Sociology Honours Library Tutorial

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Sociology Honours Library Tutorial

• By
• Hayati Abdul
• clbha_at_nus.edu.sg
• NUS Libraries

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Objectives

• To show you how to
• Search Sociology databases for Sociology related
  information.
• Access library services useful for honours
  students

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Outline

• Library services
• Search Strategy
• Search Databases
• EndNote
• Other Sources
• Handy Tips

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Library Services for Honours Students
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E-Forms
Library services for honours students

• Document Delivery Service (DDS)
• 3 a year
• Request to Purchase Books

Advisory

• One to one information finding sessions
• - Email or call for appointment

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Sources of Information
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Sources
Books
Overviews, detailed look
Information Sources

Journals
Latest research findings
Conference Proceedings
Quantitativeinformation
Reactions,recentevents
Theses
Papers presented
Statistical data
Newspapers
In-depth treatment of topics
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Search Strategy
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Evaluate Sources
Search Strategy
Authoritative?
Accurate? Current?
Authors credentials?
Well supported by refs?Updated?
Objective?
Appropriate?
Information objective or biased?
Is info what you need?
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Some Fundamental Tools
Search Strategy

• List keywords synonyms to describe your topic
• Topic Finding love online
• Love - romance, dating
• Online - cyberspace, internet
• Combine keywords with Boolean operators
• Use truncation/wild card
• Group words to be searched together

How to search the above terms?
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Boolean operators
Search Strategy

• AND both terms must be present
  (narrow/refine)
• OR either of the terms may be present
  (broaden/expand)
• NOT excludes a search term

AND
OR
romantic love AND marriage
online OR internet
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Truncation
Search Strategy

• For variation in spelling
• gambl gambled, gambling, gamble
• parent parenthood, parenting, parents
• Note Different databases use different wildcard
  symbols e.g. , ?, !
• Check database guides, help menu...

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Parentheses ( )
Search Strategy

• Control order of operations
• Terms within ( ) will be processed first
• (low income or single) and families
• low income families
• single parent families
• (teen or adolescen) and pregnancy
• teenage pregnancy
• adolescent pregnancy

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Sociology Databases
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Recommended Databases

• Scopus
• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• PERIND
• Proquest Theses Dissertations
• Expanded Academic
• Social Sciences Abstracts
• Communications Mass Media Complete

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Access Databases from Library Portal
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Scopus
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About Scopus
Databases

• Multidisciplinary database, 1966-
• Provides indexes, abstracts and links to
  full-text
• Includes open access journals, conference
  proceedings, web sources, author homepages,
  university sites, articles-in-press, preprint
  servers
• International coverage of journals.

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Lets Search
Databases
While religion has played an important role as
an agent of social control, certain forms of
religion have increasingly been seen as deviant
in contemporary societies. Discuss this
apparent paradox.
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Lets Search
Databases
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Lets Search
Databases
How do micro-level and meso-level models of
international migration contribute to
understanding the initiation and perpetuation of
foreign workers in Singapore?
foreign workers and singapore and migration
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Lets search Scopus
Databases
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Notes on Scopus
Databases

• Basic Search
• Build search in boxes with Boolean operators, OR,
  AND, NOT
• Search defaults to Article title, Abstract,
  Keywords
• Note Limit, Refine Search History features
• Select to cross-search
  Sociological Abstracts.
• Advanced Search
• Command line search not really recommended.

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Sociological Abstracts
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About Sociological Abstracts
Databases

• Provides indexes abstracts to journal articles,
  book chapters, conference papers dissertations.
• Coverage, 1979-
• Culture, social structure, social
  differentiation, social psychology, sociology of
  the arts, business, education, studies in
  violence and power and more
• Search LINC for full-texts of references
  retrieved
• Some overlap in literature coverage between
  Scopus Sociological Abstracts

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Lets Search
Databases
Successful ageing for Singapore the roles of
the government and family
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Sociological Abstracts Search
Databases
Enter search terms
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Lets Search
Databases
How are surveillance technologies changing the
nature of the modern organization?
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PERINDPeriodical Index to articles relating to
Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei ASEAN
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About PERIND
Databases

• Good source for research relating to Singapore,
  Malaysia, Brunei ASEAN, 1980s-
• Index to journal articles, book chapters and
  conference papers relating to humanities, social
  sciences, business, architecture, building,
  science, technology, law medicine
• Uses Boolean operators, truncation (), drop-down
  list to search on specific fields
• Save selected records using IE function Filegt
  Save asgtfilename...

