Transcript Library Workshop for EdD Students

Library Workshop for BA(CEE)
Students
Sept 2011
HKIEd Library
Outline
 Basics and Overview
 Finding a particular journal article quickly by e-journal
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list or Google Scholar
Database in Focus – ERIC on EBSCOhost
About RefWorks
Another Educational Resource Example – ProQuest
Education Databases
Q&A
HKIEd Library Website
http://www.lib.ied.edu.hk
Search for books,
journals, media
resources
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Finding a Particular Article
 Is this article available in the Library?
Sadler, P. M. & Good, E. (2006). The impact of self- and peer-grading on student
learning. Educational Assessment, 11(1), 1-31. doi:10.1207/s15326977ea1101_1
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Finding a Particular Article – via Google Scholar + EdLINK
 Is this article available in the Library?
Sadler, P. M. & Good, E. (2006). The impact of self- and peer-grading on student
learning. Educational Assessment, 11(1), 1-31. doi:10.1207/s15326977ea1101_1
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Read instructions on how to set up EdLINK in
Google Scholar from off-campus
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Try it yourself
 Use EdLINK via the E-Journal Tab or Google Scholar to
check if these articles are available in the Library
Miller, S. & Helms, J. (2010). The Disease that Infected Half the World:
Mathematics, Biology, and History. PRIMUS, 20(3), 245-260.
doi:10.1080/10511971003587287
Jonsson, A, Baartman, L. K. J., & Lennung, S. A. (2009). Estimating the quality of
performance assessments: The case of an ‘interactive examination’ for
teacher competencies. Learning Environments Research, 12(3), 225-241.
doi:10.1007/s10984-009-9061-z
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Sidetrack: DOI
 DOI = Digital Object Identifier
 It is the unique ID assigned by publishers to an online
object (could be an article, a journal, a book, a book
chapter, etc)
 It's used in APA citation style
 For details: http://www.doi.org/
 You may get a direct hit in Google Scholar by entering
the DOI
 Direct access format:
 http://dx.doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx where the last part
is the DOI (e.g.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511971003587287)
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E-Resources
 Include E-Databases & E-Book Collections
 Search by Keywords
 Browse by Subject or Title
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E-Resources by Subject
– E.g. Education
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Major Education Databases
 ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
 Education Research Complete
 ProQuest Education Journals
 Education Full Text
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Other Relevant Databases for BA(CEE)
Students
 Proquest Research Library (ProQuest)
 Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)
 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
 Humanities Full Text
 JSOTR. Arts & Sciences Collection
 PsycINFO / PsycArticles / Psybooks
 Web of Science (Arts & Humanities Citation Index / Social
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Sciences Citation Index)
SCOPUS
Literature Online (LION)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
MLA International Bibliography
Major Local / Chinese Databases
 HK Education Bibliographic Database (香港教育文獻數據庫)
 Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC)
 臺灣期刊論文索引系統 PerioPath Index to Taiwan Periodical
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Literature System
中文電子期刊服務 CEPS
中文電子學位論文服務 CETD
中國知網
 中國期刊全文數據庫
 中國優 秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫
 中國博士學位論文全文數據庫
中國學位論文全文 數據庫
華人社會教育文獻資源中心 Chinese ERIC (Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
香港中文期刊論 文索引 HKInChiP
Database in Focus – ERIC
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Find ERIC by Browsing "E" (or browse by
education subject; or search ERIC)
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Access to ERIC database
Enter
keywords
Search
Results
Limit your
search
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Example
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Your research topic: Is goal setting a useful strategy for
learning English as a second language?
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Identify the Keywords:
English as second language AND goal setting
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Use indexes / thesaurus / descriptors to check related terms
where necessary.
How many records retrieved?
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Example
Full Text
available
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Searching tips: Expand your search
 Use “expanders” from the database search screen to expand
your search
 Use Boolean operator “OR” to include more search terms
e.g. Second language learning or english as second language
or esl
 Use truncation (*) to expand your search term in alternative
way
e.g. learn* to search for learning, learns, learner, etc.
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Searching tips: Narrow your search
 Use “Limiter” from the database search screen to limit your
search results in various way
 Consider the suggested “Narrow Search Results by Subject”
from the search result screen
 Use Boolean operator “AND” to limit search results to a
narrower scene
e.g. peer assessment AND higher education
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ERIC EBSCOHost – Refine your results by
Subjects, Peer-reviewed Journals, Year, etc.
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Reduced from over 300 results to 56 by
selecting peer reviewed and 2000 and after
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ERIC EBSCOHost Special Features – Find
Similar Results (SmartText Searching)
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Try it yourself
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Topic: transfer of learning techniques in bilingual education
 Suggested keywords:
Learning transfer and bilingual education
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How many records retrieved?
 How to expand or narrow down your search results? (what
is ERIC's descriptor for transfer of learning techniques?
Have you tried bilingual* instead of bilingualism? …)
 Can you find full text for articles with no full text from
ERIC?
 Have you tried the Find Similar Results (SmartText
Searching) function?
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Searching Multiple Databases in Ebscohost
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Add to Folder: Save / Print / Email / Export
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Add to Folder: Save / Print / Email / Export
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We can export the results directly to
RefWorks
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About RefWorks
 Web-based Bibliographic Management Tool
 Create your own reference databases
 Import references from library catalogues &
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databases
Manage & organize your references in folders
Search your references
Adding your own keywords & comments
Can be integrated with MS-Word to create in-text
citations & reference list in preferred style
Accessible by computers connected to Internet
Accessing RefWorks
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Can also Directly Export Library
Catalogue Records to RefWorks
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How to Import References from Library E-resources
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How to Import References
from Library E-resources
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Another Education Resources:
ProQuest Education Databases
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ProQuest Education Databases
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E.g. search small class education
Suggested
Topics  e.g.
Class size
AND
Academic
achievement
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We can also Email, Print, Save,
Export, etc.
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Sneak Preview – Discovery Services: an all in one
quick search to be implemented later this year
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Q&A
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