LIB110: Locating Full-text Journal Articles

Library University Library Sep 2012

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Find a Special Article from a Journal

•Library Online Catalogue •E-journal Portal•Example: Geva, N., Mayhar, J., & Skorick, J. M.

(2000). The cognitive calculus of foreign policy decision making: An experimental assessment. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 44(4), pp. 447-471.

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Library Online Catalogue

Full text articles can be accessed online via 2 electronic platforms (ProQuest & JSTOR)

Geva, N., Mayhar, J., & Skorick, J. M. (2000). The cognitive calculus of foreign policy decision making: An experimental assessment. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 44(4), pp. 447-471.

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E-journal Portal

You can : 1. Search by journal title;2. Check alphabetical list;3. Browse journals by Subjects.

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Search Strategies (1)

•Use appropriate resources▫Library catalogue – various books, journals,

video programs, etc. available at the Library▫Electronic databases – e-books, book chapters,

academic journal articles, news articles, statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc. Full-text Databases - contains partial or complete

text of works, such as articles, books, etc. Citation Databases - contains descriptive

information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, periodical articles, etc.

▫Internet resources – facts, news, organizational information, statistics…

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Search Strategies (2)

•Identify main concepts▫Main concepts can be the name of an

author or key words of title ▫E.g. Media and politics in Hong Kong

media; politics; hong kong•Choice of search words (related key

terms/ synonyms)1.media, journalism, etc.2.politics, political, etc.3.hong kong, hongkong, hk

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Search Strategies (3)

•Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and wildcards (e.g. * , !)▫AND: searches records that mention both

search terms, this narrows the search e.g. media and hong kong (必須同時出現 )

▫OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search e.g. media or journalism (只要任何一個出現 )

▫NOT: finds records in which search term after NOT does not appear, this narrows the search e.g. media not hong kong (NOT後面的字詞不出現 )

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Search Strategies (4)

•Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant endings of that word ▫ EBSCOhost: *▫ ProQuest: *▫ LexisNexis Academic: !▫ OPAC: *

e.g. journali* -- retrieves all words that start with

JOURNALI such as journalist, journalism, journalistic, etc.

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Search Strategies (5)

•( )Parentheses: gives priority and order in the search statement

e.g. (media or journalism) and hong kong

•Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database-specific features / changing your keywords

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Access: http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/databases Full Text Databases

▫ProQuest, EBSCOhost, WiseNews, Factiva, LexisNexis, Emerald, JSTOR, 中國期刊全文數據庫

Citation Databases▫Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

(LLBA), MLA International Bibliography, EconLit, Sociological Abstracts

Find Databases by Subjects WebBridge: Linking up Library-paid

Databases and Full-text Contents

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Using Electronic Databases

1-Search

A more powerful search engine behind: The 1-Search

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1-Search

•One single search box•Many different types of contents•Facet refine•At the testing stage•Welcome to try•Report problems to us•User Guide:

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/sites/default/files/content/find/1-search/1-search_guide.pdf

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Example : If I want to find journal articles for my research projectQuestion: I am looking for journal articles for my research project about Internet Banking in Hong Kong.

Answer: Conduct a keyword search in 1-Search. Tips:The Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT must be written in ALL CAPS.Words in a specific order use " ". e.g. “internet banking"

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1-Search

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/find/1-search-searchboxhttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/find/1-search-searchbox

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Google Scholar (1)

•A freely-accessible web search engine indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across disciplines.

•Modify the Scholar Preference in Google Scholar

•Access: http://scholar.google.com

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Google Scholar (2)

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Google Scholar (3)

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