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LKYSPP PHD Tutorial
By Aaron TayNUS Central Library
Resource Librarian (Economics & LKYSPP)
Contact me
Subject Guides -> Economics -> Bio http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/sg/ss/ec/bio.html or http://wwww.bit.ly/nuslibrary
Sources
SourceBooks
Articles
Thesis Newspapers
Statistics
Misc (AV material,
microform, blogs)
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Loan entitlement
Reserved Books/Readings
Books
Grad students
No. of Books: 30Duration: 28 daysRenewal: 2 timesFine: $0.50 per day
RBR books: (1 at a time)
2 hours/overnight(fines: $1 per hour)
Bound journals: 1 day
Known item vs subject search
Known item search• Item is known to exist• User learns about item by bibliography/references or
recommended by others • Search by specific title*, ISBN, call number etc.
Subject search• Searching for unknown work which might be relevant• User typically searches for items “about X”• Search by keywords/subjects
Searching
Search Identify ObtainAdd to
reference manager
Reference managers
Why reference managers
My Endnote database
SEARCHING FOR BOOKS
KNOWN ITEM SEARCH
Inter-library loan
Library owns
books?
Obtaining a book
Urgent or out
of print?
Request purchase
Status is …
Place hold
Collect book at differen
t library? Do intra
library loan
Done
Done
Done Done
no
Available
Due DD/MM/YY
yes
yes
yes
no
no
* Excluding “use in library/view in library” – see later
Request itemClosed stacks
Request item
LINC vs LINC+
LINC• Search one field (title, author,
subject, call no. , ISBN) etc• Good for known item search
LINC+• Search many fields at one time
(Title, author, subject, Notes)• Good for subject search• Web 2.0 fields (tagging, user
rating/reviews, tag clouds etc)
Is this book available in the library?
Amazon Link
Placing a hold
Checking for items
MyreadingHistory
Closed stacks items
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Intralibrary vs Interlibrary{Optional Subtitle}
Source: {text}
Transfer books from one NUS Library t o
another Transfer books from a library outside NUS Library to a NUS
Library
Intra/intralibrary loan?
Request purchase
SUBJECT SEARCH (BOOKS)
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Keys to a successful subject search{Optional Subtitle}
Source: {text}
Proper search terms
Refine the search if
necessary
Search in right place
Set up alerts
SEARCHING LINC+
LINC+
Besides our catalogue (LINC+) you can also search….
Worldcat Google books
Amazon Virtual Union catalogues
OTHER SOURCES
• WorldCat• Singapore VUC• Others : Copac, Karlsuhe
virtual catalogue
Union catalogues
• Googlebooks• Amazon• OpenLibrary
Online books stores
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html
Other issues
How to login to MyLINC RBR
Reference and SMC
ARTICLES
KNOWN ITEM SEARCH
Library has
title?
Obtaining a journal article
Check if print issue available
Done
Check if online issue is available Done
Search LINC by source title
Print issue
available?
In closed stacks
?
Request for
document delivery service
Request for closed
stacks item
Come down to library to
get it
Download article
Done
Done
Title is Online
? Online issue
available?
yes
yes
yes
yes
No
No
yes
NoNo
No
Can you find the following articles?
Mahbubani, K. (2005). The impending demise of the postwar system. Survival, 47(4), 7-18.
Mahbubani, K. (1994). The United States:" Go East, Young Man". Washington Quarterly, 17 (2), 5-5.
Mahbubani, K. (2009). Can America Fail? Wilson Quarterly, 33(2), 48-58.
What if the article is not available?
Cordner, L.G. (1994). Regional Resilience: The Imperative for Maritime Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia. Naval War College Review, XLVII (2) Sequence 346, 41-59.
Another methods to find articles (online version only)
Use Google scholar and Proxy bookmarklet• Works for a wider range of databases• Allows you to find free “unofficial”
Prepublication versions• Does not work properly with certain
vendors/databases (e.g Wiley).• Similar to InfoGate, not foolproof method.
What is the NUS Library proxy?
UserNUS Library Proxy server Vendor
I want article X I want article X
Okay you are recognized, here is article X
Here is article X
Comparison of two pages
Original pagePage with NUS Lib proxy url appended
http://www.jstor.org/pss/20047022
http://www.jstor.org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/pss/200
47022
How to add the proxy bookmarklet• Go to http://lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/d/proxybkmrklet_google.html
Can you find the following articles? (II)
Mahbubani, K. (1995). The Pacific Way. Foreign Affairs, 100-111.
