Social Work Honours Social Work Honours YearYear

Library Tutorial

15 Sep 201115 Sep 2011NUS LibrariesNUS Libraries

Conducted by: Ng Peck SuanConducted by: Ng Peck SuanResource Librarian, Social WorkResource Librarian, Social Work

Search strategyBoolean Operators & more

Search databasesScopus, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, PERIND

Other SourcesNewspapers, Theses & Academic Exercises

Getting HelpDocument Delivery Services, FAQs, Subject Guides

Proxy Bookmarklet

List keywords that describe your topic:E.g. social support for the elderly

Social support, social network, living arrangementsElderly, older people, aged…

Refine or broaden search using:Boolean operatorsTruncation/wildcard featuresParentheses ( )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAJH5XNZ-h0

AND = All terms must be present

OR = Any of the terms may be present

NOT = Excludes specific search term

social supportsocial supportANDANDagedaged

agedagedOROR

elderlyelderly

delinquents delinquents NOTNOT

criminalscriminals

OR

UsageUse asterisk * to retrievevariant forms of terms

ExamplesImprovemente*ing(anything that comes after ‘Improv’)

OR

Usage

ExamplesOrgani zs?e

Use question mark ? to retrievevariant forms of terms

Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases that are to be processed first, examples:

(low income OR single parent) AND families

= low income families single parent families

(teen* OR adolescen*) AND pregnancy

= teenage pregnancy adolescent pregnancy

Multidisciplinary Indexing database (no full text) Usually offers links to full text Good design and easy to use

Mentally ill persons: their parenting styles and attitudes

“mentally ill” AND parenting

mentally ill

parenting

Provides abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and dissertations

Coverage: 1979-current Search library catalogue for full-texts

Coverage, 1968-current Provides abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, &

citations to book reviews Some overlap in literature coverage between this

database and Social Services Abstracts. http://ovidsp.ovid.com/

Username: nustrainPassword: training

Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN

Coverage, 1980- Humanities, social sciences, business,

medicine architecture, building, science, law Journal articles, book chapters & book

reviews, conference papers

●●●

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  Covers North-American Masters and Phd theses

NUS Theses Print copies

Electronic theses and dissertations of Master’s (by Research) and Phd theses

Search LINC by call no, HV13 in NUS Theses Collection:

Search LINC, by keywords in NUS Theses Collection:

Document Delivery Services (DDS)◦ Journal articles, book chapters, … ◦ Request via e-forms (library portal)◦ All requests must be approved by supervisor

Bookmark that automatically prepends the NUS Library proxy to the required URL link in your browser

Example: http://jfn.sagepub.com/content/17/1/11.abstract

Insert NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL: http://jfn.sagepub.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/content/17/1/11.abstract

In the search box of the Library FAQs page, key in : proxy bookmarklet

Information on how to install and use the proxy bookmarklet: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet

Thank you!Please help us by doing a short feedback form:

http://bit.ly/socialwk15sep