Literature Search from E-Resources East West University Library Dhaka, Bangladesh

What is a Literature Search? A literature search is a well thought out and organized search for all of the literature published on a topic. A well-structured literature search is the most effective and efficient way to locate sound evidence on the subject you are researching. Evidence may be found in books, journals, government documents and the internet

INASP Cascading Workshop: Electronic Journals and Electronic Resources Library Management: Electronic Resources Review Electronic Resources By electronic resources we usually mean those which can be accessed by computer—in particular, via email, CD-ROM, or more commonly, via the World Wide Web. Using these resources a wide range of materials and research tools can be accessed—including, electronic journals; scholarly databases; electronic books or e-books; hybrid collections; Internet Gateways, which comprise (often subject based) links to pre-evaluated web sites, selected for their quality and relevance; and the Internet search engines. © INASP – see: http://inasp.info/training/training-materials-copyright.html for more details. Last updated 20/11/2018 08:21 Page 3

Advantages of Electronic Resources Electronic resources have great potential and bright future to attract users. It combines all the benefits of the multimedia, digital coding and Internet. It enable user to carry everywhere and can be read on all types of computers including handled device. E- Resources can be downloaded instantly. Users can read an e- resource any time Due to portability, e-resources can be taken any where on portable computer.

Advantages of Electronic Resources Text can be searched, except when represented in the form of images; Type size and type face may be adjusted suitably; E- resources provide facility to hold and turn pages easily Physically disabled users can hear audible E- resources In buying E- resources, the overhead charges like shipping , postal ,handling are totally ruled out Some E- resources are interactive. E- Resources have back round music and animations. E- resources do not require bindery and repair

Advantages of Electronic Resources E- resources save human resources for shelving and rectification User can not misplace e- books Hundreds or thousands may be carried together on one device. Approximately 500 average e-books can be stored on one CD; E- Resources can be used with text-to-speech software; Distributed at low cost; Distributed instantly, allowing readers to begin reading at once, without the need to visit a bookstore. No risk of damage, vandalism, etc. on the pages

Format of E-Resources HTML Format PDF Format TIFF Doc, Docx Format PPT, Xls etc CHM Format PostScript Format Desktop Author Format Rich Text Format etc.

Type of e-resources E-Books E-Journals E-Zine E-Thesis and dissertation (ETD) E-News Papers E-Reference books CD-ROMs Scholarly Databases Other Data bases Hybrid digital collections Internet gateways and search engines Multimedia i.e. Images, audio and video

Library Resources Physical Resources (Books, Print Periodicals) Electronic Resources (CD, E-books, E-Journals) Online Catalogue Institutional Repository

Discovery Search

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

Institutional repository Showing Result From Various Sources in a Single Window VuFind OPAC E-resource Digital library Institutional repository

Search In VuFind

EWU Institutional Repository

E-Resource Databases Thanks for your patience

Searching E-Resources Online journals Google Scholar Scopus Ebscohost Discovery Websites (Government departments, research institutes, etc.) Search Engines General Meta Scholarly Internet online journals shortcuts to articles E.G. Google scholar limited to only scholarly articles, books websites can give reports, summaries of findings, links to important documents E.G government websites census reports Ohio department of health Department of education E.G. research institutes find reports from prominent data sources E.G. NSFG reports Be careful with information from internet Check source of information NEXT, A VERY HELPFUL SITE…..

Searching Websites Subject Directories Online Databases Online Encyclopedia

General Search Engines Google Yahoo Bing Lycos DuckDuckGo Excite

Google Simple Search

Scholarly Search Engines Google Scholar BASE RefSeek CiteuLike Eric Intopia

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Advanced Search

Google books

Google books

Subject Directories Also called Information Gateways and Virtual Libraries The WWW Virtual Library Specialized Subject Directories Abi Logic Academic Info SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway

Online Databases Bibliographic databases Full text databases Agricola, Medline, PsychINFO Full text databases ScienceDirect, Emerald, JSTOR

The free library.com

ERIC Database

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Science Direct Database

Online Searching Techniques Boolean Operators Phrase Searching Truncation / Wildcard Searching Focusing / Limiting a Search

Boolean Operators AND OR NOT 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. AND OR NOT

Boolean Operators at Emerald

Phrase Searching It narrows your search down by searching for an exact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful when searching for a title or a quotation. Usually quotation marks are used to connect the words together. For example “Towards a healthier Scotland”

Truncation / Wildcard Searching These search techniques retrieve information on similar words by replacing part of the word with a symbol usually a * or ?. However, different databases use different symbols, so check what is used. 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 are replaced. For example wom*n will retrieve the terms woman and women.

Focusing / Limiting a Search There are many ways to focus your search and all search tools offer different ways of doing this. Some of the ways of limiting your search are as follows: Date Language Place Publication type

Predatory open access publishing In academic publishing, predatory open access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). "Beall's List", a report that had been regularly updated by Jeffrey Beall until January 2017, set forth criteria for categorizing predatory publications and lists publishers and independent journals that meet those criteria

Predatory open access publishing URL https://beallslist.weebly.com/ https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/

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