Accessing Journal Articles ECON 351

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Accessing Journal ArticlesECON 351

• TA Shu Lin Wee
• Office Hours Tues, Thurs 11-12noon
• Office AUD Annex 150

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Set-up from Home

• http//www.library.ubc.ca/home/proxyinfo/
• 2 Methods of connecting from off-campus to UBC
  library services
• VPN Virtual Private Network
• Proxy Server
• Both methods allow you to access e-journal
  articles from home.
• Follow the directions for your computer operating
  system as on the webpage

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Sources

• Google Scholar
• http//scholar.google.com/
• EconLit (from UBC Library Website)
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/ressubjtitles
  .cfm?stypeSsid62
• Academic Search Premier http//toby.library.ubc.ca
  /resources/ressubjlist.cfm?facultyid4
• Search under Journal
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/ejournals/ejournals.cfm

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Finding Journal Articles Using Econ Lit

• Ex1 Linda Waite (1995), Does Marriage Matter?,
  Demography, 32, pp. 483 507.
• Go to www.library.ubc.ca
• Under subject resources, go to databases by
  subject
• Click on Arts (Humanities and Sciences)
• Click on Economics, followed by EconLit
• Access EconLit website, search for article by
  title or author
• For convenience http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resour
  ces/ressubjtitles.cfm?stypeSsid62

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Academic Search Premier

• Ex1 Linda Waite (1995), Does Marriage Matter?,
  Demography, 32, pp. 483 507.
• Go to www.library.ubc.ca
• Under subject resources, go to databases by
  subject
• Click on Arts (Humanities and Sciences)
• Click on Academic Search Premier
• Access Academic Search Premier, search for
  article by title or by author
• For convenience http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resour
  ces/ressubjlist.cfm?facultyid4

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Search by E-journal

• Ex1 Linda Waite (1995), Does Marriage Matter?,
  Demography, 32, pp. 483 507.
• Go to www.library.ubc.ca
• Click on e-journals at top of page
• Conduct a search for the title of the journal
  Demography
• Click on JSTOR Arts and Science Collection
• Select Browse this journal
• Select Vol 31-40
• Select Volume 32 and the journal that correspond
  to the page numbers that have been given (ie 483
  628)
• Scroll down the page to the article in question
  and click on the title to get the article.

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Books on Reserve

• Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, The Evolutionary
  Psychology of Marriage And Divorce, in Linda
  Waite (ed), The Ties that Bind Perspectives on
  Marriage and Cohabitation, Aldine de Gruyter, New
  York, 2000.
• Go to http//webcat.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/Pwebr
  econ.cgi?DBlocalPAGErbSearch
• Under Course codes find ECON351. Press Search
• Find the title of the book on the page (15) and
  write down the call number (HQ734 .T53 2000)
• Go to Reserve area of the Koerner Library (3rd
  floor
• Located beside circulation desk) and find the
  book (books are organized by call number)