econs honour year 2008

Economics Honours Economics Honours Year TutorialYear Tutorial

by Aaron Tay

clbtcha@nus.edu.sg

ObjectivesTo show you how to:

Use Library portal to access resources, services.

Search Economics databases to retrieve articles.

Obtain Economics Statistics

Use of Endnote Desktop to track citations

Learning Outcomes At the end of the session, you will:

Know where to access resources & services from library portal

Be able to locate relevant library materials of different formats (books, journal articles, theses, newspapers)

Be able to search effectively Economics databases for:

• Journal articles • Statistical data

Table of contentsIntroductionEndnoteSearch StrategySearch BooksSearch JournalsSearch NewspapersSearch ThesesSearch Statistical SourcesSearch Internet resourcesOther useful information

Sources

SearchBooks

Articles andWorking papers Theses

Newspapers

Statistical dataOther internet

sources

Authoritative

Quite recent cutting edge work In-depth treatment

Recent, reactions

Pre-publication, interesting ideas Quantitative data

Where to find themItem type Source 1 Source 2 Source 3Books LINC/LINC+ Google books

Articles, conference paper Databases2 such as EconLit, Scopus, Web of Science, Perind

LINC/LINC1+ or Infogate Google scholar

Theses LINC/LINC+ Theses databases3 such as ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Newspaper articles Factiva, Lexus-Nexus LINC/LINC1+ Microforms

Statistics Statistical databases such as Singstat, EIU Country data2

Other resources (particularly Singapore statistics)4

Other internet sources Mailing lists Blogs Wikis, Citeulike

1. Only for checking if a certain source title such as journal title, database or newspaper title is available but not for searching for article titles.

2. Other relevant databases can be found in Economics subject guide.

3. Other sources of thesis can be found in LION.

4. See also Statistics on Singapore.

Endnote

EndNote DesktopSoftware that stores & organizes referencesCan import references directly into a Word document in a preferred citation styleProcedure to Install EndNote X2 Import saved citations from other sources into EndNote X2Insert Citations from EndNote into Microsoft Word

Endnote Screenshot

Search Strategy

Case Study National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) research grant“Reimbursement of direct expenses incurred on the research up to maximum of $1,000 for Honours or equivalent degree students.”“Cash award of $1,000 and it will be given out each application year to the most outstanding thesis”More here

Potential topics Social costs of gambling

Cost-benefit analysis of gambling industry

Impact studies of casino industry

Mechanics of searchingUse natural language List keywords, synonyms & variant spellingsMay have to refine or broaden search with

AND, OR, NOT, * , ( ) Formulate a keyword search statementCan limit search by language, by dateSort by relevance and times cited if availableEdit search statement and refine search again.Mark, save, print, email, export resultsRetrieve full-text if necessary

Search StrategyBoolean operators Truncation Grouping using parenthesesProximity search - e.g. “near 4”, Keywords & ConceptsSearch statements

Build your search: Boolean operators

AND is used to indicate that both terms must be present

OR is used to indicate that either terms may be present

NOT is used to indicate that one term must not be present

Casino ANDgambling

casino gambling

Gambling NOT

onlineonlineGambling

Casino Gambling

Casino Gambling

Build your search:Truncation *, Round parentheses (

)Use * for variant forms of term

Gambl* = gambling, gamblerscasino* = casinos,

Use ( ) to execute commands inside innermost parentheses first

“social cost” and (casino or gamblers) = social cost of casino = social cost of gamblers

“social cost” and (casino* and gambl*)= social cost of casinos HIT!= Social cost of gambling HIT!

HIT! HIT!

Proximity operators (advanced AND)

Proximity operators allow you to retrieve items where one search term is within n (where n is a number) words of another.

Near Operator — finds words within x number of words from each other, regardless of the order in which they occur.Example: cost n2 gambling would find “cost of gambling" or “gambling on cost" but not “The cost of very long term addiction to gambling“

Within Operator (Wx) — finds words within x number of words from each other, in the order they are entered in the search.Example: cost w2 gambling would find “Cost of gambling” but not “gambling cost”

Consistency of search operators?

And, OR, NOT, are standard symbols and can be used in almost all databases.This is less true of the multi-character wildcard * ! For example EconLit, use $ instead.Use of proximity operators varies even more.Be careful! For most databases, there is no difference between using “AND” versus “and” , but a few might.Therefore please consult specific search guide for each database.

SAMPLE SEARCH QUERY

What are the economic impacts of Legalized

casino gaming?

“Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl*

(“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)

BOOKS

Searching for booksDEMOSearch using LINC, keyword searchShow expansion of search using subject headingsImport into Endnote desktopLook for limited previews in Google books

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Search for Journal articlesSearching article databases

Getting the full-text articles (online or print)

What to do when you can’t get the full text article – Document Delivery Service

E - RESOURCES

E-ResourcesDatabasesE-JournalsE-BooksNewspapersExam PapersE-ReservesStatistical Data

Ways to access databases from Library portal

Search under E-Resources

Click on More Databases

Select E-Resources

Comprehensive article search

Look for “pure” Economics papers – papers written from the Economist’s point of view = EconLit, NBER Working Papers

Supplement with closely related business and social science databases = Social Sciences Abstracts, ABI/Inform Complete, Business Source Premier

Further supplement with cross-disciplinary papers using comprehensive databases = Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar.

Databases (articles) we will cover

EconLit

Scopus

Web of Science

PERIND

EconLit

EconLitProducer: The American Economic AssociationCoverage: 1969 – presentProvides bibliographic references and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters/reviews, working papers from RePEC, some dissertations, etc. More details.Contains more than 350,000 records on accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing etc. One of the major resources for Economics , mostly citations, some full-text.

OvidSP Test Database Use http://ovidsp.ovid.com to access EconLit

Basic Search

“Natural language” search, do not enter boolean operators (And, Or, Not)

Refine/narrow search

Accessing record

Exporting results

Let’s search ECONLIT! (For advanced ovid search and

multi-field search only)What are the economic impacts of

Legalized casino gaming?

“Economic impact$” or Cost$ Casino$ or gambl$

(“Economic impact$” or Cost$) and (casino$ or gambl$)

Basic Search Natural language searchDo not enter Boolean operators, wildcards, truncation in search boxClick on “include related terms”Apply a database limit(s) – optionalUse search aid for “narrow search”

Advanced Ovid SearchAllows for more complex and exact searchesUse Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOTUse * for multi-character wildcard (truncation)More information can be found on the “Database field guide” on the top of the screen.Really advanced – use indexes (see next screen)

Search tips for EconLit

Ovidsp Multi-field search

New interface added recently, “searcher builder” for multi-field search

Other search optionsFind Citation

Uses for searching for full details of a specific known existing article.

Search FieldsSearch using specific indexes such as country, isbn, year of publication etc. Example – In Advanced Ovid search, search using ct.singapore and casino.See me if you want to know more.

Sliver Platter Search To be dropped by OVIDSP, not recommended

Other generic tipsSearch History

Use ‘Search History’ to combine the searches with Boolean search operators OR and AND

Sort by score, year of publication etc“Find citing articles”, to find articles quoting the target article.

Scopus

ScopusProducer: Elsevier Coverage: 1841-1996 (17 million records) , 1996- (16 million records)Largest abstract and citation database covering science, technical, medial, social scienceUse this to supplement your search to go beyond Economics for multi-disciplinary papers.

Let’s search Scopus!

What are the economic impacts of Legalized

casino gaming?

“Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl*

(“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)

Scopus Basic Search

Scopus results

Exporting downloading Scopus results

Export citations to Endnote

Emailing citations

Formatting citiations

Search tips for Scopus

Basic SearchUse Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT, also multi-character wildcard *Default search in “Article title, Abstract, Keywords”Use Limit fieldsUse Refine resultsCombine Search History

Advanced SearchCommand Line searchNot really recommended

Other features relates to citation and are not that relevant for searching.

Web of ScienceWeb of Science

Web of ScienceWeb of ScienceProducer: Thomson ScientificCoverage: 1980-Competes with ScopusDon’t be fooled by name, includes Social Sciences Citation Index, provides access to

multidisciplinary & scholarly journal literature of the social sciencesauthor abstracts cited referencesfull text articles

Web of Science

Search tips for Web of Science

- search subject words (topic), author name(s) or affiliation, journal title,…

- requires search field tags e.g. ts=topic- enables restricting items from your

search with “not.” - allows for combining previous searches

Viewing search results - click on title to view full record

- for combining search result sets- saving search strategies for future use.

PERINDPERINDPeriodical Index to Articles

relating to Singpaore, Malaysia,

Brunei and ASEAN

PERINDPeriodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEANProducer: NUS Libraries Coverage, 1980-

Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, lawJournal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers

Search tipsUse drop-down menu for Boolean operators & fieldsEnter keywords, subject terms, phrases… Save selected records using IE toolbar

• File> Save as> html format.

Perind Screenshot

NewspapersNewspapers

E-NewspapersMajor international & local newspapers:

New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Times, The Straits Times, more…Access via Library portal>E-Resources> E-Newspapers

Two major databasesFactiva Lexis/Nexis Academic

Note at this time, you cannot export citations from these two databases.

