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Online Searching: role and characteristics of Academic Databases

Understand academic databases, access, and process of knowledge production. Learn about peer-review journals and search techniques. Explore international and specialized databases. Accessing databases through UPF is detailed.

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Online Searching: role and characteristics of Academic Databases

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  1. Online Searching: role and characteristics of Academic Databases LluísCodina (UPF) MUCS Dept. Of Communication

  2. Academic Databases - I • Content specializations • Humanities and Social Sciences • Science and technology • Multidisciplinary • Context • At the heart of the cyclical process of academic research and publishing • Document typology. References or full text of: • Journal articles of peer review journals • Reports, books, patents and theses, etc. • Users: • Researchers (Universities) and engineers and developers (Corporations) • University students and professors • In general: authors of academic journal articles, reports or books • Access: • Not free. In fact they are extremely expensive • Access only by subscription or by pay per view (pay per document) • Only subscribed to by universities or corporations (not by private persons ) L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  3. Academic Databases - II Main protagonists: • Scientific publishers of journals or books: • Elsevier • Springer … • Independent producers: • Universities • Private companies … • Distributors of tens or hundreds of different databases: • Ebsco • Dialog … • Authors: • Researchers and developers • University students and professors • Authors of journal articles or books • So… authors are both users and contributors L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  4. The Process of knowledge production L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  5. The Peer Review Journals • The most respected kind of scientific journals and the typical content of the academic databases • Process: • Author submits their papers to a peer review journal. • The journal asks the opinion of at least,two experts in the field. • If approved, and only if approved, by the experts, the article will be published, probably with corrections and additions suggested by the experts. • The whole process is anonymous: the author is unaware of the identity of the referees (evaluators) and vice versa. L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  6. The Search Process • Identification of the information need of the user and the keywords that express the main concepts of the information need. • Occasionally, identification of the proper names (persons, corporations, countries, etc.). • Identification and selection of the most suitable database. • Selection and execution of the query (basic or advanced search). • Review of the references in the database results page. • Occasionally, refinement of the query and obtaining new keywords to repeat the process. L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  7. Main interdisciplinary international databases • Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge): the most influential database in the world. Provides access to tens of thousands of the most important international journals (Thomson). • Scopus: the database of the most important scientific publisher of the world. Access to one thousand two hundred journals (Elsevier). L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  8. International databases by specialization • Computers, related with Art, Society and Humanities • ACM • Humanities • Arts and Humanities Citation Index • Social Sciences • JSTOR • Communication • Sage • Taylor and Francis L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  9. And in Spain… • Multidisciplinary: • CSIC: The most influential in Spain and one of the most important in Spanish speaking countries. Provides access to all peer review Spanish journals. L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  10. To access databases in UPF • To access academic databases via UPF: • www.upf.edu > Library > Databases > Alphabetic list: • Example: • www.upf.edy > Library > Databases > Alphabetic list > A > ACM Digital Library L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  11. Off Campus L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  12. Off Campus (II) L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  13. Database List L. Codina. UPF MUCS

  14. ACM Digital Library L. Codina. UPF MUCS

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