Information search in databases
- 1. Information Search in Databases. Adminstrative and Legal Information Veronika Rogalevich, veronik@tlu.ee Tallinn University Institute of Information Studies
- 2. Database • a collection of data/information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed, and updated • Is a phone directory on paper or dictioanry a database? • Database can be presented/created on different medias • Electronic database consists of digital records and usually works in dialog-form – user sends query using computer device and database presents results (information records relevant to users’ query) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 2 Information Studies
- 3. Databases’ classification • According to publication type: patents, legal documents, standards, scientific journals etc. • According to access possibilities: open access and licensed databases; • According to content type: bibliographic, full-text, numeric, images; • Online and offline: most of them are online nowdays, but You can still find databases on compact disks or hard disks of computers for local use. Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 3 Information Studies
- 4. Classification by Carol Tenopir 10 types of databases by content: 1. Primary legal documents (laws, treaties, court regulations) 2. Adminstrative and governmental information, regulations, patents and other ofiicial publications; 3. News and press-releases for journalists or other press-specialists; 4. Newspapers’ news 5. News Agencies’ services 6. Information bulletans, broschures, papers Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 4 Information Studies
- 5. Continues... 7. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference guides, travel guides, lexicons; 8. Books (bibilographic descriptions) and e-books; 9. Scientific articles; 10. General non-specified articles; Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 5 Information Studies
- 6. Database industry • Electronic databases exist from early 1960-s • Online databases’ production industry developed in 1980-ies. • There are many different institutions , who are producing and developing databases: scientific centres, universities, commercial organisations • But also publishers, who are publishing scientific journals and books; • News agencies; • Database distributors; Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 6 Information Studies
- 7. Publishers: electronic journals • Most publishers have electronic versions of their journals and many are publishing only electronical journals and articles; • Electronic journals are available only through internet (online); • How to search them: o Browsing by titles of the journals o Browsing in thematic catalogs or online catalogs o Searching in search engines using Advanced search • Example: Journals, avaiable in Tallinn University Library: http://atoz.ebsco.com/Titles/4161?lang=en&lang.menu=en&l ang.subject=en Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 7 Information Studies
- 8. Main publishers • Wiley: http://eu.wiley.com/ • Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/ • Springer, http://www.springer.com • SAGE: http://www.uk.sagepub.com • Karger: http://www.karger.com/ (biomedical science) • Pearson: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ • Academic journals are mostly expensive and educational institutions buy an access to full texts Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 8 Information Studies
- 9. Electronic books or e-books • A book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, • Produced, published and readable on computers or other electronic devices • Many academic publishers produce electronic versions of their textbooks and study literature • Some e-book publishers: Harper Collins, Barnes & Noble, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, O’Reilly, Palgrave McMillan, Routledge etc. Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 9 Information Studies
- 10. Ebrary • Ebrary: http://www.ebrary.com/ e-books distributor to libraries • more than 4,500 library customers around the world serving more than 19.2 million end-users • Mostly static PDF-files with metadata • Part of ProQuest, available through databases, • It is possible to borrow e-books for short time through ebrary • Tallinn University Library has access to Academic Complete database on eBrary – an e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas. Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 10 Information Studies
- 11. Search possibilities Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 11 Information Studies
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- 14. And more... • Borrow an e-book using ELLIBS Library • ESTER pin-code is needed! • List of publications (e-books) available for borrowing: http://www.tlulib.ee/files/arts/200/Ellib03306c8e0a9 95f0c749b4c3c5bba6d94.pdf • Different loan periods: from 1 day to 14 days. • For borrowing you need to download and install Adobe Digital Editions. Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 14 Information Studies
- 15. Free e-books • Questia (www.questia.com), • Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) , • Google Books: http://books.google.com/ – digitized (skanned) e-books, not allowed to copy or print • http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm • Amazon textbook rental (20% of book cost, 30 days): http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8 &docId=1000702481 • free Kindle reading apps for mobile devices Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 15 Information Studies
- 16. Database manufacturers or publishers • Produce databases for libraries and other information institutions • Emerald, ISI, EBSCOHost, Bowker-Saur, Lexis- Nexis, OCLC, Ingenta • Development: • Bibliographic index databases (only short bibliographic records); • Bibliographic databases with annotations; • Full text articles’ databases Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 16 Information Studies
