RESEARCH: Journals, articles and more Using the Allison Library and UBC Library Indexes & Databases

Introduction Myth: “Everything is freely available on the Internet” Fact: Many (most) scholarly resources are found either in print or through subscription-based databases

Presentation Outline Search Strategies Allison Library Journals –Indexes: Print –Indexes: Electronic UBC Library –Electronic indexes & databases Open Access journals Access (how do I get the articles?) –(in print, online full text, interlibrary loans)

Search strategies: Boolean operators: And, Or, Not Atheism AND Reformation “AND” NARROWS the search Atheism OR Reformation “OR” BROADENS the search Atheism NOT Reformation “NOT” LIMITS the search Use NOT with caution

Search strategies: Boolean operators, combined Refine a search: group synonyms For example Christian AND (justice OR ethics) (Christian OR Mennonite) AND (justice OR ethics)

Search strategies: Truncation & Wildcards Truncation use * Reform* * = wild card for any letters after the “m” will search for... –Reforms –Reformed –Reformation –Reforming Wildcard use ? Wom?n will search for all occurrences of: –Woman –Women –Womyn

Journals, articles, indexes, databases Journals (scholarly aka peer-reviewed vs popular) Journal Indexes & Databases –Print & Electronic –Citations (source only: author, title etc.) –Abstracts (short comment on articles contents) –Full Text (PDF or HTML)

EBSCO databases (five): ATLA Serials (main database for theology and religion) New Testament Abstracts (NTA) Old Testament Abstracts (OTA) Catholic Periodical Literature Index (CPLI) Christian Periodical Index (CPI) ProQuest Religion: Smaller database than ATLA but full text Religious and Theological Abstracts (RTA) Some overlap with above sources Cambridge, Oxford, Sage Journals (Selected Titles) TREN Theological Resource Exchange Network Theses and dissertations Allison Library subscribes to:

NEW! A – Z aka A to Z

Remote Access: Ezproxy

EBSCO Sample searches

EBSCO, ProQuest Religion, & RTA Publications –Crux (overlap) EBSCO RTA Not it ProQuest –Church & State (overlap) EBSCO 01/01/1986 (volume 39) [no full text] ProQuest 01/01/1992 (volume 45) [full text from 1999] KEY THING to remember is that there MAY be overlap in the databases BUT the overlap may be limited HOWEVER there may also be FULL TEXT available in that overlap.

Real time search

Five commonly used UBC databases: Academic Search Complete: –Multi-disciplinary includes some religion and theology –Almost all full-text JSTOR: –multi-disciplinary generally providing a back run –All full-text Philosopher’s Index: –Abstracts from books and journals of philosophy PsychINFO and 3 other Psych databases: –Citations and summaries from psychology-related journals –Largely full-text MLA: –For literature –No full-text UBC Library Indexes & Databases Real Time Search 2

UBC Journal & Indexes Access X

IF you have an Article title and Journal title AND the article is NOT available in full text through our databases THEN does UBC have full-text access? Go to UBC Library > Advanced Search UBC Library: article finding tool

FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks libraries (Theolog) UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans THEN go to UBC Library > Use the Library Borrowing Services > Borrowing from non- UBC Libraries (ILL)

Allison Library Fall 2011

FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks libraries (Theolog) UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans

Questions?

Additional help Reference Librarian –In person at the reference desk –By phone –By –By chat (skype) PowerPoint Slides will be available at theoreference.catheoreference.ca