Agder University library

Library training course

BE501

februar 2008

Henry Langseth Academic librarian, social sciences

Table of content

– Search techniques– BIBSYS Ask– Journal holdings

-Library web pages / subject guides

Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabases

Search techniques - operators

• Use search operators to make more precise searches:

– AND– OR– NOT

Search techniques

• AND = include both search terms

• OR = include at least one of the search terms

• NOT= exclude a specific search term

• ? = replace a letter = open ended searches

Search techniques - wildcard

• Wildcard ?

Use question mark ? to replace letter

E.g. internationali?ation =

internationalisation

internationalization

Search techniques - wildcard

• Particularly useful with non-english letters:

Æ, Ø, Å

E.g. Rand?y,Trond

Search techniques - truncation

• Truncation

Use truncation for open ended searches:

e.g. internatio = internationinternationalinternationalisminternationalisationinternationalization

Search techniques - truncation

• Also useful with titles and authors:

Title:Future directions of libraries in the southern part of Norway – a qualitative study

Author:

Kostivich, Dimitrivj

Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabasesBibsys MIME

Bibsys ASK

• Library catalogue for academic libraries– printed books– e-books– journals, printed/electronic– CDs, DVDs, etc.

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Journals

• Alternative 1: use Bibsys Ask to look up the journal and see if it’s available

• Alternative 2: Use the complete list of electronic journals to browse for the journal

(follow link from library web page)

- Strategic management journal

Do the library have access to this?

Journals

• Ordering a copy of an article not in our possession– Find the journal in e.g. Bibsys ASK– Click on ‘order’– fill in information

Search techniquesBibsys ASKJournal holdingsDatabases

Library databases

•Different suppliers might have the same journal

• Relevant databases:– Academic search premier

• The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database.

• Full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles

– Business source Complete• industry’s most used business research database • full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed

business publications

– Econlit• the world’s foremost source of references to

economic literature • more than 735,000 records from 1969-present.

http://www.ub.ntnu.no/viko/en/start.php

Library subject guide

• Excellent starting point• Recommended resources

for your discipline

Contact

• Henry Langseth– henry.langseth@uia.no– ph 3814 1210– Ask for assistance at library service desk