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Literature Search from E-Resources

Literature Search from E-Resources. East West University Library Dhaka, Bangladesh. What is a Literature Search?.

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Literature Search from E-Resources

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  1. Literature Search from E-Resources East West University Library Dhaka, Bangladesh

  2. What is a Literature Search? A literature search is a well thought out and organized search for all of the literature published on a topic. A well-structured literature search is the most effective and efficient way to locate sound evidence on the subject you are researching. Evidence may be found in books, journals, government documents and the internet

  3. Electronic Resources By electronic resources we usually mean those which can be accessed by computer—in particular, via email, CD-ROM, or more commonly, via the World Wide Web. Using these resources a wide range of materials and research tools can be accessed—including, electronic journals; scholarly databases; electronic books or e-books; hybrid collections; Internet Gateways, which comprise (often subject based) links to pre-evaluated web sites, selected for their quality and relevance; and the Internet search engines.

  4. Advantages of Electronic Resources Electronic resources have great potential and bright future to attract users. • It combines all the benefits of the multimedia, digital coding and Internet. • It enable user to carry everywhere and can be read on all types of computers including handled device. • E- Resources can be downloaded instantly. • Users can read an e- resource any time • Due to portability, e-resources can be taken any where on portable computer.

  5. Advantages of Electronic Resources • Text can be searched, except when represented in the form of images; • Type size and type face may be adjusted suitably; • E- resources provide facility to hold and turn pages easily • Physically disabled users can hear audible E- resources • In buying E- resources, the overhead charges like shipping , postal ,handling are totally ruled out • Some E- resources are interactive. E- Resources have back round music and animations. • E- resources do not require bindery and repair

  6. Advantages of Electronic Resources • E- resources save human resources for shelving and rectification • User can not misplace e- books • Hundreds or thousands may be carried together on one device. • Approximately 500 average e-books can be stored on one CD; • E- Resources can be used with text-to-speech software; • Distributed at low cost; • Distributed instantly, allowing readers to begin reading at once, without the need to visit a bookstore. • No risk of damage, vandalism, etc. on the pages

  7. Format of E-Resources • HTML Format • PDF Format • TIFF • Doc, Docx Format • PPT, Xls etc • CHM Format • PostScript Format • Desktop Author Format • Rich Text Format etc.

  8. Type of e-resources • E-Books • E-Journals • E-Zine • E-Thesis and dissertation (ETD) • E-News Papers • E-Reference books • CD-ROMs • Scholarly Databases • Other Data bases • Hybrid digital collections • Internetgateways and search engines • Multimedia i.e. Images, audio and video

  9. Library Resources • Physical Resources (Books, Print Periodicals) • Electronic Resources (CD, E-books, E-Journals) • Online Catalogue • Institutional Repository

  10. Discovery Search

  11. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

  12. Showing Result From Various Sources in a Single Window VuFind Institutional repository Digital library OPAC E-resource

  13. Search In VuFind

  14. EWU Institutional Repository

  15. E-Resource Databases Thanks for your patience

  16. Searching E-Resources • Online journals • Google Scholar • Scopus • Ebscohost Discovery • Websites (Government departments, research institutes, etc.) • Search Engines • General • Meta • Scholarly

  17. Searching Websites • Subject Directories • Online Databases • Online Encyclopedia

  18. General Search Engines • Google • Yahoo • Bing • Lycos • DuckDuckGo • Excite

  19. Google Simple Search

  20. Scholarly Search Engines • Google Scholar • BASE • RefSeek • CiteuLike • Eric • Intopia

  21. Google Scholar

  22. Google Scholar

  23. Google Scholar

  24. Google Advanced Search

  25. Google books

  26. Google books

  27. Subject Directories Also called Information Gateways and Virtual Libraries • The WWW Virtual Library • Specialized Subject Directories • Abi Logic • Academic Info • SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway

  28. Online Databases • Bibliographic databases • Agricola, Medline, PsychINFO • Full text databases • ScienceDirect, Emerald, JSTOR

  29. The free library.com

  30. ERIC Database

  31. Taylor & Francis eBooks

  32. Science Direct Database

  33. Online Searching Techniques • Boolean Operators • Phrase Searching • Truncation / Wildcard Searching • Focusing / Limiting a Search

  34. Boolean Operators Boolean operators allow you to join terms together, widen a search or exclude terms from your search results. This means you can be more precise in locating your information. AND OR NOT

  35. Boolean Operators at Emerald

  36. Phrase Searching It narrows your search down by searching for an exact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful when searching for a title or a quotation. Usually quotation marks are used to connect the words together. For example “Towards a healthier Scotland”

  37. Truncation / Wildcard Searching These search techniques retrieve information on similar words by replacing part of the word with a symbol usually a * or ?. However, different databases use different symbols, so check what is used. • In truncation the end of the word is replaced. • For example physiother* will retrieve physiotherapy, physiotherapeutic, physiotherapist and so on. • In wildcard searching, letters from inside the word are replaced. • For example wom*n will retrieve the terms woman and women.

  38. Focusing / Limiting a Search There are many ways to focus your search and all search tools offer different ways of doing this. Some of the ways of limiting your search are as follows: • Date • Language • Place • Publication type

  39. Predatory open access publishing In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). "Beall's List", a report that had been regularly updated by Jeffrey Beall until January 2017, set forth criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria

  40. Predatory open access publishing URL https://beallslist.weebly.com/ https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/

  41. Thank you!

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