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Searching Literaturethrough Online Resources
Written By: Naveed Akhtar
Reviewed by: Farooq WahabJilani Roy
Dr. Maha Arooj
Dr. Maha Arooj
(M.B.B.S)
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This forum Research Articles, Books & Literature was
established to help you as a member of the academiccommunity.
This document has been written to help you becomean independent researcher so that you can fully
PURPOSE OF THIS FORUM
ene rom e ng e mem er o s orum yrequesting well searched literature.
If you search according to the given instructions you
may find 10-15% technical literature of your subjectarea/ research topic freely from these sources withoutany assistance of others.
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HAVE YOU PROVIDED
a valid email address to send you the article?
a legitimate facebook account if email is not provided? If the articleis sent via facebook message, it often ends up in the OTHERfolder. Click on the message folder; you will see Inbox and theOther folder. Click the Other folder to obtain your article.
BEFORE YOU POST
Direct links of requested books, thesis or articles? Go to the journalpublishers website to locate your articles. Pubmed, Google links,are NOT direct links. A request may not be entertained if a donorhas to search direct links for you.
A request may not be entertained if donors have to research thearticles for you.
EXAMPLE OF A COMMON INDIRECT LINK: Note nih.gov in the address
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1. BOOKS
Keep in mind not all books are online/ or exist as pdf.
Provide us with full details, as a link from AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/. If donors have access they
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
will respond to you as soon as possible
There are other options such as
Worlds Largest Catalogue: http://www.worldcat.org/You may be able to find out which library owns that
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2. THESIS
Go to the following databases to locate the link of therequired thesis:
Networked Digital Library of Thesis and
Dissertations
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
British Library EThOS
Proquest Dissertations & Thesis Database
PROQUEST IS AN IDEAL SOURCE FORCHECKING THE THESES.
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3. ARTICLES: This is what most people are looking
for
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
HOW TO FIND DIRECT LINKS if a reference article isrequired i.e. year, volume and pages are known.
1. Find out the full name of the journal.
2. Google the full name of the journal. This will leadyou to the direct publishers/ journal website.
3. Search your article from the journal websites.The ABSTRACTS are FREE.
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GENERAL RESEARCH
STRATEGIES WHEN YOU ARE
DOING A LITERATURE
SURVEY
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GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES
YOU MAY BEGIN FROM HERE:
GOOGLE (www.google.com)
SIMPLE SEARCH OPTIONS
GOOGLE ADVANCED OPTIONS
- a very use u resource
or
Start from SCOPUS (Contains 49 millions records)
www.scopus.com orhttp://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus
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SIMPLE SEARCHES
Google Simple Search- the easiest approach
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ADVANCED GOOGLE OPTIONS
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GOOGLE SCHOLAR- A USEFUL FREE RESOURCE
Go to: www.scholar.google.com
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
Formal ways
University libraries- Please visit them! Not allknowledge is online
Special libraries
Inter-librar loan Informal ways
Contact Authors An underutilized resource! Findout the author and request the article by email
Personal libraries of experts
Your friends who are studying in foreign universities
Online databases
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
Boolean Operators
Phrase Searching
Truncation / Wildcard Searchin Proximity Searching
Focusing / Limiting a Search
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Boolean Operators
AND
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. Many databases rely on AND/ OR/ NOTOptions.
OR
NOT
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EXAMPLE: Boolean Operators at Emerald
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
PHRASE SEARCHES: Allow you to search an exactquote
It narrows your search down by searching for anexact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful
.quotation marks are used to connect the wordstogether.
For example entering Effect of Gold Nanoparticles
on Total Cell Proteins Will make the search enginefind the exact phrase in the literature.
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
These search techniques retrieve information onsimilar words by replacing part of the word with asymbol usually a * or?. However, differentdatabases use different symbols, so check what is
TRUNCATION / WILDCARD
.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 arereplaced. For example wom*n will retrieve the termswoman and women.
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR
EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS
There are many ways to focus your search and allsearch tools offer different ways of doing this. Someof the ways of limiting your search are as follows:
Focusing / Limiting a Search
.2. Language
3. Place
4. Publication type
5. Age groups
6. Type of material e.g. you could just need to findcase studies
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ONLINE DATABASES
Bibliographic databases ERIC, EI, SCI, CSA, PsychINFO
Numeric databases
, ommon a a ase
Full text databases
ScienceDirect, Emerald,
AIAA, PQDT, IEEE, ELSEVIER, JSTOR,
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ONLINE DATABASES: Example of SCIENCEDIRECT
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THANKS
share it with other group members, sothat they can also get benefit from it.
All the best. (Admin: Maha Arooj)