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Session objectives
Decipher what’s on your reading list
Find books and journals on Newton
Find journal articles online
Save time and frustration!
1. Books and book chapters
Brabazon, Tara. The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. [MLA style]
Burn, Andrew, and Jenny Leach, ‘ICT and moving image literacy in English,’ in The impact of ICT on literacy education, ed. by Richard Andrews (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004) [MHRA style]
Finding books on Newton
Bear in mind that on Newton you need to look for the book title, not the chapter details
Too much information?
Newton’s ‘keyword’ search finds results for each one of your keywords
Searching on Introduction to economics finds all the records with the word ‘introduction’ or the word ‘to’ or the word ‘economics’
Result: frustration
Can’t find anything?
Newton’s title search requires precise entries: leaving out a word or a letter can cause your search to fail
Newton won’t suggest alternative spellings if you make a typo error
Result: frustration
Solution: use Boolean logic
‘introduction’ OR ‘to’ OR ‘economics’ = any of these words
‘introduction’ AND ‘to’ AND ‘economics’ = all of these words (but not necessarily in this order)
Think ‘fish AND chips’ / ‘love AND marriage’
A note about e-books …
You can find our electronic books at
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/ - or just search as usual in Newton
2. Journals and journal articles
Yeh, Michelle. “The ‘Cult of Poetry’ in Contemporary China.” Journal of Asian Studies 55 (1996): 51-80. [Turabian style]
Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910-924. [APA style]
Finding journals on Newton
Bear in mind that on Newton you need to look for the journal title, not the article details
Journal titles are notoriously tricky! Is it - Journal of … Journal of the … Journal for … International journal of … ?
Check ejournals@cambridge
If you can’t find your journal on Newton, or If you’d prefer an electronic version:
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ejournals
Searching directly for articles
“There’s a great article comparing Ingres and Delacroix, by a guy called Shelton” [Supervisor recommendation – not a style!]
Solution: use CrossSearch
If you’re not certain of the article details, or If you want to check quickly if your article is
available online:
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/
Help and feedback
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