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Periodicals & Databases Frederic Murray Frederic Murray Assistant Professor Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library Al Harris Library [email protected]

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Boolean Operators Connect keywords only Must be placed between keywords AND –Narrows your search OR –Expands your search with synonymous terms NOT –Excludes words from your search –If used too much, it can work against you!

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Periodicals & Databases

Frederic MurrayFrederic MurrayAssistant Professor Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British ColumbiaMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of IowaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianInstructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library Al Harris Library [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]
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Review• Keyword vs. Subject• Boolean• Limiters

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Boolean Operators• Connect keywords only• Must be placed between keywords• AND

– Narrows your search• OR

– Expands your search with synonymous terms• NOT

– Excludes words from your search– If used too much, it can work against you!

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Class Activity• What’s the Difference?

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Periodicals• MAGAZINESMAGAZINES

– Popular Info– Audience:

• General Public• Casual Reader

– Purpose:• Hobby• Pleasure• Curiosity

• JOURNALSJOURNALS– Scholarly Info– Audience:

• Researcher• Professional Who

Needs to Stay Up-to-Date

– Purpose:• Goal-Driven

– Research Paper– Certification, Tenure– Job Requirement

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Difference Between Scholarly and Popular PeriodicalsPOPULAR MAGAZINESPOPULAR MAGAZINES

• USUALLY SOMEWHAT SLICK AND ATTRACTIVE IN APPEARANCE

• RARELY CITE SOURCES. INFO. IS USUALLY SECONDARY, REPORTED FROM SOURCE

• ARTICLES SHORT, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE AND FOR A MINIMAL EDUCATION LEVEL

• USUALLY LOT OF ADVERTISING AND PICTURES

• PAGINATION RESTARTS IN EVERY ISSUE

SCHOLARLY JOURNALSSCHOLARLY JOURNALS

• HAVE A SOBER, SERIOUS LOOK

• ALWAYS CITE THEIR SOURCES IN FOOTNOTES/BIBLIOGRAPHIES

• ARTICLES WRITTEN BY A SCHOLAR OR RESEARCHER “HORSE’S MOUTH”

• PEER-REVIEWED BY SCHOLARS

• LANGUAGE OF JOURNAL ASSUMES SOME SCHOLARLY BACKGROUND ON THE PART OF READER

• ADVERTISING IS SPECIALIZED TO THAT DISCIPLINE

• PAGINATION IS CUMULATIVE

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Finding

Journals/Magazines/Articles

• In the Library• Online

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CitationsShriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear

and Hope .” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p

Formats: PDF (Portable Document Format) HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

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• We think of citation patterns as the flow of information," says Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington. "That's what a citation is — the trace that an idea flowed from one place to another."

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CitationsShriver Jr., Donald

W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.”

World Policy Journal;

Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p

PDF / HTML

Search the Virtual Stacks

Search the Virtual Stacks

http://swosu.edu/library/
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Tracking CitationsRosenzweig, Roy. "Can History Be

Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past." Journal of American History 93, no. 1 (June 2006): 117-146. Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed December 11, 2008).

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The Citation Video

http://screencast.com/t/W0YdBmmSV96
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Periodicals List Exercise• Does the library have access to

this journal? • Yes or No?

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Databases• A large, regularly updated file of

digitized information related to a specific subject or field.

• This is where we find Journal Articles

• This is where most of your research will take place

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Searching in Databases• Keywords with Boolean • Subject terms from thesaurus• Limiters: date, peer reviewed,

geography, and full text

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Article SourcesGeneral Article and subject databases

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Article Databases

http://swosu.edu/library/
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Exercise• Academic Search Complete

Worksheet

• Topic: Human Genome

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Questions?

• Contact me:– Frederic Murray

• 774-7113• [email protected]

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