Online Periodical Databases

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Online Research on Zoology A Library Workshop
Dr. Jun Wang Librarian Coordinator of
Bibliographic Instruction and Information
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Online Catalog Sample Searches

• Subject
• Parasitic Diseases
• Communicable diseases
• Zoonoses
• Zoology
• Title
• Animal Agents and Vectors of Human Disease
• Author
• McGowan, Christopher
• Keyword
• Parasites and Infection

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Online Catalog Search Tips

• Author Search
• Last name, first name
• Title Search
• May omit leading articles or
• type the first few words in the title
• Subject Search
• Avoid using a long phrase/sentence
• Keyword Search
• Used when the subject is too narrow
• Use important words

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Online Catalog Commands

• B-- Back to previous page
• R--Restart
• Page down (Next Screen) -- Go to the next page
• Page up (Prev. Screen) --Go back to the
  previous screen.

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Limit Search

• Search by subject or title or author
• When the preliminary search result is displayed,
  press Return or Enter key and select LIMIT from
  the menu
• You may type any underlined letter from the limit
  search options to limit your search
• The options include Date (limit by year), Type of
  Materials, Language, and Location.

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Limit to Audiovisual Material

• Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under
  Find
• Select Type of Materials by typing T which is
  underlined
• Make a selection of the type of audiovisual
  material you want from the list
• Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection
• Items displayed afterwards are audiovisual
  materials.

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Search Items from a Specific Location

• Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under
  Find
• Select Locations by typing L which is underlined
• Make a selection from the location list
• Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection
• Items displayed afterwards are items from that
  location.

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Search for Reserved Items

• Select Reserve Room from the Find menu
• Search by either a course number or the
  instructors name
• Enter course name and number or, best yet,
  instructors last name and first name and press
  Return or Enter
• Select an appropriate item by pressing the line
  number to find the call number and bibliographic
  information.

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Online Periodical Databases

• InfoTrac Searchbank Databases
• Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-)
• Health Reference Center--Academic (1995-)
• Business Index ASAP (1996- )
• SIRS Researcher(R) (1988- )
• Genl Reference Ctr (Magazine Index).
• NewsBank NewsFile.

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General Trend

• Web-based
• Increasingly popular
• Frequent updates
• Full-text articles
• E-mail delivery
• Down-load capability
• Cross references/links
• Accessible from a remote, networked computer.

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Expanded Academic Index

• Indexes more than 2,000 scholarly, trade, and
  general-interest publications
• Has more than 3,676,630 articles, including over
  1,000 full-text titles
• Integrates core titles in every major academic
  discipline
• Includes publications with national news coverage
  and commentary
• Coverage past 3 years (backfiles for certain
  publications extends as far back as 1980
• Updated daily.

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Health Reference Center-Academic

• Contains more than 235,787 full-text articles,
  abstracts or references from a variety of health
  periodicals
• 40 nursing and allied health journals
• excerpts from health-related reference books
• consumer-oriented and professional health
  periodicals
• pamphlets issued by leading health organizations.
• Coverage past 4 years
• Updated daily.

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General Reference Center

• Includes a variety of scholarly and
  general-interest periodicals, newspaper articles,
  encyclopedias, and other reference material
• Covers such subjects as politics and current
  events, consumer electronics, arts and
  entertainment, automobiles, recreation and
  leisure, crime, personal finances, and food
• Coverage past 3 years (with backfiles extending
  as far back as 1980)
• Updated daily.

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Research Strategies!

• List keywords and their synonyms

• Develop your research question

• Use Boolean search operators to nest the search
  terms together.

• Identify important keywords

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Online Searching Strategy Form
Thesis Statement_________________________________
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List Main concepts from the thesis statement
Concept A Concept B
Concept C ____________
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Identify synonyms for each concept
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or ____________ ______________
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Search Tips

• Subject Search
• Type a brief subject search term
• Select a subdivision term by clicking on Narrow
• Click on View text to read the full-text article
  on screen
• Asterisk at the end of a citation indicates that
  Delta has a hard copy of the periodical
• Keyword Search
• Use important words
• May use as a truncation key
• May use and to combine search terms to narrow
  the search and or between words to broaden your
  search.

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Using the Internet As a Research Tool
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Web Site Addresses (URL)
Tell-Tale Suffix

• To get to a particular Web site, you will need a
  Web site address or Uniform Resource Locator
  (URL) which begins with http//
• Tell-tale suffixes
• edu (educational institution)
• gov (governmental agencies)
• com (commercial companies)
• org (organizations)
• mil (military)
• us (United States) -uk (United Kingdom)

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Connect to a Library Catalog

• Many college and university libraries have made
  their library online catalogs available for the
  public to use
• Use your common sense to go directly to an
  academic Web site
• Use keywords to find the Web site of a
  college/university.

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World Wide Web Search

• Subject Search
• Yahoo Subject Search Directory
• Science-gtAnimals-gtparasitology
• Science-gtBiology-gtParasitology--gtWeb Directories
• LookSmart Subject Search Directory
• Library--gtSciences--gtAnimals--gtParasitology

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World Wide Web Search

• Directly connect to a site (When you know the URL
  or Web address)
• http//www-museum.unl.edu/asp http//www-museum.un
  l.edu/asp
• http//lamarck.unl.edu/research/parasitology
• http//www.anu.edu.au/bambi/ASP/welcome.html
• http//www.umds.ac.uk/bsp
• http//bornova.ege.edu.tr/mkorkmaz/linkmk3.htm

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Your Turn to Search Explore
Good Luck!