Finding journals articles Citation indexes vs Fulltext databases

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Finding journals articles - Citation indexes
vs Full-text databases
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Finding journals articles

• Printed journals
• Electronic journals / Online databases

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Journal article Major sections

• Abstract
• Introduction - Literature review
• Methodology
• Discussion
• Results
• References / Bibliography

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Types of online database Index vs. Full-text

• Citation
• Citation Abstract
• Citation Abstract Full-text
  (HTML/PDF)

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What is a citation?

• A citation is the information about an article/
  book. This information is needed to identify and
  locate the article / book.
• For articles, a complete citation includes
• - Title of article
• - Author(s)
• - Journal title
• - Volume number
• - Issue number
• - Publisher date of publication
• - Page numbers

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What is an abstract?

• A short, concise summary of the essential points
  of a text.
• Sometime, uses headers to divide the text into
  logical parts. These can include "Introduction,"
  "Objectives," "Materials," "Methods," "Results
  and "Conclusions."
• Useful for getting a quick overview of a report
  or essay.

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What is full-text?

• The complete text of journals articles or, in
  some cases, the complete text of a book.
• Most commonly, this is a reference to online
  sources of information.

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Infotrac OneFile

• Provides access to journals and news information
  on a diverse set of topics

- social science - law - health care -
computers - technology - environmental issues -
general interest topics
- humanities - education - business -
science - current events - arts -
politics - economics
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Infotrac OneFile

• A total of nearly 11,000 titles in all with more
  than 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to
  the present.
• Has approximately 60 million records at your
  fingertips with a single search query.
• Includes more than
• - 6,000 full-text titles
• - 3,000 referred journals
• - 5 newspaper indexes

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Online database searching

• Basic Search
• Keywords
• Advanced Search
• Field Searching
• Subject Headings
• Search a combination of fields

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Basic Search

• Keywords
• Word / Phrase
• Exclude stop words an, or, the, etc.
• Limits
• Document type
• Publication date
• Language, etc.

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Basic Search

• Sort results
• By date
• By relevance
• Marked List
• Save to List
• Print / email / download / export

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Marked List
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Basic Search
Click here to set limit(s)
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Limits
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Advanced Search

• Field searching search in Title, Abstract,
  Author, Subject, etc. or combination of fields
• Using subject headings

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Infotrac OneFile
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PubMed Central
Easy-to-use search Entirely full-text and
free BUT only about 200 journals
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PubMed
4800 journals, 1950spresent
Easy-to-use search
BUT Citations abstracts only
Links to full-text databases / print
journals
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Limits
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Limits
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Clipboard
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