Online Periodical Databases

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Critical Composition A Library Orientation
Dr. Jun Wang Librarian Coordinator of
Bibliographic Instruction and Information
Literacy
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Reference/Information(2nd Floor, Goleman
Library Tel [phone] E-mail
libreferencedesk_at_sjdccd.cc.ca.us)
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Online Catalog

• Search the materials (84,644 titles
  103,841 items as of July 1, 2000) from Goleman
  Library
• Books
  
• Audio-visual materials
  
• Textbooks reserved materials from Reserve Room
  
• Periodical (magazine, journal, and newspaper)
  titles holding information
• Other Features...
• Place a REQUEST on a title with your Library
  Card.
• Borrower information (See the Options Menu for
  details)
• Search titles from the Library of Congress

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Online Catalog Types of Searches

• Subject
• Bush, George W.
• School Violence
• Title
• Infamy Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
• Author
• Landau, Elaine
• Easy Keyword
• Hispanic American Literature
• Teenage drink???

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Online Catalog Search Tips

• Author Search
• Last name, first name
• Title Search
• May omit leading articles or
• type the first few words in the title
• Subject Search
• Avoid using a long phrase/sentence
• Keyword Search
• Used when the subject is too narrow
• Use important words

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Online Catalog Commands

• B-- Back to previous page
• R--Restart
• Page down (Next Screen) -- Go to the next page
• Page up (Prev. Screen) --Go back to the
  previous screen.

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Online Catalog Limit Search

• Search by subject or title or author
• When the preliminary search result is displayed,
  press Return or Enter key and select LIMIT from
  the menu
• You may type any underlined letter from the limit
  search options to limit your search
• The options include Date (limit by year), Type of
  Materials, Language, and Location.

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Online Catalog Limit Search Limit to
Audiovisual Material

• Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under
  Find
• Select Type of Materials by typing T which is
  underlined
• Make a selection of the type of audiovisual
  material you want from the list
• Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection
• Items displayed afterwards are audiovisual
  materials.

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Online Catalog Limit Search Search Items from a
Specific Location

• Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under
  Find
• Select Locations by typing L which is underlined
• Make a selection from the location list
• Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection
• Items displayed afterwards are items from that
  location.

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Online CatalogReserved Items

• Select Reserve Room from the Find menu
• Search by either a course number or the
  instructors name
• Enter course name and number or, best yet,
  instructors last name and first name and press
  Return or Enter
• Select an appropriate item by pressing the line
  number to find the call number and bibliographic
  information.

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Circulation Desk - 1st Floor(Apply for a Library
Card and check out Books, Interlibrary Loan
Audiovisual Materials, Textbooks, and other
Reserved Items from this desk)
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Online Databases(Available at tacollege.org)

• Popular Features
• Frequent updated
• With full-text articles from journals, magazines,
  reference books, newspaper articles, etc.
• E-mail delivery option
• Down-load capability
• Cross references/links
• Web-based and accessible from a remote, networked
  computer

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Online Periodical Databases

• Biography Literary Criticism Resource Center
• InfoTrac Searchbank Databases
• Expanded Academic ASAP (1980- )
• Business Index ASAP (1998- )
• Health Reference Center (199-)
• SIRS Researcher(R) (1988- )
• Genl Reference Ctr (Magazine Index)
• NewsBank Databases (Newspapers Online)

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Biography Resource Center

• Comprehensive Database
• Includes biographical information on more than
  185,000 famous people from around the world and
  across all disciplines and subject areas
• Contains approximately 250,000 biographies
• Includes full-text articles and
  photographs/portraits
• With print and e-mail delivery options
• Indexes more than 250 periodicals
• Name Contains
• Ian Wilmut
• Start of Last Name
• Wang, Vera

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Expanded Academic Index

• Indexes more than 2,000 scholarly, trade, and
  general-interest publications
• Indexes over 6 million articles
• Integrates core titles in every major academic
  discipline
• Includes publications with
• national news coverage
• and commentary
• Updated daily

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InfoTrac SearchbankSubject Search Tips

• Type a brief subject search term
• Select a subdivision term by clicking on Narrow
• Click on View text to read the full-text article
  on screen
• The book icon ( ) at the end of a citation
  indicates that Delta has a hard copy of the
  periodical

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InfoTrac Searchbank Keyword Search Tips

• Use important words
• May use as a truncation key
• May use and to combine search terms to narrow
  the search and or between words to broaden your
  search.
• Sample Search Threads
• kid and gun and school
• Teenage and violence and alcohol abuse
• War and justificat

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NewsBank Online Newspaper Databases

• 100 full-text articles from more than 500 major
  newspapers and news wires from the United States
• 100 cover-to-cover full-text articles from 5
  major newspapers The Christian Science Monitor,
  The Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, USA Today,
  and The Washington Post
• May print, e-mail, or download full-text articles
• May display best matches first or most recent
  publications first
• Updated everyday.

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Keyword Research Strategies

• List keywords and their synonyms

• Develop your research question

• Use Boolean search operators to nest the search
  terms together.

• Identify important keywords

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Online Searching Strategy Form
Thesis Statement_________________________________
___ ______________________________________________
_____
List Main concepts from the thesis statement
Concept A Concept B
Concept C ____________
______________ ____________
Identify synonyms for each concept
____________ ______________
____________ or
or or
____________ and ______________ and
____________ or
or
or ____________ ______________
____________
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Printing Online Documents(Print Station/Copy
Card Dispenser2nd Floor)

• Insert a 1
• bill and get
• a copy card
• from here.

• Press any key to display
• a list of the print job
• highlight your job and
• click on Print.

• Get your
• Printout
• from here.

• Insert
• the card
• into the
• box.

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Periodicals Indexes in Print Format(2nd Floor)
Continues on the south side of the Outdoor Patio
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Periodicals Holding Information(Check the info
from the following sources)

• Periodicals from Goleman Library
• Library Online Catalog
• List of Serials (OCLC Symbol CTO)
• Periodicals from Libraries within
  
  
  the
  49-99 Region
• Union List of Serials (4 Volumes)
• Look for OCLC symbols for the local libraries at
  the beginning of each volume under Participating
  Libraries Listed by OCLC Codes

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Microfilm Microfiche(Back Issues of
Periodicals--1st Floor)
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Using the Internet As a Research Tool

• Web Site Addresses (URL) Tell-Tale Suffix
• edu (educational institutions
• com (commercial companies)
• gov (governmental agencies)
• org (organizations)
• mil (military)
• us (United States)
• uk (United Kingdom)

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Net Search

• Search by Subject
• Use subject search directories from such search
  engines as Yahoo.com LookSmart.com
• Search by Keyword
• All search engines allow you to search by
  keyword(s)
• Use important keywords in keyword search
• Use Boolean Operators (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) or
  other parameter search operators (e.g. , -,
  ..) in advanced keyword search.
• Go directly to a Web site (Highlight Location
  field and type in a Web site address)
• http//www.acronym.org.uk/53ctbt.htm
• http//asia.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/15
  /arcticrefuge.ap/

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Useful Web Resources

• Citing MLA Electronic Resources
• http//library.deltacollege.org/library_informatio
  n_literacy/MLA.html
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers
• http//library.deltacollege.org/library_informatio
  n_literacy/ResearchStrategy.html

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Your Turn to Search Explore
Good Luck!