Online Research: Databases and Web

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Regents Center Library / KU Libraries right here on Edwards Campus 1

Online Research in 6060-Minutes

Library databasesWebsites

Search Engines

Spring 2008

Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu

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TOPIC:RESEARCH:

CONCLUSION:

KEEP ALL:

What’s the question?Where’s the answer?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.)

Here is the answer!Your thesis, paper, dissertation!Endnote will helpOrganizes citations, reference notes, bibliography, statistics, etc. (just keep it all)!

Finding Information

Subject area (topic)? ManagementQuestion? 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

To do list:• Find peer reviewed journal articles

in KU Libraries’ databasesRequest full text articles from the library

• Find books in KU LibrariesRequest to have them sentsent to Edwards Campus

• How to cite sources? Bibliography?• What is EndNote?• All ready to research!

• HOW?Peer reviewed?

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 specific journal is peer reviewedUse Title Keyword

Find journal articles

Finding articles: Databaseswww.lib.ku.edu / gateway

Alphabetically A-Z orAcademic Subjects:

Area and Cultural Studies Arts and HumanitiesBusinessGeneral and ReferenceHistoryLanguages and LiteratureMedicine and HealthScience and Engineering Social Sciences

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

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

Proquest Research Library

Get Academic Articles

The tool for finding journal articles is a Database.

KU Libraries Homepagehttp://www.lib.ku.educlick Information Gatewayhttp://infogateway.ku.edu/databases listed by academic subject or A-Zby title.

Limit by date

All Purpose Database: ProQuest Research Library

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!

Expanded Academic ASAP

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

Everything but the article !

Citation:

Rotten Luck !

Do This

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 or Print!

Not enough results? Change Databases

Try this

Search all these databases at one time!

Power Search

More results! 8 from Academic Journals (peer-reviewed)

Want full-text?

KULink

Click on Article

Click PDF for full text

Find Books

• 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

http://worldcat.org/Social networks business management

Look:Relevance

Related subjects

Enter Zip Code

Closest library

Note: it would be difficult to find this e-book another way

http://worldcat.org

http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/

Social networks business management

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 out) Click OK complete the request form submit the request.

See Subjects? Clickand you have a new search.

Scholarly Researchon the

Internet

Scholarly Journal Sites on the Internet

• Scirus.comscientific journals– Advance search

• ResearchNowU.C. Berkeley

– Preprint Serieslaw review preprints

• LiveSearchAcademicExcellent for academic articles

• EurekaAlert• research news

• SearchEdu.comuniversity and education sites. Google

• PubMed.commedical, scientific; social science Search: municipal and political

• ERIC– education working papers

• USA.govgovernment information

– federal and state and local

• Google ScholarUSE: advance search

– limit to years / language / journal

• Open Directory Project– Resources free and open to public– scholarly texts

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.

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

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

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

My email shows the most recent

“hits” that have been added

since I checked last.

My email shows the most recent

“hits” that have been added

since I checked last.

Google Alerts – Visual Poetry

You don’t have to go there!72% experience “search engine fatigue” (either “always,” “usually,” or “sometimes”) when researching

65% percent say they’ve spent two or more hours in a single sitting searching

Kelton Reseach for Autobytelhttp://searchengineland.com/071023-093541.php

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

Citing/Documenting Your Sources

KU Writing Centerhttp://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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