This document provides an introduction to academic e-resources and how to use them. It outlines the services available at the Learning Resource Centre, including its hours and borrowing policies. It defines what an e-resource is, such as e-books and e-journals, and explains why students need to use them as they contain up-to-date peer-reviewed research. It provides steps to find e-books and e-journals through the university library website and search individual databases. It offers tips for choosing effective keywords and search techniques using Boolean operators and wildcards. Students are given tasks to practice these skills and evaluate sources. Contact information is provided for getting help from library staff.

1. Introduction to E-resources

2. Lesson Plan
• Introduction to the LRC
• What is an e-resource?
• Why do you need to use e-resources?
• How to find academic e-resources

3. Your Learning Resource Centre
• Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 8am-9.30pm
Saturday 10am-6.45pm
• 10 resources at a time (only 2 DVDs)
• Different loan periods
• Fines for returning items late
• To borrow resources, you will need to register with the LRC

4. LRC Rules
We have 3 rules:
1. We are a silent study library, if you want to talk use the group work
area outside of the LRC
2. No eating or drinking (unless water)
3. Turn mobile devices onto silent, and take calls outside the LRC

5. Resources at INTO
• Books
• Journals
• Newspapers
• DVDs
The LRC catalogue can be accessed online:
http://library.ldn.uea.ac.uk/Heritage34/
• Access to academic e-resources

6. What is an e-resource?
• Sources of information that are stored on the Internet
• Examples:
– E-books
– E-journals
What is a journal?
A journal is a collection of articles containing reports of current
research. They are focused on a particular subject, e.g. Journal of
Marketing or Harvard Business Review, and they are published
regularly e.g. weekly, monthly or yearly.

7. Why use e-resources?
• Up-to-date information
• Short but detailed
• Focus on specific topics
• Peer-review
• You will be expected to use e-resources in your assignments
What is peer-review?
When an article has been evaluated and reviewed by other experts
and academics to make sure it is of a good academic standard.

8. Where do you find e-resources?
• Academic e-resources are very expensive
• You can‟t access them for free on the Internet
• UEA subscribes to them and you access them through the UEA Library
website

9. Task 1: Find an E-Book
• Go to the UEA library catalogue Primo OneSearch by selecting
„Search the Library‟ from the library homepage
http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/lib
• Search for an e-book related to your subject‟
• Refine Your Result‟ to „E-book‟
• Click on „Online Resource‟ to access the e-book
See the LRC Helpsheet „Finding E-books’ for more information

10. Task 2: Find an e-journal
• Go to Primo OneSearch
• Select „E-journals A-Z‟
• Search for Harvard Business Review
• Open the journal and find the latest available issue

11. Task 3: Search individual databases
• Go to Primo OneSearch
• Select „Find Databases‟
• Use the „Category‟ and „Sub-category‟ options to see a list of
recommended databases for your subject area
• Open one of the databases
• Find an article related to your subject area and open it

12. Choosing keywords
• What are the key concepts of your assignment title?
– Assignment:
Q: What is the impact of marketing junk-food to teenagers using
social media?
A: junk-food, marketing, social media, teenagers
• What alternative keywords do you need to use?
– Synonyms, related words, plurals, other spellings, abbreviations,
acronyms, broader and narrower terms
– Background reading, thesauri, encyclopaedia
– Make a list or mind map

13. Junk-food Marketing Social media Teenagers
Fast-food Adverts Facebook Teens
Convenience
food
Advertise Twitter Teen
Fast-foods Advertize Weibo Young adult
Convenience
foods
Advertising Web 2.0 Adolescent
Advertizing Young person
Promote Young people
Promotion
Sell
Selling

14. Search techniques
• Wildcard truncators:
– ? is used to replace a letter in a keyword when it has multiple
spellings
– * is used to search for keywords with multiple endings
globali?ation SEARCH Will give results about globalisation
and globalization
librar* SEARCH
Will give results about library, libraries,
Librarian, Librarians and librarianship

15. Search techniques
• Phrase searching:
This will only give you results where the two words are next to each other
“global warming” SEARCH

16. Boolean Operators
• Boolean Operators are used to link keywords together:
– AND
– OR
– NOT

17. Putting it all together
Junk-food Market* “Social media” Teen*
Fast-food AND Advert* AND Facebook AND “Young person”
OR OR OR OR
“Convenience
food”
Promot* Twitter “Young adult”
OR OR OR OR
Fast-foods Sell* Weibo Adolescent*
OR OR
“Convenience
foods”
“Web 2.0”
Example: fast-food AND advert* AND “web 2.0” and teen*
Example: (junk-food OR fast-food* OR “convenience food*”) AND (market* OR advert* OR
promot* OR sell*) AND (“social media” OR facebook OR twitter OR weibo OR
“Web 2.0) AND (teen* OR “young adult” OR adolescent* OR “young person”)

18. Task 4: Keywords and search techniques
• Go to Primo OneSearch
• Go to „Find Database‟
• Open the database „JSTOR‟
• Test out the following searches, and compare the number of results:
– Search for social media, then search for “social media”
– Search for teenagers, then search for teen*
– Search for globalisation, then search for globali?ation
– Search for e-shopping, then search for online shopping

19. Evaluation
Visit this great practice website http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/evaluating/

20. Moodle

21. City University Library
• You can study at City University Library
• Borrow 15 books
• Search their online catalogue
• 15 mins on the bus
• Long opening hours
• Register for a card at the Welcome Desk
See the LRC Helpsheet „Visiting City Library‟

22. Help!
• Book a 1-2-1 or small group session with LRC Staff
• You can find further information and helpsheets on the LRC Moodle
Page
• You can find helpsheets in the LRC
• You can contact the LRC staff to ask questions in person or by e-mail
LRC.london@uea.ac.uk