research tools from the library

Research Toolsfrom the Library Network

Ukraine Training Mission, Kiev, May 17-21, 2010

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


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


Library Network Home Pagehttp://Library


http://Library


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


http://Library

JOLIS Online Catalog


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


JOLIS Online Catalog


E-Books


E-Journals


Journals in E-Tocs


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)


http://Library

Collections: NewsPlus / Factiva

• 28,000 news sources (publications and websites)

• 157 countries• 23 languages• 400+ continuously

updating wires


Databases


Multiple Database Search


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


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


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


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”


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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


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


Questions

Best question earns a prize


Ask! a Librarian

• Use the online form to send us an e-mail


Today’s Agenda

4:00 – 6:00 PM

One on one training by request


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