LIS520 Janes

 

Finding Serial Literature:  Journals & Conference Proceedings, Newspapers & Magazines

Bibliographic Databases

 

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 ProblemsLibrary 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

OCLC FirstSearch

Ovid

Thomson Reuters, Web of Science (citation indexes)

Gale Cengage

Lexis-Nexis

 

 

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)

DIALOG Bluesheets

Free-Text v. Controlled Vocabulary Searching (Lebanon Valley Coll, pdf)

 

Stuff to Know About

Ulrich's international periodicals directory