Using WebBridge Locating Fulltext Journal Articles

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Using WebBridge -- Locating Full-text Journal
Articles

• Lingnan University Library
• Mar 2007

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Outline

• Handout
• Search Strategies
• Full Text Databases
• Citation Databases
• Google Scholar

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• Search Strategies (1)
• Use appropriate resources
• Library catalogue various books, journals,
  video programs, etc. available at the Library
• Electronic databases e-books, book chapters,
  academic journal articles, news articles,
  statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc.
• Full-text Databases - contains the partial or
  complete text of works, such as articles, books,
  etc
• Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive
  information (citation and subject headings) for
  publications, such as books, and periodical
  articles, etc.
• Internet resources facts, news, organizational
  information, statistics

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• Search Strategies (2)
• Identify main concepts

• E.g. Media and politics in Hong Kong .
• media, Journalism, etc.
• politics, political, etc.
• hong kong, hongkong, hk
• Choice of search words (related key
  terms/synonyms)

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• Search Strategies (3)
• Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and
  wildcards (e.g. , !)
• AND searches records that mention both search
  terms, this narrows the search
• e.g. media and hong kong (??????)
• OR finds records in which one or both search
  terms appear, this broadens the search
• e.g. media or journalism (????????)

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• Search Strategies (4)
• Wildcards / Truncation retrieves all variant
  endings of that word
• EBSCOhost
• ProQuest
• LexisNexis Academic !
• OPAC
• e.g. journali -- retrieves all words that
  start with JOURNALI such as journalist,
  journalism, journalistic, etc.

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• Search Strategies (5)
• ( )Parentheses gives priority and order in the
  search statement
• e.g. (media or journalism) and hong kong
• Be prepared to narrow / expand your search
  results by using database-specific features /
  changing your keywords

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Full Text Databases

• ProQuest
• EBSCOhost
• Electronic collections containing millions of
  articles originally published in magazines,
  newspapers, and journals.
• JSTOR
• A deep archive of core journals in humanities and
  social sciences, dating back to the first issues
  of the journals.
• Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/

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Full Text Databases

• LexisNexis Academic
• Contains news, business information, legal
  information from over 5,900 sources all over the
  world
• Factiva
• access to full-text information from over 9,000
  news resources as well as tens of thousands of
  company reports and financial data.
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• Contains about 300 major Chinese periodicals
  published in China from 1994
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• Contains Chinese social sciences periodicals
  published in China from 2001
• ACCESS http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/

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Citation Databases

• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
• LLBA (CSA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA) International
  Bibliography (1963 - )( CSA)
• EconLit (EBSCOhost)

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Google Scholar

• A freely-accessible web search engine indexes the
  full-text of scholarly literature across
  disciplines.
• Access http//scholar.google.com

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