Download - Research Tools from the Library
Research Toolsfrom the Library Network
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Joint Bank-Fund Library
World Bank Group Library
Today’s Agenda
2:00 - 4:00 PMResearch Tools from the Library
• Home Page Overview• Our Collections• JOLIS online catalog• Economic Literature Sources• WB Repositories• External sources
4:00 – 6:00 PMOne on one training by request
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What Does Library Offer to Make Your Life Easier?
• One-stop access to on-line resources @ http://Library• JOLIS Catalog - with more than one million items • Content from over 190 top database services• E-Journals - over 25,000 full-text journals• News from >28,000 sources - FT, WSJ and The
Economist• Citations, papers, publications via JStor, EconLit, BSC… • Support via Ask! a librarian from everywhere on the site
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Library Network Home Pagehttp://Library
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http://Library
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Our Collections
• JOLIS Online Catalog
• E-Books:– Handbooks in Economics– NetLibrary
• E-Journals:– Over 25,000 full-text journals– Searchable Journal Databases– E-TOCs
• E-Research Papers:– By Series title both print and electronic– Full-text only
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http://Library
JOLIS Online Catalog
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JOLIS Online CatalogQuick Searching Tips
• Use 'single quotation marks' to search for exact phrases • Boolean Operators (AND, OR, and NOT) are supported • JOLIS is not case-sensitive • Omit frequently-used words (the, an, of, etc.) • $ is used as a right-hand truncation for other forms of the word• ? is used to replace any single character inside the word
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JOLIS Online Catalog
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JOLIS Online Catalog
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E-Books
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E-Journals
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Journals in E-Tocs
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Journals in E-Tocs
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Our Collections• Newspapers & E-News
NewsPlus/Factiva• Statistical Resources Online
By Region/Sector/Organization • Databases
By Subject
Research Guides• Country Research Guides• Topic Research Guides
Library Services• Electronic Table of Contents (E-Tocs)
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http://Library
Collections: NewsPlus / Factiva
• 28,000 news sources (publications and websites)
• 157 countries• 23 languages• 400+ continuously
updating wires
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Databases
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Multiple Database Search
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1. Searches several databases at a time
2. It's a good way to start when you're unsure which journal or database to choose. It can be your discovery tool.
3. Click on Databases from the Library Homepage
4. Choose all or several databases of interest
5. 14 different databases can be searched at the same time or create a custom set of databases
Country Research Guides
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Topic Research Guide
Economic Literature Databases
Multiple Database Search
Academic and Trade Journals
• EconLit – articles, research papers and books on economics and related fields; over 430 journals full-text
• Business Source Corporate – articles from business and trade sources, over 2800 journals
• JSTOR – over 500 titles, archived back issues collection
• FirstSearch – 20 databases
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Deep Back Archive Coverage
1969 +
1965 +
1891 + moving date for current issues, no resent years
Economic Literature Databases
Advantages• Advanced search features – proximity and field
searching, citation searches• Multiple database searching• Export bibliographies• Save searches and settings• Visual search • Capture URL links to share searches and articles• Find It service - full-text availability tool
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EconLit
The American Economic Association’s electronic collection, EconLit, indexes more than 30 years of economics literature From around the world. It is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations. >735,000 records
Functionality• Basic/Guided Advanced Searches• Visual Search• Limiters/Expanders• Narrowing Results• Personal Folders/Alerts• Finding More Like This• Combining Search Results• Cited References/Times Cited
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Business Source Corporate
• Contains over 3000 quality general business periodicals and specific trade publications such as:
FortuneHarvard Business ReviewJournal of Economic Literature (JEL)
• Provides various search capabilities
PublicationsVisual SearchMultiple Databases
• Can limit to full-text, peer reviewed academic journals
• Can set up My EBSCO account for storing search results
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JSTOR http://www.jstor.org
Scholarly Journals Archive - not current issues databasetypical gap from 1 to 5 years, between recent and back issuestrusted critical research in economics and finance, history, politicalscience & sociology
Features• New Platform-new look and feel• Browsing journals/volumes/issues• Searching/Faceted Search• Printing/Downloading (new PDF format)• Viewing article pages in a thumbnail• Personalization “My JSTOR”
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JSTOR http://www.jstor.org• You can store your saved citations • More efficient navigation throughout the site (page jumping) • Ability to search within result sets • Limit by discipline on basic search form • Select Recent Search • Article Locator/Journal Search • View List of Pages with search terms • More Like this feature
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First Search Collection of Databases• WorldCat, ECO, Books in Print…• You can store your saved citations • More efficient navigation throughout the site (page jumping) • Ability to search within result sets • Limit by discipline on basic search form • Select Recent Search • Article Locator/Journal Search • View List of Pages with search terms • More Like this feature
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SSRN http://www.ssrn.com/Tomorrow’s Research Today
Collaborative Network
• Top quality research papers in social science: accounting, economics, finance, law, management, etc.
• Thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers –Fund Working Papers, World Bank Policy Research and NBER WPs
• Sign up for e-mail alerts of new working papers, articles, conferences
• Subscribe to journals in any of the nine networks without additional charge.
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WBG Internal Resources• http://ImageBank
Internal repository of Bank operational and research documents, new features recently introduced:
• WB E-LibraryOfficially issued publication from the WB research department
• Develoment Data Platform (DDP) http://ddpCollection of statistics from various agencies including WB indicators, also UN, IMF, ITU, etc.
• Global Economic Monitor (GEM) http://GEM• Redesigned Data & Reference tab on the main intranet• Operations Portal offers project information• IFC iDesk has integration with the library resources
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Eldis www.eldis.org
• Development policy, practice and research.• Browse by topics or country, more than 22,000
summarized documents from over 4,500 development organizations - all available free to download. Share your work with over 80,000 development practitioners
• Specialized search engine of development-related websites • Regular e-mail updates on new research added and
newsfeeds on development issues• Join the community and contribute your publications
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Google Book Searchhttp://books.google.com
• Scanned full-text books from publishers and libraries• Millions of titles• All text is searchable• Advanced search by author, date, title• View ‘snippet’ of text with keywords• Limited views of books but some fulltext• Discover hard to find book chapters • Includes World Bank published books
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Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com
• Scholarly papers, preprints, reports, books• Covers many subject disciplines• Keyword & advanced search by author, date, title• Find leads on key authors, most cited articles, new subjects• Use library Find It links to identify best databases and find
full-text
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Wrap-up
Where to start my research?
Country – start with the Country Research Guide
Topic – multiple database search or specialized database
Specific journal – E- journals
Books – search the library catalog Jolis or E-books
News – Factiva or ISI Emerging Markets
Need to keep up-to-date with research in my profession –Journals E-TOCs Service, alerts in databases
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Questions
Best question earns a prize
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Ask! a Librarian
• Use the online form to send us an e-mail
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Today’s Agenda
4:00 – 6:00 PM
One on one training by request
Ukraine Training Mission, Kiev, May 17-21, 2010