Deanship of Library Affairs

workshop in Using of Information Databases

Organizer :

Saudi Digital Library and Deanship of Library

Affairs

Presenter : Eng. Mohammed KahalehIslamic University - Deanship of Library Affairs

In this Presentation

1. Introduction to information databases.

2. About SDL.

3. SDL Portal and Services.

4. Skills of searching.

5. Using of Islamic University e-library

Information Databases

ALL Kinds of DATA Sorting and indexing in one cabinet.

Information database

Example:

Assemble and arrange : Bukhari and Muslim Books of Hadeth.

Saudi Digital Library

Saudi Digital Library, is the largest gathering of

academic sources of information in the Arab world,

with more than 262 thousand scientific reference,

covering all academic disciplines, and the continuous

updating of the content; which achieves cognitive huge

accumulation in the long run.

Vision

Build a huge and sophisticated digital library in a

variety of disciplines to support the educational

process and to meet the needs of beneficiaries in

institutions of higher education in Saudi Arabia.

The Message

Organize and provide access of electronic

information sources, and facilitate access to them by

members of the faculty, researchers, students and

professionals working in higher education institutions

in Saudi Arabia through the searching electronic

uniform interface.

العدد المحتوى

239 Information Databases

30 Publishers

3000000 English thesis

262000 Books

147000 Scientific journals

43000 Arabic Books

12000 Arabic thesis

How do I access SDL ?

http://docportal.iu.edu.sa/cources/iusdl.aspx

From URL :

Enter your academic number as Username:

Enter your Iqama or ID as Password :

Then Press this button

Press this button

SDL Portal

Search zone

Help zone

News zone

Orientation and Training zone

A- Z List

Database InfoDatabase

Name

A-Z List

Publisher List

By Data type

Skills of searching

What is Skills of searching?

It is skills used by the researcher in the

search engines to reach the results that are

needed as soon as possible. It is means ,the

steps undertaken by the researcher and

what are the strategies and tools used, and

any terms choose to configure the search

words.

Why this skills ?

• The magnitude of what is published in the digital environment.

• Diversity of sources and different forms .

• Ways to search for information in the digital environment is different from the traditional environment.

Example of simple Search :

Advanced Search

Is an advanced search interface enables the researcher to identify the author and publisher and the required language, or the period of time covered in his wants, or the type of material that you wish to retrieve the file Word or PowerPoint, or PDF format PDF or Excel and others.

Boolean Search / Logical search

AND

OR

NOT

أبرز المهارات والإمكانات البحثية

Oil SaudiAND

All results that contain “Saudi” and “oil “ together

OR

gasoil

All results that contain “gas” or “oil “ or both of them .

Saudi Oil

Not

“Oil” NOT “Saudi” : Only results from “oil” that not contain “Saudi”.

Phrase search:

To search for a phrase as it , using “ ”:

Truncation is used in the event of search words that are similar in the first letters but have different endings, such as a teacher, school etc. .., we find the use of this process when searching in English than Arabic.

The most used research tools with an asterisk (*) at the end of the word to denote a section on the use of truncation process to reach all possible endings of a word or words that are similar in the first section.

Truncation:

أبرز المهارات والإمكانات البحثية

Using of Islamic University e-library

E-Library Contains information about all books, thesis, manuscript, materials that is in Islamic university libraries, it is very useful for students and researcher to collect and obtain all needed materials from libraries.

Use this URL : http://library.iu.edu.sa/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/0/0/0/49

Enter your search words here :

Double click on your searching book

Information of BookCode of book, use to call books from shelving of library .

www.sdl.edu.saFor more Information about SDL

And you can contact me : Eng.Mohammed KAHALEH Symphony System Administrator at Islamic University - Deanship of Library AffairsTel: 0544337830 Email: moh_kahaleh@hotmail.com