Sources
About Serials
Bibliographic Databases:
General-Purpose & Specialized; Serials qua Serials
Explore the following sources (and similar ones from the textbook or other sources), paying special attention to their intents, potential uses, how they are structured and searched. Use the questions that follow as guides to your thinking about how each of these might be used for those questions, and consider potential sources for each question. On this Catalyst tool, suggest the source you think might be the best, first place to begin; we’ll discuss these in class.
These are all
corporate sites for major database vendors, not
links to search, use UW Libraries Databases page for
that
1.
Do smart people suffer from insomnia more?
2.
Can you find me reviews of performances of Chess?
3.
Are there many geographers using methodological individualism?
4.
I found an article in Early
Childhood Research Quarterly for my paper, but I need to know if it’s
scientific.
5.
How many times has Robert Taylor’s 1966 article in College & Research Libraries been
cited?
Walker & Janes Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice, chapters 7, 8, (PDF) 1998.
8 surprising things I learnt about Google Scholar
Why nested Boolean search statements may not work as well as they did
And prepare to discuss these
questions:
v What are these resources
for? What’s the purpose or motivation
for resources such as these?
v How would you decide which
database to search for a given need?
v You’ve got 60 seconds to
describe the use of value of citation searching to someone who’s unfamiliar
with it. What do you say? And what might you use the Journal Citation
Reports for?
v What’s your opinion of Google
Scholar’s uses and drawbacks?
v What do you think is the likely future
value of “traditional” Boolean searching, and what factors will help to
determine what that future will be?