2. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Veterinary Science Literature searching

3. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. INTRODUCTION "I just don't know where to start looking for information. I can't work out my reading list - and don't know how to use the library catalogue. AND I've heard people talk about electronic databases! What are they? Help!"

4. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Informations (about…) What are you searching first? Where can you make literature searching? How do you search on computer What is is the second step if you have found useful titles? How can you use the result of literature searching?

5. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. How to start? Analysing your topic Begin by analysing your question What are the important aspects of the question? Pick out the main ideas These will be the basis of your literature search

6. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of documents Traditional (printed) primary documents: Reference publications Monographs Serials Official publications

7. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Reference publications Encyclopedia Dictionaries Biographical encyclopedia Manuals, Directories Data compilations etc

8. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Monographs Books Textbooks, lecture books Dissertations Document collections Research reports Non-periodic conference

9. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Serials Journals Year-books Conference proceedings series Book series

10. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Official publications Legal documents Statistical reports Standards Patents

11. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Special documents Non-conventional documents – called also „grey-literature” Brochures Trade publications Manuscripts Publication of international organisations, etc.

12. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Main types of secondary documents Bibliographies, list of selected literature items Titles, title translations, annotations Abstracting and indexing services/journals Executive summeries, extended abstracts Reviews, studies etc.

13. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Electronic documents All type of ducuments used by computer  Fulltext documents  Databases

14. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Understanding your reading list Differences between types of references: Books Chapters in books Journal articles Papers of conferences World Wide Web documents

15. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Example 1. Books Farmer, Mary E. 1979, The Family, 2nd edn, Longman, London. Golston, S.E. & Morgan, W.P. (eds) 1987, Exercise and Mental Health, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., Washington. The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary 1992, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

16. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Example 2. Chapters in books Sussman, M.B. 1979, 'Actions and services for the new family', in The American Family: Dying or Developing?, eds. D. Reiss & H.A. Hoffman, pp. 213-232, Plenum Press, New York. Tinker, Hugh.1967, 'Is there an Indian nation?' in India and Ceylon: Unity and Diversity: a Symposium, ed. Philip Mason, pp. 260-296, Oxford Univ. Pr., London.

17. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Example 3. Journal articles Ghose, T.K. 1989, 'Venture capital in Australia', The Australian Banker, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 17-23. Mar, Brian W. & Palmer, Richard N. 1989, 'Does civil engineering need system engineering?' Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering, vol. 115, no.1, pp. 45-52. Dewhirst, C. 1986, 'Hot air over the Himalayas', World Geographic, vol. 1, Oct.-Dec., pp. 44-55.

18. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Example 4. Papers from conferences Bogduk, N. 1997, 'Musculoskeletal pain: toward precision diagnosis'. Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain, International Association for the Study of Pain, Seattle, pp 507-25.

19. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Example 5. World Wide Web documents Beckleheimer, J. 1994, How do you cite URL's in a bibliography?, [Online], Available: http://www.nrlssc.navy.mil/meta/bibliogr aphy.html [1995, December 13].

20. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. What is a database? A database is a computer readable file in which the text or other sets of data have a defined structure supperted by a set of programs called the Database Management System (DBMS)

21. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABESES Bibliographic databases have developed from abstract journals, abstracting and indexing services employing computer technology. They contain: Bibliographic data Abstracts Keywords and/or other classification codes added to the records

22. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. The basic structure of database Records Data fields

23. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. What is a record? A record contains all the data belonging to one unit of the database. In the case of bibliographical databases, to a single publication (article) or document.

24. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. What is a data field? Data fields are separate parts of a record, marked with specific names (labels). Each fields refers to a single data element. It consists of two parts: - name (label) -content Data fields are independently searchable elements in the data base.

25. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of the fields TI TITLE: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) AU AUTHOR(S): Meredith-MJ AD ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR: Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK SO SOURCE (BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION):Title of Journal, 1995, 81 pp;

26. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of the fields (cont.) PB PUBLISHER INFORMATION: Boehringer Vetmedica, PO Box 200.; D- 55216 Ingelheim/Rhein; Germany PY PULICATION YEAR: 1995 LA LANGUAGE OF TEXT: English AB ABSTRACTS:

27. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. AB ABSTRACT Much has been learned about this syndrome of multiple aetiology since it was identified in North America in the 1980’s, with subsequent spread throughout the world (by trade in pigs and boar semen). It was also known as ‘mystery swine disease’, ‘new pig disease’ and ‘blue-eared pig disease’. Current knowledge is summarized…

28. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of fields (cont.) DE DESCRIPTORS: respiratory-diseases; viral-diseases; porcine-reproductive-and- respiratory-syndrome; reviews; swine- diseases OD ORGANISM DESCRIPTORS: pigs- BT BROADER DESCRIPTORS: Sus- scrofa; Sus; Suidae; Suiformes;Artidactila; Mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals

29. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of fields (cont.) CC CABICODES: LL820 CD TRANSLATIONS OF CABICODES: Parasites,-Vectors,-Pathogens-and- Biogenic-Diseases-of-Animals PT PUBLICATION TYPE: Miscellaneous AV AVAILABILITY: free IB INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER: 0-9520409-7-2

30. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Types of fields (cont.) UD UPDATE CODE: 960401 AN ACCESSION NUMBER: 962202319

31. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. INDEX FILES Index files or inverted files There are generated by the search software An alphabetical list of words or terms occuring in a specific data field of each record is called an index/inverted file for the given data field

32. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Author and keyword indexes An index of all author names or that of all keywords (descriptions) can be generated, together with the number of their occurances in the database, and the number of records in which they occur. For each entry in such an index, the record identifiers are also indicated in the index file.

33. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Common index file In some databases a common index file of all occuring words is generated and updated. (except for stop words, which are frequently used words which are irrelevant from the point of view of searching: „and”, „for”, „ „good”, etc.)

34. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. SPIRS ( SilverPlatter Information Retrieval System) Spirs has one main index that can be displayed, plus separate indexes for: - Author (AU) - Publication year (PY) - Language (LA) You can search the main index, you can also limit for any fields

35. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Indexing for precise retrieval Indexing also means the adding of subject heading, descriptors, classification codes expressing the content of the document for which record is prepared. It is a significant process from the retrieval point of view, because

36. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Retrieval point of view It relects the most essential concepts the publications deals with, It ensures the retrieval of documents dealing with the same or related subject, and It „translates” the diverse terminology of authors to a consistent and controlled language

37. Szent István University Veterinary Science Library Judit Szabó Szávay 2003. Kids of information retrieval languages Subject categories or classification codes Usually broader categories, organised hierarchially, reflecting the logic of a discipline Subject heading lists, thesaurus (keywords, descriptors), alphabetic ordered of natural language terms Special coding systems