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The Resource Sharing Detective

The Resource Sharing Detective. Objectives. By the end of this class you will be able to: Understand the nature of “hidden” library materials Apply a variety of different search strategies to different search environments Search alternative resources for materials and citations

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The Resource Sharing Detective

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  1. The Resource Sharing Detective

  2. Objectives • By the end of this class you will be able to: • Understand the nature of “hidden” library materials • Apply a variety of different search strategies to different search environments • Search alternative resources for materials and citations • Use non-traditional methods to acquire materials

  3. Agenda • Why materials are (sometimes) hard to find • Search tools and strategies • Government information • Newspapers • Dissertations, theses, and conference Proceedings • Archival materials • Alternative strategies

  4. Introductions • Introduce yourself in the text chat. Tell us: • Your name • Where you work • Your role in resource sharing there • And a “success story” where you found and borrowed (or lent!) something interesting From your collection!

  5. Exercise: CHALLENGE! Find the Following Journal • IF you dare! • Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics

  6. Why Isn’t it on WorldCat?!? • Materials that could be included on WorldCat, but many libraries choose not to-- • A/V Materials • Archival materials • Materials that libraries do not wish to lend • Local historical materials • Bookmobile collections • E-Journals

  7. Libraries Have No Obligation to Add… • Rental collections • Reserve materials • Classified materials (corporate libraries) • Government Documents! • Web pages/”ephemeral” electronic resources Guidelines for Contributing to WorldCat • http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/contribute/guidelines/default.htm

  8. Searching Tools and Strategies • Databases • Web resources • Advanced searching strategies • Local resources

  9. Deeper Into WorldCat • Advanced search options • Searching the index • WorldCat.org

  10. WorldCat.org • Search WorldCat from anywhere! • Add WorldCat.org tool bar to your web browser! • http://www.worldcat.org/toolbars/default.jsp

  11. WorldCat via Google Books Find in library link

  12. Google Books & Google Scholar • http://books.google.com/ • Search the full text of books • http://scholar.google.com • More scholarly books and articles • Includes “Find in a Library”

  13. Web Search Strategies • Boolean Operators • Advanced Searching options • Phrase Searching

  14. Boolean Operators AND -- NOT -- OR --NEAR

  15. library OR libraries cars AND trucks dolphins NOT football

  16. Helpful Advanced Search Features • Search for specific formats (i.e. .doc, .ppt, .xls, etc) • Search within specific domains (i.e. .edu or .org) • Search within specific years • Search by language or country • Search by parts of the page

  17. Phrase Searching • Very helpful when seeking an article or book title • Done either by “putting quotes” around the phrase or using phrase option in advanced web search • Probably the most helpful web searching technique for finding unique items

  18. Invisible vs. Deep Web • What is it? • Valuable resources that may be “hidden” • “invisible web”-content that isn’t indexed, example: a sound file where information resides. • “deep web”-embedded dynamic content (ex: government database) • http://www.weblens.org/invisible.html Visible vs. invisible content

  19. What’s in A Search Engine? • Google “Inside Search” Blog • http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/ • Search Engine Land • http://searchengineland.com/

  20. Searching for Places to Search • Infomine (UC Riverside) • http://infomine.ucr.edu/ • Internet Public Library • http://www.ipl.org/ • ShareILL Wiki • http://shareill.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

  21. “See” You Tomorrow!

  22. Welcome Back!Day 2 • Government Information • Newspapers • Conference proceedings/Theses/Dissertations • Archival Materials • Periodicals

  23. Government Information • Government Information Portals • Google US Government Search • Specialized search engines

  24. USA.gov • Directory of U.S. Government Information • Searchable • Links to web resources and full text documents • www.usa.gov

  25. Catalog of U.S. Government Publications • http://catalog.gpo.gov • Historical and current publications • Direct links to full text when available • “More than 500,000 records generated since July 1976 are contained in the CGP and it is updated daily. The catalog will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s, making the CGP the central point for locating new and historical Government publications.”

  26. Government Information-Specialized Search Sites • www.science.gov • Science and Technology Resources • “Provides the scientist, engineer, and science aware citizen with easy access to key government web sites”

  27. A Sampling of Government Information Portals • United States Department of Energy, OPENNET • https://www.osti.gov/opennet/advancedsearch.jsp • United States Environmental Protection Agency • http://www.epa.gov/epahome/search.html • United States Department of Transportation • http://ntl.bts.gov/

  28. Newspapers • Pitfalls • Title changes • Strange citations • Bad citations • Interpreting holdings • Limited indexing

  29. Sample Newspaper Citation—Title Changes for the “Atlanta Newspaper” • Other Titles: Atlanta constitution (Atlanta, Ga. : 1881); Issues for Sunday and Monday June 4, 1950-Sept. 12, 1976 published as:; Atlanta journal and the Atlanta constitution; Issues for Saturday Sept. 18, 1976-May 26, 1979 and for Sun. Sept. 19, 1976-Feb. 5, 1979 published as:; Atlanta journal and the Atlanta Constitution; Issues for Saturday June 2, 1979-Aug. 9, 1997 and for Sun. Feb. 12, 1978-Aug. 10, 1997 published as:; Atlanta journal the Atlanta constitution; Issues for Saturday and Sunday Aug. 16, 1997-Nov. 4, 2001 published as:; Atlanta journal-constitution; Issues for Saturday Aug. 16, 1997-Nov. 3, 2001 published as:; Atlanta journal-constitution Saturday; Issues for Sunday Aug. 17, 1997-Nov. 4, 2001 published as:; Atlanta journal-constitution Sunday; Atlanta journal-constitution; <May 25, 2000->Earlier Title: Daily constitution (Atlanta, Ga.); (DLC)sn 83016861; (OCoLC)10177773 Later Title: Atlanta journal (Atlanta, Ga. : 1889); (DLC)sn 82015426; (OCoLC)08807964; Atlanta journal-constitution (Atlanta, Ga. : 2001); 1539-7459; (DLC)sn2002058112; (OCoLC)48488341

