Library of Social Sciences introduction for Political Sciences  Library homepage  Discovery service LIMO: books, articles, dissertations, journal titles, newspapers  Specific databases for political sciences

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Practical info: group work, wifi … 3

Homepage: search guide 4 User guides and ppts Link to other Belgian and foreign catalogues f.e. WorldCat

About Limo? limo.libis.be 5

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Searching Limo 7 Two options: A.Simple Search Fill in your search terms in 1 single box and discover millions of references of books, articles, etc.…. 7

Searching Limo 8 A. Simple Search: search tips  boolean operators: AND OR NOT  “exact phrase”  truncation and wildcards  ? 0 or 1 character f.e. wom?n = woman and women hono?r = honor and honour  * 0, 1 or more characters f.e. cultur* = culture, cultural, culturally warm* = warm, warmer, warming  Grouping terms within a query: use parentheses

Searching Limo: more search fields 9 B.Advanced Search 9

Searching Limo: use facets to limit 10 Limit my results Physical print items: print collections K.U. Leuven a.o. LIBIS libraries Peer-reviewed: checked by other scholars or researchers Full Text Online: online access Cited in WoS: publications cited once or more in Web of Science databases Physical Items

Searching Limo: use facets to refine 11 Refine my results: Resource type: book, journal, article, database … Creation date: publication date Creator: author(s), editor(s) Topic Language Source: database Journal title Library (KU Leuven/other institution)

Searching Limo 12  Facet: displayed when there are one or more results  Per facet: 3 items with most results + Show X more  Per facet: select only one item  Combine 2 or more facets  Selected facets are displayed

Using search results 13 To sort search results Relevance (standard) Date newest Title A-Z

Using search results 14  Before each record  Tab shows material type and/or book cover  Short bibliographic description  Availability indication Full text available on campus Available in K.U.Leuven/other institutions (print copy) No full text available Currently not on shelf May be available

Using search results 15  Below each record  Two or more tabs with additional info  Fysical items max. 3 tabs  electronic publications max. 4 tabs  At first Limo groups multiple related items

Using search results: locations 16 Click to open the floor plan

Using search results: locations 17  ITEM requests via Locations tab

Using search results: details 18 No full text ? > link to print edition  More info about the publication  Links to other catalogues  Link to request in another library Request in another library

My Account:manage your ILL-requests + create “free” ILL-request 19  Manage loans and requests ILL-request via My Account

Manage search results: Select, save, my citations 20 Select > my citations To save?

Example: search database? 21 Simple search: >Resource type: database >Choose record >Click view online

Search database by type or subject 22 Choose subject or type >click search >select title

There’s more then LIMO? 23  LIMO is a discovery service for hundreds of millions of books, articles e.o. publications.  Use special databases to search for specific info: Communication and Mass Media Complete, International Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, OECD (statistics)…

Most important databases: political science  Ebsco-databases : Academic Search and Business Source Premier / International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)  Full text archives: JSTOR / PAO  Bibliographic : Francis / Intern. Bibliography of the Social Sciences/ PsycInfo/ Sociological Abstr.  Citation Index: Web of Science: SSCI  Statistics : OECD iLibrary  Specific : Agence Europe: Europe Daily Bulletin…

Example: IPSA 25

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: access to FT or print copy? 29

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Full text collections in Leuven  Archives:  JSTOR: FT archive of journal articles from the first issues onwards till about 2006  PAO: references and FT of journal articles from the first issues onwards till about 2006  Publisher’s journal collections:  Elsevier  Emmerald  Sage (also backfiles)  Springer  Taylor &Francis  Wiley-Blackwell 31

Statistics: OECD iLibrary 32

Results in LIMO > view online 33

Homepage > choose tab statistics 34

Search results: Belgium 35 export

Other statistics via homepage SBIB 36

Don’t forget  To look for synonyms  To use an encyclopedia or dictionary  Blackwell Online encyclopedia of Sociology  Britannica Online  Van Dale (dictionaries)