Transcript Library Workshop for BUS 2120

Library Workshop for Preparation of Honours Project
Research Strategies
Collecting information effectively
for Humanities resources
March 2007
Overview of Research Process
1. Starting Points
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Previous work done by the
graduates
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<Library’s Honours Project
Database if your dept. participated>
Departmental Web site at
http://arts.hkbu.edu.hk/~hum/ungrad
_curriculum_honpro.htm
HKBU Faculty and Staff Papers and
Reports Catalogue
Identify gaps in the literature, other
areas that worth of exploration
General background of the topic
2. Research Focus
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Discuss with your
professor
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Is your topic too
broad? Consider a
narrower scope
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Write down your
research questions
Overview of Research Process
3. Identify Appropriate Resources
Depending on your needs:
 Do you need pictorial works/
photos/ads?
 Do you need literary criticism/
book review/ film review articles?
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Do you need current articles or
historical articles?
Do you need interviews?
Do you need 人物評論?
SOURCES
Finding books in the
Library Catalogue
Finding journal articles in
e-databases/ e-journals
Finding newspaper
articles
Finding photos/ pictures
on the Internet
Information Scenario Exercise:
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Scenario #1: you want to know about theories of
gender communication
Scenario #2: you want information that discusses
gender identity and stereotypes
Scenario #3: you want information on the criticism or
comments on women stereotypes in Virginia Woolf’s
fiction
Information Scenario Exercise:
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Scenario #1: you want to know about theories of
gender communication
Searching Tool: Lib. Catalogue
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Scenario #2: you want information that discusses
gender identity and stereotypes
Searching Tool: Databases
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Scenario #3: you want information on the criticism or
comments on women stereotypes in Virginia Woolf’s
fiction
Searching Tool: Book Review/ Journal articles
@Lib. Catalogue/ Database/ Internet
Search Option Exercise:
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Scenario #1: you want to find out works written by
Virginia Woolf. Which search option in the Library
Catalogue would you use?
Scenario #2: you want to find information written about
Virginia Woolf say her biography, criticism on her work.
Which search option in the Library Catalogue would you
use?
Search Option Exercise:
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Scenario #1: you want to find out works written by
Virginia Woolf. Which search option in the Library
Catalogue would you use?
Search Option: Author
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Scenario #2: you want to find information written about
Virginia Woolf say her biography, criticism on her work.
Which search option in the Library Catalogue would you
use?
Search Option: Subject
Keyword Search Skills
Search Techniques – A Summary
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Truncation
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Behavio?r
Wom?n
Useful to find words in different spelling, singular/plural form
Represent zero or a single character
Phrase search
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cultur* VS
cult*
Wildcard
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Useful to find words in variant forms
Search all words that start with the same characters
Represent multiple characters
Placement of truncation symbol is significant
social role AND
To search multiple keywords as an exact phrase
(wom?n OR female)
 E.g. discourse analysis
With limitations
e.g. “social role of women” CANNOT find titles with “Social status of
women”, “Women’s social role”, etc.
Combining the use of AND, OR, AND NOT
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Useful to narrow down, expand your search
To exclude unwanted concepts
Use brackets to set search priority
(wom?n OR female)
AND social role AND NOT Taiwan
Search Techniques – A Quiz on using “Truncation”
Ideological
Ideologist
Ideology
Ideologies
Critic
Critics
Critical
Criticism
Criticize
Where would you put the *
truncation symbol?
Where would you put the *
truncation symbol?
Search Techniques – Exact Phrase VS Identify the
KEY Terms
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Identify Key Words in your Topic:
Research on:
The relationship of popular culture
and the Internet
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How many records can you find
in the library catalogue by using
the exact phrase?
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What are the KEY terms?
Search Techniques – Exact Phrase VS Identify the
KEY Terms
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Identify Key Words in your Topic:
Research on:
A critical study on the changes of herbal tea shops
in Hong Kong
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What are the KEY terms?
2
Combine the KEY terms using “AND”
Note: Always look for the “subject headings” listed in the
records to link to related items on the topic.
