Honours Year Library Tutorial 2011
- 1. Social Work Honours Year Library Tutorial 15 Sep 2011 NUS Libraries Conducted by: Ng Peck Suan Resource Librarian, Social Work
- 2. Search strategy Boolean Operators & more Search databases Scopus, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, PERIND Other Sources Newspapers, Theses & Academic Exercises Getting Help Document Delivery Services, FAQs, Subject Guides Proxy Bookmarklet
- 4. List keywords that describe your topic: E.g. social support for the elderly Social support, social network, living arrangements Elderly, older people, aged… Refine or broaden search using: Boolean operators Truncation/wildcard features Parentheses ( )
- 6. AND = All terms must be present OR = Any of the terms may be present NOT = Excludes specific search term social support AND aged aged OR elderly delinquents NOT criminals
- 7. OR Usage Use asterisk * to retrieve variant forms of terms Examples Improv ement e * ing (anything that comes after ‘Improv’)
- 8. OR Usage Examples Organi z s ? e Use question mark ? to retrieve variant forms of terms
- 9. Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases that are to be processed first, examples: ( low income OR single parent ) AND families = low income families single parent families ( teen * OR adolescen *) AND pregnancy = teenage pregnancy adolescent pregnancy
- 11. Multidisciplinary Indexing database (no full text) Usually offers links to full text Good design and easy to use
- 13. Mentally ill persons: their parenting styles and attitudes “ mentally ill” AND parenting mentally ill parenting
- 18. Provides abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and dissertations Coverage: 1979-current Search library catalogue for full-texts
- 24. Coverage, 1968-current Provides abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, & citations to book reviews Some overlap in literature coverage between this database and Social Services Abstracts.
- 29. Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN Coverage, 1980- Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, law Journal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers
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- 40. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Covers North-American Masters and Phd theses NUS Theses Print copies Electronic theses and dissertations of Master’s (by Research) and Phd theses
- 41. Search LINC by call no, HV13 in NUS Theses Collection: Search LINC, by keywords in NUS Theses Collection:
- 44. Document Delivery Services (DDS) Journal articles, book chapters, … Request via e-forms (library portal) All requests must be approved by supervisor
- 48. Bookmark that automatically prepends the NUS Library proxy to the required URL link in your browser Example: http://jfn.sagepub.com/content/17/1/11.abstract Insert NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL: http://jfn.sagepub.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/content/17/1/11.abstract
- 49. In the search box of the Library FAQs page, key in : proxy bookmarklet For information on how to install and use the proxy bookmarklet: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet
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