- 17. Database distributors • Companies that distribute databases from producers to end-users. • Usually they provide database using environments, web-based interfaces for searching in one or several databases. • Database producers can also be distributors • OCLC, WilsonWeb, EBSCOhost • Distributors offer different types of databases from different producers • Sometimes it is better to co-operate with distributors and sometimes with producers (if You are looking for certain quality) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 17 Information Studies
- 18. Licenced databased in Estonia • Estonian Libraries Network Consortium (ELNET Consortium): is purchasing many licenced databases of e-resources for Estonian academic libraries; • The list: http://www.elnet.ee/projektid/yhishange/ • Money for purchasing: consortium membership fees + subsidies from governement • Every University or institution can order additional databases and e-resources • Tallinn University Academic Library list of e-resources and databases: http://www.tlulib.ee/?LangID=2&CatID=267 Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 18 Information Studies
- 19. EHIS- databases integrated search • Login, select necessary databases (they are grouped by discipline) and click Continue-button. Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 19 Information Studies
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- 21. Integrated search possibilities • Quick and Advanced search • Refine search; • Sorting the results (by date, by relevance); • Limitation of the results; • Saving the results to personal Folder; • Subject’s keywords list (thesaurus term); • List of found publications (by title); • Download/save full texts; • Sharing • Permalink • Articles in audio-form (in English only) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 21 Information Studies
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- 23. E-newspapers • PressDisplay database: http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.a spx; • provides access to over 1700 newspapers and magazines from more than 90 countries in 48 languages. • Access to up to 60 days of back issues for each title. Limited to 5 concurrent users. • Advanced search: boolean operators, newspaper title, language, date, • Browsing possibilites on main page of database Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 23 Information Studies
- 24. News agencies • News agencies create and sell news in real time • News databases, archives, portals • Possibilities: to read/listen/watch news, search by different parameters and sort the results • BNS: http://www.bns.ee/en/ • BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ • Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/ • Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/ • Interfax: http://www.interfax.ru/ • STT (Finland): http://www.stt.fi/en Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 24 Information Studies
- 25. Open Access databases of scholar publications: DOAJ • Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.org: 7314 journals, 3428 journals searchable at article level, 685 945 articles • Browsing by Journals or topics (disciplines) • Search by keywords (from articles) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 25 Information Studies
- 26. Open access databases • Open Science Directory: (journals mostly for developing countries, but also for other research institutions) http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/ • Resource Library: http://findarticles.com/ (Business specific articles, dated from 1950-ies) • Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities etc. • Advanced Search and Search Preferences, sorting results, refine search • InfoMine (Scholarly internet Resource Collection) http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 26 Information Studies
- 27. State and administrative information • eGovernment: use of information and communication technology to provide and improve government services, transactions and interactions with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. • All European countries show eGovernment initiatives, mainly related to the improvement of governance at the national level. • Significant eGovernment activities also take place at the European Commission level • Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGovernment_in_Europe Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 27 Information Studies
- 28. eGovernment services in Estonia • In Estonia: http://www.eesti.ee/eng • information and e-solutions for citizens, entrepreneurs and officials • Requires login (with ID-card, through internet-bank or through foreign citizen’s login) • General state information • X-road: e-services, official forms Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 28 Information Studies
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- 30. X-road possibilities for citizens Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 30 Information Studies
- 31. Services for enterpreneurs Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 31 Information Studies
- 32. Sources of legal/law information • Bibliography of estonian legal information: http://bie.nlib.ee/ (BIE database); • Riigi Teataja (State Gazette): https://www.riigiteataja.ee/ (official online publication of Estonia, all the legislation texts in electronic form) • Introduction in English: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/tutvustus.html?m=1 • Free of charge • Complex advanced search in database Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 32 Information Studies
- 33. European legal information • EUR-Lex: http://eur- lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm (European Union Law) • Pre-Lex: http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apc net.cfm?CL=en (database on inter-institutional procedures follows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 33 Information Studies
- 34. International law databases • http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/research/foreign_intl/ind ex.htm (Guide to legal databases around the world) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 34 Information Studies
- 35. Databases of legal information by country Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 35 Information Studies
- 36. Literature • Sharing of good eGovernment practices: http://www.epractice.eu/ • eGovernemnt in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGovernment_in_Europe (Article in Wikipedia) Tallinn University, Institute of 8.05.2012 36 Information Studies