Locating Social Sciences Resources

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/classes/2007/spring/p
  owerpoint/
• Feb 2007

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Outline
• Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources
• Understand your course reading list
• Finding materials from different sources
• Library catalogue
• Electronic databases
• Internet resources
• Demonstrations

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources A first-hand or eye witness
  account of an event.
• Newspaper stories , speeches and other papers
  that individuals describe events in which they
  were participants or observers
• Statistical data
• Materials that document the attitudes and popular
  thought of a historical time period. e.g. public
  opinion surveys.
• Records of organizations. e.g. minutes,
  correspondences, annual reports, etc.
• Personal letters, diary, etc.

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• Secondary Sources are ones that interpret or
  analyzes primary sources.
• Examples dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks,
  books and articles that interpret or review
  research works.

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• Primary Sources
• Labour Union documents
• Speeches
• Personal letters

• Secondary Sources
• Research papers on evaluating and analyzing the
  relationship between feminist movement and labor
  movement in turn-of-the-century England

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Understand your course reading list
• Example 1

A Book
Chun, Russell  (2002). Macromedia Flash MX
advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley,
Calif. Peachpit Press
Chun, Russell  (2002). Macromedia Flash MX
advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley,
Calif. Peachpit Press
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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Understand your course reading list
• Example 2

A Chapter in a Book
Ginsberg, Leon (2000) "Conservative Approaches to
Social Policy" pp. 377-92 in James Midgley,
Martin B, Tracy and Michelle Livermore (eds.) The
Handbook of Social Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA
Sage Publications, Inc.
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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Understand your course reading list
• Example 3

A Journal Article
Pun, Kit-fai (2001)"Cultural influences on total
quality management adoption in Chinese
enterprises An empirical study", Total Quality
Management, May 2001, Vol. 12 Issue 3 323- 342.
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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Understand your course reading list
• Example 4

A Newspaper Article
Blow to Confidence," South China Morning Post,
April 16, 1994
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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Search Strategies (1)
• Use appropriate resources
• Library catalogue various books, journals,
  video programs, etc. available at the Library
• Electronic databases e-books, book chapters,
  academic journal articles, news articles,
  statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc.
• Full-text Databases - contains the partial or
  complete text of works, such as articles, books,
  etc
• Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive
  information (citation and subject headings) for
  publications, such as books, and periodical
  articles, etc.
• Internet resources facts, news, organizational
  information, statistics

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Search Strategies (2)
• Identify main concepts

• E.g. I want to study about the Arabs being
  portrayed as bad guys in the movies.
• Arabs, Arabians, Muslims, etc.
• Stereotypes
• Movies, films, media, etc.
• Choice of search words (related key
  terms/synonyms)

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• Search Strategies (3)
• Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and
  wildcards (e.g. , !)
• AND searches records that mention both search
  terms, this narrows the search
• e.g. media and hong kong (??????)
• OR finds records in which one or both search
  terms appear, this broadens the search
• e.g. media or journalism (????????)

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• Search Strategies (4)
• Wildcards / Truncation retrieves all variant
  endings of that word
• EBSCOhost
• ProQuest
• Factiva
• LexisNexis Academic !
• OPAC
• e.g. journali -- retrieves all words that
  start with JOURNALI such as journalist,
  journalism, journalistic, etc.

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• Search Strategies (5)
• ( )Parentheses gives priority and order in the
  search statement
• e.g. (media or journalism) and hong kong
• Be prepared to narrow / expand your search
  results by using database-specific features /
  changing your keywords

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• Demonstrations
• ProQuest / EbscoHost
• Muslims and stereotype and media
• (arab or muslim or islam) and stereotype and
  (media or journali or movie)

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• Demonstrations
• Sociological Abstract, AgeLine (CSA)
• Muslims and stereotype and media
• (arab or muslim or islam) and stereotype and
  (media or journali or movie)
• older adults and voting
• ((older adult or older people) or elderly) and
  vot
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
• Subject terrorism keyword china

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• Demonstrations
• WiseNews / WiseSearch
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• ?? and (?? or ??) and (?? or ??) and ??
• ?? and (?? or ?? or heritage) and (?? or ?? or
  protect) and ??
• LexisNexis Academic
• hong kong and heritage and protect
• hong kong and (heritage or queen or star ferry)
  and protect!
• Factiva
• (hong kong institute of education or ????) and
  (academic freedom or interfer or ???? or ??)

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• Demonstrations
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• JSTOR
• suicide (in title / sort by oldest articles
  first)

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

• Internet Resources
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Social_Sc
  iences/
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Arts_and_
  Humanities/Cultural_Studies/
• Statistics
• HK Census Statistics Dept publications (print
  version or electronic version e.g. HK Annual
  Digest of Statistics, census reports, etc.),
  Datastream, IMF International Financial
  Statistics, UN Statistical Yearbook, China
  InfoBank
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/usrguide/subguide/sta
  t.html

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• Citation Management / Bibliography Generation
  Tools
• RefWorks
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbna
  merefworks
• Citation Builder
• http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/cita
  tionbuilder.php

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