RESEARCH: Journals, articles and more
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RESEARCH: Journals, articles and moreUsing the Allison Library and UBC Library Indexes & Databases
Introduction
• Myth: “Everything is freely available on the Internet”
• Fact: Many (most) scholarly resources are found
either in print or through subscription-based databases
Presentation Outline
• Search Strategies• Allison Library Journals
– Indexes: Print– Indexes: Electronic
• UBC Library – Electronic indexes & databases
• Open Access journals• Access (how do I get the articles?)
– (in print, online full text, interlibrary loans)
Search strategies: Boolean operators: And, Or, Not
Atheism AND Reformation“AND” NARROWS the search
Atheism OR Reformation“OR” BROADENS the search
Atheism NOT Reformation“NOT” LIMITS the search
Use NOT with caution
Search strategies: Boolean operators, combined
Refine a search: group synonyms
For example Christian AND (justice OR ethics)
(Christian OR Mennonite) AND (justice OR ethics)
Search strategies: Truncation & Wildcards
Truncation use *Reform*
* = wild card for any letters after the “m” will search for . . .– Reforms– Reformed– Reformation– Reforming
Wildcard use ?Wom?n will search for all occurrences of:– Woman– Women– Womyn
Journals, articles, indexes, databases
• Journals (scholarly aka peer-reviewed vs popular)
• Journal Indexes & Databases– Print & Electronic
– Citations • (source only: author, title etc.)
– Abstracts • (short comment on articles contents)
– Full Text (PDF or HTML)
• EBSCO databases (five):• ATLA Serials (main database for theology and religion)• New Testament Abstracts (NTA)• Old Testament Abstracts (OTA)• Catholic Periodical Literature Index (CPLI)• Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
• ProQuest Religion:• Smaller database than ATLA but full text
• Religious and Theological Abstracts (RTA)• Some overlap with above sources
• Cambridge, Oxford, Sage Journals (Selected Titles)• TREN Theological Resource Exchange Network
• Theses and dissertations
Allison Library subscribes to:
Remote Access: Ezproxy
EBSCO Sample searches
EBSCO, ProQuest Religion, & RTA
• Publications – Crux (overlap)
• EBSCO• RTA• Not it ProQuest
– Church & State (overlap)• EBSCO 01/01/1986 (volume 39) [no full text]• ProQuest 01/01/1992 (volume 45) [full text from 1999]
• KEY THING to remember is that there MAY be overlap in the databases BUT the overlap may be limited HOWEVER there may also be FULL TEXT available in that overlap.
Real time search
Five commonly used UBC databases:• Academic Search Complete:
– Multi-disciplinary includes some religion and theology– Almost all full-text
• JSTOR: – multi-disciplinary generally providing a back run – All full-text
• Philosopher’s Index:– Abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
• PsychINFO and 3 other Psych databases:– Citations and summaries from psychology-related journals– Largely full-text
• MLA: – For literature– No full-text
UBC Library Indexes & Databases
UBC Journal & Indexes Access
X
IF you have an Article title and Journal title
AND the article is NOT available in full text through our databases
THEN does UBC have full-text access?
Go to UBC Library > Advanced Search
UBC Library: article finding tool
FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks
libraries (Theolog)
UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans
THEN go to UBC Library
> Use the LibraryBorrowing Services
> Borrowing from non-UBC Libraries (ILL)
Allison Library Fall 2011
FIRST check the Allison, VST, & St. Marks libraries (Theolog)
UBC Library: Interlibrary Loans
Questions?
Additional help
Reference Librarian – In person
• at the reference desk– By phone
• 604.221.3341– By email
• [email protected]– By chat (skype)– Twitter @allisonlibrary
PowerPoint Slides will be available at theoreference.ca