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

2. 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

3. 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 , 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.
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4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

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

11. Discovery Search

12. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

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

14. Search In VuFind

15. EWU Institutional Repository

16. E-Resource Databases
Thanks for your patience

17. 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
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18. Searching Websites Subject Directories Online Databases
Online Encyclopedia

19. General Search Engines
Google
Yahoo
Bing
Lycos
DuckDuckGo
Excite

20. Google Simple Search

21. Scholarly Search Engines
Google Scholar
BASE
RefSeek
CiteuLike
Eric
Intopia

22. Google Scholar

23. Google Scholar

24. Google Scholar

25. Google Advanced Search

26. Google books

27. Google books

28. 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

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

30. The free library.com

31. ERIC Database

32. Taylor & Francis eBooks

33. Science Direct Database

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

35. 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

36. Boolean Operators at Emerald

37. 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”

38. 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.

39. 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

40. 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

41. Predatory open access publishing URL

42. Thank you!