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Information Services and Systems
Your [email protected]
Katrina, Marion, Clare, Stephen, Elen, Alison
Your [email protected]
Before we start, we’d like to find out a few things about you....
http://bit.ly/asp10614
Information Services and Systems
Useful places to search
Reading lists
Google Scholar Reference lists
iFind Research Ask an expert (Lecturer, Librarian)
ASSIA database Specific journals you know of (e.g.: Journal
of Social Policy)
Social Policy websites (e.g.: Social Policy Digest Online)
Quick information search refresher
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Library Support for Social Policy students on Blackboard
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Make sure you have a search strategy!
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Searching on a databaseAim Boolean Operator Search Examples Retrieval Formula
To narrowyour search results
AND housing AND older peopleOnly retrieves records containing both terms
To broaden your search results
OR housing OR accommodation
elderly OR “older people”
Retrieves records containing either one or
more terms
To exclude a term from your search
NOT Wales NOT Australia Excludes records containing the second
term
Searching on a database
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Looking for facts and figures....
If you were researching the demographic of a particular (e.g.: Swansea) and wanted to find statistics what would your search strategy be to find it?
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• Office for National Statistics - Statistics are available on all areas of government policy, such as: Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Health and Welfare.
• ONS – Neighbourhood Statistics - wide range of statistical information. You will find statistics on population, employment, socio-economic classification, etc. from the 2011 Census.
• StatsWales - is a website of social statistics about Wales which
includes the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation which is the official measure of small area deprivation in Wales.
• Data Unit Wales - Data sets available on Education, Finance, Housing, Population & migration, Social Services and Transport.
Finding UK and Wales Statistics
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• Eurostat - is the statistical office for the EU. It gathers in stats from EU countries, plus other European countries + key countries around the world so that comparisons can be made and trends can be identified.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Statistics Portal. The OECD provides figures on national economies, including agriculture, trade, transport, energy, labour, environment and demography and health.
European and Global Statistics
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• Acts of Parliament• Command papers• Departmental publications• Green papers / White papers• House of Commons and House of Lords bills
and papers• Also the equivalent literature which
emanates for the devolved governments.
What are official publications?
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• Parliamentary (HoC, HoL)• Sessional (the business of Parliament) – • House of Commons bills, papers and command
papers:• House of Lords – as above (but not command
papers)• Proceedings (what happened and what was said)• House of Commons Journal• House of Lords Journal• Hansard (verbatim (word for word) account of what
was said by whom).• Legislation• Acts (Statutes) and Statutory Instruments• Non-Parliamentary - i.e publications of government departments
How official publications are organised
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• Google site search• Gov.uk- This site contains a full listing of Command Papers and
House of Commons Papers (HCPs) from 17 May 2005 to the present.
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - Over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present also Hansard (1803-2005) Current Hansard are available from Parliament.UK
• Legislation.gov.uk - Legislation.gov.uk carries most types of UK Legislation including Welsh Legislation.
UK and Welsh Information
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• European Sources Online - an online database and information service which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe.
• ELDIS- hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, ELDIS catalogues and links to reports, data, articles, policy documents about development issues such as health, welfare, climate change, agriculture and food security and much more.
European and Global Information
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• Citizens Advice Notes (CANS) - accurate and up-to-date legal information on British and European law. Relevant and updated daily, this is a complete legal resource for anyone with a question about the rights and responsibilities associated with living, working or engaging in life in Britain.
• Nexis UK- Access to hundreds of newspapers and other news sources from many countries around the world, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA. Nexis UK contains the text of many newspaper articles from the early 1990s onwards.
Finding legal information and information from newspapers
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