NewspapersPress Clippings

In-house collection of articles from Straits Times and Business TimesArticles about Singapore, Malaysia, ASEANCheck LION under Press Clippings Collection - Subject Headings ListAvailable from Singapore-Malaysia Collection

MicrofilmsThe Straits Times from 1880 -

Factiva Search vs search 2.0

Example of Factiva search

Factiva results

Materials Not Found in Library

Document Delivery Services (DDS)Journal articles, book chapters, conference PapersRequest via E-Forms (Library Portal)All requests must be approved by SupervisorFree, but maximum 3 requests for Honours years

THESES

NUS Theses & Academic exercises (PRINT)

Search LINC, byUnder Find, By call no: HD30* and choose Theses Collection (optional)

Search LINC+, by keywords:m soc sc Economics national university singaporeacademic exercise economics national university singapore

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Online)

Producer: Proquest UMIIncludes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year from Universities in United States and Canada.Provides full text access for many items.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Search for North American Dissertations & Theses

STATISTICAL SOURCES

Statistical SourcesAccess via E-Resources>Databases>By type>Statistical Data and Economics subject guide

InternationalEIU CountryData, EIU CityData, EIU Market Indicators and Business ForecastInternational Financial Statistics World development Indicators OnlineSourceOECD (OECD Stat)Statistics Database (World Trade Organisation)

Demo

Intro

Demo

Intro

Time series on international trade of service and commodities, trade and tariff profiles

Statistical Sources IIBusiness/industry related/Finance

Global Market Information Database (GMID) ISI Emerging MarketsFrost & SullivanOrbis and Osiris

Excellent business database, draws data from IFS as well.

IT industry related industry reports

Covers 35 countries only

Specific Company related information.

Statistical Sources IIISingapore

Yearbook of statistics, Singapore (print & web)SingSTAT Time SeriesStatlinkSingapore 1000 (CDROM)Statistics on Singapore : annotated bibliography

Standard statistics reference, latest version is always online

Other statistics from Dept of Statistics- request with supervisors permissionSingapore Trade

StatsCompany Info on biggest S’pore companies

More statistics database

Statistics basicsSelect the following

Geographic coverage : Region, Country or Country aggregate (e.g ASEAN)Statistic series (e.g. Real GDP : US$ at 2005 prices)Chronological coverage (e.g. 1980-2000 monthly)

EIU Country dataProducer: Economist Intelligence UnitGeographic Coverage: 150 countries, 45 regional aggregates (e.g ASEAN). Chronological coverage :1980- (annual) , 1993- (monthly, quarterly). 317 series (statistic data on macro indicators – Inflation, GDP, interest rates, trade balance of payments, demographics etc)Includes forecasts (figures will appear in green)Help fileOther EIU databases include

EIU MarketIndicators & ForecastsEIU CityData EIU Commodities

EIU Citydata

EIU marketindicators & forecasts

International Financial Statistics

Producer: IMF (Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund)Geographic Coverage: More than 200 countries and areas Chronological coverage :1948-“contains approximately 32,000 time series” international liquidity, IMF fund accounts, money supply etc.Help file

IFS

Tip : Change retrieval period first, before entering other data such as country and statistical series.

Other “all-rounders” to tryWorld development Indicators Online (by World Bank)

Data statistics from 1960s onwards, geographic coverage. World Development Indicators (WDI) database, 800 development indicators, with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2007

SourceOECD (OECD Stat)Currently in beta Covers OECD countries (30 countries) plus selected non-member economies e.g. China, India.1960 onwards

Country statisticsCountry Report Economist Intelligence Unit

Country Commerce Economist Intelligence Unit

Country Profile Datamonitor Plc

Country Review CountryWatch Incorporated

Country Monitor Global Insight Inc.

Global Competitiveness Report

World Competitiveness Report

Search for E-Resources on “Economic studies”, “Economic Competitiveness”, “Forecast”

Country statistics Search the site of the countries' official body (e.g. department, ministry, bureau, agency etc) responsible for statistics

http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.htmlhttp://isi.cbs.nl/directory.htm

List of statistical agencies

Tips for looking for statistics

If subject is topical and/or country, you can try looking at websites of international or regional organizations devoted to the subject.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_organizationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organizations

Tips for looking for statistics

Don’t neglect print! Search LINC with subject heading . e.g China statistic

INTERNET RESOURCES

Resources on WWWCiteulike

WWW Virtual Library Economics

Blogs on Economics

http://www.citeulike.org/ http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/EconVLib.html http://academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Economics.

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

Subject GuidesGood starting point for research

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E-resource day

9 September 2008 , Central Library Forum

Participate in our Online Quiz and Treasure Hunt to win prizes such as an Asus Eee PC, iPod Nanos, MP3 players, laptop bags, book vouchers, flash drives, optical mice, and other great prizes!

Listen in & Learn ! Our e-resource providers will be conducting talks throughout the day touching on the scope, coverage, and strengths of the various e-resources.

Some of the e-resources highlighted are: Business Source Premier, Scopus, Web of Science, Engineering Village 2, Proquest Dissertations & Theses, SciFinder Scholar, LexisNexis Academic and the list goes on!