LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR 19 October 2012

LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR

19 October 2012

byMdm Norzelatun Rodhiah Hazmi,

IIUM Library norzelatunrh@iium.edu.my

OutlineOutline How to Develop an Information

Search Strategy for Research

Searching for Journal Articles

Databases – Online Version

Digital Services - IIUM Publication

Library Catalog – Print version

Journal Citation

Example:

The Application of 4G Technology in Communication

Refer to dictionaries, encyclopedias, or textbooks to obtain a better understanding

1. IDENTIFY THE KEYWORDS CONTAIN IN YOUR TOPIC

Example:

The Application of 4G Technology in Communication

Refer to dictionaries, encyclopedias, or textbooks to obtain a better understanding

1. IDENTIFY THE KEYWORDS CONTAIN IN YOUR TOPIC

Example: The Application of 4G Technology in Communication

2. EXAMPLES OF ALTERNATIVE KEYWORDS

Concept 14G

Concept 2Technology

Concept 3Communicati

onMobile PhonesCellularTelecoms

InnovativeApplicationNetwork

Technical Comm.Human Comm.Industrial Comm.

3. COMBINING TERMS – BOOLEAN SEARCHING

While searching in OPAC or Databases to find journal articles – construct search queries using Boolean

AND – to narrow a search

OR – to broaden a search

NOT – to exclude

• Combining 2 keywords – using AND

AND

network

technical communication

AND

network

technical communication

• Narrowing down a search – using AND

AND

AND

network

technical communication

innovative

network

technical communicatio

n

innovative

• Broaden a search using OR

OR mobile phone

cellular

cellular

mobile phone

• Excluding terms not needed – using NOT

NOT

innovation

technology

innovation

technology

How to narrow a search ?

If too many results are found:

• choose a more specific or precise keyword e.g. ‘equalizers’ instead of ‘circuits’

• add another concept to your search, use AND e.g ‘equalizers’ AND ‘electric filters’ AND ‘network’

How to broaden a search ?

If only a few results are found:• Try searching with alternative keywords

• Choose a broader, less specific terms e.g ‘transistors’ instead of ‘phototransistors’

•Select another information source, book, database, index or encyclopedia

Example of wildcards:Example of wildcards:

Use Use ?? to replace a letter or letters in a to replace a letter or letters in a word. word.

e.g analye.g analy??ee will pick up will pick up analyanalyzzee and and analyanalyssee

e.g cole.g col??r r will pick up will pick up colcoloorr and and colcolouourr

4. Extend the power and precision of boolean searching via truncations,

wildcards or double quotation marks

Example of truncations:Example of truncations:

Use * to truncate a word:

e.g. cell* will pick up: cell, cells, cellulose,

etc.

e.g. carbon* will pick up: carbon,

carbonates, carbonization, carbonylation, etc.

Example of double quotation marks:

“enzyme degradation” – the database should look for an exact match of the word“product” – get exact match of the word without stem variations (base word plus varying endings including plurals, -ion, etc.

Identify the key concepts or ideas contain in your topic

List alternative keywords for each concept

construct search queries using Boolean

Use truncations, wildcards or double quotation marks while searching online

databases

Decide your topic

STEPS IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH

OutlineOutline How to Develop an Information

Search Strategy for Research

Searching for Journal Articles

Databases – Online Version

Digital Services - IIUM Publication

Library Catalog – Print version

What is an Online Database?

• It provides online information such as books, journals or magazines articles, thesis, etc.• There are more than 60 databases subscribed by IIUM Library to support study and research needs of this University• The online databases are accessible via the IIUM Library homepage

Online Databases for Engineering Database

Publishers/ Names Producers

1. Academic Search Premier EBSCO

2. Emerald Management Xtra EMERALD

3. ScienceDirect ELSEVIER

4. SpringerLink SPRINGER

5. IEEE Xplore IEEE

Types of Databases

Bibliographic – indexes providing citation to articles and abstract – no complete text

Full text – provides complete textual content of the print version

How to access the online databases?How to access the online databases?

Click ‘Online Databases’

List of Online Databases Subscribed by IIUM Library

Arranged A-Z

Article title

Journal title + sources

Author(s) of the journal article

Database Record Interpretation

Comparative study of broadcast and multicast in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks Computer Communications, Volume 31, Issue 17, November 2008, pages 4220 – 4229 Wweng, J-F, Chen, J-C, Cheng, K-W

1.ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

Subjects : Economics, Engineering, Human Science, Medical, Science

Click here

Search for journal articles that contains the keywords GSM AND UMTS

GSMUMTS

Results: 28 documents found!

