Locating journals and journal articles

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Locating journals and journal articles

• Using the Library Catalogue
• and Databases

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Objectives

• To help you to
• Locate journal titles on the Library catalogue
• Locate journal articles in the photocopy
  collection
• Think about the search process
• Search databases

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Journals

• Research-led articles
• Information on very specific topics
• Regular publications
• Contain articles by different authors
• Print and/or electronic versions

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Journal Reference

• Reay, D. (2005) Class authenticity and the
  transition to higher education for mature
  students, Sociological Review, 50(3), pp.
  398-418.

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You can use the catalogue to..

• Locate journal titles in print online
• Nature
• Locate photocopies of journal articles Article
  Store
• Photocopy

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Where else can I search?

• Databases
• Full text
• JSTOR
• ScienceDirect
• Bibliographic
• Web of Knowledge
• First Search

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Search Strategies

• 1000s of individual journals
• easy to be overloaded
• a strategy can be used to search a range of
  resources
• define what you need and how much

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Search Strategy Exercise 1

• Think about your topic and
• devise a search question
• Write the question in the box at the top of page
  4 of the workbook

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Search Strategy Exercise 2

• Underline the keywords in your search question
• Write each keyword or phrase at the top of each
  column
• (Add more columns if you need to)

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Search Strategy Exercise 3

• Write a list of synonyms under each
  keyword/phrase

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Search Strategy Exercise 4

• Add truncation and wild card symbols
• truncation
• wild card ?

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Search Strategy Exercise 5
Write the Boolean Operator OR between each word
in the same column (OR will broaden your search
results) Write the Boolean Operator AND across
the columns (AND will reduce your search
results)
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Tips for effective searching

• Synonyms will broaden your search results
• Combine them using OR
• AND will reduce them
• NOT excludes unrelated material
• Truncation searches for word stems e.g.
• Wildcards search for alternative spellings
  e.g. ?

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AND
AND

• teenage crime inner city
• OR OR OR
• youth shoplift cit
• OR OR
• anti-social Leeds
• behavio?r

NOT London
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References and Bibliographies

• ALWAYS keep a full and accurate record of your
  information sources
• e-mail references for saving
• Make sure you refer correctly to other authors
  within your work
• Avoid plagiarism

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What Happens Next

• From the University home page click on
• Student Gateway Library New students
  Locating and Accessing Journals and Journal
  Articles
• Or go directly to
• http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/newstudents/training/
  journals/
• Complete online evaluation
• http//www.survey.bris.ac.uk/durham/induc07