Your approach Figure out 2-3 keywords from your topic Use 2-3 keywords to search two broad databases: Academic Search Complete ProQuest

8. 8 Academic Search Complete Articles Database - Full-text Sources: 8,000 journals … Subject Broad-based EBSCO Sub-Databases: The Tab Choose database database profile Academic Search Premier (ASP) Academic Search Premier General Business Source Premier Business Source of Databases: Click the Tab Publications

9. 9 ASC - Basic Search How violence in TV programs influences teenagers Basic Search: Television AND Violence AND Teenager (Television OR Media) AND Violence AND (Teenager OR adolescent) Future n5 fuel = 5 words distance between Future and fuel search terms within 5 words of each other, any order Future w7 fuel search terms within 7 words of each other in order typed

10. 10 ASC: Advanced Search AND Why limit to search: Title field Subject field

11. 11 violence Television And = teenager adolescent Or = All AND/OR: Boolean Operators OR teenager OR adolescent Retrieves any records containing either one of two keywords. Results > go UP AND violence AND Television MUST Retrieves records that MUST contain ALL the keywords. Results > go DOWN ===============

12. 12 Other features in EBSCO Click Help Use online help to find a answer - What is symbol for TRUNCATION search? Click Folder and Add Save to disk Email article to yourself Limit your results features

13. 13 ProQuest – article databases Articles: subject broad, across all subject areas Access to periodical articles Sources: 5,500 journals, magazines, newspapers from at least 1992 to the present with some backfiles to 1971 Full text for more than 2,000 titles Search Interface: Basic Search vs. Advanced Search AND, OR Advanced Search: AND, OR already there

14. 14 ProQuest – Exercise Sample Topic: Use ProQuest Is the media biased in election coverage? Step 1: keywords, keywords, keywords You can pick up natural words / concepts from your topic Step 2: combine keyword with Boolean Operators Click this Link to see how to do …Link to

15. 15 Truncation Use the truncation character, *, to find documents containing several words with the same root. The * replaces zero or more characters at the end of a word. * = Truncation character used in ProQuest Examples: Type educat* to find educator, educated, and education. School* = school, schools, schooling, Immigra* = Immigra nt, Immigra nts, Immigra tion … Click help > Type truncation > linklink

16. 16 ProQuest – Exercise

17. 17 Other Useful Databases NewsBankNewsBank (full text) Newspaper Index & articles San Antonio Express News Gale Database click hereclick here All Gale Literature Databases Contemporary Authors >> Hemingway, ernest Contemporary Literary Criticism Hemingway (By Critic Michael Reynolds, also in CLC Vol. 80, p.145) Literature Resource Center Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online Click > Title search: For whom the bell tolls Check the box – Any words entered >> 20 hits Exact title >> only 2 hits found

18. 18 Gale Database

19. 19 Summary If you have an article citation / reference Check TDNET What database has the online journal publishing that article Im looking for? If you only have your topic Figure out 2-3 keywords for search Search two bigs - ProQuest / EBSCO Basic vs. Advanced Search Use Advanced Search > choose And / Or … Use field pull-down menu > choose Title / subject field Use truncation character, like this - * School* = school, schools, schooling

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