Search Techniques - New
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Field Search (Keyword=XXX)
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To search the keyword in a particular field
To avoid retrieving irrelevant records
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Social role
Keyword search:
S: social role
Keyword search:
Irrelevant to “social role” in
Relevant context
to “social role” in
humanities
humanities context
Subject in community colleges
Subject in men, sex role, social role, masculinity
INTERNET RESOURCES on Reviews
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Using Field search in the library
catalogue
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Motion pictures -- Reviews
Film criticism
Books – Reviews – Indexes
Books – Reviews – Periodicals
<人名> -- 評論
<人名> -- 作品 – 文學評論
Book Reviews / TV & Movie Reviews
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Elite @EBSCOhost
+ Academic Research
Library @ProQuest
Keyword search:
s:(review* or critic* or 文學評論)
and shakespeare
Useful Subject Headings in the Library
Catalogue
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+ Academic Search
Reviews on popular readings and
scholarly resources
 Academic Search Elite
@EBSCOhost
 Academic Research Library
@ProQuest
Scholarly reviews on films
 Film Index International Online
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Book review
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Entertainment or
Television/Movie review
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Interview & Speech search
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Search for a Person
Develop a Search Strategy
DEVELOP A SEARCH STRATEGY
Topic: Homosexual marriage in Hong Kong
Homosexual
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Gay
Lesbian
Same sex
Marriage
Marriage
Wedding
Identify the
main
concepts
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
List possible
Search terms
Combine your
search terms
appropriately
Option #1: homosexual* AND marriage AND Hong Kong
Option #2: (homosexual* OR same sex) AND marriage AND Hong Kong
Option #3: (homosexual* OR same sex) AND marriage AND Hong Kong
AND (ethic* OR moral)
Add “additional
terms” to narrow
down the search
* : variant forms
AND: use when both A& B concepts are needed to narrow down your search
OR: use with synonyms to expand your search
AND NOT: use when some related concepts are excluded
Use Brackets to specify search order
DEVELOP A SEARCH STRATEGY
Exercise: Stereotype of women in the literature
Identify the
main
concepts
List possible
Search terms
Combine your
search terms
appropriately
* : variant forms
AND: use when both A& B concepts are needed to narrow down your search
OR: use with synonyms to expand your search
AND NOT: use when some related concepts are excluded
Use Brackets to specify search order
DEVELOP A SEARCH STRATEGY
Topic: Stereotype of women in the literature
Stereotype
Stereotype
Stereotypes
Image
Characteristics
Women
Literature
Women
Female
Feminine
Gender
Literature
Motion pictures
Option #1: stereotyp* AND wom?n AND literature
Identify the
main
concepts
List possible
Search terms
Combine your
search terms
appropriately
Option #2: (stereotyp* OR image*) AND (wom?n OR female) AND Hong Kong
* : variant forms
AND: use when both A& B concepts are needed to narrow down your search
OR: use with synonyms to expand your search
AND NOT: use when some related concepts are excluded
Use Brackets to specify search order
Major Resources
RESOURCES on Literature & Literary Criticism
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Gale Literary Index
 a master index to 130+ major literature products published by
Gale.
 use as a starting point to locate authors and titles covered in
any volumes
 http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex/
Contemporary Writers (maintained by British Council Literature
Dept.)
 searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the
UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers
 http://www.contemporarywriters.com/
Internet Public Library (IPL) Literary Criticism Collection
 contains critical and biographical websites about authors and
their works
 The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, only
selected sites are covered.
 http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
The Literature Network
 A searchable database for over 250 authors
 Locate a particular quotation by searching through a database
of the author’s works.
