Database Research

EMGT, EVRN

Spring 2015Edwards Campus

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Where’s the stuff

Articles

e-Journals

Newspapers

Books

e-Books

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If you need articles and are not sure of the subject area, go to a multidisciplinary database. ProquestResearch Library is one of the best. Click on P

An environmental journal

Here is the article

Just in case it was not found in our collection, remember you can ask for it here and the library will get it for you and send the article to your email.

PDF copy of article

Don’t forget the references at the end of the article. These are the print sources the author used for research.

What we just did:

*Used a database, Proquest, to find an article using a keyword search*Found citing articles*Looked at the author’s References

One good article can bring several others to the research findings.

Let’s look at another really good database:

Web of Science

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Date change

An engineering journal

What about Google Scholar?

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Books? And e-Books

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The report is available at Anschutz Library. You can request that it be sent to Edwards Campus under your name. (You need a KU-ID card to check it out.)

The drop down menu choice you want for this search is “Retrieve from Shelf”

e-Books

This method sometimes works very well and other times it takes several screens of hits to find what you want.

Tip: Limit your search by date if you want more e-Books in the results list.

Does the library have a location just for e-Journals?

This is the title of a journal where we found an article in our search of the Proquest database.

This PDF copy of the document offers links to the References list at the end of the article itself.

Look at the different formats offered for these articles. Let’s take a look at the “Full Text HTML” hoping for some more articles via the HTML search.

HTML version of the article allows for hyperlinks that bring the cited articles up for your reading choice.

Do contact these folks if you have any problems getting the book that you want. They are very efficient in getting what you want to you.

Questions?

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