LIB110: Locating Full-text Journal Articles Lingnan University Library Sep

Outline Handout Search Strategies 1-Search Full Text Databases Citation Databases Google Scholar

Search Strategies (1) Use appropriate resources Library catalogue – various books, journals, video programs, etc. available at the Library Library catalogue Electronic databases – e-books, book chapters, academic journal articles, news articles, statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc. Electronic databases Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, etc Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, and periodical articles, etc. Internet resources – facts, news, organizational information, statistics … Internet resources

Search Strategies (2) Identify main concepts E.g. Media and politics in Hong Kong. 1. media, Journalism, etc. 2. politics, political, etc. 3. hong kong, hongkong, hk Choice of search words (related key terms/synonyms)

Search Strategies (3) Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and wildcards (e.g. *, !) AND: searches records that mention both search terms, this narrows the search e.g. media and hong kong ( 必須同時出現 ) OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search e.g. media or journalism ( 只要任何一個出現 )

Search Strategies (4) Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant endings of that word EBSCOhost: * ProQuest: * LexisNexis Academic: ! OPAC: * e.g. journali* -- retrieves all words that start with JOURNALI such as journalist, journalism, journalistic, etc.

Search Strategies (5) ( )Parentheses: gives priority and order in the search statement e.g. (media or journalism) and hong kong Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database- specific features / changing your keywords

1-Search : A federated search engine for searching across 40 online database from one simple interface. Access:

Full Text Databases ProQuest EBSCOhost Electronic collections containing millions of articles originally published in magazines, newspapers, and journals. JSTOR: A deep archive of core journals in humanities and social sciences, dating back to the first issues of the journals. Access:

Full Text Databases LexisNexis Academic Contains news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world Factiva Access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data. LION Contains over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with key criticism and reference resources. 中國期刊網 – 文史哲專輯 Contains about 300 major Chinese periodicals published in China from 1915 中國期刊網 – 社會科學專輯 Contains Chinese social sciences periodicals published in China from 2001 ACCESS:

Citation Databases Sociological Abstracts (CSA) LLBA (CSA) Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography ( )( CSA) EconLit (EBSCOhost)

Google Scholar A freely-accessible web search engine indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across disciplines.scholarly literature Access:

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