Lingnan University Library March 2013 This PowerPoint can be downloaded from: workshops/handouts

 AV materials, books, journals & newspapers  E-resources: E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources ◦ 1. Searched by Library online catalogue ◦ 2. Searched by 1-Search  Subject Guides  Citation Tools - RefWorks

Library Online Catalogue AV materials, E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources 1-Search Subject Guides

 Step 1 – Identify key concepts ◦ Author? A particular work? Content of the work? Criticism of a particular work? ◦ Main concepts can be the name of an author or keyword from a particular work  Step 2 – Selection of search words ◦ Use related words/synonyms ◦ Use of Thesaurus ◦ For author search, type surname first (E.g. Austen, Jane, but NOT Jane Austen)

 Step 3 – Search command ◦ Use “AND/OR/NOT”  E.g. Austen AND Pride  Shakespeare NOT “Merchant of Venice” ◦ Truncation ( retrieves all variant endings of that word)  E.g. criti* (criticize, criticism, critical etc.) ◦ Parentheses ( ) : gives priority and order in the search statement  E.g. (fiction or novel) and Austen

 Title search ◦ Pride and Prejudice  Subject search ◦ Fiction  Author search ◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search) 

 One single search box  Many different types of contents  Facet refine  At fine toning stage, welcome to try  Report problems to us 8

E.g. Search for “Harry Potter” in 1-Search

 If you cannot find a specific book in the Lingnan University library catalogue, you can search for HKALL to see if the item can be searched and borrowed in other 7 UGC- funded University Libraries.  Demonstration: Twenty-first century novels. the first decade

 If you cannot find a journal article from the databases of our Library, you can request for the ILLiad service.  Instructions of ILLiad: y-loan-services y-loan-services  For year 1-2 students: please fill in the form for the ILLiad service (instead of registering online), from the Circulation Counter of the Library.

 E-Databases ◦ Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, periodical articles, & government documents, etc. ◦ Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, poems, and essays.

 Academic Search Premier  EBSCOhost  Contemporary Literary Criticism  Literature Online (LION)  JSTOR  Exploring Novels/Exploring Poetry/Exploring Shakespeare/Exploring Short Stories  Etc. …

 By subject  By database name  All databases

Beloved (item title) AND review

Agatha Christie

-Author Search -Title Search -Subject Guide -Advanced Search

 Exploring Novels  Exploring Shakespeare  Exploring Short Stories  Exploring Poetry First time users of the above databases should follow the instruction of the website and install the reader from CITRIX first

 Full-text information of news, business, and legal publications in English › SCMP: from July 28, 1992 to current  Easy Search › Search news articles › Find a US legal case by Citation or Party Name › Find a company profile by Name or Ticker Symbol › Find a country profile › Research a person › Do a broad search across different types of sources 20 Hillary Clinton

 Power Search ◦ Index Terms lookup ◦ Supports sophisticated query language techniques for Boolean Searching 21

 General Enquiry:  Reference Enquiry:  Ask a Librarian /  “Chat with a Librarian” service

Q & A Thank You!