Full-text article: save/print/e-mail

Emerald FullText is a collection of over 42,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious journals, complete with full text archives dating back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989.

2. EMERALD MANAGEMENT XTRA

Click here

Click “Advanced Search”

Click Journal

Search for journal articles that contains the keywords “night vision” AND technology

“night vision”technology

6 results found!

VIEW FULL TEXT ARTICLE : PDF Format

Save/print

3. IEEE Xplore3. IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) publications.

Click here

Click ‘Advanced Search’

Search: ‘RFID’ AND ‘technology’ AND ‘finding system*’

RFID

technology

Finding system*

Content Types

IIUM Library subscribes to Conferences, Journals and Standards only.

Results : 8 documents found!

Journal Article: save , print or e-mail

4. SpringerLinkSpringerLINK Online Journals is an electronic journal data source from Springer (includes Kluwer) in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics etc.

Click here

Search for articles that contains the keywords “image segmentation techniques”

“image segmentation techniques”

Results: 470 Book Chapters and Journal Articles found!

Book Article: save/print/e-mail

OutlineOutline How to Develop an Information

Search Strategy for Research

Searching for Journal Articles

Databases – Online Version

Digital Services - IIUM Publication

Library Catalog – Print version

On the Library Homepage, click ‘Digital Library’

Under Digital Library, click ‘IIUM Publication’

electrical

Key in any keyword(s) in the search box

6 documents found!

Click to get the metadata

records

Click on title to get the full text

Metadata records

Full-text journal article: save/print/e-mail

What to do as there is no full text?

OutlineOutline How to Develop an Information

Search Strategy for Research

Searching for Journal Articles

Databases – Online Version

Digital Services - IIUM Publication

Library Catalog – Print version

TO FIND PRINTED JOURNAL ARTICLES (Using Library Catalog)

Click ‘Advanced Catalog Search’

Radioelectronics and communications systems

Sorochak, A. M. (2011). Pulse-switchable microwave resonator on a basis of monocrystal hexaferrite. Radioelectronics and communications systems, v. 54, n. 8, pp. 411-414.

Sorochak, A. M. (2011). Pulse-switchable microwave resonator on a basis of monocrystal hexaferrite. Radioelectronics and communications systems, v. 54, n. 8, pp. 411-414.

Sorochak, A. M. (2011). Pulse-switchable microwave resonator on a basis of monocrystal hexaferrite. Radioelectronics and communications systems, v. 54, n. 8, pp. 411-414.

2. Finding Fulltext in Printed JournalsRetrieve the correct year/volume/issue from the shelves.

j TK5101A1I99A4 2011 v54 n8

Sorochak, A. M. (2011). Pulse-switchable microwave resonator on a basis of monocrystal hexaferrite. Radioelectronics and communications systems, v. 54, n. 8, pp. 411-414.

The following citation was found in Engineering Village 2 but the full text is not available. Find out if the following article is available as print format in the library, give

the call no.:

j TK5105.5W798W 2007v15Sept-Dec  

What to do as there is no full text?

Submit to the Library Staff

Citation is very important in academic paper

How to cite? a. Use a standard format – i.e APA Citation Style

b. Use example available at Library Information Desk, Level 1-4

Don’t Forget to Cite

OutlineOutline

Citation of Journal Articles

How to Develop an Information Search Strategy for Research

Searching of Online Databases to Find Journal Articles for Research

HOW TO CITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE?

1. 1. Article from Printed Journal Weng, J.-F., Chen, J.-C., Cheng, K.-W. (2008). Comparative study of broadcast and multicast in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks. Computer Communications, 41 (17), 4220-4229.

2. 2. Article from an Online DatabaseWeng, J.-F., Chen, J.-C., Cheng, K.-W.(2008). Comparative study of broadcast and multicast in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks. Computer Communications, 41 (17), 4220-4229. Retrieved  January 28, 2011, from Science Direct database.

HOW TO CITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE?

1. 1. Article from Printed Journal

Weng, J.-F., Chen, J.-C., Cheng, K.-W. (2008). Comparative study of broadcast and multicast in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks. Computer Communications, 41 (17), 4220-4229.

2. 2. Article from an Online Database

Retrieved October 14, 2011, from Science Direct database.

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