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Searching Limo 6 en 8 september 20115Workshop Limo Two options: A.Simple Search Fill in your search terms in one single box and discover millions of references of books, articles, etc.…. All content: available documents (print, online..) Physical items: printed, audiovisual e.o. info 5

Searching Limo 6 A. Simple Search: search tips  boolean operators: (AND) OR NOT  “exact phrase”  truncation and wildcards  ? 0 or 1 character f.e. wom?n = woman and women hono?r = honor and honour  * 0, 1 or more characters f.e. cultur* = culture, cultural, culturally warm* = warm, warmer, warming  Grouping terms within a query: use parentheses

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Searching Limo: use “facets” to limit 8 Limit my results: Physical items: in a library Peer-review: checked by other scholars or researchers Full Text Online: online access

Searching Limo: use facets to refine 9 Refine my results: Resource type: book, journal, article, database … Creation date: publication date Creator: author(s), editor(s) Topic: subject Language Source: database Journal title Library (KULeuven/other institution): alphabetical list

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Searching Limo 11  Facet: displayed when there are one or more results  Per facet: 3 items with most results + Show X more  Per facet: select only one item  Combine 2 or more facets  Selected facets are displayed

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Using search results 13 To sort search results: Relevance (standard) Date newest Title A-Z Access: Print (location) or online (view)

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Using search results: “details” 16  More info about a document  Links to other catalogues  Links to LibriLinks (full text) Request in another library

Using search results: “details” 17 No full text ? > link to print edition  More info about a document  Links to other catalogues  Interlibrary loan: Request Request in another library

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Managing search results: Select, RSS, save 19 Select

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There’s more then LIMO? 21  LIMO is a discovery service for hundreds of millions of books, articles e.o. publications.  Use special databases to search for specific info: Communication and Mass Media Complete, International Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, OECD (statistics)…

Databases for political sciences  Ebsco-databases: Academic Search Elite / Business Source Premier / Intern. Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), Greenfile  Bibliografic: Francis / Intern. Bibliography of the Social Sciences/ PsycInfo/ Sociological Abstracts  Citation Index: Web of Science: SSCI and AHCI  Statistics: OECD iLibrary  Specific: Agence Europe: Europe Daily Bulletin

Example International Political Science Abstracts 23

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Results list 25 More info or link

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Full text collections in Leuven  E-books:  OECD  Springer  Individual titles  Journal archives/collections:  JSTOR  Muse  PAO  Publisher’s journal collections:  Cambridge UP  Elsevier  Emmerald  Oxford UP  Sage (also backfiles)  Springer  Taylor &Francis  Wiley-Blackwell 27

Westlaw: international news 28 Details: more info View online: access

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Statistics: OECD iLibrary 30

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