Introduction to e resources uea

Introduction to E-resources

Gemma Bayliss

Lesson Plan

• Introduction to the LRC

• What is an e-resource?

• Why do you need to use e-resources?

• How to find academic e-resources

Your Learning Resource Centre

• Opening hours:

Monday to Friday 8am-9.30pm

Saturday 10am-6.45pm

• 10 resources at a time (only 2 DVDs)

• Different loan periods

• Fines for returning items late

• To borrow resources, you will need to register with the LRC

LRC Rules

We have 3 rules:

1. We are a silent study library, if you want to talk use the group work

area outside of the LRC

2. No eating or drinking (unless water)

3. Turn mobile devices onto silent, and take calls outside the LRC

Resources at INTO

• Books

• Journals

• Newspapers

• DVDs

The LRC catalogue can be accessed online:

http://library.ldn.uea.ac.uk/Heritage34/

• Access to academic e-resources

What is an e-resource?

• Sources of information that are stored on the Internet

• Examples:

– E-books

– E-journals

What is a journal?

A journal is a collection of articles containing reports of current

research. They are focused on a particular subject, e.g. Journal of

Marketing or Harvard Business Review, and they are published

regularly e.g. weekly, monthly or yearly.

Why use e-resources?

• Up-to-date information

• Short but detailed

• Focus on specific topics

• Peer-review

• You will be expected to use e-resources in your assignments

What is peer-review?

When an article has been evaluated and reviewed by other experts

and academics to make sure it is of a good academic standard.

Where do you find e-resources?

• Academic e-resources are very expensive

• You can’t access them for free on the Internet

• UEA subscribes to them and you access them through the UEA Library

website

Task 1: Find an E-Book

• Go to the UEA library catalogue Primo OneSearch by selecting

‘Search the Library’ from the library homepage

http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/lib

• Search for an e-book related to your subject’

• Refine Your Result’ to ‘E-book’

• Click on ‘Online Resource’ to access the e-book

See the LRC Helpsheet ‘Finding E-books’ for more information

Task 2: Find an e-journal

• Go to Primo OneSearch

• Select ‘E-journals A-Z’

• Search for Harvard Business Review

• Open the journal and find the latest available issue

Task 3: Search individual databases

• Go to Primo OneSearch

• Select ‘Find Databases’

• Use the ‘Category’ and ‘Sub-category’ options to see a list of

recommended databases for your subject area

• Open one of the databases

• Find an article related to your subject area and open it

Choosing keywords

• What are the key concepts of your assignment title?

– Assignment:

Q: What is the impact of marketing junk-food to teenagers using

social media?

A: junk-food, marketing, social media, teenagers

• What alternative keywords do you need to use?

– Synonyms, related words, plurals, other spellings, abbreviations,

acronyms, broader and narrower terms

– Background reading, thesauri, encyclopaedia

– Make a list or mind map

Junk-food Marketing Social media Teenagers

Fast-food Adverts Facebook Teens

Convenience

food

Advertise Twitter Teen

Fast-foods Advertize Weibo Young adult

Convenience

foods

Advertising Web 2.0 Adolescent

Advertizing Young person

Promote Young people

Promotion

Sell

Selling

Search techniques

• Wildcard truncators:

– ? is used to replace a letter in a keyword when it has multiple

spellings

– * is used to search for keywords with multiple endings

globali?ation SEARCH Will give results about globalisation

and globalization

librar* SEARCHWill give results about library, libraries,

Librarian, Librarians and librarianship

Search techniques

• Phrase searching:

This will only give you results where the two words are next to each other

“global warming” SEARCH

Boolean Operators

• Boolean Operators are used to link keywords together:

– AND

– OR

– NOT

Putting it all togetherJunk-food Market* “Social media” Teen*

Fast-food AND Advert* AND Facebook AND “Young person”

OR OR OR OR

“Convenience

food”

Promot* Twitter “Young adult”

OR OR OR OR

Fast-foods Sell* Weibo Adolescent*

OR OR

“Convenience

foods”

“Web 2.0”

Example: fast-food AND advert* AND “web 2.0” and teen*

Example: (junk-food OR fast-food* OR “convenience food*”) AND (market* OR advert* OR

promot* OR sell*) AND (“social media” OR facebook OR twitter OR weibo OR

“Web 2.0) AND (teen* OR “young adult” OR adolescent* OR “young person”)

Task 4: Keywords and search techniques

• Go to Primo OneSearch

• Go to ‘Find Database’

• Open the database ‘JSTOR’

• Test out the following searches, and compare the number of results:

– Search for social media, then search for “social media”

– Search for teenagers, then search for teen*

– Search for globalisation, then search for globali?ation

– Search for e-shopping, then search for online shopping

Evaluation

Visit this great practice website http://library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/evaluating/

Moodle

Skills Passport

• Develop your library and research skills

• Online tutorials and training sessions:

– Introduction to e-resources

– Search techniques

– Source evaluation

– Practical referencing

– Using specialist subject databases

• Complete four modules to receive a Skills Passport certificate

• Benefit your CV and UCAS application

• Online tutorials and further information on Skills Passport Moodle site

City University Library

• You can study at City University Library

• Borrow 15 books

• Search their online catalogue

• 15 mins on the bus

• Long opening hours

• Register for a card at the Welcome Desk

See the LRC Helpsheet ‘Visiting City Library’

Help!

• Book a 1-2-1 or small group session with LRC Staff

• You can find further information and helpsheets on the LRC Moodle

Page

• You can find helpsheets in the LRC

• You can contact the LRC staff to ask questions in person or by e-mail

[email protected]