King’s College London
2016 Pre-sessional
WORKSHOP Session 1:
Searching for e-resources
Examples of e-resouces
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E-books
E-journals
Paper journals, republished online
Other media
Why use e-journals?
• Up-to-date
• Detailed
• Specific
• Peer-reviewed
The advantage of using e-journals
Data sets of over 22,000 students at the University of Huddersfield found a correlation between time spent accessing eresources and degree classification
Library Impact Data Project (2011) University of Huddersfield [online]. https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/lidp/category/data-capture/ accessed 22/02/16
• Now follow these steps to explore the King’s
College library- and beyond....
Clicking on these links give you access
to the KCL library…
…but you’ll get much wider search
results by searching HERE instead…
• … as it allows you to explore the global network
of libraries to which KCL gives you access
Follow these steps…
Too many bees?
Search techniques
• Phrase searching:
“bee keepers”
SEARCH
Searches for the entire phrase (NOT ‘bee’ or
‘keepers’ on their own).
BOOLEAN OPERATORS
Try these searches NOW and compare
results!
New IUCAT Blog (2016) Indiana University (accessed 22/02/16)
https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iucatbeta/2012/12/iucat-beta-how-to-searching-with-boolean-operators/
Information Resource Centre Blog (Accessed 22/02/16)
https://ircutp.wordpress.com/utp-irc-faqs/boolean-operators/
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Library Design Share (2016). http://librariandesignshare.org/2013/10/10/know-your-meme-and-boolean-too/
More search techniques
? replaces letters
globali?ation
SEARCH
globalisation AND globalization
* allows multiple endings
immigra*
SEARCH
Immigration AND immigrant AND
immigrants AND immigrated
() groups the search
(X OR Y) AND Z
SEARCH
(X AND Z) OR (Y AND Z)
You might not need to go Boolean
after all…
….but note the effect of using different
combinations:
What sources will you need to help you answer
the summative task?
Find them.
For the next workshop:
Find 3 more texts (total 6) and underline or
highlight the ideas and information you are
going to use from them.