RESEARCH: Journals, articles and moreUsing the Allison Library and UBC Library Indexes & Databases

Introduction

• Myth:

“Everything is freely available on the Internet”

• Fact:

Many (most) scholarly resources are found either in print or through subscription-based databases

Presentation Outline

• Search Strategies

• Allison Library Journals– Indexes: Print

– Indexes: Electronic

• UBC Library – Electronic indexes & databases

• Open Access journals

• Access (how do I get the articles?)

– (in print, online full text, interlibrary loans)

Search strategies: Boolean operators: And, Or, Not

Atheism AND Reformation

“AND” NARROWS the search

Atheism OR Reformation

“OR” BROADENS the search

Atheism NOT Reformation

“NOT” LIMITS the search

Use NOT with caution

Search strategies: Boolean operators, combined

Refine a search: group synonyms

For example Christian AND (justice OR ethics)

(Christian OR Mennonite) AND (justice OR ethics)

Search strategies: Truncation & Wildcards

Truncation use *

Reform** = wild card for any letters after the “m” will search for . . .

– Reforms– Reformed– Reformation– Reforming

Wildcard use ?

Wom?n will search for all occurrences of:– Woman– Women– Womyn

Journals, articles, indexes, databases

• Journals (scholarly aka peer-reviewed vs popular)

• Journal Indexes & Databases– Print & Electronic

– Citations • (source only: author, title etc.)

– Abstracts • (short comment on articles contents)

– Full Text (PDF or HTML)

• EBSCO databases (five):• ATLA Serials (main database for theology and religion)

• New Testament Abstracts (NTA)• Old Testament Abstracts (OTA)• Catholic Periodical Literature Index (CPLI)

• Christian Periodical Index (CPI)

• ProQuest Religion:• Smaller database than ATLA but full text

• Religious and Theological Abstracts (RTA)• Some overlap with above sources

• Cambridge, Oxford, Sage Journals (Selected Titles)

• TREN Theological Resource Exchange Network• Theses and dissertations

Allison Library subscribes to:

http://allisonlibrary.regent-college.edu/find/eresources-databases-journals

http://allisonlibrary.regent-college.edu/find/eresources-databases-journals

NEW!

A – Z aka

A to Z

Remote Access: Ezproxy

EBSCO Sample searches

EBSCO, ProQuest Religion, & RTA

• Publications – Crux (overlap)

• EBSCO

• RTA

• Not it ProQuest

– Church & State (overlap)• EBSCO 01/01/1986 (volume 39) [no full text]

• ProQuest 01/01/1992 (volume 45) [full text from 1999]

• KEY THING to remember is that there MAY be overlap in the databases BUT the overlap may be limited HOWEVER there may also be FULL TEXT available in that overlap.

Real time search

Five commonly used UBC databases:• Academic Search Complete:

– Multi-disciplinary includes some religion and theology– Almost all full-text

• JSTOR: – multi-disciplinary generally providing a back run – All full-text

• Philosopher’s Index:– Abstracts from books and journals of philosophy

• PsychINFO and 3 other Psych databases:– Citations and summaries from psychology-related journals– Largely full-text

• MLA: – For literature– No full-text

UBC Library Indexes & Databases

UBC Journal & Indexes Access

X

IF you have an Article title and Journal title

AND the article is NOT available in full text through our databases

THEN does UBC have full-text access?

Go to UBC Library > Advanced Search

UBC Library: article finding tool

FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks

libraries (Theolog)

UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans

THEN go to UBC Library

> Use the LibraryBorrowing Services

> Borrowing from non-UBC Libraries (ILL)

Allison Library Fall 2011

FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks libraries (Theolog)

UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans

Questions?

Additional help

Reference Librarian – In person

• at the reference desk– By phone

• 604.221.3341– By email

• reference@regent-college.edu– By chat (skype)– Twitter @allisonlibrary

PowerPoint Slides will be available at theoreference.ca