finding public policy briefs
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LKY SPP – LIBRARY TUTORIAL BY AARON TAY ([email protected])RESOURCES FOR WRITING POLICY BRIEFS
WRITING A POLICY BRIEF
WHAT DO YOU NEED? Description of
current situation List of policy
instruments Statistics (lots of it) Analysis
Types of resources Academic papers
Search Scopus, EconLit, Expanded Academic and more (see subject guide)Infogate
Policy briefs, White papers, Discussion papers, Policy papers, Occasion papers,
Asian sources?
Important: You might not want to restrict your searches only to asian sources!
Important: You might not want to restrict your searches only to asian sources!
Some databases to try Bibliography of Asian
Studies Asia Studies Full-Text
Online Southeast Asian Stu
dies Database 东南亚研究资料库
Asia-Studies Full-text Online
“Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. ”
BUT IS THIS ENOUGH? What about content on
GOVERNMENT SITES? INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS? OTHER THINK TANK/
POLICY CENTRE PAPERS ?
(Recommended by your lecturers)
Sources recommended on subject guide
Can we search them all at the same time?
Google?
GOOGLE CUSTOM ENGINES
Using Google
Google Custom Search Engine I
Searches 200+ Think tanks & International organizations (IO) sites
Refine by asian/western think tanks & IO
Organized by Aaronhttp://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015174417282623600286:ixdckgldjpa
Google Custom Search Engines II
Searches 30 government websites (mostly Asian)
Refine by country (show pdf only)
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015174417282623600286%3Ao-ftgxmhyyg&ie=UTF-8
Other Google custom search engines Intergovernmental
Organization Search Engine (355 IGOS)
Non-governmental Organizations Search
Sub-Saharan African Governments Search Engine
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006748068166572874491:55ez0c3j3ey
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012681683249965267634:q4g16p05-ao
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=004216246918580239447:kzrbc4uvlna
GOOGLE SEARCH TIPS
Advanced Google searchingOther useful links Google basics Crafting Your
Query by using Special Characters (summary)
Google advanced search form
Google cheat-sheet
http://www.googleguide.com/
GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE? Google returns
only pages that match all your search terms.
TRUE, except Ignore stop words (e.g. the, a,
you) Except if quotes are used or all are
stop words. Does stemming (i.e it finds variant
forms child/children, Hyphenated Terms Add +keyword for exact search
Common abbreviations (e.g. NYC) Ignores special characters and
some punctuation Other special exceptions
GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE II ? Which of the
following is true of Google?1. Case insensitive2. Order in which you
type terms in query is important
3. There is no way to use OR operator
All true except (3) , simply type
keyword1 OR keyword2
GOOGLE TRUE OR FALSE III ? Which of the
following cannot be done in Google?1. Search for exact
phrase2. Exclude a certain
keyword3. Search for
synonyms4. Do a proximity
search
All true except maybe (2) Add quotes Use wild card “A * B” Use minus –keyword Use tilde ~keyword
GOOGLE & GOOGLE SCHOLAR
PROXY BOOKMARK & SEARCH PLUGIN
What are Search Plugins?• Allows you to do a direct search from your internet
browser search box • Saves time from having to visit a page & then
inputting your search query
• How to install these plugins?How to install these plugins?– http://bit.ly/searchpluginhttp://bit.ly/searchplugin
What is a Proxy Bookmarklet?
Inserts the NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL of the article.
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VendorUser NUS Library Proxy server
I want article X
I want article X
Okay you are recognized, here is article X.
Here is article X
How to install the Proxy Bookmarklet in my browser?
• Click on the link below and follow the instructions: – http://bit.ly/nuslibproxyhttp://bit.ly/nuslibproxy
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MAJOR USE
THANK YOU!