Finding Sport Management Information

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Finding Sport Management Information
Katharine Ball Librarian Leddy
Library kball_at_uwindsor.ca Tel. [phone] x3852
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Overview of session

• Leddy Library Home Page Some Basics
• Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
• Using The Same Search Strategy To Find Books and
  Other Types of Information
• Using RefWorks to Create Your Bibliography

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Leddy Library home page the basics
Web Address http//www.uwindsor.ca/library
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Finding scholarly journal articles
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How to Tell if a Journal is Scholarlyvs. a
magazine, trade publication or newspaper

• Quality Information
• Use your best judgement longer, in-depth
  articles, abstracts, bibliographies, report
  research findings, peer-reviewed, etc.
• With some bibliographic databases, you can limit
  your search to scholarly or peer-reviewed
  journals
• Check the journals web site and read the
  editorial information
• Look up the journal in Ulrichs International
  Periodical Directory (a database about journals)

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Example of a Scholarly Journal Article
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There are different ways to find journal articles

• you could go through the journals issue by issue,
  volume by volume
• you could use the bibliographies at the end of
  textbooks, encyclopedias, or at the end of a
  great article your professor has given you
• you could just search the web
• but probably the best way, at least to begin
  with, is to look them up in bibliographic
  databases (a.k.a. journal indexes)

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What are bibliographic databases?

• Searchable collections of records describing
  individual journal articles
• A database record contains information such as

Internet-based e-shopping and consumer attitudes
an empirical study Ziqi Liao, Michael Tow
Cheung. Information Management. Amsterdam Apr
2001. Vol. 38, Iss. 5 pg. 299 Subjects
Studies,  Electronic commerce,  Consumer
attitudes,  References,  Regression analysis
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Where can I access the databases?
Remember to activate your student/library card at
the Library off-campus you will have to sign on
to the databases with your last name and barcode
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Some Databases for Sport Management

• Sport Discus
• Physical Education Index
• Business Source Premier
• ABI/Inform
• CBCA Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Scholars Portal
• Digital Dissertations
• Kinesiology Publications

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Journals and the Library Catalogue

• Very important reminder
• The Library Catalogue tells us which journals we
  subscribe to. It will tell us the location on
  the shelves for the print journals, and how to go
  about accessing the online journals.
• NOTE the Library Catalogue ONLY gives us title
  level information. It does not tell us what
  articles are in the journal.
• For this, we have to use Bibliographic Databases
  (a.k.a. Journal Indexes)

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Do Mini Quiz 1
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Developing an Effective Search Strategy
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Developing an Effective Search Strategy
STEPS

• Identify major concepts from your research topic
• For each concept think of synonyms,
  related/alternative keywords, broader/narrower
  terms, variant spellings
• Combine and group your keywords using Boolean
  logic (AND, OR) and other strategies

George Boole 1815-1864
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STEP 1.

• Identify major concepts from your research topic

Example Discuss some of the issues that affect
consumer attitudes towards online shopping.
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Find synonyms and alternative keywords/spellings
for each major concept
STEP 2.
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Combining And Grouping Your Keywords
STEP 3.
Examples
Technique
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Combining And Grouping Your Keywords
STEP 3.
Examples
Technique
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Getting complicatedPutting together search
phrases with many keywords and boolean operators
Example (e-commerce OR e-business OR online
shopping) AND (customer attitudes OR consumer
behav) AND (issues OR factors OR concerns)
1. 2. 3.
Like the order of operations in an equation,
the database deals with the contents of the
brackets first.
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Do Mini Quiz 2
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Enter your search terms in the database
e.g. Scholars Portal
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Enter your search terms in the database
e.g. ABI/Inform
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And Get Your Search Results!
e.g. Business Source Premier
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With the some of the databases, the full-text of
the articles is available directly online
Click here to retrieve the full-text or
full-image of the journal article
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Other times, youll see a Get It button
This means that the full-text of the article is
not available directly through this
database. The Get It button will try to link
you to other sources of full-text for the article
either online - or to the Library catalogue for
print/microfilm holdings If the Library does not
have the journal or book you are looking for, you
can order it, free of charge, through
Interlibrary Loans (see the link on the Librarys
home page)
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Occasionally, there is no direct link to the
article!(or the linking software is not working)

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Search the Library catalogue for the journal
title Information management Also, take note
of the vol. no., issue no. date, and page nos.
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Library Catalogue Entry forInformation
management

• Note the full-text of this journal is
  available online
• but from Elsevier (not ABI/Inform)
• Check to see if the Library has the volume you
  are looking for
• Click on the Linked Resources field

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Do the Sport Discus Exercise!
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RefWorks What is it?

• RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database
  manager.
• RefWorks allows you to download records from
  databases, e.g. SportDiscus, ABI/Inform, and
  create your own databases and bibliographies in
  many different formats, e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago
• RefWorks allows you to write your paper using
  references from your database

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Do the RefWorks/Business Source Premier Exercise!
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Using the Same Search Strategy To Find Books in
the Library Catalogue
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Finding books in the Library Catalogue

• Note the truncation symbol is a ?
• Note you must use quotation marks around your
  phrases
• Books tend to cover broader topics than journal
  articles
• - so keep your search strategy broader

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Using the Same Search Strategy To Find
Information on the Web
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Finding information on the WebGoogle

• assumes AND between key words
• capitalize AND and OR
• no truncation
• use quotation marks for phrases

For example (e-commerce OR electronic
commerce) AND (consumer attitudes OR consumer
behavior)
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Finding information on the WebGoogle

• Try some of the options under Advanced Search to
  help focus your search
• Try Google Print and Google Scholar

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Finding Sport Management Information

• Remember
• no matter where or how you look for your
  information, select the type of information that
  is appropriate for your assignment/project
• soif you are writing a research paper, most of
  your information should probably be coming from
  scholarly sources!
• if you take information off the web, you are
  responsible for judging the quality of that
  information!
• do your research well ahead of time technology
  is great - only when it works! so you may run
  into problems if you start your research at the
  last minute.