Introduction to electronic journals searching for ergonomics

1. Introduction to electronic journals searching for ergonomics • These slides take you through some of the basic ways of searching the Library’s electronic journals for Ergonomics.

2. Login to UDo & then select Library under Quick Links. It is essential to login through the University. You will often also need to find an “Athens” login link when you come to a resource page. Athens is a password system used by university libraries.

3. The Library home page gives general information, news and help. The Digital library gives you access to all the Library’s electronic/online Resources. Subject Resources gives access to online Library resources for Ergonomics

4. Finding a journal article when you know the journal you need to look for. • Use the Electronic Journals A-Z on the Digital Library page to find a specific electronic journal or to find a journal article & you know which journal it is in. • Do not use the A-Z to find articles from a range of journals. • Unless you are using a University computer, make sure you find the Athens login link(s) & click on it (them) otherwise you will not be able to see a full journal article we have access to.

5. e.g. Find the following journal article:Gustafsson, E. et al (2011). Technique, muscle activity and kinematic differences in young adults texting on mobile phones. Ergonomics, 54 (5), 477-487Use the Electronic Journals A-Z on the Digital Library page to look up the journal called Ergonomics (not the article title)

6. On the Digital Library page, choose Electronic journals A-Z

7. Type in the journal title (not a journal article title) or one or two specific words from the journal title.

8. Click on the publisher link under the journal title. There may be more than one link which can confuse, but the publishers’ links usually lead to the same page.

9. Click on Sign in (unless you are using a University computer). Different publishers have different “sign in” links which can be confusing. Alternatives are Institutional login, login, Athens login. There is often then a second login page where you need to click on an Athens login link.

10. Now click on the Athens sign in link. Ignore the boxes asking for usernames and passwords. Athens is a password system used by university libraries.

11. You can also search the whole journal using a keyword search. As you know you are looking for vol 54 issue 5 2011, click on the link

12. And now click on Download full text to see the whole journal article

14. Searching for articles on a topic • There is no one single correct way of finding journal articles but there are several databases we have which are very useful to make it easier to find articles on a topic. • Databases may be full-text databases (containing complete journal articles), indexes (giving details of articles but not containing the full-text of articles) or a combination of the two.

15. Full-text databases The following databases contain complete journal articles. • EBSCO Electronic Journals Service • PsycARTICLES • Elsevier Science Direct

16. EBSCO Electronic Journals Service allows you to search across a range of journals we subscribe to from different publishers.It’s not sophisticated, you just type in a few key words & it doesn’t find all we have but it’s very useful & easy to use

18. Unless you are using a University computer click on the Athens Login link

19. To find journal articles on a topic, just type in your search terms/keywords in the Find Articles by text search box & click on Find Articles.

20. To view a whole journal article, click on “Open in New Window” next to Full Text.

22. PsycARTICLES is a database including the complete articles of the journals of the American Psychological Association (APA) & others. Many are not covered in EBSCO EJS so it is another very useful place to search

25. PsycINFO is the major index of psychology & related journal articles. For now we will look at PsycARTICLES.

26. Either put in a simple keyword or phrase or for a more sophisticated search, choose Advanced Search

27. You can combine search terms by using the different search boxes. AND combines the search terms & Narrows the search. Changing to OR will widen a search by Looking for one word/phrase or another

28. You can now view the whole article online

29. If you find too many articles, you may want to refine your search.You could be more specific with your search terms or could limit the results to the most recent years.

30. Science Direct Science Direct is the database of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest journals publishers. Though many of the journals are contained in EBSCO EJS, the latter does not go as far back in time as Science Direct.The first time you use it from a computer outside the University, you need to register your details with Science Direct.

32. Search for journal articles on a subject by entering your keywords here. You can also click on Advanced search for more options We have most Science Direct Journals from at least 1997 and also the older backfiles of a number of psychology & related journals.

33. Other databases There are a number of other very useful databases: • EBSCO Business Source Premier • PsycINFO • Web of Science • Google Scholar

34. EBSCO Business Source Premier This is a very useful database of journal articles which is far more general than its name suggests. It contains a large number of complete (full-text) journal articles as well as indexeing others.

36. EBSCO Business Source Premier uses the same interface as PsycARTICLES.

37. Use the different fields in the Find Boxes. You can limit a search to find Complete articles only, by ticking the Full Text box.

39. PsycINFO PsycINFO is the major index for psychology giving details of articles from thousands of psychology & related journal articles. It has also been set up so that it will contain direct links to some of the electronic journals we subscribe to and for others it will allow you to link through to our electronic journals A-Z. Note that we won’t have access to a substantial number of articles from the database.

43. The search screens are the same as for PsyARTICLES. Again Advanced search gives more search options.

45. A-Z link leads you though to our A-Z list of e-journals. If we have it you would need to click on any Athens/Sign In links as explained earlier Click the PDF link to see the whole journal article

46. Web of Science The Web of Science is one of the world’s major journal indexes. It does not contain “full-text” journal articles but there are links to our electronic journals if we subscribe to any. The following slides just show how to access it.

50. Google Scholar • Google Scholar is a very useful index to journal articles and books. • Note that unless an article or report is freely available or we have a subscription, then you will not be able to see it in full. • Where we have paid for a journal, you can often link through to it. To do this you need to set up Google Scholar Preferences. You also need to have logged in through UDo.