LIS520 Janes
readings
Walker
& Janes Online Retrieval: A Dialogue
of Theory and Practice, chapters 7, 8, (PDF) 1998.
Jacso, Peter, “Google
Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors and Other Problems” Library Journal 9/24/09
tutorial
Search Tutorial
(UW Libraries)
questions for class discussion
What sorts of content would you expect to find in
journals/serials?
In what situations (types of questions) would you
think of turning to a search for journals first?
How would you instruct someone new to this sort of
searching how to use Boolean tools (AND, OR, NOT)? Truncation?
Controlled vocabulary?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of
controlled vocabulary v. free-text searching?
Why do the various bibliographic data structures
differ from one file/database to another?
How would you choose which database to search for a
given question or need? When would you
start with Google Scholar, or for that matter Google?
Searching
Options You may find these of use
in Searching Assignment 2.
UW
Libraries: by Subject, Alpha by file name
EBSCO which now
incorporates HW Wilson (these are all corporate sites;
not links to search; use UW Libraries Databases page for
that)
ProQuest and CSI Illumina
Thomson Reuters, Web of Science (citation
indexes)
Data
Structures
sample from PsycINFO (DIALOG Bluesheet)
Examples
SFX from Ex Libris
(context sensitive reference linking product)
Summon from Serials
Solutions (cross-database search product)
Searching
Stuff
PubMed (interface to
Medline from National Library of Medicine)
PsycLIT Search Help and Training Center (from Amer Psych Assn)
Free-Text
v. Controlled Vocabulary Searching (Lebanon Valley Coll,
pdf)
Stuff
to Know About
Ulrich's
international periodicals directory