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Title: 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.
  • ????? ?????
  • Contains about 300 major Chinese periodicals
    published in China from 1994
  • ????? ??????
  • 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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