1. Lingnan University Library March 2013 This PowerPoint can be downloaded from: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/library- workshops/handouts

2.  AV materials, books, journals & newspapers  E-resources: E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources ◦ 1. Searched by Library online catalogue http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/ http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/ ◦ 2. Searched by 1-Search http://lingnan.summon.serialssolutions.com/ http://lingnan.summon.serialssolutions.com/  Subject Guides  Citation Tools - RefWorks

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

4. http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/english?hs=a

5.  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)

6.  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

7.  Title search ◦ Pride and Prejudice  Subject search ◦ Fiction  Author search ◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search)  www.library.ln.edu.hk www.library.ln.edu.hk

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

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

10.  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

11.  If you cannot find a journal article from the databases of our Library, you can request for the ILLiad service.  Instructions of ILLiad: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/interlibrar y-loan-services http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/interlibrar 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.

12.  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.

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

14.  By subject  By database name  All databases http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/databases

16. http://www.jstor.org/Example Beloved (item title) AND review

17. http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/Example Agatha Christie

18. -Author Search -Title Search -Subject Guide -Advanced Search http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc6_CLC?sw_aep=lingnan

19.  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

20.  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 http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academic/Example Hillary Clinton

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

22. http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/databases

23.  General Enquiry: 2616-8586  Reference Enquiry: 2616-8571  Ask a Librarian / Email: refstaff@ln.edu.hkrefstaff@ln.edu.hk  “Chat with a Librarian” service

24. Q & A Thank You!