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Title: Articles online Internet Research Skills Niall O Dochartaigh, Dept' of Political Science and Sociolo


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Articles online Internet Research Skills
Niall O Dochartaigh, Dept. of Political Science
and Sociology
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Understanding academic articles
  • The prime location for 'scholarly' debate
  • Quality control
  • Pitched at a high level
  • A key bibliographic resource

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The tangled maze
  • The origins of academic articles online
  • Indexing and abstracting databases
  • Full text databases
  • Overlap

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Search strategy identifying key journals
  • Ask people
  • Where do key articles appear?
  • Check a subject guide such as Intute
    (www.intute.ac.uk)
  • Scan the contents pages of previous issues
  • Set up content alerts

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The linking revolution
  • OpenURL links
  • such as SFX and MetaLib
  • Collapsing the distinction between indexing and
    full-text databases

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CrossRef
  • Over fourteen hundred academic publishers and
    associations
  • Joint searching of the full-text of academic
    journal articles available online
  • A precursor to Google Scholar
  • Available as a search option on the sites of
    participating publishers such as
  • Sage (sagepub.com)
  • Blackwell (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
  • Cambridge (journals.cambridge.org)

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(one third of the results in Google Scholar)
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Google scholar
  • Flawed but fantastic
  • Joint searching of the full-text of academic
    journal articles available online including
  • Taylor and Francis / CSA / JSTOR / Ingenta
    Connect / Project Muse
  • Not comprehensive
  • Cruder than searching the publisher services
    directly
  • Open Access repositories
  • Other scholarly materials
  • Start with Scholar, mop up on the other databases

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  • Web Search

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Cited by
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group of 2 (or more)
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Downloading of references select Scholar
preferences
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  • Books
  • more info in..
  • Library search
  • Redundant results
  • In the UK and Ireland BL Direct
  • Advanced search

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Windows Live Academic (academic.live.com)
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Search tip Accessing an article from a journal
your institution is not subscribed to
1. Search Google Scholar on the title and author
to see if this points you to a free copy of the
article 2. If the article is more than three
years old and your institution is subscribed to
JSTOR, search for it there. 3. Locate a home
page for the author by searching for the name of
the author and their university on Google, Yahoo,
MSNSearch or Ask.com. 4. Search an open access
search engine such as OAIster (oaister.umdl.umich
.edu/o/oaister) 5. Search your own library
catalogue to see if the library subscribes to the
print version of the journal. 6. If the journal
is not included in any of the full text databases
it may have a website through which it make
articles freely available on the open Web.
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Indexing and abstracting databases
  • Citation details, keywords, and abstracts
  • More comprehensive than the full text services
  • OpenURL links
  • Some services adding large full text collections.
  • Overlap
  • Downloading references

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OCLC ArticleFirst
  • 22,000 journals and other periodicals in the
    social sciences, humanities and popular culture
  • Current affairs magazines and reviews of books.
  • No abstracts
  • No subject search
  • Limit your search to an individual journal.
  • Limit your search to items which your library
    subscribes to
  • OpenURL link to NUIG librarys records in
    relation to this article
  • Uniquely lists libraries that hold the journal
    in question.

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ISI Web of Science (isiknowledge.com)
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Social Sciences Citation Index Arts and
Humanities Citation Index.
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  • Aspires to being comprehensive
  • Focus on citation
  • Assessing impact
  • Strong organisational structure.
  • Inflexible

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You cant search for an authors full name, only
by their surname and initials
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'Cited reference search'
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Checking the cited work index to see how ISI
has abbreviated the publication.
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  • Using abbreviated publication titles
  • Citations of a single article may be spread
    across two or more entries
  • Citation alerts
  • Book reviews, magazines and bibliographies

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Cited references
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times cited
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'Find related records'
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Scopus
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Scopus
  • Easy to use
  • Not available at NUIG
  • Strongest in the health and life sciences
  • Does not cover the humanities

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Other indexing and abstracting databases
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  • PIO (Periodicals Index Online) (pio.chadwyck.com)
  • Not at NUIG
  • Historical depth
  • 15 million articles from over 4,000 journals in
    the humanities and social sciences
  • CSA Illumina (www.csa.com)
  • Not at NUIG (Philosophers Index the exception)
  • Joint search of over one hundred abstracting
    databases and full text databases maintained by
    CSA

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
  • Academic journals, newspapers and magazines,
  • Full text of 4,000 journals
  • Wide range of disciplines

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The International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences
  • Not at NUIG
  • Anthropology, economics, politics and sociology,
  • Indexes 2,700 journals
  • Indexes 7,000 books every year
  • Primarily aimed at UK universities
  • Includes book reviews

