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Literature Searching and Databases - Choosing the right resources

Library Research Week 2014. Literature Searching and Databases - Choosing the right resources. Choosing the best database for the topic. What databases are there to choose from? Why are there so many? What types are there?

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Literature Searching and Databases - Choosing the right resources

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  1. Library Research Week 2014 Literature Searching and Databases - Choosing the right resources

  2. Choosing the best database for the topic • What databases are there to choose from? • Why are there so many? • What types are there? • Why do some have good indexing and little full text but others have lots of full text and poor indexing?

  3. Many databases – but which one? • Medline; Jstor, Wiley Interscience; Maternity and Infant care; Science Direct; Proquest Central; Academic Search Complete; Factiva; LexisNexis…

  4. Types of Databases • General and Subject specific • Academic and Commercial

  5. Subject specific databases These are often: • More academic in nature • Have discipline affiliations • Have good indexing • Draw journals from a variety of sources

  6. General Multidisciplinary databases These often: • Cover a variety of disciplines • Provided by journal aggregators or individual publishers

  7. Different Databases for different purposes • Library catalogue • BONUS • Trove • ABS • Web of Knowledge • Scopus • Reference Universe

  8. Find Databases (UTS Library) • No matter what your discipline area, the library has a category and list of suggested databases for you. • But they are only suggestions • You can also create your own list of “My Databases”

  9. Searching FTW • Searching For the Win

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