LIB110: Locating Full-text Journal Articles

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Find a Special Article from a Journal•Library Online Catalogue •E-journal Portal •Article Finder •Example: Nehemia Geva, James Mayhar, Mark

Skorick, "The cognitive calculus of foreign policy decision making," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 44, no. 4, Aug 2000:447-71.

Library Online Catalogue

Full text articles can be accessed online via 2 electronic platforms (ProQuest & JSTOR)

Nehemia Geva, James Mayhar, Mark Skorick, "The cognitive calculus of foreign policy decision making," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 44, no. 4, Aug 2000:447-71.

E-journal Portal

You can : 1. Search by journal title;2. Check alphabetical list;3. Browse journals by Subjects.

Article Finder

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 Citation Databases - contains descriptive

information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, and periodical articles, etc.

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

Search Strategies (2)•Identify main concepts

▫Main concepts can be the name of an author or key words of title

▫E.g. Media and politics in Hong Kong .media; politics; hong kong

•Choice of search words (related key terms/synonyms)

1.media, journalism, etc.2.politics, political, etc.3.hong kong, hongkong, hk

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. media 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. media or journalism (只要任何一個出現 )

Search Strategies (4)•Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant endings of that word ▫ EBSCOhost: *▫ ProQuest: *▫ LexisNexis Academic: !▫ OPAC: *

e.g. journali* -- retrieves all words that start with JOURNALI such as journalist, journalism, journalistic, etc.

Search Strategies (5)•( )Parentheses: gives priority and order in

the search statemente.g. (media or journalism) and hong

kong

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

1-searchAllow searching across 40 databases at

once NOT a substitute for any individual database

Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/

Full Text Databases▫ProQuest, EBSCOhos, WiseNews, Factiva,

LexisNexis, Emerald, JSTOR,中國期刊全文數據庫 Citation Databases

▫Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), MLA International Bibliography, EconLit, Sociological Abstracts

Find Databases by Subjects WebBridge: Linking up Library-paid

Databases and Full-text Contents

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Using Electronic Databases

Google Scholar (1)•A freely-accessible web search engine

indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across disciplines.

•Modify the Scholar Preference in Google Scho

•Access: http://scholar.google.com

Google Scholar (2)

Google Scholar (3)

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▫refstaff@ln.edu.hk▫2616-8571

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