Social Work Honours Year Library Tutorial 15 Sep Sep 2011 NUS Libraries Conducted by: Ng Peck Suan Resource Librarian, Social Work Resource Librarian, Social Work

Search strategy Boolean Operators & more Search databases Scopus, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, PERIND Other Sources Newspapers, Theses & Academic Exercises Getting Help Document Delivery Services, FAQs, Subject Guides Proxy Bookmarklet

List keywords that describe your topic: E.g. social support for the elderly Social support, social network, living arrangements Elderly, older people, aged… Refine or broaden search using: Boolean operators Truncation/wildcard features Parentheses ( )

 AND = All terms must be present  OR = Any of the terms may be present  NOT = Excludes specific search term social support AND aged aged OR elderly delinquents NOTcriminals

OR Usage Use asterisk * to retrieve variant forms of terms Examples Improv ement e * ing (anything that comes after ‘Improv’)

OR Usage Examples Organizs?e Use question mark ? to retrieve variant forms of terms

Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases that are to be processed first, examples: (low income OR single parent) AND families = low income families single parent families (teen* OR adolescen*) AND pregnancy = teenage pregnancy adolescent pregnancy

 Multidisciplinary  Indexing database (no full text)  Usually offers links to full text  Good design and easy to use

Mentally ill persons: their parenting styles and attitudes “mentally ill” AND parenting mentally illparenting

 Provides abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and dissertations  Coverage: 1979-current  Search library catalogue for full-texts

 Coverage, 1968-current  Provides abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, & citations to book reviews  Some overlap in literature coverage between this database and Social Services Abstracts.  Username: nustrain Password: training

 Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN  Coverage,  Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, law  Journal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Covers North-American Masters and Phd theses NUS Theses Print copies Electronic theses and dissertations of Master’s (by Research) and Phd theses

Search LINC by call no, HV13 in NUS Theses Collection: Search LINC, by keywords in NUS Theses Collection:

 Document Delivery Services (DDS) ◦ Journal articles, book chapters, … ◦ Request via e-forms (library portal) ◦ All requests must be approved by supervisor

 Bookmark that automatically prepends the NUS Library proxy to the required URL link in your browser  Example: act act  Insert NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL: ontent/17/1/11.abstract ontent/17/1/11.abstract

In the search box of the Library FAQs page, key in : proxy bookmarklet Information on how to install and use the proxy bookmarklet:

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