Exercise Your your Library ® Smart Searching UW Library Winter 2007

Exercise Your your Library ® Breaking down your Topic Imagine the title of the ideal book or magazine article –The virtual economies of video games Identify key concepts –Economies / Video Games Think of synonyms or alternate search words

Exercise Your your Library ® Identifying Search Terms Economies Currency Capital Commodities Video games Digital games Virtual worlds Synthetic worlds Economies Video Games

Exercise Your your Library ® Boolean Operators Boolean operators link concepts within a search. AND (to include all terms / concepts) OR (to include at least one term / concept) NOT (to exclude terms / concepts)

Exercise Your your Library ® The Boolean Machine

Exercise Your your Library ® Truncation or Wildcards Expands a term to include all forms of the root word: econom* finds economics, economy, economies, economical

Exercise Your your Library ® Phrase Searching Phrase searching forces the database to look for two or more words together Instead of: video games Try: “video games” or (video games)

Exercise Your your Library ® Basic Searching Techniques Field Searching –title, author, subject, descriptor, anywhere Setting Limits –language, date

Exercise Your your Library ® Basic Searching Techniques – Putting it all together (video game* OR digital game* OR synthetic world* OR virtual world*) AND econom* OR currenc* OR capital OR commodit*

Exercise Your your Library ® Basic Searching Techniques To find FEWER results, –Search in specific fields (title, abstract, subjects etc.) –Add or change search limits (date, language, etc.) –Add more search terms (using AND) –Use phrase searching instead of AND

Exercise Your your Library ® Basic Searching Techniques To find MORE results, –Use truncation or wildcard characters (* or ?) –Include more synonyms (use OR) –Search “anywhere” rather than in specific fields –Remove search limits (e.g. date, language, etc.) –Use AND instead of phrase searching

Exercise Your your Library ® Basic Searching Techniques To find more RELEVANT results, –Use NOT to exclude unwanted terms –Search specific fields (title, abstract, subject/descriptor, etc.) –Use AND instead of OR

Exercise Your your Library ® Some Examples… TRELLIS Research Databases –CSA –Web of Science Google/Google Scholar

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS What is TRELLIS? –3 catalogues in 1… Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, and Guelph (TUG) What will I find? –Books –Journals –Government documents –Conference proceedings

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS For searching topics, use the Advanced Search

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS Search Strategy #1

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS Click on “LOCATION” or check the sign beside the elevators

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

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Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS Search Strategy #2a

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS Search Strategy #2b

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® Getting books NOT at UW

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Going Beyond TUG

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Your Turn! Try searching for books on a topic of your choice. What are the subjects given in the record? Choose a subject which you think would be appropriate.

Exercise Your your Library ® Research Databases Use to find journal articles on topics Choose an appropriate database –Topic/subject –Date You can work from home! –Use the Connect from Home link

Exercise Your your Library ® Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases Over 20 databases covering a large variety of subject areas Can search multiple databases or a single database

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases Descriptors = Subjects Complete citation

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases No full text available?

Exercise Your your Library ® CSA Databases Available in electronic format Not available in electronic format

Exercise Your your Library ® Your Turn! Search for articles on a topic of your choice. Select one article. –Write down the complete citation. –What are the subjects (descriptors)? –Is it available in full text electronically? (don’t forget to check TRELLIS even if Get Waterloo says it isn’t!)

Exercise Your your Library ® Web of Science Multidisciplinary (Not just science!) Science Citation Index ( ) Social Sciences Citation Index ( ) Arts & Humanities Citation Index ( ) Updated weekly Cited Reference searching No thesaurus Nifty analysis features

Exercise Your your Library ® What is Cited Reference Searching? Cited Reference Searching (Earlier Work) line of research backwards (Recent Work) line of research forwards End Note Chasing Look up the references listed at the end of an article. Find articles that cite a previously published article.

Exercise Your your Library ® Cited Ref Searching: Search Example Lastowka, F. G. & Hunter, D. (2003). The laws of the virtual worlds. California Law Review.

Exercise Your your Library ® Web of Science

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Cited Ref Searching

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Or to view your original article…

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Your Turn! Navigate to Web of Science, and click the Cited Ref Search button How many times has the following article been cited? Griffiths, MD. Breaking the stereotype: the case for online gaming. Cyberpsychology & Behavior 6 (1): FEB 2003.

Exercise Your your Library ® Google Scholar Retrieves material from scholarly journals…BUT –Questions as to what is covered and not covered –Relevancy and ranking issues –Currency Generally, does not retrieve articles from research databases and other fee-based services such as those to which UW subscribes Use, but with caution and for specific types of materials… –E.g., conference papers, technical reports, government documents, white papers, etc. Google, itself, is not the problem – it's what Google finds that can be a problem

Exercise Your your Library ® Google Scholar

Exercise Your your Library ® Google Scholar ("video game*" OR "digital game*" OR "synthetic world*" OR "virtual world*") AND (econom* OR currenc* OR capital OR commodity) Capitalization IS important! Basic Search Screen

Exercise Your your Library ® Google Scholar

Exercise Your your Library ® Google Advanced Search

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Your Turn! Using Google and Google Scholar, look for the article that you found in the CSA search. Did you find it?

Exercise Your your Library ® Any Questions? Thank You!