Title: Articles online Internet Research Skills Niall O Dochartaigh, Dept' of Political Science and Sociolo
1Articles online Internet Research Skills
Niall O Dochartaigh, Dept. of Political Science
and Sociology
2Understanding academic articles
- The prime location for 'scholarly' debate
- Quality control
- Pitched at a high level
- A key bibliographic resource
3The tangled maze
- The origins of academic articles online
- Indexing and abstracting databases
- Full text databases
- Overlap
4Search 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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6The linking revolution
- OpenURL links
- such as SFX and MetaLib
- Collapsing the distinction between indexing and
full-text databases
7CrossRef
- 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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9(one third of the results in Google Scholar)
10Google 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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13 group of 2 (or more)
14Downloading of references select Scholar
preferences
15- Books
- more info in..
- Library search
- Redundant results
- In the UK and Ireland BL Direct
- Advanced search
16Windows Live Academic (academic.live.com)
17Search 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.
18Indexing 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
19OCLC 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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24ISI Web of Science (isiknowledge.com)
25Social Sciences Citation Index Arts and
Humanities Citation Index.
26- Aspires to being comprehensive
- Focus on citation
- Assessing impact
- Strong organisational structure.
- Inflexible
27You cant search for an authors full name, only
by their surname and initials
28'Cited reference search'
29Checking the cited work index to see how ISI
has abbreviated the publication.
30- 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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33Cited references
34times cited
35'Find related records'
36Scopus
37Scopus
- Easy to use
- Not available at NUIG
- Strongest in the health and life sciences
- Does not cover the humanities
38Other indexing and abstracting databases
39- 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
40Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Academic journals, newspapers and magazines,
- Full text of 4,000 journals
- Wide range of disciplines
41The 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
42Ulrichsweb (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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44Zetoc (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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46Infotrieve ArticleFinder (www.infotrieve.com)
- Document delivery service
- Select ArticleFinder to search for academic
articles - Abstracts and titles
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48- 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.
49Search 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)
50 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.
51Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) the best
place to start
- Search for Elfland to Hogwarts
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53Group of 2 duplicate results
54The cited by link
55The web search link includes course syllabi
that reference the article
56ISI Web of Science
57General search on Elfland
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59SFX link to NUIG
60 Times cited
61Full record citation alert (not possible via
Scholar)
62Author name
63Find related records
64Cited references
65OCLC ArticleFirst
- Title search for Elfland
- Libraries that hold the journal - including NUIG
- Available in nearby libraries
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67- The Lion and the Unicorn not available in
Ingenta, Swetsnet, in Highwire, in Crossref or in
JSTOR - Much overlap but much unique information
68Specialised subject databases
- Tightly restricted
- Abstracts written especially for these databases,
- Articles and books
- Mop up search on the bigger databases
69- 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.
70- 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
71- 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)
72Geobase
- Journals, books, conference proceedings, and
reportsAbstracts for over 600,000 items
73Historical abstracts
- Abstracts of articles, books, dissertations and
smaller publications not included in the bigger
databases.
74International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)
- Produced by the International Political Science
Association
75- 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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77- PAIS International Public Affairs Information
Service (CSA) Not in NUIG - Philosopher's Index (CSA)
78- Social Services Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIG
- Social Work Abstracts US National Association of
Social Workers45,000 records
79- 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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81Search 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.
82Full 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
83SwetsWise (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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85Highwire 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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87- 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.
88Blackwell 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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90Ingenta 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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92JSTOR (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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94Search 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
95Publishers
96Cambridge Journals Online (journals.cambridge.org)
97Elsevier Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com)
98Oxford Journals Online (www.oxfordjournals.org)
99Project Muse (muse. jhu.edu)
100Sage Journals Online (Sagepub.com)
101SpringerLink (www.SpringerLink.com)
102Taylor and Francis Online Journals
(www.tandf.co.uk/journals) and Informaworld
(www.informaworld.com)
103Open 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
104- Escholarship / eprints
- Preprints
- Postprints
- Preprints, working papers, conference papers
- Searched by Google Scholar
- Included in several of indexing and full text
databases
105OAIster (oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister)
- 500 Open Access repositories.
- Organizes the results by institution.
- Full text of books and PhD theses
106Directory of Open Access Journals(www.doaj.org)
- A directory of 2,000 free, full text academic
journals
107Institutional 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.
108Other article databases
- Dominated by news and current affairs sources
- Some academic journals
109LexisNexis (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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111- 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.
112Highbeam 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
113Find 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
114Theses 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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116Index 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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118Dissertation.com (www.dissertation.com)
- Full text, for a fee. Order theses and
dissertations as bound copies via
Amazon.comLimited selection.