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Online Research: Databases and Web
1. Online Research in 60-Minutes
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Library databases
Websites
Search Engines
Spring 2008
Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu
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2. Social Networking is for real at RCL
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3. TOPIC: What’s the question?
Where’s the answer?
RESEARCH: Research findings published in
scholarly journals, books, reports,
conference papers.
How can I find these?
Electronic library databases, online
catalogs, archives, government
and NGO sites, organizational and
conference sites, subject based
sites (author, publisher, date, etc.)
CONCLUSION:
Here is the answer!
Your thesis, paper, dissertation!
Endnote will help
KEEP ALL: Organizes citations, reference
notes, bibliography, statistics, etc.
(just keep it all)!
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4. Finding
Information
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5. Subject area (topic)? Management
Question? Is social networking recognized
as a good collaborative unit in business
management? . . .in libraries?
Key words? “Social networking” “social
computing” business management
communication collaboration
Who is the audience?
academics, professionals, peers, your professor
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6. To do list:
• Find peer reviewed journal articles
in KU Libraries’ databases
Request full text articles from the library
• Find books in KU Libraries
Request to have them sent to Edwards Campus
• How to cite sources? Bibliography?
• What is EndNote?
• All ready to research!
Peer reviewed?
• HOW? Question: What are Scholarly Journals?
Journals that publish articles reviewed by a
panel of peers in a research area.
Question: How do I know a journal is
referred? Answer: Most databases have
peer review option
Question: What is Ulrich'sweb.com ?
Answer: a directory you can use to find out if a
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specific
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Use Title Keyword
7. Find
journal articles
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8. Finding articles: Databases
www.lib.ku.edu / gateway
Alphabetically A-Z or
Academic Subjects:
Area and Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities
Business
General and Reference
History
Languages and Literature
Medicine and Health
Science and Engineering
Social Sciences
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9. Finding articles: research tips
• Use Advance Search for limiting results
– If you get too many results, limit your search for specifics
• Limit by: Date, Publication, Author, Subject search
• How many databases do you need to search?
– As many as you think relevant, but at least:
– 3 library databases, 3 search engines, 3 books
• Not finding anything? Do something different
• Innovative Searching, try databases “off” your subject
– I tried medical databases with surprising success
– Try different terms that mean about the same thing / synonyms
– Wikipedia.com . . . Use this to take you to authoritive sites
– Don’t tell anyone but Ask Jeeves (ask.com). . . I’ll show you how
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10. Peer reviewed?
Question: What are Scholarly Journals?
Answer: Journals that publish articles reviewed by a
panel of peers in a research area.
Question: How do I know a journal is referred?
Answer: Most databases have peer review option
Question: What is Ulrich'sweb.com ?
Answer: a directory you can use to find out if a specific
journal is peer reviewed Hint: Use Title Keyword
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12. Get Academic Articles
The tool for finding journal articles
is a Database.
KU Libraries Homepage
http://www.lib.ku.edu
click
Information Gateway
http://infogateway.ku.edu/
databases listed by
Limit by date academic subject or A-Z
by title.
All Purpose Database:
ProQuest Research Library
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13. Click on the title to
see the document
record (it will help
you decide what
you want). Select
articles by checking
the boxes to the left.
Full text article is right here!
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14. Expanded
Academic ASAP
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15. Expanded academic ASAP Provides a combination of
indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals
embracing all academic disciplines.
Basic search with
phrasing
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16. Everything but the article !
Citation:
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17. Rotten Luck !
Do This
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18. What KU card?
This one!
Request the article by logging into WebRetrieve and
completing the form. You will receive an email from
the library with a URL to the PDF copy of the
requested article. Save Libraries right here on Edwards Campus
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19. Try this
Not enough results?
Change Databases
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20. Power Search
Search all these databases at one time!
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21. More results! 8
from Academic
Journals (peer-
reviewed)
Want full-text?
KULink
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26. • Where? Virtual Library Catalogs
– KU Library Catalog http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/
– WorldCat Online Catalog http://worldcat.org/
– Library of Congress http://catalog.loc.gov/
– Kansas Library Catalog http://ksuc-agent.auto-
graphics.com/
• “Earthly” Libraries
– Your college library
– Public library
– State library
– Special library
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27. http://worldcat.org/
Social networks business management
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28. Look:
Relevance
Related subjects
Enter Zip Code
Closest library
Note: it would be difficult
to find this e-book
another way
http://worldcat.org
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29. http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/
Social networks business management
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30. Want this Book from Watson Library?
Click and enter last 8 digits of
your barcode,
your last name, and click Login from the
drop down, highlight Retrieve from Shelf (if
book is available) Recall (if book is checked
See Subjects? Click out) Click OK complete the request
and you have a new form submit the request.
search.
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31. Scholarly Research
on the
Internet
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32. Scholarly Journal Sites on the Internet
• Scirus.com • PubMed.com
scientific journals medical, scientific; social science
– Advance search Search: municipal and political
• ResearchNow • ERIC
U.C. Berkeley – education working papers
– Preprint Series
law review preprints • USA.gov
government information
• LiveSearchAcademic – federal and state and local
Excellent for academic articles
• Google Scholar
• EurekaAlert USE: advance search
• research news – limit to years / language / journal
• SearchEdu.com • Open Directory Project
university and education sites. Google – Resources free and open to public
– scholarly texts
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33. Sites that collect good sites
• Librarians Index to the Internet indexed by librarians
“social networks” or “social computing” find How Stuff Works
• Internet Public Library Univ. of Michigan
• LLRX legal resources
• Resource Discovery Network from UK
• Refdesk.com secondary sources / dictionaries,encyclopedias
• Wikipedia.com listen, you’ve got to try it. There is A treasure.
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34. search sites
• Web search engines
– Clutsy | Ask.com | Google | Yahoo! | Google Scholar
• Blog search engines
– Technorati | Google Blog Search
• News search engines
– Topix | Daypop | Google News | Yahoo News
• Search Tools Chart
– http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html
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35. Making Connections
• Associations On the Net
http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/
• Directory of Associations & Organizations
– http://www.acqweb.org/assn.html
• Newspapers
– http://newslink.org/
• Podcasts.com
– http://podcast.com
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36. Google Alerts are NEW and helpful, VERY.
I have 3 Alerts set up. Google sends me email with titles and links to
information put on the web, in the news, on blogs since last time I
checked. Really a great tool for research.
http://www.google.com/alerts
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39. Keeping Informed
• Email Newsletters
– Subscribe to the news you want
• Library link of the day … really!
• NY Times … of course
• Read blogs for the latest news
– Subscribe to updates via email or RSS
• Wired Campus / Chronicle of Higher Education
• Poynter Institute … for journalists
• Blogs in your subject area
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40. Citing/Documenting
Your Sources
KU Writing Center
http://www.writing.ku.edu/
APA Format References Page
MLA Format Works Cited Page
ASA Format Quick Reference Guide
Guide to APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian Styles
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41. Lissa Lord
llord@ku.edu
Let me know how you’re
doing!
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42. PS
A word about social
networking:
FACEBOOK
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43. JSTOR Search
Sign-up for this class!
Search WorldCat
soon
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44. Yes! Search J-Store on Facebook!
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45. And
Slideshare
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