Deanship of Library Affairs workshop in Using of Information Databases

1. Deanship of Library Affairs workshop in Using of Information Databases

2. Organizer : Saudi Digital Libraryand Deanship of Library Affairs Presenter : Eng. Mohammed Kahaleh Islamic University - Deanship of Library Affairs

3. In this Presentation Introduction to information databases. About SDL. SDL Portal and Services. Skills of searching. Using of Islamic University e-library

4. Information Databases

5. Information database Sorting and indexing in one cabinet. ALL Kinds of DATA

6. Assemble and arrange : Bukhari and Muslim Books of Hadeth. Example:

7. Saudi Digital Library

8. Saudi Digital Library, is the largest gathering of academic sources of information in the Arab world, with more than 262 thousand scientific reference, covering all academic disciplines, and the continuous updating of the content; which achieves cognitive huge accumulation in the long run.

9. VisionBuild a huge and sophisticated digital library in a variety of disciplines to support the educational process and to meet the needs of beneficiaries in institutions of higher education in Saudi Arabia.

10. The Message Organize and provide access of electronic information sources, and facilitate access to them by members of the faculty, researchers, students and professionals working in higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia through the searching electronic uniform interface.

14. How do I access SDL ?

15. From URL : http://docportal.iu.edu.sa/cources/iusdl.aspx

16. Enter your academic number as Username: Then Press this button Enter your Iqama or ID as Password :

17. Press this button

18. SDL Portal

20. Search zone

21. Help zone

22. News zone

23. Orientation and Training zone

24. A- Z List Database Name Database Info

25. A-Z List

26. Publisher List

29. By Data type

31. Skills of searching

32. What is Skills of searching? • It is skills used by the researcher in the search engines to reach the results that are needed as soon as possible. It is means ,the steps undertaken by the researcher and what are the strategies and tools used, and any terms choose to configure the search words.

33. Why this skills ? • The magnitude of what is published in the digital environment. • Diversity of sources and different forms . • Ways to search for information in the digital environment is different from the traditional environment.

34. Example of simple Search :

35. Advanced Search Is an advanced search interface enables the researcher to identify the author and publisher and the required language, or the period of time covered in his wants, or the type of material that you wish to retrieve the file Word or PowerPoint, or PDF format PDF or Excel and others.

36. Boolean Search / Logical search • AND • OR • NOT

37. أبرز المهارات والإمكانات البحثية Oil Saudi AND All results that contain “Saudi” and “oil “ together

39. gas oil OR All results that contain “gas” or “oil “ or both of them .

41. Saudi Oil Not “Oil” NOT “Saudi” : Only results from “oil” that not contain “Saudi”.

43. Phrase search: To search for a phrase as it , using “ ”:

45. Truncation: Truncation is used in the event of search words that are similar in the first letters but have different endings, such as a teacher, school etc. .., we find the use of this process when searching in English than Arabic. The most used research tools with an asterisk (*) at the end of the word to denote a section on the use of truncation process to reach all possible endings of a word or words that are similar in the first section.

46. أبرز المهارات والإمكانات البحثية

47. Using of Islamic University e-library

48. E-Library Contains information about all books, thesis, manuscript, materials that is in Islamic university libraries, it is very useful for students and researcher to collect and obtain all needed materials from libraries. Use this URL : http://library.iu.edu.sa/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/0/0/0/49

50. Enter your search words here :