SUBJECT SEARCH ARTICLES
A sampling of databases
•Business Source Premier, ABI/Inform, Econlit, EIU.comBusiness/Econs
• JSTOR, SAGE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Expanded Academic ASAP Social science
•International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), Lexis-NexusPublic Policy/ Political science/ Law
•Scopus•Web of Science•Google Scholar
Cross-disciplinary
BOOLEAN SEARCHING
Build your search: Boolean operators
• AND is used to indicate that both terms must be present
• OR is used to indicate that either terms may be present
• NOT is used to indicate that one term must not be present
Casino ANDgambling
casino gambling
Gambling NOT online onlineGambling
Casino Gambling
Casino Gambling
Casino ORgambling
Build your search:Truncation *, Round parentheses ( )
• Use * for variant forms of term– Gambl* = gambling, gamblers, gambler– Casino* = casinos, casino
• Use quotation marks – “Social cost”
• Use ( ) to execute commands inside innermost parentheses first– “social cost” and (casino or gamblers)
Proximity operators (advanced AND)
• Proximity operators allow you to retrieve items where one search term is within n (where n is a number) words of another.
• Near Operator — finds words within x number of words from each other, regardless of the order in which they occur.
• Example: cost n2 gambling would find “cost of gambling" or “gambling on cost" but not “The cost of very long term addiction to gambling”
• Within Operator (Wx) — finds words within x number of words from each other, in the order they are entered in the search.
• Example: cost w2 gambling would find “Cost of gambling” but not “gambling cost”
Consistency of operators across databases
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
Truncation and wildcard ( * , $)
Proximity operators( near, within)
Amount of consistency (lowest)
Let’s search Scopus!
What are the economic impacts of Legalized
casino gaming?
“Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl*
(“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)
Scopus
• Producer: Elsevier • Coverage: 1841-1996 (17 million records) , 1996- (16
million records)• Largest abstract and citation database covering
science, technical, medial, social science• Use this to supplement your search to go beyond
Economics for multi-disciplinary papers.
Other approaches – Google scholar
Pros of Google Scholar• Covers well-known scholarly publishers and university presses (such as IEEE,
ACM,Macmillan, Wiley, University of Chicago); digital hosts (such as HighWire Press, MetaPress, Ingenta); societies and other scholarly organizations and government agencies (such as the American Physical Society, NOAA), and preprint/reprint servers (such as arXiv.org, Astrophysics Data System, RePEc, and CiteBase) + various societies in CrossRef
• Indexes “Scholarly” material from the web including prepublication “do not cite” pdf versions from author’s homepage etc.
Cons of Google Scholar• Coverage is unknown• Indexing of databases can be months out of date• Different versions of the same paper can be confusing• Primitive and different (see google guide) search functions compared to traditional
databases
Other approaches – InfoGate
Pros of Infogate• Up to date real time searching• Covers major databases subscribed by NUS Libraries.
Cons of Infogate• Covers only the most popular databases subscribed
by NUS Libraries• Search functions are limited to Boolean operators
THESIS SEARCH
Thesis (Masters/Phd)
•Proquest Dissertations and Thesis•NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses a
nd Dissertations)
North American
•Australian Digital Theses Database Australian
•Hong Kong University Theses Online Asian
STATISTICS
Statistical Sources• Access via E-Resources>Databases>By
type>Statistical Data and Economics subject guide
International• EIU CountryData, EIU CityData,
EIU Market Indicators and Business Forecast, EIU.com
• International Financial Statistics • World development Indicators Online• SourceOECD (OECD Stat)• Statistics Database (World Trade Organisation)
Statistical Sources II
Business/industry related/Finance • Global Market Information Database (GMID)• OneSource • ISI Emerging Markets• Frost & Sullivan• Orbis and Osiris
Statistical Sources III
Singapore• Yearbook of statistics, Singapore (print & web)• SingSTAT Time Series• Statlink• Singapore 1000 (CDROM)• Statistics on Singapore : annotated bibliograph
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NEWSPAPER SEARCH
Newspapers sources
Factiva Lexis Nexis Academic
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