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Title: Library of Social Sciences introduction for Political Sciences


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Library of Social Sciencesintroduction for
Political Sciences
  • Library homepage
  • Discovery service LIMO books, articles,
    dissertations, journal titles, newspapers
  • Specific databases for political sciences

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www.kuleuven.be/sbib/english
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Practical info group work, wifi
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Homepage search guide
User guides and ppts
Link to other Belgian and foreign catalogues f.e.
WorldCat
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About Limo? limo.libis.be
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Sign in!
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Searching Limo
  • Two options
  • Simple Search
  • Fill in your search terms in 1 single box and
    discover millions of references of books,
    articles, etc..

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Searching Limo
  • A. Simple Search search tips
  • boolean operators AND OR NOT
  • exact phrase
  • truncation and wildcards
  • ? 0 or 1 character
  • f.e. wom?n woman and women
  • hono?r honor and honour
  • 0, 1 or more characters
  • f.e. cultur culture, cultural, culturally
  • warm warm, warmer, warming
  • Grouping terms within a query use parentheses

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Searching Limo more search fields
  • Advanced Search

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Searching Limo use facets to limit
Physical Items
  • Limit my results
  • Physical print items print collections K.U.
    Leuven a.o. LIBIS libraries
  • Peer-reviewed checked by other scholars or
    researchers
  • Full Text Online online access
  • Cited in WoS publications cited once or more in
    Web of Science databases

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Searching Limo use facets to refine
  • Refine my results
  • Resource type book, journal, article,
    database
  • Creation date publication date
  • Creator author(s), editor(s)
  • Topic
  • Language
  • Source database
  • Journal title
  • Library (KU Leuven/other institution)

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Searching Limo
  • Facet displayed when there are one or more
    results
  • Per facet 3 items with most results Show X
    more
  • Per facet select only one item
  • Combine 2 or more facets
  • Selected facets are displayed

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Using search results
  • To sort search results
  • Relevance (standard)
  • Date newest
  • Title A-Z

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Using search results
  • Before each record
  • Tab shows material type and/or book cover
  • Short bibliographic description
  • Availability indication
  • Full text available on campus
  • Available in K.U.Leuven/other institutions (print
    copy)
  • No full text available
  • Currently not on shelf
  • May be available

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Using search results
  • Below each record
  • Two or more tabs with additional info
  • Fysical items max. 3 tabs
  • electronic publications max. 4 tabs
  • At first Limo groups multiple related items

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Using search results locations
Click to open the floor plan
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Using search results locations
  • ITEM requests
  • via Locations tab

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Using search results details
  • More info about the publication
  • Links to other catalogues
  • Link to request in another library

Request in another library
No full text ? gt link to print edition
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My Accountmanage your ILL-requests create
free ILL-request
  • Manage loans and requests
  • ILL-request via My Account

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Manage search results Select, save, my citations
Select gt my citations
To save?
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Example search database?
Simple search gtResource type database gtChoose
record gtClick view online
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Search database by type or subject
Choose subject or type gtclick search gtselect title
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Theres more then LIMO?
  • LIMO is a discovery service for hundreds of
    millions of books, articles e.o. publications.
  • Use special databases to search for specific
    info Communication and Mass Media Complete,
    International Political Science Abstracts,
    Sociological Abstracts, OECD (statistics)

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Most important databases political science
  • Ebsco-databases Academic Search and Business
    Source Premier / International Political Science
    Abstracts (IPSA)
  • Full text archives JSTOR / PAO
  • Bibliographic Francis / Intern. Bibliography of
    the Social Sciences/ PsycInfo/ Sociological
    Abstr.
  • Citation Index Web of Science SSCI
  • Statistics OECD iLibrary
  • Specific Agence Europe Europe Daily Bulletin

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Example IPSA
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Results in Limo
select
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Native interface database
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Results list
More info?
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access to FT or print
copy?
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Full text collections in Leuven
  • Archives
  • JSTOR FT archive of journal articles from the
    first issues onwards till about 2006
  • PAO references and FT of journal articles from
    the first issues onwards till about 2006
  • Publishers journal collections
  • Elsevier
  • Emmerald
  • Sage (also backfiles)
  • Springer
  • Taylor Francis
  • Wiley-Blackwell

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Statistics OECD iLibrary
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Results in LIMO gt view online
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Homepage gt choose tab statistics
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Search results Belgium
export
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Other statistics via homepage SBIB
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Dont forget
  • To look for synonyms
  • To use an encyclopedia or dictionary
  • Blackwell Online encyclopedia of Sociology
  • Britannica Online
  • Van Dale (dictionaries)
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