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LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR 19 October 2012

LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR 19 October 2012. by Mdm Norzelatun Rodhiah Hazmi, IIUM Library norzelatunrh@iium.edu.my. Outline. How to Develop an Information Search Strategy for Research. Searching for Journal Articles Databases – Online Version

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LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR 19 October 2012

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  1. LIBRARY RESEARCH SKILLS FOR SEMINAR 19 October 2012 by Mdm Norzelatun Rodhiah Hazmi, IIUM Library norzelatunrh@iium.edu.my

  2. Outline • How to Develop an Information Search Strategy for Research • Searching for Journal Articles • Databases – Online Version • Digital Services - IIUM Publication • Library Catalog – Print version • Journal Citation

  3. 1. IDENTIFY THE KEYWORDS CONTAIN IN YOUR TOPIC • Example: • The Application of 4G Technology in Communication Refer to dictionaries, encyclopedias, or textbooks to obtain a better understanding

  4. 1. IDENTIFY THE KEYWORDS CONTAIN IN YOUR TOPIC • Example: • The Application of 4G Technology in Communication Refer to dictionaries, encyclopedias, or textbooks to obtain a better understanding

  5. 2. EXAMPLES OF ALTERNATIVE KEYWORDS Example: The Application of 4G Technology in Communication

  6. 3. COMBINING TERMS – BOOLEAN SEARCHING While searching in OPAC or Databases to find journal articles – construct search queries using Boolean AND – to narrow a search OR – to broaden a search NOT – to exclude

  7. Combining 2 keywords – using AND network technical communication technical communication AND network AND

  8. Narrowing down a search – using AND network network technical communication innovative technical communication innovative AND AND

  9. Broaden a search using OR cellular mobile phone mobile phone OR cellular

  10. Excluding terms not needed – using NOT technology NOT innovation innovation technology

  11. How to narrow a search ? • If too many results are found: • choose a more specific or precise keyword • e.g. ‘equalizers’ instead of ‘circuits’ • add another concept to your search, use AND • e.g‘equalizers’ AND ‘electric filters’ AND ‘network’

  12. How to broaden a search ? • If only a few results are found: • Try searching with alternative keywords • Choose a broader, less specific terms • e.g‘transistors’ instead of ‘phototransistors’ • Select another information source, book, database, index or encyclopedia

  13. 4. Extend the power and precision of boolean searching via truncations, wildcards or double quotation marks Example of wildcards: Use ? to replace a letter or letters in a word. e.ganaly?ewill pick up analyze and analyse e.gcol?rwill pick up color and colour

  14. Example of truncations: Use * to truncate a word: e.g.carbon* will pick up: carbon, carbonates, carbonization, carbonylation, etc. e.g.cell* will pick up: cell, cells, cellulose, etc.

  15. Example of double quotation marks: “enzyme degradation” – the database should look for an exact match of the word “product” –get exact match of the word without stem variations (base word plus varying endings including plurals, -ion, etc.

  16. STEPS IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH Decide your topic Identify the key concepts or ideas contain in your topic List alternative keywords for each concept construct search queries using Boolean Use truncations, wildcards or double quotation marks while searching online databases

  17. Outline • How to Develop an Information Search Strategy for Research • Searching for Journal Articles • Databases – Online Version • Digital Services - IIUM Publication • Library Catalog – Print version

  18. What is an Online Database? • It provides online information such as books, • journals or magazines articles, thesis, etc. • There are more than 60 databases subscribed • by IIUM Library to support study and research • needs of this University • The online databases are accessible via the • IIUM Library homepage

  19. Online Databases for Engineering DatabasePublishers/ NamesProducers Academic Search Premier EBSCO Emerald Management Xtra EMERALD ScienceDirect ELSEVIER SpringerLink SPRINGER IEEE Xplore IEEE

  20. Types of Databases • Bibliographic – indexes providing citation to articles and abstract – no complete text • Full text – provides complete textual content of the print version

  21. How to access the online databases?

  22. Click ‘Online Databases’

  23. List of Online Databases Subscribed by IIUM Library Arranged A-Z

  24. Database Record Interpretation Article title Comparative study of broadcast and multicast in 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks Computer Communications, Volume 31, Issue 17, November 2008, pages 4220 – 4229 Wweng, J-F, Chen, J-C, Cheng, K-W Journal title + sources Author(s) of the journal article

  25. 1.ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. Subjects : Economics, Engineering, Human Science, Medical, Science

  26. Click here

  27. Search for journal articles that contains the keywords GSM AND UMTS GSM UMTS

  28. Results: 28 documents found!

  29. Full-text article: save/print/e-mail

  30. Emerald FullText is a collection of over 42,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious journals, complete with full text archives dating back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. 2. EMERALD MANAGEMENT XTRA

  31. Click here

  32. Click “Advanced Search”

  33. Click Journal

  34. Search for journal articles that contains the keywords “night vision” ANDtechnology “night vision” technology

  35. 6 results found!

  36. VIEW FULL TEXT ARTICLE : PDF Format Save/ print

  37. 3. IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) publications.

  38. Click here

  39. Click ‘Advanced Search’

  40. Search: ‘RFID’ AND ‘technology’ AND ‘finding system*’ RFID technology Finding system*

  41. Content Types IIUM Library subscribes to Conferences, Journals and Standards only.

  42. Results : 8 documents found!

  43. Journal Article: save , print or e-mail

  44. 4. SpringerLink SpringerLINK Online Journals is an electronic journal data source from Springer (includes Kluwer) in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics etc.

  45. Click here

  46. Search for articles that contains the keywords “image segmentation techniques” “image segmentation techniques”

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