2. Online Research on Zoology: A Library Workshop Dr. Jun Wang Librarian & Coordinator of Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy

3. Online Catalog Sample Searches ä Subject: * Parasitic Diseases * Communicable diseases * Zoonoses * Zoology ä Title: ä Animal Agents and Vectors of Human Disease ä Author: * McGowan, Christopher ä Keyword: * Parasites and Infection

4. Online Catalog Search Tips ä Author Search: ä Last name, first name; ä Title Search: ä May omit leading articles or ä type the first few words in the title; ä Subject Search: ä Avoid using a long phrase/sentence; ä Keyword Search: ä Used when the subject is too narrow; ä Use important words;

5. Online Catalog: Commands ä“B”-- Back to previous page; ä“R”-- Restart; ä“Page down” (Next Screen) -- Go to the next page; ä“Page up” (Prev. Screen) -- Go back to the previous screen.

6. Limit Search ¤ Search by subject or title or author; ¤ When the preliminary search result is displayed, press Return or Enter key and select LIMIT from the menu; ¤ You may type any underlined letter from the limit search options to limit your search; ¤ The options include Date (limit by year), Type of Materials, Language, and Location.

7. Limit to Audiovisual Material ¤ Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under Find; ¤ Select Type of Materials by typing T which is underlined; ¤ Make a selection of the type of audiovisual material you want from the list; ¤ Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection; ¤ Items displayed afterwards are audiovisual materials.

8. Search Items from a Specific Location ¤ Select Limit Search from the pull-down menu under Find; ¤ Select Locations by typing L which is underlined; ¤ Make a selection from the location list; ¤ Press Return or Enter key to okay the selection; ¤ Items displayed afterwards are items from that location.

9. Search for Reserved Items * Select Reserve Room from the Find menu; * Search by either a course number or the instructor’s name; * Enter course name and number or, best yet, instructor’s last name and first name and press Return or Enter ; * Select an appropriate item by pressing the line number to find the call number and bibliographic information.

10. Online Periodical Databases InfoTrac Searchbank Databases: –Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-); –Health Reference Center--Academic (1995-); –Business Index ASAP (1996- ); –SIRS Researcher(R) (1988- ); –Gen’l Reference Ctr (Magazine Index). NewsBank NewsFile.

11. General Trend Web-based; Increasingly popular: –Frequent updates; –Full-text articles; –E-mail delivery; –Down-load capability; –Cross references/links; –Accessible from a remote, networked computer.

12. Expanded Academic Index Indexes more than 2,000 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications; Has more than 3,676,630 articles, including over 1,000 full-text titles; Integrates core titles in every major academic discipline; Includes publications with national news coverage and commentary; Coverage: past 3 years (backfiles for certain publications extends as far back as 1980; Updated daily.

13. Health Reference Center-Academic Contains more than 235,787 full-text articles, abstracts or references from a variety of health periodicals: –40 nursing and allied health journals; –excerpts from health-related reference books; –consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; –pamphlets issued by leading health organizations. Coverage: past 4 years; Updated daily.

14. General Reference Center Includes a variety of scholarly and general-interest periodicals, newspaper articles, encyclopedias, and other reference material; Covers such subjects as politics and current events, consumer electronics, arts and entertainment, automobiles, recreation and leisure, crime, personal finances, and food; Coverage: past 3 years (with backfiles extending as far back as 1980); Updated daily.

15. Research Strategies! * Develop your research question; * Identify important keywords; * List keywords and their synonyms; * Use Boolean search operators to nest the search terms together.

16. Online Searching Strategy Form Thesis Statement:____________________________________ ___________________________________________________ List Main concepts from the thesis statement: Concept A Concept B Concept C ____________ ______________ ____________ Identify synonyms for each concept: ____________ ______________ ____________ or or or ____________ and ______________ and ____________ or or or ____________ ______________ ____________

17. Search Tips Subject Search: –Type a brief subject search term; –Select a subdivision term by clicking on Narrow; –Click on View text to read the full-text article on screen; –Asterisk at the end of a citation indicates that Delta has a hard copy of the periodical; Keyword Search: –Use important words; –May use * as a truncation key; –May use “and” to combine search terms to narrow the search and “or” between words to broaden your search.

18. Using the Internet As a Research Tool

19. Web Site Addresses (URL) & Tell-Tale Suffix To get to a particular Web site, you will need a Web site address or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) which begins with “http://”; Tell-tale suffixes: –edu (educational institution) –gov (governmental agencies) –com (commercial companies) –org (organizations) –mil (military) –us (United States) -uk (United Kingdom)

20. Connect to a Library Catalog Many college and university libraries have made their library online catalogs available for the public to use; Use your common sense to go directly to an academic Web site; Use keywords to find the Web site of a college/university.

21. World Wide Web Search Subject Search –Yahoo Subject Search Directory Science->Animals->parasitology Science->Biology->Parasitology-- >Web Directories –LookSmart Subject Search Directory: Library-->Sciences-->Animals-- >Parasitology

22. World Wide Web Search Directly connect to a site (When you know the URL or Web address) : –http://www-museum.unl.edu/asp http://www- museum.unl.edu/asp –http://lamarck.unl.edu/research/parasitology –http://www.anu.edu.au/bambi/ASP/welcome. html –http://www.umds.ac.uk/bsp –http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~mkorkmaz/linkmk 3.htm

23. Your Turn to Search & Explore Good Luck!