Download - Library Training Course BE501
Agder University library
Library training course
BE501
februar 2008
Henry Langseth Academic librarian, social sciences
Table of content
– Search techniques– BIBSYS Ask– Journal holdings
-Library web pages / subject guides
Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabases
Search techniques - operators
• Use search operators to make more precise searches:
– AND– OR– NOT
Search techniques
• AND = include both search terms
• OR = include at least one of the search terms
• NOT= exclude a specific search term
• ? = replace a letter = open ended searches
Search techniques - wildcard
• Wildcard ?
Use question mark ? to replace letter
E.g. internationali?ation =
internationalisation
internationalization
Search techniques - wildcard
• Particularly useful with non-english letters:
Æ, Ø, Å
E.g. Rand?y,Trond
Search techniques - truncation
• Truncation
Use truncation for open ended searches:
e.g. internatio = internationinternationalinternationalisminternationalisationinternationalization
Search techniques - truncation
• Also useful with titles and authors:
Title:Future directions of libraries in the southern part of Norway – a qualitative study
Author:
Kostivich, Dimitrivj
Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabasesBibsys MIME
Bibsys ASK
• Library catalogue for academic libraries– printed books– e-books– journals, printed/electronic– CDs, DVDs, etc.
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Journals
• Alternative 1: use Bibsys Ask to look up the journal and see if it’s available
• Alternative 2: Use the complete list of electronic journals to browse for the journal
(follow link from library web page)
- Strategic management journal
Do the library have access to this?
Journals
• Ordering a copy of an article not in our possession– Find the journal in e.g. Bibsys ASK– Click on ‘order’– fill in information
Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabases
Library databases
•Different suppliers might have the same journal
• Relevant databases:– Academic search premier
• The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database.
• Full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
– Business source Complete• industry’s most used business research database • full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed
business publications
– Econlit• the world’s foremost source of references to
economic literature • more than 735,000 records from 1969-present.
Library subject guide
• Excellent starting point• Recommended resources
for your discipline
Contact
• Henry Langseth– [email protected]– ph 3814 1210– Ask for assistance at library service desk