LIB 230 Locating English/Linguistics

Resources Lingnan University Library

September 2010

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2010/fall/powerpoint/

AV materials, books, journals & newspapers◦ Searched by Library online catalogue

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/

E-resources: E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources

Subject Research Guide

Citation Tools

Library Collections

Library Online Catalogue

Subject Research Guide

E-Database, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources

AV materials

E-resources 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.

E-resources E-Journals

◦ Library subscribed e-journals

◦ Journals available in the database

◦ Coverage

to present

to 1 year ago

How to construct a search 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 key word from a particular

Step 2 – Selection of search words◦ Related words/synonyms◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search)◦ literary criticism or literary interpretation ◦ Hong Kong: Hong Kong, hk

How to construct a search Step 3 – Search command

◦ Use “AND/OR” E.g. Austen AND Pride

◦ 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

Library online catalogue Title search

◦ Pride and Prejudice Subject search

◦ Fiction Author search

◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search)

www.library.ln.edu.hk

Database Demonstration Academic Search Premier Collins Cobuild Wordbanks Online Contemporary Literacy Criticism Exploring Novels/Exploring Poetry/Exploring

Shakespare/Exploring Short Stories JSTOR Literature Online (LION) MLA Directory of Periodicals

Database Demonstration By subject By database

name All

databases

Other databases Metalude

◦ By Department of English

Citation Tools - RefWorks

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