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LIB260: Locating Social Sciences Resources

Sep 2010http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2010/fall/powerpoint/

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Locating Social Sciences Resources

Outline Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources Understand your course reading list Finding materials from different sources:

Library catalogue Electronic databases Internet resources

Demonstrations Citation Management / Bibliography Generation

Tools

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Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources Primary Sources: A first-hand or eye witness

account of an event. Newspaper stories , speeches and other papers

that individuals describe events in which they were participants or observers.

Statistical data Materials that document the attitudes and popular

thought of a historical time period. e.g. public opinion surveys.

Records of organizations. e.g. minutes, correspondences, annual reports, etc.

Personal letters, diary, etc.

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Secondary Sources are ones that interpret or analyzes primary sources. Examples: dictionaries, encyclopedias,

textbooks, books and articles.

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Primary Sources Labour Union

documents Speeches Personal letters

Secondary Sources Research papers on

evaluating and analyzing the relationship between feminist movement and labor movement in turn-of-the-century England

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Understand your course reading listExample 1

Chun, Russell (2002). Macromedia Flash MX advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press

Chun, Russell (2002). Macromedia Flash MX advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press

A BookAuthor & Year

Book Title

Publisher and Place

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Ginsberg, Leon (2000) "Conservative Approaches to Social Policy" pp. 377-92 in James Midgley, Martin B, Tracy and Michelle Livermore (eds.) The Handbook of Social Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

A Chapter in a BookAuthor of the Book Chapter Chapter’s Title

The Book’s Author, Title, etc.

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Pun, Kit-fai (2001)"Cultural influences on total quality management adoption in Chinese enterprises: An empirical study", Total Quality Management, May 2001, Vol. 12 Issue 3: 323- 342.

A Journal Article

Journal’s Name, Volume / Issue and Page Numbers

Author and Title of the Article

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“Blow to Confidence," South China Morning Post, April 16, 1994

A Newspaper Article

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Search Strategies (1) Use appropriate resources

Library catalogue – various books, journals, video programs, etc. available at the Library

Electronic databases – e-books, book chapters, academic journal articles, news articles, statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc.

Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, etc

Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, and periodical articles, etc.

Internet resources – facts, news, organizational information, statistics …

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Search Strategies (2) Identify main concepts

E.g. I want to study about how the citizenship be reflected through political participation in Hong Kong.

1. Political participation, election, etc.

2. Citizenship

3. Hong Kong .

Choice of search words (related key terms/synonyms)

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Search Strategies (3)Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT)

and wildcards (e.g. * , !)AND: searches records that mention both

search terms, this narrows the search e.g. citizenship and hong kong ( 必須同時出現 )

OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search

e.g. Citizenship or vote ( 只要任何一個出現 )

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Search Strategies (4)Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant

endings of that word EBSCOhost: * ProQuest: * Factiva: * LexisNexis Academic: ! OPAC: *

e.g. citizen* -- retrieves all words that start with CITIZEN

such as citizen, citizens, citizenship etc.

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Search Strategies (5)( )Parentheses: gives priority and

order in the search statemente.g. (citizenship or voting) and hong kong

Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database-specific features / changing your keywords

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Demonstrations1-Search

citizenship and political and participation (political participation) and citizenship and Hong

KongProQuest / EbscoHost

citizenship and political and participationcitizen* and (political participat*) and Hong Kong

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Demonstrations Sociological Abstract, AgeLine (CSA)

citizenship and political and participation older adults and voting ((older adult* or older people) or elderly) and vot*

JSTOR hong kong and social change*(in article title / in abstract)

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Subject: citizenship + keyword: hong kong

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DemonstrationsWiseNews

(( 香港 and 污染 ) or (hong kong and pollution))

LexisNexis Academichong kong and pollution and protect!hong kong and (air quality) and protect!

Factiva ((hong kong and pollution*) or ( 香港 and 污

染 )) and (air quality)

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Research Guides Economics

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/subject/Economics

Sociology & Social Policy http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/

subject/Sociology+&+Social+Policy

Political Sciences http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/

show/subject/Political+Science

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Statistics HK Census & Statistics Dept publications (print version or

electronic version: e.g. HK Annual Digest of Statistics, census reports, etc.), Datastream, IMF International Financial Statistics, UN Statistical Yearbook, China InfoBank …

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/Locating_Information_at_Lingnan:_Finding_Statistics

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Citation Management / Bibliography Generation Tools

RefWorks http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?

dbname=refworks Citation Builder

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php

Citation and Style http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/

Research_Methods/Citation_and_Style

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Need Helps?Ask A Librarian

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eref/Integrated Helpdesk

[email protected]

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