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Searching Literaturethrough Online Resources

Written By: Naveed Akhtar

Reviewed by: Farooq WahabJilani Roy

Dr. Maha Arooj

Dr. Maha Arooj

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This forum Research Articles, Books & Literature was

established to help you as a member of the academiccommunity.

This document has been written to help you becomean independent researcher so that you can fully

PURPOSE OF THIS FORUM

ene rom e ng e mem er o s orum yrequesting well searched literature.

If you search according to the given instructions you

may find 10-15% technical literature of your subjectarea/ research topic freely from these sources withoutany assistance of others.

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HAVE YOU PROVIDED

a valid email address to send you the article?

a legitimate facebook account if email is not provided? If the articleis sent via facebook message, it often ends up in the OTHERfolder. Click on the message folder; you will see Inbox and theOther folder. Click the Other folder to obtain your article.

BEFORE YOU POST

Direct links of requested books, thesis or articles? Go to the journalpublishers website to locate your articles. Pubmed, Google links,are NOT direct links. A request may not be entertained if a donorhas to search direct links for you.

A request may not be entertained if donors have to research thearticles for you.

EXAMPLE OF A COMMON INDIRECT LINK: Note nih.gov in the address


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1. BOOKS

Keep in mind not all books are online/ or exist as pdf.

Provide us with full details, as a link from AMAZON

http://www.amazon.com/. If donors have access they

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

will respond to you as soon as possible

There are other options such as

Worlds Largest Catalogue: http://www.worldcat.org/You may be able to find out which library owns that

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2. THESIS

Go to the following databases to locate the link of therequired thesis:

Networked Digital Library of Thesis and

Dissertations


British Library EThOS

Proquest Dissertations & Thesis Database

PROQUEST IS AN IDEAL SOURCE FORCHECKING THE THESES.


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3. ARTICLES: This is what most people are looking

for


HOW TO FIND DIRECT LINKS if a reference article isrequired i.e. year, volume and pages are known.

1. Find out the full name of the journal.

2. Google the full name of the journal. This will leadyou to the direct publishers/ journal website.

3. Search your article from the journal websites.The ABSTRACTS are FREE.


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GENERAL RESEARCH

STRATEGIES WHEN YOU ARE

DOING A LITERATURE

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GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

YOU MAY BEGIN FROM HERE:

GOOGLE (www.google.com)

SIMPLE SEARCH OPTIONS

GOOGLE ADVANCED OPTIONS

- a very use u resource

or

Start from SCOPUS (Contains 49 millions records)

www.scopus.com orhttp://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus


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SIMPLE SEARCHES

Google Simple Search- the easiest approach




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ADVANCED GOOGLE OPTIONS


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GOOGLE SCHOLAR- A USEFUL FREE RESOURCE

Go to: www.scholar.google.com


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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR

EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS


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Formal ways

University libraries- Please visit them! Not allknowledge is online

Special libraries

Inter-librar loan Informal ways

Contact Authors An underutilized resource! Findout the author and request the article by email

Personal libraries of experts

Your friends who are studying in foreign universities

Online databases


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Boolean Operators

Phrase Searching

Truncation / Wildcard Searchin Proximity Searching

Focusing / Limiting a Search




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Boolean Operators

AND

Boolean operators allow you to join terms together, widen a search or

exclude terms from your search results. This means you can be more

precise in locating your information. Many databases rely on AND/ OR/ NOTOptions.

OR

NOT


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EXAMPLE: Boolean Operators at Emerald


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PHRASE SEARCHES: Allow you to search an exactquote

It narrows your search down by searching for anexact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful

.quotation marks are used to connect the wordstogether.

For example entering Effect of Gold Nanoparticles

on Total Cell Proteins Will make the search enginefind the exact phrase in the literature.


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These search techniques retrieve information onsimilar words by replacing part of the word with asymbol usually a * or?. However, differentdatabases use different symbols, so check what is

TRUNCATION / WILDCARD

.In truncation the end of the word is replaced. For

example physiother* will retrieve physiotherapy,physiotherapeutic, physiotherapist and so on.

In wildcard searching, letters from inside the word arereplaced. For example wom*n will retrieve the termswoman and women.


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There are many ways to focus your search and allsearch tools offer different ways of doing this. Someof the ways of limiting your search are as follows:

Focusing / Limiting a Search

.2. Language

3. Place

4. Publication type

5. Age groups

6. Type of material e.g. you could just need to findcase studies




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ONLINE DATABASES

Bibliographic databases ERIC, EI, SCI, CSA, PsychINFO

Numeric databases

, ommon a a ase

Full text databases

ScienceDirect, Emerald,

AIAA, PQDT, IEEE, ELSEVIER, JSTOR,




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ONLINE DATABASES: Example of SCIENCEDIRECT


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