Differences Between Informational Resources & Searching for Articles

1. Differences Between Informational Resources & Searching for Articles Jason Dupree Assistant Professor MLIS, University of Oklahoma BFA, Art Studio, Phillips University Head of Public Services Al Harris Library jason.dupree@swosu.edu

2. Review • What does P.A.W. manage? • Explain how you select a keyword(s) to be used for searching. • Why should you identify alternatives or synonyms for keywords? • Name the 3 Boolean Operators and tell me what they do. • What makes an e-book unique?

3. Periodicals • Any type of regularly published work (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, annually) • Magazine • Journal • Newspaper • Newsletter • Trade Publication • Annual

4. Arranged by call number Location: 2nd floor Arranged by the title alphabetically Location: 1st floor Books vs. Periodicals

5. Part 1 Scholarly vs. Popular

6. MAGAZINES Popular Info Audience: General Public Casual Reader Purpose: Hobby Pleasure Curiosity JOURNALS Scholarly Info Audience: Researcher Professional Who Needs to Stay Up-to-Date Purpose: Goal-Driven Research Paper Certification, Tenure Job Requirement Most Recognized Periodicals

7. Class Activity • What’s the Difference?

8. POPULAR MAGAZINES USUALLY SOMEWHAT SLICK AND ATTRACTIVE IN APPEARANCE RARELY CITE SOURCES. INFO. IS USUALLY SECONDARY, REPORTED FROM SOURCE ARTICLES SHORT, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE AND FOR A MINIMAL EDUCATION LEVEL USUALLY LOT OF ADVERTISING AND PICTURES PAGINATION RESTARTS IN EVERY ISSUE SCHOLARLY JOURNALS HAVE A SOBER, SERIOUS LOOK ALWAYS CITE THEIR SOURCES IN FOOTNOTES/BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARTICLES WRITTEN BY A SCHOLAR OR RESEARCHER “HORSE’S MOUTH” PEER-REVIEWED BY SCHOLARS LANGUAGE OF JOURNAL ASSUMES SOME SCHOLARLY BACKGROUND ON THE PART OF READER ADVERTISING IS SPECIALIZED TO THAT DISCIPLINE PAGINATION IS CUMULATIVE Difference Between Scholarly and Popular Periodicals

11. Peer Review Scholarly sources are concerned with academic study, especially research for individuals such as, students, teachers, professors, or any other professional who need current information to stay informed of changes to their profession or area of expertise. Many scholarly journals are peer reviewedor refereed, that is, these articles have been subjected to a rigorous approval and editing process by other scholars in that discipline. This process doesn’t apply to popular magazines.

12. Part 2 Finding Articles

13. Catalogs, Databases, & Search Engines • A comprehensive list of the books, periodicals, maps, and other materials in a given collection. • A large, regularly updated file of digitized information related to a specific subject or field. • Computer software designed to help the user locate information available at sites on the World Wide Web by selecting categories from a hierarchical directory of subjects (example: Yahoo!) or by entering appropriate keywords or phrases (Google).

14. Guess where the articles are

15. Read the description…

16. Full-text Articles Full-text articles indicate the entire article can be found within the database, no physical searching is necessary. Full-text articles are accessible in the following ways: • HTML (displays like a web page) • PDF (displays like a photocopy; best for citing info) • Linked (hyperlinks to full-text in another location)

17. Academic Search Complete

18. Can’t find the article? If a full-text option is not presented, then you need to open a second window… …go to the library’s Periodicals List…

19. Part 3 Reading Citations & Using the Periodicals List

20. Reading Citations A citation is a short, multi-part description of a specific information source. It provides the information that is needed to find a particular source. Journal citations contain such basic information as:

21. Book or Article Citation? Hacker, J.S. (2004), Privatizing risk without privatizing the welfare state: the hidden politics of social policy retrenchment in the United States, American Political Science Review, 98, 2: 243-60. Hicks, A. (1999), Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Levy, J.D. (1999), Vice into virtue? Progressive politics and welfare reform in Continental Europe, Politics and Society, 27, 2: 239-73. Hinrichs, K. and Kangas, O. (2003), When is a change big enough to be a system shift? Small system-shifting changes in German and Finnish pension policies, Social Policy & Administration, 37, 6: 573-91. Iversen, T. (2001), The dynamics of welfare state expansion: trade openness, deindustrialization, and partisan politics. In P. Pierson (ed.) (2001), The New Politics of the Welfare State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45-79. Green-Pedersen, C. (2003), Still there but for how long? The counter-intuitiveness of the universal welfare model and the development of the universal welfare state in Denmark, Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, 57, 4: 105-20.

22. Can’t find the article? If a full-text option is not presented, then you need to open a second window… …go to the library’s Periodicals List… …copy the journal title from your article citation and paste it into the search box on the Periodicals List…then click search… …if the journal title appears, it should present you with some options other than the database you currently search… …if it doesn’t, then you’ll need to use ILL.

23. Periodicals List A directory used to identify the location of journals, magazines and newspapers accessible through the library regardless of format Formats: • Electronic (article database) • Paper (soft or hard bound) • Microfilm (reel) • Microfiche (card)

24. Class Activity • Citation Investigation

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