1. Social Work Honours Year Library Tutorial 15 Sep 2011 15 Sep 2011 NUS Libraries Conducted by: Ng Peck Suan Resource Librarian, Social Work Resource Librarian, Social Work

2. Search strategy Boolean Operators & more Search databases Scopus, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, PERIND Other Sources Newspapers, Theses & Academic Exercises Getting Help Document Delivery Services, FAQs, Subject Guides Proxy Bookmarklet

4. List keywords that describe your topic: E.g. social support for the elderly Social support, social network, living arrangements Elderly, older people, aged… Refine or broaden search using: Boolean operators Truncation/wildcard features Parentheses ( )

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6.  AND = All terms must be present  OR = Any of the terms may be present  NOT = Excludes specific search term social support AND aged aged OR elderly delinquents NOTcriminals

7. OR Usage Use asterisk * to retrieve variant forms of terms Examples Improv ement e * ing (anything that comes after ‘Improv’)

8. OR Usage Examples Organizs?e Use question mark ? to retrieve variant forms of terms

9. Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases that are to be processed first, examples: (low income OR single parent) AND families = low income families single parent families (teen* OR adolescen*) AND pregnancy = teenage pregnancy adolescent pregnancy

11.  Multidisciplinary  Indexing database (no full text)  Usually offers links to full text  Good design and easy to use

13. Mentally ill persons: their parenting styles and attitudes “mentally ill” AND parenting mentally illparenting

18.  Provides abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and dissertations  Coverage: 1979-current  Search library catalogue for full-texts

24.  Coverage, 1968-current  Provides abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, & citations to book reviews  Some overlap in literature coverage between this database and Social Services Abstracts.  http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ Username: nustrain Password: training

29.  Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN  Coverage, 1980-  Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, law  Journal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers

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40. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Covers North-American Masters and Phd theses NUS Theses Print copies Electronic theses and dissertations of Master’s (by Research) and Phd theses

41. Search LINC by call no, HV13 in NUS Theses Collection: Search LINC, by keywords in NUS Theses Collection:

44.  Document Delivery Services (DDS) ◦ Journal articles, book chapters, … ◦ Request via e-forms (library portal) ◦ All requests must be approved by supervisor

48.  Bookmark that automatically prepends the NUS Library proxy to the required URL link in your browser  Example: http://jfn.sagepub.com/content/17/1/11.abstr act http://jfn.sagepub.com/content/17/1/11.abstr act  Insert NUS library proxy stem (libproxy1.nus.edu.sg) into the URL: http://jfn.sagepub.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/c ontent/17/1/11.abstract http://jfn.sagepub.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/c ontent/17/1/11.abstract

49. In the search box of the Library FAQs page, key in : proxy bookmarklet Information on how to install and use the proxy bookmarklet: http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/proxy_bookmarklet

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