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Electronic Databases Electronic Databases ResearchResearch
Information Research Certificate Information Research Certificate Section 2Section 2
Presented by Charles WuReference Librarian
Revised on 3/5/2008
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Library Databases: catalog vs. index
Two types / tools in a library Books > Catalog Articles > Index databases
Catalog > http://library.accd.edu/Find records of items that the ACCD owned: books, journals, magazine , newspapers Catalog – only titles of journals, magazine … Index databases: In-depth to the article level
Index databases > ProQuest, EBSCO … In-depth to the article level
full text online at least citation of articles
article from journals / magazines / newspapers
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How to access a databaseHow to access a database
Access to Databases
Deepens on what info you have
Then you get
Link 1Link 1Research Tool
Database by Topic
Click “L” > Literature … >Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism > CLC > Hemingway (By Critic Michael Reynolds, also in CLC Vol. 80, p.145)
Link 2Link 2 Research Tool
Database by Title
Click “P” >>
PProQuest database
ProQuest Index (Full text)
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How to get articles from databases
Two scenarios You have a topic You have a citation of an article, like this:
Will, George F. "About Cocaine and Bananas." Newsweek 138.12 (17 Sep. 2001): 78.
TDNet TDNET – a database itself that answer: Which database has magazine xyz with full text
online, and what is date coverage … E.g.: Newsweek > EBSCO > by year with + sign >
Issues > full text of articles
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TDNET: e-journals in TexShare Databases
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Any articles relevant to my topic
Sample Topics How violence in TV programs influences teenagers Is the media biased in election coverage
Your approach Figure out 2-3 keywords from your topic Use 2-3 keywords to search two broad
databases: Academic Search Complete ProQuest
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Academic Search Complete
Articles Database - Full-text Sources: 8,000 journals … Subject Broad-based EBSCO Sub-Databases:
The Tab “Choose database” database profile
Academic Search Premier (ASP) General
Business Source Premier Business
Source of Databases: Click the Tab “Publications”
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ASC - Basic SearchHow violence in TV programs influences teenagers
Basic Search: Television AND Violence AND Teenager (Television OR Media) AND Violence AND
(Teenager OR adolescent) Future n5 fuel
= 5 words distance between Future and fuel search terms within 5 words of each other, any
order Future w7 fuel
search terms within 7 words of each other in order typed
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ASC: Advanced Search
AND
Why limit to search:
•Title field
•Subject field
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violence Television
And =
teenager
adolescent
Or = All
AND/OR: Boolean Operators
ORteenager OR
adolescent Retrieves any records containing either one of two keywords.Results >Results > go go UPUP
ANDviolence AND TelevisionRetrieves records that MUSTMUST contain ALL the keywords.Results Results > > go go DOWNDOWN
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Other features in EBSCO
Click “Help” Use online help to find a answer - What is symbol for TRUNCATION search?
Click “Folder” and “Add” Save to disk Email article to yourself
“Limit your results” features
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ProQuest – article databases
Articles: subject broad, across all subject areas
Access to periodical articles Sources: 5,500 journals, magazines, newspapers from at least 1992 to the present with some backfiles to 1971 Full text for more than 2,000 titles Search Interface:
Basic Search vs. Advanced Search Advanced Search: AND, ORAND, OR already there
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ProQuest – ExerciseSample Topic: Use ProQuest
Is the media biased in election coverage?
Step 1: keywords, keywords, keywords You can pick up natural words / concepts from
your topic Step 2: combine keyword with
Boolean Operators Click this Link to see how to do …
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Truncation Use the truncation character, *, to find
documents containing several words with the same root. The * replaces zero or more characters at the end of a word.
* = Truncation character used in ProQuest
Examples: Type educat* to find educator, educated,
and education. School* = school, schools, schooling, Immigra* = Immigrant, Immigrants,
Immigration … Click “help” > Type “truncation” > link
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ProQuest – Exercise
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Other Useful DatabasesNewsBank (full text) Newspaper Index &
articles San Antonio Express News
Gale Database click here All Gale Literature Databases
Contemporary Authors >> Hemingway, ernest Contemporary Literary Criticism
Hemingway (By Critic Michael Reynolds, also in CLC Vol. 80, p.145)
Literature Resource Center Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors
Online Click > Title search: For whom the bell tolls Check the box –
Any words entered >> 20 hits Exact title >> only 2 hits found
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Gale Database
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Summary If you have an article citation / reference
Check TDNET What database has the online journal publishing that
article I’m looking for?
If you only have your topic Figure out 2-3 keywords for search Search two bigs - ProQuest / EBSCO
Basic vs. Advanced Search Use Advanced Search > choose And / Or … Use field pull-down menu > choose Title / subject
field Use truncation character, like this - *
School* = school, schools, schooling
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