 http://www.online-literature.com (go to the Author Index)
RESOURCES on Chinese Literature & Literary Criticism
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Useful Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue
Chinese literature -- 20th century – History and criticism– Periodicals
文學評論 -- 中國 -- 期刊
文學評論 – 香港 -- 期刊
China Journal Net 中國期刊網 - 文史哲專輯 (1994- )
 期刊論文及評論
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香港中文期刊論文索引 http://hkinchipcu.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/
 在香港出版的中文和雙語期刊提供論文索引，引用的期刊超過三百種。大部份
期刊之索引資料從一九八零年開始，但重要之學術期刊則從創刊號開始。收錄
最早之期刊為香港第一份中文刊物《遐邇貫珍》(一八五三年八月一日出版)，其
中約有二十種期刊授權提供全文影像 。
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香港文學資料庫 / 香港文學檔案 http://hklit.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/
 有關香港文學的資料庫，除具備多項檢索功能外，資料庫部分條目更附有該文
章之全文。內容包括香港報章文藝版文章、學報及期刊文章、 香港中文大學大
學圖書館之館藏香港文學書刊、及學位論文。
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中文電子期刊服務 http://www.ceps.com.tw/ec/echome.aspx
 提供超過4,000種不同學科領域的期刊索引資料
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當代文學史料系統 http://lit.ncl.edu.tw/hypage.cgi?HYPAGE=home/index.htm
 台灣國家圖書館收集五十餘年台灣地區2000多位當代文學作家之基本資料及生
平傳記,手稿,照片, 作品目錄, 評論文獻, 歷屆文學獎得獎紀錄
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中華民國期刊論文索引影像系統 (1991-)
Major Electronic Resources in Humanities
Subject Related
 British Humanities Index
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ATLA Religion Database
Philosopher’s Index
ARTBibliographies Modern
DAAI: Design and Applied
Arts Index
* British Humanities Index
*ATLA
Religion
BHI indexes
overDatabase
320
respected
*internationally
Philosopher’s
Index
journals
and weekly
 humanities
covers Biblical
studies,
*world
ARTBibliographies
magazines
published
in the
UK
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covers
the
areas
of
ethics,
religions,
church
Modern
and
other English
speaking
aesthetics,
epistemology,
history,
and
religious
countries
logic,
provides
abstracts
of journal
and
metaphysics
perspectives
on social
* DAAI
articles,
books,
essays,
from
1940.
exhibition
catalogs,
issues
from 1949.
 thesaurus
dissertations,
articles, news
items,
and
and
exhibition
reviews
in design
reviews
onpublished
allas
forms
of
 Person
name
subject
applied
arts periodicals
modern
and
contemporary
Scriptures
Search
 Link
toand
full-text
e-journals
1973
onwards
artfrom
fromby
late
19th century
subscribed
HKBU
 Limit your search to
 Search
subject name
lang./document
type/
publication date
personal
Major Electronic Resources
Current Events
 WiseNews
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
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HK, mainland China,
Taiwan, Macau news
International newspapers
* Project Muse
* JSTOR
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Over 10 e-journals in
 Over 15 e-journals in
“Philosophy”
“Philosophy”
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About 8 e-journals in
 About 15 e-journals in
“Religion”
“Language & Literature”
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About 16 e-journals in
 The earliest
back
issue
“Women
studies”,
“Gay
&
dated
back
to
1876
Lesbian studies”, “Culture &
Society”
 Historical study of a
subject
Full-text
HK TV Programs Db.
E-Journals
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Project Muse
JSTOR
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Research Support
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Functions:
• Import references directly from major databases available through the Library
homepage and the Library Catalogue or from text files, or enter references
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• Format in-text citations
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Unit 2.2: Citing Information Resources
@Library Tutorials
Access to Resources Beyond HKBU Library
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Apply for a JULAC Reader Card
 HK$50 per application
 expires at the end of the academic year (i.e. 31st July)
and renew it in a new academic year
 endorsement from supervisor
Request books that our Library does not hold or that have
been checked out, but that are held by other libraries with
the status "AVAILABLE" through Hong Kong Academic
Library Link (HKALL)
Online Interlibrary Loan Request (Final Year)
 First 20 articles per academic year free of charge
 Web-based HKBU ILL System
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First-time user registration
Keep track of the status of requests online
Retrieve electronic articles on desktop
HK$5 charge for each additional article filled by local
libraries.