Lunch presentation NCHR 311007 Article databases

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Lunch presentation NCHR 31/10-07Article databases

• Find databases by using X-port
• Search for database name or choose by category
  and click GO
• Westlaw
• Hein
• Index to Legal Foreign Periodicals
• ISI

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General search principles

• Truncation/wildcard
• Replaces zero, one or several characters.
• Often or ? (check search help for each
  database)
• Example 1 hous finds house, houses, housing
  etc.
• Example 2 wom?n finds woman and women
• Phrase
• Search for words in a given order. Human
  rights, not rights and human

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Westlaw Journals collection
Tick off preferred collection of journals
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Search Westlaw
!truncation mark/multiple wildcard
Search in defined fields f.ex. Title
! truncation mark/ Multiple wildcard
/3 The phrase reprodutive rights and abortion
should appear with maximum 3 words between them.
To get more spesific hits use near-operators
(/n) instead of (AND). Be aware that space
means OR!! See Connectors/Expanders for more
search tips.
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Results
Fulll text of article no.1
Result list. Click on The reference to get Full
text
Title and citation
The page number from the print edition is
indicated with n and bold.
Search words are marked in yellow
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HeinOnline
Choose Law Journal Library
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HeinOnline - search
Retrieve document by citation, by scrolling or by
searching(continues)
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HeinOnline - Search Simple or Field search
Choose between word search or phrase search
Truncation mark
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HeinOnline Results
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HeinOnline Printing
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Choose PDF and Current section to get the whole
article.
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Index to foreign legal periodicals (articles on
non-angloamerican law)
Number of records found
Search for phrase by using . Combine with AND,
OR, NOT truncation mark ? singular wildcard
Click the SFX-button to find fulltext, print
edition or to order print copy
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ISI Web of knowledge
Phrase Truncation
Topicarticle title, abstract, author, keyword
Search aid
Add more fields
Click Access the new version to see this
version of ISI. The new version will be default
from January 2008. ISI is also a citation
database. To search for citations choose Cited
Reference Search Fill in authors name and
publication (journal name)
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Links to articles that have cited this article
SFX-button links to fulltext or print order via
Bibsys
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or order print copy
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