Finding journal articles for my research topic

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Finding journal articles for my research topic

• A step-by-step guide

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• What is the difference between a journal,
  magazine or newspaper article?

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Newspaper article

• Newspapers are usually printed on newsprint and
  issued daily, or on certain days of the week, or
  weekly. An example, The Age
• A newspaper contains news, editorial comment,
  regular columns, letters to the editor, cartoons,
  advertising, and other items of current.
• Some national newspapers are issued twice daily
  in early and late editions, or in different
  editions for different regions of the country.

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Magazine article

• A magazine contains articles on a variety of
  topics, written by various authors in a non
  scholarly style.
• Most magazines are heavily illustrated, contain
  advertising, and are printed on glossy paper.
• Articles are usually short frequently unsigned,
  and do not include list of references for further
  reading.
• A magazine example, Byte

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Journal article

• A journal article discusses research and has a
  reference list. Sometimes the articles are
  written by more than one author.
• Journals contain a number of articles written on
  a particular topic or subject.
• Most scholarly journals are reviewed. An example
  of a research journal is, Australian Journal of
  International Affairs

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• How do I access
• journal articles?

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Databases

• Databases
• Specialise in different subject areas
• Index hundreds of journal titles.
• Some databases include conference papers,
  reports, book chapters and other types of
  documents.
• Each record of a database contains a description
  of a journal article, and other document types.
• These records can be found by author, title, or
  keyword(s).
• An increasing number of journal indexing
  databases provide access to full-text articles.

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• ProQuest 5000 an example of an journal indexing
  database

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Access

• The library subscribes to thousands of journals,
  books and to many journal indexing databases. To
  access any of these types of information you can
• Search the Library catalogue
• Or
• Search Subject Resources_at_library
• The following slides show you how you may access
  a database. The example we have selected is
  ProQuest 5000.

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Accessing PROQUEST 5000 from the Library catalogue
Click on the Library catalogue
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The Library Catalogue
Step 1 Click on search the catalogue
Step 2 Click on title
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Searching for the title of the database
Step 1 Type in ProQuest 5000
Proquest 5000
Step 2 Select ProQuest 5000
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Selecting and connecting to Proquest 5000
Step 1 Click on ProQuest 5000 electronic
resource
Step 2 click on connect. From this point you
will be directed to click on links until you get
to the main page of ProQuest 5000
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Accessing Proquest 5000 from Subject
resources_at_library
Step 1 Click on Subject resources from the
Librarys home page
Step 2 From the Subject Resources _at_Library
click on Economics Commerce
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Continued.
Step 3 Click on Economics
Step 4 click on key resources
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Continue.
Step 5 Click on ProQuest 5000. From this point
you will be directed to click on links until you
open the main page of ProQuest 5000
Step 6 You
are now at the main page of ProQuest 5000. From
here you select the database that meets your
research interests. We will select ABI INFORM
Global. Place a tick in the box
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Topic Search Planning

• Searching for articles requires
• Some planning. We suggest that you write down
  keywords from your essay or research question.
  Once you have a list, then consider combining
  them.
• For example If you are researching farming
  practices in Vietnam, you may think of using
• Agriculture, farming, farms

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Using Search Operators

• The following slides show how you can use the
  search operators, AND ,OR,NOT to combine your
  keywords.
• These strategies will focus your searching.

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AND - narrows your search
education
leadership
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AND - narrows your search
AND
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OR - broadens your search
survey
questionnaire
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OR - broadens your search
survey
Or questionnaire
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NOT - eliminates a word from your search
diabetes
Not juvenile
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NOT - eliminates a word from your search
diabetes
Not juvenile
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Search example

• Finding journal articles on farming practices in
  Vietnam
• A suggested combination of keywords agriculture
  AND vietnam
• The next slide demonstrates combining the 2 key
  concepts when searching ABI INFORM Global, a
  ProQuest 5000 database. This database has been
  selected as it covers a wide coverage of subject
  areas.

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Searching for articles
Agriculture and vietnam

• Tick the boxes
• Show articles from peer reviewed publications
• show number of articles

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Search results

• If you want to see which articles are full text
  scan your mouse over the icons.
• To select any of the articles place a tick in
  the box.
• The next step is to view saved records, click on
  results marked list

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Saving your records
From this screen you can Print the articles Or
Email the articles Or Download into your EndNote
Library (there are library classes on this
software package) You are now ready to read your
articles and perhaps start writing?