1 lib260: locating social sciences resources sep 2010
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LIB260: Locating Social Sciences Resources
Sep 2010http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2010/fall/powerpoint/
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Locating Social Sciences Resources
Outline Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources Understand your course reading list Finding materials from different sources:
Library catalogue Electronic databases Internet resources
Demonstrations Citation Management / Bibliography Generation
Tools
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Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources Primary Sources: A first-hand or eye witness
account of an event. Newspaper stories , speeches and other papers
that individuals describe events in which they were participants or observers.
Statistical data Materials that document the attitudes and popular
thought of a historical time period. e.g. public opinion surveys.
Records of organizations. e.g. minutes, correspondences, annual reports, etc.
Personal letters, diary, etc.
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Secondary Sources are ones that interpret or analyzes primary sources. Examples: dictionaries, encyclopedias,
textbooks, books and articles.
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Primary Sources Labour Union
documents Speeches Personal letters
Secondary Sources Research papers on
evaluating and analyzing the relationship between feminist movement and labor movement in turn-of-the-century England
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Understand your course reading listExample 1
Chun, Russell (2002). Macromedia Flash MX advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press
Chun, Russell (2002). Macromedia Flash MX advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press
A BookAuthor & Year
Book Title
Publisher and Place
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Understand your course reading listExample 2
Ginsberg, Leon (2000) "Conservative Approaches to Social Policy" pp. 377-92 in James Midgley, Martin B, Tracy and Michelle Livermore (eds.) The Handbook of Social Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
A Chapter in a BookAuthor of the Book Chapter Chapter’s Title
The Book’s Author, Title, etc.
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Understand your course reading listExample 3
Pun, Kit-fai (2001)"Cultural influences on total quality management adoption in Chinese enterprises: An empirical study", Total Quality Management, May 2001, Vol. 12 Issue 3: 323- 342.
A Journal Article
Journal’s Name, Volume / Issue and Page Numbers
Author and Title of the Article
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Understand your course reading listExample 4
“Blow to Confidence," South China Morning Post, April 16, 1994
A Newspaper Article
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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. I want to study about how the citizenship be reflected through political participation in Hong Kong.
1. Political participation, election, etc.
2. Citizenship
3. Hong Kong .
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. citizenship and hong kong ( 必須同時出現 )
OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search
e.g. Citizenship or vote ( 只要任何一個出現 )
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Search Strategies (4)Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant
endings of that word EBSCOhost: * ProQuest: * Factiva: * LexisNexis Academic: ! OPAC: *
e.g. citizen* -- retrieves all words that start with CITIZEN
such as citizen, citizens, citizenship etc.
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Search Strategies (5)( )Parentheses: gives priority and
order in the search statemente.g. (citizenship or voting) and hong kong
Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database-specific features / changing your keywords
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Demonstrations1-Search
citizenship and political and participation (political participation) and citizenship and Hong
KongProQuest / EbscoHost
citizenship and political and participationcitizen* and (political participat*) and Hong Kong
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Demonstrations Sociological Abstract, AgeLine (CSA)
citizenship and political and participation older adults and voting ((older adult* or older people) or elderly) and vot*
JSTOR hong kong and social change*(in article title / in abstract)
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Subject: citizenship + keyword: hong kong
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DemonstrationsWiseNews
(( 香港 and 污染 ) or (hong kong and pollution))
LexisNexis Academichong kong and pollution and protect!hong kong and (air quality) and protect!
Factiva ((hong kong and pollution*) or ( 香港 and 污
染 )) and (air quality)
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Research Guides Economics
http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/subject/Economics
Sociology & Social Policy http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/
subject/Sociology+&+Social+Policy
Political Sciences http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/
show/subject/Political+Science
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Statistics HK Census & Statistics Dept publications (print version or
electronic version: e.g. HK Annual Digest of Statistics, census reports, etc.), Datastream, IMF International Financial Statistics, UN Statistical Yearbook, China InfoBank …
http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/Locating_Information_at_Lingnan:_Finding_Statistics
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Citation Management / Bibliography Generation Tools
RefWorks http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?
dbname=refworks Citation Builder
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php
Citation and Style http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/
Research_Methods/Citation_and_Style
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