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

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

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WRITING A POLICY BRIEF

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WHAT DO YOU NEED? Description of

current situation List of policy

instruments Statistics (lots of it) Analysis

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Types of resources Academic papers

Search Scopus, EconLit, Expanded Academic and more (see subject guide)Infogate

Policy briefs, White papers, Discussion papers, Policy papers, Occasion papers,

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Asian sources?

Important: You might not want to restrict your searches only to asian sources!

Important: You might not want to restrict your searches only to asian sources!

Some databases to try Bibliography of Asian

Studies Asia Studies Full-Text

Online Southeast Asian Stu

dies Database 东南亚研究资料库

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Asia-Studies Full-text Online

“Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. ”

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BUT IS THIS ENOUGH? What about content on

GOVERNMENT SITES? INTERNATIONAL

ORGANIZATIONS? OTHER THINK TANK/

POLICY CENTRE PAPERS ?

(Recommended by your lecturers)

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Sources recommended on subject guide

Can we search them all at the same time?

Google?

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GOOGLE CUSTOM ENGINES

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Using Google

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Google Custom Search Engine I

Searches 200+ Think tanks & International organizations (IO) sites

Refine by asian/western think tanks & IO

Organized by Aaronhttp://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015174417282623600286:ixdckgldjpa

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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

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GOOGLE SEARCH TIPS

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Advanced Google searchingOther useful links Google basics Crafting Your

Query by using Special Characters (summary)

Google advanced search form

Google cheat-sheet

http://www.googleguide.com/

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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

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GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE II ? Which of the

following is true of Google?1. Case insensitive2. Order in which you

type terms in query is important

3. There is no way to use OR operator

All true except (3) , simply type

keyword1 OR keyword2

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GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE III ? Which of the

following cannot be done in Google?1. Search for exact

phrase2. Exclude a certain

keyword3. Search for

synonyms4. Do a proximity

search

All true except maybe (2) Add quotes Use wild card “A * B” Use minus –keyword Use tilde ~keyword

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GOOGLE & GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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PROXY BOOKMARK & SEARCH PLUGIN

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What are Search Plugins?• Allows you to do a direct search from your internet

browser search box • Saves time from having to visit a page & then

inputting your search query

• How to install these plugins?How to install these plugins?– http://bit.ly/searchpluginhttp://bit.ly/searchplugin

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What is a Proxy Bookmarklet?

Inserts the NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL of the article.

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VendorUser NUS Library Proxy server

I want article X

I want article X

Okay you are recognized, here is article X.

Here is article X

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How to install the Proxy Bookmarklet in my browser?

• Click on the link below and follow the instructions: – http://bit.ly/nuslibproxyhttp://bit.ly/nuslibproxy

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MAJOR USE

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THANK YOU!