HTM3125Research Methods Library Research Workshop

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HTM3125 Research Methods Library Research Workshop

• Kitty Siu
• Schools Librarian (SD, SHTM)
• Information Services
• Pao Yue-kong Library

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About this workshop

• Where and how to access electronic resources from
  the Library Homepage
• Introduce library electronic resources that might
  help you with your assignments and projects
• Hands on exercise to search a specialized
  database in hotel tourism management
• - Hospitality Tourism Complete

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To access electronic databases from Library
Homepage
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Read the database description and search guides
when selecting suitable database to search
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Databases with coverage in Hotel Tourism
Management

• Hospitality Tourism Complete via EBSCOhost
• Leisuretourism.com
• ABI/INFORM via ProQuest
• Business Source Complete via EBSCOhost
• Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
• Emerald Fulltext
• ScienceDirect
• IngentaConnect
• CAJ Full-text Database ?????????

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Identify your topic
Some backgrounds on database searching

• Identify the main concepts or ideas in your topic
• e.g. quality management in hotel industry
• Make your topic more specific by narrowing it
  down to a some specific items that you wish to
  write about
• e.g. customer satisfaction
• service quality
• front desk
• restaurant service

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Global searching techniques (1)

• Boolean operators
• AND Combines search terms so that each
  search result contains all of the terms
• e.g. quality management AND customer
  satisfaction
• OR Combines search terms so that each search
  result contains either or all of the search
  terms
• e.g. quality assurance OR TQM
• NOT Excludes specific search term(s) so that
  search results will not include it/them
• e.g. theme park NOT Disney

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e.g. quality management AND customer satisfaction
Search Result in Hospitality Tourism Complete
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Global searching techniques (2)

• Field searching
• How to distinguish between a book a journal
  article on your reading list?

Gu, Zheng. (2004) Macau gaming copying the Las
Vagas style or creating a Macau model?, Asia
Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, vol.9, no.1,
pp.89-96.
Stipanuk, D. M., American Hotel Lodging
Association. Educational Institute. (Eds.).
(2006). Hospitality facilities management and
design (3rd ed.). Lansing, Mich. Educational
Institute American Hotel Lodging Association.
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Global searching techniques (2)

• Field searching
• Article title
• Author(s)
• Source Journal name, Vol./Issue no., (Date), pg.
  no.
• Keywords
• Abstract

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Global searching techniques (2)

• Field searching
• Limit keyword to a specific field such as
• author, article title, subject, abstract,
  journal title, etc.
• e.g. quality management limited to title field
• AND
• customer satisfaction limited to abstract field
• (Abstract is similar to the summary
• of an article)

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e.g. Title keyword quality management
ANDAbstract keyword customer satisfaction
Search Result in Hospitality Tourism Complete
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Hospitality Tourism Complete

• Contains abstracts of journal articles (some with
  linked full text) in all areas of the hospitality
  and tourism industries and their management.
• More than 749,000 articles covering over 440
  journal titles
• Coverage go back to early 1960s

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Search strategy using Advanced Search
Hospitality Tourism Complete
The database you are searching

• (asterisk) truncation in search word.
• To retrieve records having the same beginning,
  e.g. searching industr will get records with
  the word industry, industries,
  industrializ/se(d), industrializ/sation, etc.

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Hospitality Tourism Complete
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Leisuretourism.com

• An Abstracts Database with over 80,000
  bibliographic references
• Content coverage Hospitality, tourism, culture,
  leisure, recreation and sports
• Year of coverage over 30 years
• With linked full text
• Training account (until 30 Sep 2008)
• http//www.leisuretourism.com/subscribersUnlimite
  dConcurrencyLogin.asp
• Login yuekong
• Password library

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Leisuretourism.com
To switch to Advanced Search mode from Quick
Search
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Leisuretourism.comAdvanced Search Mode
Publication year
Document types
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Leisuretourism.comResult List
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In record, click Link to Full Text to check if
full article is available. You might need to
check the Library catalogue to see if the journal
is available in printed format in Serials
Collection and/or electronic copy in other
databases
Copy the Journal name (Source) and search in
Library Catalogue
Click CrossRef and see if online version is
available
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• Hands-on Exercise
• Finding journal articles in
• Hospitality and Tourism Complete

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Help

• Information Desk at P/F 2766 6863
• 24-Hour Library Hotline [phone]
• Email lbinf_at_polyu.edu.hk
• My contact
• Email lbkitty_at_polyu.edu.hk
• Tel [phone]
• Ask-a-Librarian (Online Reference Enquiry via
  Library Homepage)
• This presentation is also available at
• http//myweb.polyu.edu.hk/lbkitty/library/SHTM/HT
  M3125.ppt