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Ulrichsweb (www.ulrichsweb.com)
  • Directory of periodical publications and academic
    journals
  • Includes rare and obscure sources.
  • Lists the abstracting and indexing services that
    each individual journal is included in
  • Lists the full text databases through which each
    journal can be accessed
  • OpenURL links

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Zetoc (zetoc.mimas.ac.uk)
  • British Library's Electronic Table of Contents
  • Indexes 20,000 journals
  • 16,000 conference proceedings per year
  • OpenURL links
  • Indexes titles and keywords but not abstracts
  • British Library Direct (direct.bl.uk/) electronic
    document delivery service

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Infotrieve ArticleFinder (www.infotrieve.com)
  • Document delivery service
  • Select ArticleFinder to search for academic
    articles
  • Abstracts and titles

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  • A geography database with 100,000 records may
    well contain far more of use to a geographer than
    a database with twenty million records that
    covers everything from Astrophysics to Zoology.

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Search strategy searching for an article
  • Aims
  • to get the full text of an article you have
    identified
  • or, to get enough information to tell you if
    it's worth ordering or purchasing
  • to explore information associated with the
    article (references and the articles that cite it)

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Exploring academic debates around the Harry
Potter novels
  • Pennington, John (2002) From Elfland to
    Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry
    Potter. The Lion and the Unicorn 26 (1) 78-97.

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Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) the best
place to start
  • Search for Elfland to Hogwarts

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Group of 2 duplicate results
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The cited by link
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The web search link includes course syllabi
that reference the article
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ISI Web of Science
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General search on Elfland
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SFX link to NUIG
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Times cited
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Full record citation alert (not possible via
Scholar)
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Author name
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Find related records
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Cited references
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OCLC ArticleFirst
  • Title search for Elfland
  • Libraries that hold the journal - including NUIG
  • Available in nearby libraries

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  • The Lion and the Unicorn not available in
    Ingenta, Swetsnet, in Highwire, in Crossref or in
    JSTOR
  • Much overlap but much unique information

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Specialised subject databases
  • Tightly restricted
  • Abstracts written especially for these databases,
  • Articles and books
  • Mop up search on the bigger databases

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  • Literature Online (lion.chadwyck.co.uk)
  • Including Annual Bibliography of English Language
    and Literature (ABELL)
  • Articles, books and reviews from 1920 onwards
  • Drama, Poetry, Fiction Biography Literary
    Theory and Film.

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  • Anthropology Plus (includes Archaeology) Not in
    NUIG
  • ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and
    Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIGSocial science and
    health
  • Columbia International Affairs Online
    (www.ciaonet.org) Working papers, occasional
    papers from NGOs, research reports, policy
    briefs, conference proceedings, books, journals
    and case studies
  • Communication Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIG

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  • FIAF International Film Archive Indexes film
    and television periodicals, and film archives.
    Not in NUIG
  • Film Index internationalIndexes films only, it
    seems (British Film Institute)

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Geobase
  • Journals, books, conference proceedings, and
    reportsAbstracts for over 600,000 items

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Historical abstracts
  • Abstracts of articles, books, dissertations and
    smaller publications not included in the bigger
    databases.

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International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)
  • Produced by the International Political Science
    Association

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  • Linguistics Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
    (CSA)Not in NUIG
  • Modern Language Association Bibliography (MLAB -
    part of Literature Online)
  • Articles, books, dissertations, bibliographies,
    proceedings from the 1920s onwards
  • Literature, language, cultural studies,
    linguistics, folklore, film and theatre.
  • Includes materials in more than 60 languages

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  • PAIS International Public Affairs Information
    Service (CSA) Not in NUIG
  • Philosopher's Index (CSA)

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  • Social Services Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIG
  • Social Work Abstracts US National Association of
    Social Workers45,000 records

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  • SocINDEX with Full Text (CSA)
  • Abstracts for several hundred Sociology journals
    and hundreds of related journals dating back to
    1895
  • Indexes books, conference papers, and other
    sources.
  • Full text for 300 journals, several hundred
    books and several thousand conference papers.
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA) Not
    in NUIG

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Search strategy Searching by author
  • Search for author name and university to locate a
    home page for an author
  • Home pages will often include some or all of the
    following
  • A fuller list of their publications than you'll
    get from any other source
  • Teaching syllabi and reading lists
  • Work in progress
  • The full text of some of their articles.

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Full text articles online
  • Citation details and abstracts may be available
    in twenty different databases
  • Full text is generally hosted by one service only
  • Limited overlap between full text databases
  • Google Scholar searches many of these services

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SwetsWise (www.swetswise.com/)
  • An aggregator service
  • Attempts to provide comprehensive coverage of
    full text articles online
  • Doesnt host the content
  • Provides links to the full text of articles, and
    information on whether your library is subscribed
    or not.
  • Search titles, abstracts and keywords
  • Superceded by Google Scholar?

