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Use of Electronic Resources in Research

Use of Electronic Resources in Research. Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood Department of Library & Information Science University of the Punjab. Electronic Resources for all steps in research. Finding research problem / topic Gathering background literature Collecting data Analyzing data

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Use of Electronic Resources in Research

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  1. Use of Electronic Resources in Research Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood Department of Library & Information Science University of the Punjab

  2. Electronic Resources for all steps in research • Finding research problem / topic • Gathering background literature • Collecting data • Analyzing data • Writing research report • Disseminating results

  3. Searching Online Resources • Search Engines • General • Meta • Scholarly • Subject Directories • Invisible / Deep Web • ETDs • Online Databases • Online Resources of Pakistan Higher Education Commission

  4. General Search Engines • Google • Yahoo • AltaVista • FAST Search • MSN Search • Lycos • Excite

  5. Google Simple Search

  6. Google Advanced Search

  7. Meta Search Engines Transmit user-supplied keywords simultaneously to several individual search engines to carry out the search • Dogpile • Mamma • Metacrawler

  8. Dogpile

  9. Scholarly Search Engines • Google Scholar • Infomine • Librarians’ Internet Index • Intute • Pinakes • Business Research • ISI Web of Science

  10. Librarians’ Internet Index

  11. Subject Directories Also called Information Gateways and Virtual Libraries • Yahoo Directory • Google Directory • Librarians’ Internet Index • About.com • Infomine • The WWW Virtual Library • Specialized Subject Directories • Abi Logic • Solid Crawler • Academic Info • SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway

  12. Yahoo Directory

  13. Invisible Web / Deep Web Content on the Web that is not found in most search engine results • Complete Planet • Internets • The Invisible Web Catalog

  14. Complete Planet

  15. Electronic Theses and Dissertations - ETDs • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations • Catalog of theses and doctoral dissertations contributed by some 176 universities and 27 institutions worldwide • Proquest Dissertations & Theses Database • World’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.3 million titles

  16. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

  17. Online Databases • Bibliographic databases • ERIC, Agricola, Medline, EconLit, PsychINFO • Numeric databases • Stat-USA, UN Common Database • Full text databases • ScienceDirect, Emerald, JSTOR

  18. ERIC Database

  19. Science Direct Database

  20. HEC – Online Resources • National Digital Library • Over 30 databases with over 20000 full text journals • Accessible by 250 institutions in Pakistan • Over 40,000 e-books • Links to open access resources • Pakistan Research Repository • Full text of over 1200 Pakistani doctoral theses

  21. HEC – National Digital Library

  22. Pakistan Research Repository

  23. Online Searching Techniques • Boolean Operators • Phrase Searching • Truncation / Wildcard Searching • Proximity Searching • Focusing / Limiting a Search

  24. Boolean Operators Boolean operators allow you to join terms together, widen a search or exclude terms from your search results. This means you can be more precise in locating your information. AND OR NOT

  25. Boolean Operators at Emerald

  26. Phrase Searching It narrows your search down by searching for an exact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful when searching for a title or a quotation. Usually quotation marks are used to connect the words together. For example “Towards a healthier Scotland”

  27. Truncation / Wildcard Searching These search techniques retrieve information on similar words by replacing part of the word with a symbol usually a * or ?. However, different databases use different symbols, so check what is used. • In truncation the end of the word is replaced. • For example physiother* will retrieve physiotherapy, physiotherapeutic, physiotherapist and so on. • In wildcard searching, letters from inside the word are replaced. • For example wom*n will retrieve the terms woman and women.

  28. Proximity Searching It looks for documents where two or more separately matching term occurrences are within a specified distance, where distance is the number of intermediate words or characters • For example • Term A NEAR Term B • Term A ADJ Term B

  29. Focusing / Limiting a Search There are many ways to focus your search and all search tools offer different ways of doing this. Some of the ways of limiting your search are as follows: • Date • Language • Place • Publication type • Age groups • Type of material e.g. you could just need to find case studies

  30. Thanks for your patience

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