Blanka Farkašová

Introduction to Electronic Information

Resources

FSS MU, 9.5.2011

Central Library FSS MU

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Outline

• Briefly about resources

• Databases

• E-books

• Metalib

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What are electronic information resources?

• documents in electronic versions

• available online or on data media (CD ROM,

DVD)

• trustworthy and reliable sources

• up to date information

• retrospective coverage

• available 24/7

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Types of electronic resources

• databases (bibliographic, full-texts, facts

databases)

• e-journals

• e-books

• library catalogues

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Access to EIR

• EIR are accessible from all computers at the

university

• remote access is available via proxy server

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How to access e-resources?

• Library web pages:

http://library.fss.muni.cz/

• Masaryk university portal:

http://ezdroje.muni.cz

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Searching the databases

• basic, advanced search, by title/subject etc.

• setting up variety of options/limitations

• working with results

• refining the results

• printing, emailing, saving

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Databáze EBSCO

• broad range of full text and bibliographic databases

• over 5000 journals in full-texts

• Multidisciplinary resource

• for social studies:

• Academic Search Complete

• SocIndex with fulltext

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Other full-texts databases

• Cambridge Journals

• JSTORE

• Oxford Journals

• ProQuest

• Sage

• Science Direct

• SpringerLINK

• Wiley

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E-books

• access via library web pages: List of e-sources – e-books • Ebrary – more than 50 000! titles• Gale – library of electronic encyclopedias

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SFX – linking service

• SFX provides services for searching and linking fulltext documents available at MU • SFX works in selected information resources (ProQuest, EBSCO, SpringerLink, ScienceDirect), Metalib, in tools for electronic journals and also in Google Scholar• you just click on SFX icon and it will try to find a fulltext for given resource

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E-journals portal

• E-journals • enables to find journals which are available in fulltext in databases subscribed by the university

• Citation Linker • a tool for searching for fulltexts according to given citation

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Metalib

• Metalib allows to search in more electronic resources at a time• it works like a search engine over selected resources• basic & advanced search

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Thank you for you attention

Blanka Farkašová

blanka@fss.muni.cz