  30. Newspapers—What’s Helpful? • Local resources (library catalogs, locally available indexing) • Archival holdings at the newspaper’s web page (Searchable, but full article=$$$) • Newspaper Databases (Lexis-Nexis, Newspaper Source, many others)

  31. Newspaper Pages • Example—Typical news sites-AJC ($) • Google News Search (Archives) • United States Newspaper Program • http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html • Lists NEH funded newspaper projects (with access info) from around the country! • Chronicling America (growing rapidly!) • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ • Looking for what newspaper covers a city or town? • http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

  32. Exercise: Find the Newspaper in WorldCat • Then tell me a library I can request the needed year from! • Valley Whig, Iowa, 1857 • Columbia County citizen and Florida Tobacco Plant, Florida, 1897 • The Times-Free Press, Georgia, 1950 • The Protean Radish, NC, 1969 • The Speakin’ Out News, AL, 1988

  33. Dissertations, Theses and Conference Proceedings • Pitfalls: • Theses/Dissertations • Patrons confuse abstract for full item • Libraries often do not lend theses and dissertations • Conference Proceedings • Complicated citations • Languages and locations vary from year to year • Title?!?

  34. Dissertations/Theses • Dissertation Express (ProQuest) • http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/disexpress.shtml • Local databases (Ex: University of Georgia) • http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgi?dbs=getd&userid=galileo&action=search&_cc=1 • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations • http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus

  35. Foreign Dissertations and Theses • Canada • http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html • Australia • http://adt.caul.edu.au/ • Germany • http://www.dissonline.de/ • Sweden • http://www.diva-portal.org/ • Great Britain • http://www.bl.uk/britishthesis

  36. Conference Proceedings Resources • Proceedings First/Papers First Database* • WorldCat • Google scholar • OSTI Database of Science Conference Proceedings • http://www.osti.gov/scienceconferences/ • Interdok Directory of Published Papers • http://interdok.com/search_paper.php • Nature Events Directory • http://www.nature.com/natureevents/science/

  37. Exercise:Conference Paper • Conference Paper: • "Keyholes, correlations and capacities of multi-element transmit and receive antennas" Chizhik, D.; Foschini, G.J.; Gans, M.J.; Valenzuela, R.A.; Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd, Volume: 1, 2001 Pages: 284-287 vol.1

  38. Exercise: Dissertation • Dissertation: • Sethna, B. A control system approach to consumer behavior. Columbia Univ.

  39. Exercise: Thesis • Thesis: • Clippard, Jeffrey. High resolution shallow seismic survey over an ultramafic complex in the Carolina Terrane, NE Georgia

  40. Archival Materials • Pitfalls: • Lots of uncataloged material • Fragile material or strange formats • Libraries and archives are not able to lend most archival materials, however…

  41. Archival Materials • Where is the material? • Web, databases • Archive Finder* • WorldCat

  42. An Online Archives Tour • The Library of Congress, American Memory • http://memory.loc.gov • The University of North Carolina, Documenting the American South • http://docsouth.unc.edu/ • CONTENTdm—More libraries &archives digitize their collections! • http://collections.contentdmdemo.com/cdm4/browse.php • Florida Memory • http://www.floridamemory.com/ • And we’ll see lots more along the way!

  43. Exercise: Archival Materials • Can you find… • The papers of Harry S. Truman? • A manuscript of the play “Forty Yards” by Zora Neale Hurston? • A letter from North Carolina’s William R. Davie to John Haywood, 1797? • Tell me where you found it and how!

  44. Periodical Articles,Science & Medical Citations Pitfalls: • Complex titles with abbreviations • Limited indexing of varied quality • Limited availability • Expensive resources

  45. Other Periodical Helpers • Full text databases • Indexing locators (Ulrich’s, PubList) • Publisher web pages ($$$) • Open Access tools

  46. Exercise: Finding Journals • IF my patron had an emergency, could she get: • “Influence of montmorillonite on syndiotactic polymerization behavior of styrene” From: Journal of Applied Polymer Science RIGHT now? If so, How?

  47. Help!!!PeriodicalTitle Abbreviations • All That JAS (Journal Abbreviation Sources, formerly at Iowa State University, now at www.abbreviations.com) • Journal Abbreviations, Cal Tech • http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations/ • PubMed Journal Database • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals • Print--Gale Periodical Title Abbreviations

  48. Exercise: What’s the FULL title? • Using one of the journal abbreviation sources listed, tell me the full title for the following journals • Bioorg Med Chem Lett • Br J Dis Chest • J Headache Pain • Amer Polit Sci Rev • Adv Bot Res

  49. Open Access • “Gold” Open Access • Directory of Open Access Journals • http://www.doaj.org/ • Public Library of Science (PLOS) Publications • http://www.plos.org/ • Open Access, traditional publications • PubMed Central • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ • Hi Wire Press • http://highwire.stanford.edu/

  50. Interlibrary Loan: Strategies for Getting It! • A/V Materials • ALA Interlibrary Loan request forms • Blank Workforms (WCRS) • Commercial Document Suppliers • The Library of Congress • Tips and tricks/Discussion

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