These slides serve as an introductory tutorial for using library databases at Regents Center Library. Courses related tutorials are available on our Regents Center Library, RCL, slideshare site.

1. Introduction to
Academic
Research
Database & Online
Search Process
Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu
Fall 2013

2. Regents Center Library
http://www.lib.ku.edu/RCLibrary/
Edwards Campus
http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/
Dissertation Research Blog
http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
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3. We need to know this:
(1) Use databases to find articles
(2) Request (WebRetrieve) full text articles from abstracts if
you didn’t find the full text article in your search
(3) Use Google Scholar from the list of library databases
(4) Find books using the online catalog and request delivery
to Edwards Campus 3

4. Using databases
to find
articles
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KU Libraries: http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Course: Engineering Management
Databases: Look at Business
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http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Using AND rather then and
tells the database to include
connecting terms in the
same document.
Using “ “ searches the terms as
a single phrase throughout the
document.
This is called Boolean search strategy

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Too many. Too, too many.

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Limit Search Results:Peer reviewed, only.Date to last 4 years.
If that still gives youhundreds of results, try thesuggested subjects

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Keep limiting the search until
you get a list of articles youcan work with and that willhelp you with your mainintention of your researchpurpose.

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I selected “Cite” and this is what I
got! I chose the style I wanted
from a long list of options. Now I
can make a bibliography.

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Get at KU brings
you to this
screen and the
article you want
was found in
another
database.

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What did we just do?
Selected a Business database / ABI Inform
Entered a search and limited it by Peer Review,
Date and, if needed, added the selection of
“Suggested Topic”
Browsed through several articles
Copied the citations we might use in a
bibliography
Saved, emailed or Downloaded the articles
We found an article!

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A General Research Academic
Database
OmniFile full text select
Provides indexing, abstracting and full-
text content to journal articles in a
variety of disciplines.

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http://www.lib.ku.edu
If you know the name of
the database, just choose
its beginning letter.

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How to find Books

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Search: “project management”
Limit to: last 5 years

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One more book search

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“project management” AND “academic
libraries”

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Libraries’ Homepage: http://www.lib.ku.edu
We found 2 articles using 2 databases: ABI/Inform and Omnifile
We found an e-book using the Online catalog
We ordered a hardback book from Watson Library to Edwards

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Where are the
journals that you
can search by
journal title?

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http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Search E-journals by
subject

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Guessing there might be a journal
titled “Project Management”
something or other

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Libraries’ Homepage: http://www.lib.ku.edu
We found 2 articles using 2 databases: ABI/Inform and Omnifile
We found an e-book using the Online catalog
We ordered a hardback book from Watson Library to Edwards
We found e-Journals from the Libraries’ homepage
We ordered a full text journal article using WebRetrieve

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Google Scholar / from
Libraries’ Homepage

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If you know the name
of the database you
can select the title
alphabetically.

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Sort by date
gets the most
recent articles
first; lets try it

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Articles for you from Google Scholar

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Databases = Journals = Articles
Online Catalog = Books / print and electronic
E-journals
Google Scholar
Join us for Introduction to EndNote
10:00 – 11:00
Saturday
September 28, 2013
Introduction to Academic Research

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Final Word

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Dissertation Research Blog
http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com

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60. Find articles through the libraries Databases
Find books through the Catalog
Find research news through the Blog
Questions?
Ask the Librarian
Lissa Lord
llord@ku.edu
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