1. Introduction to Library Research Gabriela Scherrer Reference Librarian for English Languages and Literatures, University Library of Bern

2. June 152 You want an introduction to library research because you need to  understand the differences between library catalogs, and databases  select information sources appropriate for a particular need  understand the various steps in the research process  know standard research techniques for searching library catalogs and electronic databases

3. June 153 Library catalogs

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7. 7 Search types  Keyword search in various fields (e.g. authors, titles, subject headings)  Browse alphabetical lists of authors, titles, subject headings, or other fields

8. June 158 Keyword Search Advantages  Searches anywhere in the record  any significant words/phrases can be considered keywords  number of items retrieved potentially large Disadvantages  you retrieve only the records that include the words searched  may retrieve irrelevant items

9. June 159 Browse Advantages  number of items retrieved potentially smaller  high degree of relevancy Disadvantages  need to know the controlled vocabulary

10. June 1510 Browse: Authors  Use the author index if you are looking for the works of a specific author

11. June 1511 Browse: Journal titles  Use the journal title index when looking for a specific journal

12. June 1512 Keyword search: Keywords in subject terms

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14. June 1514 Basic library terminology Books, journals  listed in library catalogs Journal articles, articles in books  listed in databases and printed bibliographies

15. June 1515 Basic library terminology Keyword Subject term  Word contained in the bibliographical description  Topic or focus of a book or an article

16. June 1516 Basic library terminology  Thesaurus —provides standardized vocabulary in specific subject areas —preferred terms – non-preferred terms, semantic relations  Subject headings/descriptors —indexing terms that identify the contents reported in articles

17. June 1517 Basic library terminology Boolean connectors

18. June 1518 Basic library terminology Wildcards  a symbol used to replace letters within words Truncation  a symbol used to replace letters at the ends of words psychol* will return records on psychology, psychological, psychologist wom#n retrieves woman and women Common truncation symbols and wildcards are: ! ? * $

19. June 1519 Research in databases  LABEL YOUR TOPIC  CHOOSE KEY WORDS  CHOOSE DATABASES

20. June 1520 Research in databases  Use a keyword search in order to find descriptors and subject terms  Use the thesaurus, descriptors, and subject terms  Tools: Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) wildcards truncation ! Use the HELP section !

21. June 1521 How to access databases The Campus of Berne computers provide access to many electronic resources, including subscription databases

22. June 1522 Fachinformationen Link collections, links to databases and online resources

23. June 1523 Fachinformationen Anglistik/Amerikanistik

24. June 1524 Fachinformationen Anglistik/Amerikanistik

25. June 1525 MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association of America)  Literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, etc.  Covers 1926 onward online  Contains over 2.2 million citations  Journal articles and books  International coverage

26. June 1526 ERIC  access to educational-related literature in various subjects  corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)  coverage: 1966-  over 1,300,000 records

27. June 1527 Web of Science: SSCI and AHCI  Social Science Citation Index: 1956 to present  Arts and Humanities Citation Index: 1975 to present  7.6 million records  journal articles

28. June 1528 BLLDB (Bibliography of Linguistic Literature Database)  general linguistics, English, German and Romance linguistics  journal articles, articles of conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, festschrifts  subject classification in English and German  coverage: 1971-  over 354,000 records

29. June 1529 JSTOR (Journal Storage) —complete full-text backfiles (including accompanying charts, graphs, equations, and pictures) of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines —date coverage: from vol. 1 (often from the 1800s), excluding the latest 3-5 years

30. June 1530 PAO – Periodicals Archive Online —archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences —electronic index to the contents of thousands of scholarly journals and popular periodicals, from their first issues to 1995 —major online archive (backfiles of more than 200 periodicals available in digital form)

31. June 1531 Search example  Finding literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

32. June 1532 Search example  LABEL YOUR TOPIC: African American Vernacular English  CHOOSE KEY WORDS: African American Vernacular English, Black English  CHOOSE DATABASES: MLA, Web of Science, BLLDB

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43. June 1543 Recapitulation  have seen the various steps in the research process  understand the differences between searching library catalogs, and databases  are able to use basic research techniques for searching library catalogs and electronic databases So far, you

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45. June 1545 SFX Ordering via SFX -links to the full text of an article -automated searching of the library catalog for print or electronic holding -link to the interlibrary loan form When you see the SFX logo, click on it!

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48. June 1548 EZB Elektronic Journals Library - full texts are freely accessible - the Campus of Berne has a license for this journal; therefore it is available to users on campus computers - the journal is not on subscription, thus full texts are not accessible Access to scientific and academic full text journals

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52. June 1552 Off-campus access to databases VPN Client Software  secure connection from a remote site to the Campus of Berne across the internet. Further information: http://idsecweb.unibe.ch/vpnclient/