sail through databases

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Sail through databases 2014

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Goals of this session

• Journals and Databases

Learn about

• Too many results? Too few results?• Spelling challenges?

Search – tips & tricks

• Informit – Australian database• Factiva – newspaper database• Scopus – citation database

Explore some databases

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Features of journals

Published regularly

The latest research

May have a narrow focus

Articles by different authors

Formal, abstract language

Peer reviewed by experts

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What’s this got to do with databases?

Databases are collections of• journals• newspaper articles • conference papers

Databases are searchable • like the internet

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Search strategy

keywords search tools search strategy

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Our topic

Literature Review:

Teenage mental healthcan be improved by exercise

What are the keywords?

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Brainstorm keywordsteenage

adolescents

young adults

teens

youth

juvenile

mental health

mental illness

psychology

intellectual

emotional well-being

anxiety

self-esteem

exercise

sports

active

workout

fitness

movement

athletics

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Search tools

Search tools tell the search engine how to combine your keywords,

to find relevant search results

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AND OR NOT

AND – all keywords joined by AND will appear in resultsOR – any keywords joined by OR may appear in resultsNOT – excludes a word from the results

Use OR between alternative wordsUse AND between the different keywords

teenager AND mental AND health AND exercise

teenager OR adolescent OR youth

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More search tools

Truncation: psycholog* = psychology, psychological

Wildcards: vigo?r = vigor or vigour

Phrase searching: “young adults” more specific than young adults

Brackets – lets you group search combinations

Subject field search – target your searches

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How it works together

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Keywords + Search toolsteenage*ORadolescen* OR“young adults”ORteensORyouthORjuvenile

“mental health”OR“mental illness”ORpsycholog*ORintellectualOR“emotional well-being”ORanxiety OR anxiousORself-esteem

exerciseORsportsORactivityORworkoutORfitnessORmovementORathletics

AND AND

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Your search might look like this

(“young adults” OR teenage* OR youth OR adolescen*)

AND (psycholog* OR “mental health” OR well-being)

AND (exercise OR active OR sports)

NOT (obesity OR ADHD OR disability)

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Most databases have an…

Advanced Search

You can combine search tools with your keywords

Check each database to learn about its tools Look for search tips or search hints or help

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Find Databases – Library website

Find databases by subject or name

Subject guides recommend databases

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Three ways to find a database

Complete A-Z List

Find all databases for a particular

subject area

Select a letter (Database name)

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The complete list of databases

Subject area

More information and tutorials

Database name is the link

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Informit – Australian databases

A+ Education

AANRO (agriculture)

AGIS for Law

APA-FT for current affairs

AUSPORT

Engineering Collection

Health Collection

Humanities & Social Sciences Collection

Indigenous Collection

Literature & Cultural Collection

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The complete list of databases

Select Informit

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Informit – Simple Search

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Informit – Help

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Informit – Search Hints

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Informit – Advanced Search

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Informit – Select a field

Search for your keywords in selected fields

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Informit – AND Phrase OR

All terms = AND Exact phrase = “ ” Any term = OR

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Informit – AND OR NOT

Use multiple rows to refine your search

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Informit – Advanced Search

Add more rows

Refine by date

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Create your search in Informit

DO NOT select Full Text Records Only

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Summary of your search

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Select Full Text (PDF, external, link)

Link to full text

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Expand your search

Increased results

Change to Any field

It will search for your keywords in all fields

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What if you want to find…

Newspaper articles

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Find newspaper articles

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Factiva - Newspapers

Only 3 concurrent users

Search for newspaper articles, news wires, and market information

You will need your search strategy

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Factiva Search Options

ANDOR

NOT“Phrase”

Use AND OR NOT truncation* “phrase searching” (and brackets to group parts of the search)

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Factiva Search Form - A

Enter main keywords and search for last 2 years… OR

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Factiva Search Form - B

Use the features of the form and search tools to create a better search

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Factiva Free Text Search

(teen* or adolescen* or “young adult*” or youth) and (exercise or sports or active or fitness) and

(“mental health” or psycholog* or well-being)

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Limit by Source Type: Newspapers

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Limit by Region: Australia

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Factiva Free Text Search

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Factiva Results screen

See the next 100 headlines Modify your search

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Read the article

Back to search results

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Please logout when you are finished

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Scopus – citation database

High-level research, especially for health sciences

Finds articles that are available in other databases

See if other authors have referred to that article

Find other articles and books written by an author

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Go to S for Scopus

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Scopus Document Search - options

Limit by year range

Add more words to your search

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Field searching

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Document Type searching

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Your search in Scopus

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Read the Abstract first!Hover mouse to reveal this link

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Select Link to Full Text

Articles may be in different databases

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You can’t access this article

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Be flexible with your search strategyteenage*ORadolescen* OR“young adults”ORteensORyouthORjuvenile

“mental health”OR“healthy mind”ORpsycholog*ORintellectualOR“emotional well-being”ORperceptions

exerciseORsportsORactivityORworkoutORfitnessORmovementORathletics

AND AND

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AuthorityWho are the authors?

With whom are they affiliated?

Evaluate information

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Online database tutorialsSelect More details for tutorials

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Need more help?

Subject Guides and How to Guides

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What we have learned about

Using AND OR NOT

Using * ? “phrase search”

Building a search

Australian databases

Citation databases

Newspaper databases

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