Research Methods using Library Resources 2 Dec 2011 Town Centre 1

2 Outline Warm up: Finding a Particular Article Database in Focus - ERIC Another Educational Resource Example – ProQuest Education Databases RefWorks Google Scholar

HKIEd Library Website HKIEd Library Website Search for books, journals, media resources Essential tips: make sure you are familiar with the HKALL, the request / recall system, library delivery service between the Tai Po MMW Library and Town Centre branch, and understand how to read the location codes (e.g. MMW Lib Book)HKALLrequest / recalllibrary delivery service between the Tai Po MMW Library and Town Centre branchlocation codes Essential tips: make sure you are familiar with the HKALL, the request / recall system, library delivery service between the Tai Po MMW Library and Town Centre branch, and understand how to read the location codes (e.g. MMW Lib Book)HKALLrequest / recalllibrary delivery service between the Tai Po MMW Library and Town Centre branchlocation codes

Finding a Particular Article 4 Is this article available in the Library? There are more than one way to check whether we have a particular article. The simplest way is to check the Library catalogue by journal title (not the article title) E.g. Sadler, P. M. & Good, E. (2006). The impact of self- and peer-grading on student learning. Educational Assessment, 11(1), doi: /s ea1101_1

Search the Library catalogue to see if we have the print copy and / or electronic copy of the JournalLibrary catalogue

We may have more than one database providing access to the same journal but they may contain issues for different years – and some of them use an embargo period (e.g. latest 12 months not available)

7 E-Journals – if you are off-campus and only interested in online availability Search by Keywords Browse by Subject or Title

Finding a Particular Article 8 Is this article available in the Library? Sadler, P. M. & Good, E. (2006). The impact of self- and peer-grading on student learning. Educational Assessment, 11(1), doi: /s ea1101_1

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Why use e-database for information? E-Database is an organized collection of scholarly information. E-Databases contain update information of journal articles, book reviews, conference papers, and other academic materials. E-Databases support flexible and in-depth search for journal title, article title, author, issue, volume, etc. Use electronic databases to search for local and international literature. Some databases provide the complete full text articles. Other databases provide abstracts of the journal articles.

E-Resources Include E-Databases & E-Book Collections Search by Keywords Browse by Subject or Title 12

E-Resources by Subject – E.g. Education 13

Major Education Databases ERIC (via EBSCOhost) Education Research Complete ProQuest Education Journals ProQuest Research Library Education Full Text 14

15 Other Relevant Databases Proquest Research Library (ProQuest) Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Humanities Full Text JSOTR. Arts & Sciences Collection PsycINFO / PsycArticles / Psybooks Web of Science (Arts & Humanities Citation Index / Social Sciences Citation Index) Web of Science (Arts & Humanities Citation Index / Social Sciences Citation Index) SCOPUS Literature Online (LION) Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) MLA International Bibliography

Major Local / Chinese Databases  HK Education Bibliographic Database ( 香港教育文獻數據庫 ) HK Education Bibliographic Database 香港教育文獻數據庫  中文電子期刊服務 CEPS 中文電子期刊服務 CEPS  中文電子學位論文服務 CETD 中文電子學位論文服務 CETD  中國知網 中國知網 中國期刊全文數據庫 中國優 秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫 中國優 秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫 中國博士學位論文全文數據庫  中國學位論文全文 數據庫 中國學位論文全文 數據庫 華人社會教育文獻資源中心 Chinese ERIC (Chinese University of Hong Kong) (no update from 2010 onwards) 華人社會教育文獻資源中心 Chinese ERIC (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 香港中文期刊論 文索引 HKInChiP 香港中文期刊論 文索引 HKInChiP Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC) 臺灣期刊論文索引系統 PerioPath Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System 臺灣期刊論文索引系統 PerioPath Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System 16

17 Database in Focus – ERIC

Find ERIC by Browsing "E" (or browse by education subject; or search ERIC) 18

19 Remote access to Library E-Resources Users will be prompted to enter their HKIEd Network user names, and HKIEd Network paswords when they select the databases on the Library webpage for authentication purpose.

Access to ERIC database Enter keywords Limit your search Search Results 20

Example Your research topic: Is goal setting a useful strategy for learning English as a second language? Identify the Keywords: English as second language AND goal setting Use indexes / thesaurus / descriptors to check related terms where necessary. How many records retrieved? 21

Example 22 Full Text available

Searching tips: Expand your search  Use “expanders” from the database search screen to expand your search  Use Boolean operator “OR” to include more search terms e.g. Second language learning or english as second language or esl  Use truncation (*) to expand your search term in alternative way e.g. learn* to search for learning, learns, learner, etc. profess* to search for profession, professor, professional, professionalization, etc. 23

Searching tips: Narrow your search  Use “Limiter” from the database search screen to limit your search results in various way  Consider the suggested “Narrow Search Results by Subject” from the search result screen  Use Boolean operator “AND” to limit search results to a narrower scene e.g. peer assessment AND higher education 24

ERIC EBSCOHost – Refine your results by Subjects, Peer-reviewed Journals, Year, etc. 25

Reduced from over 300 results to 56 by selecting peer reviewed and 2000 and after 26

27 ERIC EBSCOHost Special Features – Find Similar Results (SmartText Searching)

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30 Searching Multiple Databases in Ebscohost

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32 Add to Folder: Save / Print / / Export

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We can export the results directly to RefWorks 34

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Another Education Resources: ProQuest Education Databases 36

ProQuest Education Databases 37

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E.g. search small class education Suggested Topics  e.g. Class size AND Academic achievement 39

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We can also , Print, Save, Export, etc. 41

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43 About RefWorks Web-based Bibliographic Management Tool Web-based Bibliographic Management Tool Create your own reference databases Create your own reference databases Import references from library catalogues & databases Import references from library catalogues & databases Manage & organize your references in folders Manage & organize your references in folders Search your references Search your references Adding your own keywords & comments Adding your own keywords & comments Can be integrated with MS-Word to create in-text citations & reference list in preferred style Can be integrated with MS-Word to create in-text citations & reference list in preferred style Accessible by computers connected to Internet Accessible by computers connected to Internet

APA citation format

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46 Can also Directly Export Library Catalogue Records to RefWorks

How to Import References from Library E-resources 47

How to Import References from Library E-resources 48

Finding a Particular Article – via Google Scholar + EdLink 49

Finding a Particular Article – via Google Scholar + EdLINK Is this article available in the Library? Sadler, P. M. & Good, E. (2006). The impact of self- and peer-grading on student learning. Educational Assessment, 11(1), doi: /s ea1101_1 50

51 If is displayed, it indicates that full text to the article may be available through Library- subscribed databases. If EdLINK is Not displayed, generally we don't have online full text to the specific issue. You may still click it – sometimes we may have a print version.

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Read instructions on how to set up EdLINK in Google Scholar from off-campus 53

Sneak Preview Discovery Services: an all in one quick search to be implemented – Coming Soon! 54

Sneak Preview – Discovery Services: an all in one quick search to be implemented later this year 55

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