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Lets search PERIND
Databases
Analyze either the gender or class dimensions of
Singlish and its relationship with the
formation of Singaporean identity.
(gender or class) and (singlish or singapore
english) and identity
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PERIND search
Databases
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Search Newspapers
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E-Newspapers

• International local newspapers
• New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal,
  Business Times, The Straits Times, more
• Two major databases
• Factiva
• Lexis/Nexis Academic

Click to view E-newspapers
Access Factiva directly
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Factiva training accounts
Newspapers

• URL https//global.factiva.com
• User_ID academic38 to academic 67
• Password retriever
• Name_Space 16

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Lets Search
Newspapers
Discuss the extent to which the Workfare Income
Supplement scheme reflects a major change in the
social policy of the government.
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Lets Search..
Newspapers
Why do people use/not use public transport in
Singapore?
demand OR prefer OR usage OR choice
(demand OR prefer OR usage OR choice) AND
public transport AND singapore
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Newspapers

• Press Clippings
• In-house collection of articles from Straits
  Times and Business Times
• Articles about Singapore, Malaysia, ASEAN
• Check LION under Press Clippings Collection -
  Subject Headings List
• Available from Singapore-Malaysia Collection
  (SMC)
• Microfilms
• The Straits Times from 1880 -

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Search Theses
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NUS Theses Academic Exercises

• Search LINC by keywords
• ph d
• m soc sc
• academic exercise

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NUS Theses Academic Exercises

• Search LINC, by call no, HM15 200
• (for 2000-) in Theses Collection.

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Foreign Theses

• ProQuest Dissertations Theses Database
• Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for
  Higher Degree by the Universities of Great
  Britain Ireland
• Australian Digital Theses Database

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ProQuest Dissertations Theses Database

• Interdisciplinary
• Provides abstracts, citations some full-text to
  Masters theses and doctoral dissertations
• Mainly North American but some from Europe,
  Australia, etc.
• Coverage 1861- present

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Other Useful Sources
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Statistical Sources
Statistics

• EIU Country Data
• Inter-University
• Consortium for Political Social Research
• SingSTAT Time Series
• Statistics on Singapore
• World Development Indicators
• Yearbook of statistics, Singapore

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What about Google Scholar?
Google Scholar

• Attempts to provide a single search engine for
  scholarly literature.
• Note Not all results come from scholarly
  sources.
• Good for quick research.
• May offer a number of versions of the same
  article depending on where it was found.
• Search results may include links to full-text
  articles freely available on the Internet.
• Many links take you to publishers' websites where
  access requires a subscriber login.
• Use the PROXY BOOKMARKLET to access full-texts.
• Note It works only for source
• titles subscribed by NUS Libraries

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Proxy Bookmarklet
Use Library Proxy Bookmark to access Full-text
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What is a Proxy Bookmarklet?

• Inserts the NUS library proxy stem
  (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL of the
  article.

I want article X
I want article X
NUS Library Proxy server
Vendor
User
Okay you are recognized, here is article X.
Here is article X
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How to install the Proxy Bookmarklet in my
browser?

• Click on the link below and follow the
  instructions
• http//bit.ly/nuslibproxy

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Search Plugins
For Internet Explorer 7 Firefox 2.0 (beta)
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What are Search Plugins?

• Allows you to do a direct search from your
  internet browser search box
• Saves time from having to visit a page then
  inputting your search query
• How to install these plugins?
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/p/srchplugin/search
  plugin.htm

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Library Catalogue
LINC
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Library INtegrated Catalogue

• Use it to view
• Table of Contents
• E-Journals
• E-Books
• Digitized videos

• Use it to check
• Books
• Journals
• Microfilms
• Multimedia
• Newspapers
• Theses

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• Finding Articles Made Easy!
• Federated search engine
• Search across multiple databases simultaneously
• Allows you to search by keyword, title, author or
  subject
• Allows you to choose databases

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InfoGate
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EndNote X2
EndNote Training session for FASS hons
students 24 Sep 2009, 2-4pm, LT14 Look out for
events announcements in Library portal
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Where to get HELP
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Library Instruction ONline
LION
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Subject Guides

• Good starting point for research in Sociology

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We are here

• Advisory Service atInformation Desk,Central
  Library,Level 5.
• Email us askalib_at_nus.edu.sg
• Tel [phone]