1. Library Workshop for MSocSc(GHKS) Students
30 Aug 2017 1

2. Outline
iSearch – Intelligent one-stop searching for books, journal articles and more
ProQuest
Social Science Database
PAIS Index
E-Newspapers
Factiva
Chinese Resources
CNKI 中國知網 2

3. What is iSearch?
iSearch is a one-stop platform for finding library books, journals, media, course reserves, full-text articles, HKALL and more.
Advantages

4. What is iSearch? What resources are included in iSearch?
What resources are excluded from iSearch?
Library Resources
Books
Media
Course Reserve
Journals
Articles
Databases
Articles
Newspaper articles
Reference entries
Statistical data
Videos
Open-access Resources

5. What is iSearch? iSearch on the Library homepage
Direct to iSearch homepage
Enter your search terms

6. What is iSearch?
iSearch homepage
iSearch scoping

7. Find Known Items – Locate a print book

8. Find Known Items - Locate a print book

9. Find Known Items – Access E-book Online

10. Find Known Items – Access E-book Online

11. Find Known Items – Access E-book Online

12. Find Known Items – View Full-text Articles Online
Roscoe, Keith, & Orr, Kim. (2010). Frontloading Classroom Management. Science Teacher,77(5),

13. Find Known Items – View Full-text Articles Online
Roscoe, Keith, & Orr, Kim. (2010). Frontloading Classroom Management. Science Teacher, 77(5),

14. Find Known Items – View Full-text Articles Online
Roscoe, Keith, & Orr, Kim. (2010). Frontloading Classroom Management. Science Teacher, 77(5),

15. Find Known Items – Find Journal Title
Roscoe, Keith, & Orr, Kim. (2010). Frontloading Classroom Management. Science Teacher, 77(5),

16. Find Known Items – Find Journal Title
Roscoe, Keith, & Orr, Kim. (2010). Frontloading Classroom Management. Science Teacher, 77(5),

17. Keyword Search for a Research Topic
Your search topic: National identity among teenagers in Hong Kong
You are recommended to use Advanced Search for a research topic
Before doing search, please create a list of possible search terms
National identity
Teenagers
Hong Kong
nationalism
youth
nation
students
citizenship

18. Keyword Search for a Research Topic
Your search topic: National identity among teenagers in Hong Kong

19. Keyword Search for a Research Topic
Your search topic: National identity among teenagers in Hong Kong
Boolean Operators
AND OR
national
identity
Teenager
Youth
National AND identity
Teenager OR Youth
NOT
Social
Media
Social NOT Media

20. Keyword Search for a Research Topic
Truncation
Use * symbol to search words with varied endings:
teenager, teenagers, teenage, teen, teens
Teen*
Wild Card
Use ? symbol to perform a single character wildcard search:
woman, women
Wom?n

21. Keyword Search for a Research Topic
Phase search
Search two words together in exact order
E.g. Use “social media” to find “social” and “media” next to each other
Recommended search terms
identity OR (nation* OR citizenship)
AND
“Hong Kong”
Teen* OR youth OR student*

22. Read Your Result Page
When you find too many results, how to refine them?

23. Read Your Result Page

24. Read Your Result Page

25. Read Your Result Page

26. Find Resources beyond Library Collections
Some resources in “Article-Plus” are harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators, and from open-access repositories.

27. MyLibrary Record

28. MyLibrary Record Overview: summary of your loan record
Your Name
Overview: summary of your loan record
Loans + Renewal: details display of your check-out items and previous loan records
Requests: list items that your have reserved
Fine + fees: outstanding payment
Bock + message: library privileges suspended message
auto renewal + no Renew button displayed in loan record + cannot delete loan history + remind the new Maximum Loan Period after Renewals

29. MyLibrary Record
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30. ProQuest Social Sciences Databases
It provides extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including education, communication, linguistics, political science, sociology and psychology, etc.

31. How to access?

32. E.g. Search “social welfare”

33. Select items and actions

34. PAIS Index PAIS Index is available via ProQuest
It is a bibliographic index to the literature on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general dated back to Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, etc. 34

35. E.g. Search “public-private partnership”35

36. To create article alert36

37. Factiva: How to Access 37

38. Basic Search Commands: Words in a Specific field
Search by source title: use sn (source name) to locate articles with the words journal of youth and adolescence in the source title field.
Other useful commands: hd (headline), by (author), wc (word count), etc. 38

39. Free Text Search, e.g. “health care reform” + last year + Greater China
Enter your search term(s) in Free Text Search box
Click the arrow to expand the menu from each category 39

40. Refine your search 40

41. Email, print or save the article
Listen to the article or have it translated into another language 41

42. Browse other related articles42

43. Online help provided by Factiva43

44. Other E-Newspapers Websites
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Tools > E-Newspapers
Select the Library’s subscribed databases or other worldwide newspaper websites 44

45. 中國知網 CNKI 1.中國期刊全文數據庫 〈社會科學輯 I〉 〈社會科學輯II〉 〈哲學與人文科學〉 〈信息科技〉及〈經濟與管理科學〉
E-Databases > 中文資料庫 > 中國知網
1.中國期刊全文數據庫 〈社會科學輯 I〉 〈社會科學輯II〉 〈哲學與人文科學〉 〈信息科技〉及〈經濟與管理科學〉
2.中國優秀碩士學位論文全文數據庫
3.中國博士學位論文全文數據庫
4.世紀期刊人文社科精品數據庫
5.中國年鑒網絡出版總庫
6.中國工具書網絡出版總庫 45

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47. 跨庫檢索
1. 選取檢索項
2. 輸入檢索詞 3. 按「檢索」鍵   
可供瀏覽全文
Live demo 47

48. 瀏覽全文 48

49. 參考引用本文的文獻 49

50. Other E-Resources of Social Sciences 50

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