Finding Resources for Dissertation

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Finding Resources for Dissertation

• Linda Zhang
• Information Services
• UNNC

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Outline

• Information Skills
• Using Library Services
• Some full-text resources
• Finding Books
• Finding Journal Articles

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Information Skills

• Information skills definitely help on subjects
  studying, presentations preparing and
  dissertation writing, etc.
• Information skills cover
• Preparation on searching eresources
• Working through obtaining references
• Evaluating results
• Citing references

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Information Skills
To apply information skills into your
dissertation, the most important part is
preparation. Literature review plays a vitally
important role here. It helps on setting up the
dissertation topic.
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Information Skills
This figure is in Doing a Literature Review by
Charis Hart, 2007
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Information Skills

• When searching, you need to use search terms
  effectively. The searching techniques could
  achieve your searching results. The common
  techniques are
• Truncation and wildcards word root is the
  string, most database accept
• Phrases commonly use quotation marks
• Boolean connectors AND, OR NOT, they could
  be used in one search
• Also, the online help in each database provides
  options to revise and refine your initial
  searching and get more relevant results for you.
  That means, you must be patient to learn the
  online help in each database when you are not
  familiar to them.

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Information Skills
The most databases offer you to save your
searches and results. With the online help in
each database, you can save them, print them out
or email them to yourself. Alerting services
you will receive email alerts on updates, such as
new books and journal articles, in your
subject/research area. The most useful method is
to set up an alert to receive the tables of
contents for journal titles in your area.
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Using Library Services

• UNNCLOC library online catalogue, 25,000
  titles, covering physical books, electronic books
  and papercopy journals
• eLibrary Gateway nearly 200 databases AND over
  21,000 ejournal titles with full text articles
  access. It is an easy way to obtain full text
  journal articles via Find eJournal

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Using Library Services

• InterLibraryLoan(ILL) is supplied to members of
  UNNC. We are able to arrange ILL from UoN
  libraries, NLC and NSTL
• Electronic Resources supplies you useful sources,
  such as e-dissertation, e-thesis and databases
  links, etc.

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Using Library Services- IS Website
http//is.nottingham.edu.cn
IS website provides information on Library
Services with useful links to support your study
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Using Library Services - UNNCLOC
UNNCLOC is the online library catalogue. Most
items in your reading list can be got hold from
library stock. Apart from searching library
catalogue, you can reserve and renew items via
logging into UNNCLOC. The inductions are in FAQs
in UNNCLOC.
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Using Library Services - UNNCLOC
Helps in UNNCLOC on every page
Specify your search by drop down list
FAQs tips on using UNNCLOC on every page
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Using Library Services - UNNCLOC
Use these tabs to manage your results eg. filter
Show status of book
Need Athens login
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Using Library Services - UNNCLOC
Choose filter to view the results by your demand.
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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway

• Databases listed by subjects with sub-categories
• Searching e-journal article easily with
  availabilities comparison
• You can do one search crossed databases by
  MetaSearch
• Managing your searches by My Space.

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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway
The databases are listed by Subjects and
Sub-category
The Help on Database List page
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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway
Search journal title, get the result with
availabilities and obtain the full text article
via SFX by Athens login
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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway
Filling in the reference information as much as
you can. Then, to get the full text article.
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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway

• While searching Database and eJournal, if you
  wish, you can create your favorite databases list
  and ejournals list by My Space in eLibrary
  Gateway. It is an efficient way to manage the
  useful databases and ejournals in your subject
  area.

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Using Library Services- eLibrary Gateway
The selected databases and ejournals are saved
into My Space by clicking on
Your favourite ejournal titles are save in My
eJournals
Create, edit and delete the sets
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Using Library Services

• To efficiently use library services
• Searching books by UNNCLOC for both physical
  books and electronic books in library collections
• Searching electronic journal articles via Find
  eJournal in e-Library Gateway
• Searching references in particular database in
  MyAthens by Athens login
• To obtain references out of library collections
  and subscriptions by Inter Library Loan services

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Some Full-Text Resources

• Quick Reference
• Oxford Reference Online
• Dictionary of National Biography
• Ebooks
• Ebrary
• UNNCLOC
• Google Books(? good search engine but only
  preview)

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Some Full-Text Resources

• Full-text journal databases
• - JSTOR
• Emerald
• Ebsco Business Source Premier
• ProQuest
• Wiley Online Journals

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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
To Access ebrary via MyAthens or the ebook link
in UNNCLOC. The both need Athens login.
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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
The toolbar helps on managing readings in ebrary.
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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
Add useful book to Bookshelf by InfoTools
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Some Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
Making notes and highlighting the book
Viewing contents, notes and highlights
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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
Managing Bookshelf by Add Folders. Drag the
book image to add into created folders
The notes or highlights take you the details
Remove book title, note or highlight if you wish
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Full-Text Resources - Ebrary
The noted or highlighted page in Quick View
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Full-Text Resources - JSTOR

• JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary
  archive to support scholarship and teaching
• It includes archives of over one thousand leading
  academic journals across the humanities, social
  sciences, and sciences, as well as select
  monographs and other materials valuable for
  academic work
• The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers
  search term highlighting, includes high-quality
  images, and is interlinked by millions of
  citations and references.

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Full-Text Resources - JSTOR
Access to JSTOR via Athens login. It is listed in
Athens Resources
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Full-Text Resources - JSTOR
You can save the selected reference to MyJSTOR
or view the reference by Item Information
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Full-Text Resources - JSTOR
Item Information supplies Bibliographic Info
and takes to the full article by View Item or
PDF
Export Citation helps on managing citations.
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Full-Text Resources - JSTOR
To manage your citation efficiently, you may need
to register for MyJSTOR account. The account is
separate from your Athens account.
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Full-Text Resources - ProQuest

• ProQuest is a resource of electronic collections
  containing millions of documents originally
  published in magazines, newspapers, and journals.
  You can search these collections for documents on
  subject that interest you or that will help with
  your research or course work.

You are not able to search in ProQuest until you
have done Athens login.
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Full-Text Resources - ProQuest
Advanced Search find the results on your search.
The drop down list helps on specifying your search
More Search Options helps to narrow down search
results
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Full-Text Resources - ProQuest
e.g. search article title with glass ceiling,
there are 407 results. If search in journal the
economist, there are 4 results only. You can
always refine your search.
You can filter your results by the tabs on the
Results page, displaying subsets of the documents
found.
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Full-Text Resources - ProQuest
Refine your search and set up alert, when need
Mark useful documents you found
Sort your results
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Full-Text Resources - ProQuest
My Research review searches and manage your
results.
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Full-Text Resources - Tips
Journal articles are always more up-to-date than
books. Based on original research, there are
different kinds of articles. They give detailed
opinions to make help on your studies, such as
writing essays, preparing presentations,
etc. e-Journal databases make it easier and
quicker to obtain full text journal
articles. Reminder access to full text articles
depends on the subscriptions UNNC library have
paid. Alternatively, please check eJournals in
eLibrary Gateway, get the full article via SFX if
possible.
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Before Finish

• Questions?

• Any enquiry, please dont hesitate to contact
• e-learning-support_at_nottingham.edu.cn
• telephone ext. 8358
• office AB242