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Highwire Press (highwire.stanford.edu)
  • 1,000journals
  • Largest collection of free academic articles
    available (1.6 million).
  • Full text collections from over 130 publishers

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  • Links to the full text of cited articles held in
    other databases
  • Links to information on articles that cite the
    article you're looking at in ISI's Web of Science
  • Links to related entries in Google Scholar
  • Citation alerts, search alerts
  • Content alerts
  • 'My Personal Archives a personal search library.

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Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com/)
  • 850 journals, 1 million articles
  • View abstracts
  • Follow links to citing articles that cite the
    item you are looking at
  • View the list of references for an article
    OpenURL links
  • Links to the records relating to these articles
    in a number of other databases in ISI, CSA
    Illumina and a number of full text databases.
  • Citation alerts

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Ingenta Connect (www.ingentaconnect.com/)
  • Full text journals from a variety of academic
    publishers (but some have pulled out).
  • 30,000 publications, 21 million articles
  • Search titles, abstracts and keywords but not
    full text
  • To search the full text use Crossref or Google
    Scholar

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JSTOR (www.jstor.org)
  • Archiving older issues
  • Great historical depth
  • Key journals in the social sciences and
    humanities
  • Moving-wall of three to five years
  • Access to older articles in JSTOR from journals
    whose current contents you cant access

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Search strategy Keeping up with new articles
  • After you have mined the big databases
  • 1. Content alertsSet up content alerts for the
    three or four key journals in your area through a
    database of through the journal websites
  • 2. Search alertsFor search queries that worked
    particularly well
  • 3. Citation alertsTo alert you when a new
    article cites a key book or articleAlso
    available as RSS Feeds

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Publishers
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Cambridge Journals Online (journals.cambridge.org)
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Elsevier Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Oxford Journals Online (www.oxfordjournals.org)
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Project Muse (muse. jhu.edu)
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Sage Journals Online (Sagepub.com)
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SpringerLink (www.SpringerLink.com)
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Taylor and Francis Online Journals
(www.tandf.co.uk/journals) and Informaworld
(www.informaworld.com)
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Open Access
  • The dream of free circulation of academic work
  • Publishers provide not only publication, but
    publicity, distribution and prestige
  • The Open Access movement
  • Self-archiving
  • Institutional repositories
  • Pressure from government, funders and
    universities
  • Peer-review

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  • Escholarship / eprints
  • Preprints
  • Postprints
  • Preprints, working papers, conference papers
  • Searched by Google Scholar
  • Included in several of indexing and full text
    databases

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OAIster (oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister)
  • 500 Open Access repositories.
  • Organizes the results by institution.
  • Full text of books and PhD theses

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Directory of Open Access Journals(www.doaj.org)
  • A directory of 2,000 free, full text academic
    journals

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Institutional Repositories
  • OU E-prints (libeprints.open.ac.uk) Research
    that has been authored or co-authored by members
    of staff. Only includes postprints
  • University of California eScholarship repository
    (repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/) One of
    the earliest repositories10,000 items.

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Other article databases
  • Dominated by news and current affairs sources
  • Some academic journals

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LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com)
  • Origins in business
  • Sophisticated searching
  • Articles split into separate fields
  • Focus on full-text, not on citation details
  • Thousands of newspapers and academic journals
  • Specialized materials such as news broadcast
    transcripts

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  • Restrict searches to publications from particular
    countries,
  • Source directory lists the different
    publications available
  • Lots of results on all but the most specific
    queries
  • System balks if you return over 1000 results
    limit your search by date,
  • Downloading references
  • Deepest historical coverage available of several
    major British and American newspapers.

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Highbeam Research (www.highbeam.com)
  • Flexible and reasonable pricing options Use as
    part of a needle in the haystack' search Heavy
    with marginal and specialised publications
    Strong on news and current affairs sources

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Find Articles (www.findarticles.com)
  • Ten million articles
  • Dominated by material from magazines and
    newspapers
  • Overlap with Highbeam
  • Many articles available for free
  • No downloading of references

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Theses and Dissertations
  • ProQuest Dissertations Theses
    (wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations) Search abstracts,
    keywords and citation information Theses and
    dissertations completed since 1997 preview of
    the first 20 pages Full text instantly
    downloadable for a fee

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Index to Theses (www.theses.com)
  • Abstracts and citation details of theses
  • Universities in Great Britain and Ireland 1970
    onwards.
  • Order copies of British theses through the
    British Thesis Service (www.bl.uk/britishthesis)

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Dissertation.com (www.dissertation.com)
  • Full text, for a fee. Order theses and
    dissertations as bound copies via
    Amazon.comLimited selection.
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