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 AV materials, books, journals & newspapers ◦ Searched by Library online catalogue  E-resources: E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources  Subject Research Guide  Citation Tools

Library Online Catalogue Subject Research Guide E-Database, E- Journals, Selected Internet Resources AV materials

 E-Databases ◦ Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, periodical articles, & government documents, etc. ◦ Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, poems, and essays.

 E-Journals ◦ Library subscribed e-journals ◦ Journals available in the database ◦ Coverage to present to 1 year ago

 Step 1 – Identify key concepts ◦ Author? A particular work? Content of the work? Criticism of a particular work? ◦ Main concepts can be the name of an author or key word from a particular  Step 2 – Selection of search words ◦ Related words/synonyms ◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search) ◦ literary criticism or literary interpretation ◦ Hong Kong: Hong Kong, hk

 Step 3 – Search command ◦ Use “AND/OR”  E.g. Austen AND Pride ◦ Truncation ( retrieves all variant endings of that word)  E.g. Criti* (criticize, criticism, critical etc.) ◦ Parentheses ( ) : gives priority and order in the search statement  E.g. (fiction or novel) and Austen

 Title search ◦ Pride and Prejudice  Subject search ◦ Fiction  Author search ◦ Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search) 

 Academic Search Premier  Collins Cobuild Wordbanks Online  Contemporary Literacy Criticism  Exploring Novels/Exploring Poetry/Exploring Shakespare/Exploring Short Stories  JSTOR  Literature Online (LION)  MLA Directory of Periodicals

 By subject  By database name  All databases

 Metalude ◦ By Department of English

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