Library e-Resources Professional Development Programme

Outline Basics and Overview Databases in Focus  ERIC on EBSCOhost  ProQuest Education Journals  中文電子期刊服務  中國期刊全文數據庫 2

Why use an e-database?

Because …  Use electronic databases to search for local and international literature.  Electronic databases contain recent information from book reviews, journal articles, conference papers, and other materials.  Some databases provide the complete full text articles or papers.  Other databases will just provide abstracts of the journal papers. 4

Because …  An e-database is an organized collection of information. It supports search for journal title, article title, author, issue, volume, etc., which is more flexible and in-depth. Journal article 5

Can Library Catalogue retrieve journal articles?

Try to find this article in Library Catalogue 7

No, because …  We can only search for journal title in Library Catalog, but not on individual article title or author. Journal title search 8

Why use an e-database?  Therefore, e-database is extremely useful when you want to find articles containing particular details, e.g. keyword = peer assessment in classroom  You could retrieve journal articles on this topic from e-databases, but you could not find the same information via the Library Catalog. This is because the Library Catalog allows search in journal title only; the search does not go into details of each issue or volume of the journal. 9

Some examples of international electronic databases:  ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)  ProQuest Education Journals  Academic Search Premier  A+ Education  PsycINFO Some prominent e-databases on Education Library Website -> E-Resources Tab 10

Some examples of Chinese electronic databases:  中國期刊全文數據庫 - 〈教育與社會科學綜合輯〉及〈文史哲輯〉  中文電子期刊服務 CEPS: Chinese Electronic Periodicals Service Some examples of local electronic databases:  Hong Kong Journals Online  Dissertations and Theses Collection (DTC)  Chinese ERIC (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Some prominent e-databases on Education Library Website -> E-Resources Tab 11

Identify your keywords  Keywords are words or phrases that should appear in the information you are searching for.  Keywords are used to do search in the library catalogue and e-databases. For example, your topic is : Study the effect of small class teaching in Hong Kong Keywords are : small class teaching hong kong  Use Boolean Operators (AND/OR/NOT), Wildcards (*), etc, where appropriate, e.g. small class teaching AND hong kong AND adolenscen* 12

Notation of e-databases Finding e-databases EdLINK-enabled e-database Abstract e-database Full text e-database 13

14 Database in Focus – ERIC

What is ERIC database?  Provides access to education literature and resources and to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. It contains full text with citation and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. 15

Find ERIC by Browsing "E" (or browse by education subject; or search ERIC) 16

Access to ERIC database Enter keywords Limit your search Search Results 17

Example Your research topic: School leadership in the age of education reform Identify the Keywords: school leadership AND education reform Use indexes / thesaurus / descriptors to check related terms where necessary. How many records retrieved? 18

Example Full Text available 19

Example Check Library’s holdings 20

Searching tips: Expand your search  Use “Apply related words” from the database Search Options screen to expand your search  Use Boolean operator “OR” to include more search terms e.g. thinking skills or critical thinking or decision making skills  Use truncation (*) to expand your search term in alternative way e.g. learn* to search for learning, learns, learner, etc. 21

Searching tips: Narrow your search  Use “Limit your results” from the database search screen to limit your search results in various way  Consider the suggested “Narrow Search Results by Subject” from the search result screen  Use Boolean operator “AND” to limit search results to a narrower scene e.g. peer assessment AND higher education 22

Reduced from over 300 results to 53 by selecting peer reviewed and 2000 and after 23

Try it yourself Topic: school leadership in Hong Kong Suggested keywords: School leadership and Hong Kong How many records retrieved? Limit your search to full text articles How many full text articles available? 24

Try it yourself Topic: Civic, national and moral education in Hong Kong Suggested keywords: Civic education, national education, moral education, citizenship education, and Hong Kong Limit your search to full text articles How many records retrieved? 25

Can I search across multiple EBSCOhost databases? 26

27 Searching Multiple Databases in Ebscohost

How can I export my search results?

29 Add to Folder: Save / Print / / Export

30 Add to Folder: Save / Print / / Export

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Export your search results to:  An account or  A webpage file Try it yourself 32

Another Education Resources: ProQuest Education Journals 33

What is ProQuest Education Journals database?  Covers almost 400 leading journals in education and related fields. 34

Access to ProQuest Education Journals database 35

Access to ProQuest Education Journals database Enter search term(s) for Basic Search Limit to Full Text or Peer reviewed journals

Access to ProQuest Education Journals database Enter search term(s) for Basic Search 37 Limit to Full Text or Peer reviewed journals

E.g. search small class education Suggested subjects: class size and academic achievement Options for Narrow results

Limit search result

You can select records, and , print, save and export the marked records.

Try yourself with different databases  Topic: Citizenship education of primary schools in globalized environment  Suggested keywords:  citizenship education AND primary (elementary) AND globalization  Limit your search to full text articles How many records retrieved? 41

Try yourself Search and retrieve full-text via ERIC and ProQuest Education Journals:  Keyword: school leadership AND human resources management  Limit your results to full text Try to observe: 1. How many records retrieved from each electronic databases? 2. Evaluate the relevancy of the results retrieved from the TWO databases. 42

Search other Databases in ProQuest

CEPS 中文電子期刊服務 Chinese Electronic Periodicals Service 收錄範圍： 台灣及中國出版的學術期刊 2,000 多種期刊，超過 13 萬篇電子全文 每月持續新增 6,000 篇電子全文 收錄主題： 人文學科、社會科學、自然科 學、應用科學、醫學與生命科學等 收錄年代：以 2000 年之後為主 44

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46 輸入檢索詞 例一 : 檢索有關「合作學習」的文章 檢索文章

47 檢索結果

48 檢索有關「合作學習」與 「 語言 」 的文章 例二 : 運用布林查詢

Try yourself Search and retrieve full-text: 1. Keywords: 全球化 AND 公民教育 2. Keywords: 學校領導 AND 校長  Limit your results to full text articles published in Taiwan 49

中國知網 (CNKI) 50

中國期刊全文數據庫 51 輸入檢索詞 選取檢索項 增加檢索項

52 點擊標題 下載全文 “ 已訂購標誌 ” 代 表提供全文

53 使用「高級檢索」 例子 : 關鍵詞 = 香港 and 電影 and ( 吳宇森 or 杜琪峰 )

Try yourself Search and retrieve full-text: 1. Keywords: 國民教育 AND 小學 AND 德育 2. Keywords: 學校管理 AND 教師 AND 家長  Limit your results to full text articles published in Taiwan 54

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