Finding Policy Briefs

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LKY SPP – LIBRARY TUTORIAL BY AARON TAY ([email protected]) RESOURCES FOR WRITING POLICY BRIEFS

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  • 1. Lkyspp library tutorial by aarontay ([email protected])
    RESOURCES FOR WRITING POLICY BRIEFS

2. WRITING A POLICY BRIEF
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3. WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Description of current situation
List of policy instruments
Statistics (lots of it)
Analysis
4. Types of resources
Policy briefs, White papers, Discussion papers, Policy papers, Occasion papers,
Academic papers
Search Scopus, EconLit, Expanded Academic and more (see subject guide)
Infogate
5. Asian sources?
Some databases to try
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Asia Studies Full-Text Online
Southeast Asian Studies Database
Important: You might not want to restrict your searches only to asian sources!
6. Asia-Studies Full-text Online
Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific.
7. BUT IS THIS ENOUGH?
What about
GOVERNMENT SITES?
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS?
OTHER THINK TANK/ POLICY CENTRE PAPERS ?
(Recommended by your lecturers)
8. Sources recommended on subject guide
Can we search them all at the same time?
Google?
9. GOOGLE CUSTOMENGINES
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10. Using Google
11. Google Custom Search Engine I
Searches 200+ Think tanks & International organizations (IO) sites
Refine by asian/western think tanks & IO
Organized by Aaron
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015174417282623600286:ixdckgldjpa
12. Google Custom Search Engines II
Searches 30 government websites (mostly Asian)
Refine by country (show pdf only)
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015174417282623600286%3Ao-ftgxmhyyg&ie=UTF-8
13. Other Google custom search engines
Intergovernmental Organization Search Engine (355 IGOS)
Non-governmental Organizations Search
Sub-Saharan African Governments Search Engine
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012681683249965267634:q4g16p05-ao
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=004216246918580239447:kzrbc4uvlna
14. GOOGLE SEARCH TIPS
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15. Advanced Google searching
Other useful links
Google basics
Crafting Your Query by using Special Characters (summary)
Google advanced search form
Google cheat-sheet
http://www.googleguide.com/
16. GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE?
Google returns only pages that match all your search terms.
TRUE, except
Ignore stop words (e.g. the, a, you)
Except if quotes are used or all are stop words.
Does stemming (i.e it finds variant forms child/children, Hyphenated Terms
Add +keyword for exact search
Common abbreviations (e.g.NYC)
Ignores special characters and some punctuation
Other special exceptions
17. GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE II ?
Which of the following is true of Google?
Case insensitive
Order in which you type terms in query is important
There is no way to use OR operator
All true except
(3) , simply type keyword1 OR keyword2
18. GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE III ?
Which of the following cannot be done in Google?
Search for exact phrase
Exclude a certain keyword
Search for synonyms
Do a proximity search
All true except maybe (2)
Add quotes
Use wild card A * B
Use minus keyword
Use tilde ~keyword
19. GOOGLE & GOOGLE SCHOLAR
20. PROXY BOOKMARK & SEARCH PLUGIN
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21. What are Search Plugins?

  • Allows you to do a direct search from your internet browser search box

22. Saves time from having to visit a page & then inputting your search query 23. How to install these plugins? 24. http://bit.ly/searchplugin