econs honours year 2008
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Economics honours year tutorial conducted by Aaron Tay on Aug 14 2008TRANSCRIPT
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Objectives
To show you how to:
Use Library portal to access resources, services.
Search Economics databases to retrieve articles.
Obtain Economics Statistics
Use of Endnote Desktop to track citations
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Learning Outcomes At the end of the session, you will:
Know where to access resources & services from library portal
Be able to locate relevant library materials of different formats (books, journal articles, theses, newspapers)
Be able to search effectively Economics databases for:
• Journal articles • Statistical data
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Table of contents
IntroductionEndnoteSearch StrategySearch BooksSearch JournalsSearch NewspapersSearch ThesesSearch Statistical SourcesSearch Internet resourcesOther useful information
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Sources
SearchBooks
Articles andWorking papers
Theses
Newspapers
Statistical dataOther internet
sources
Authoritative
Quite recent cutting edge work In-depth treatment
Recent, reactions
Pre-publication, interesting ideas Quantitative data
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Where to find themItem type Source 1 Source 2 Source 3Books LINC/LINC+ Google books
Articles, conference paper Databases2 such as EconLit, Scopus, Web of Science, Perind
LINC/LINC1+ or Infogate Google scholar
Theses LINC/LINC+ Theses databases3 such as ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Newspaper articles Factiva, Lexus-Nexus LINC/LINC1+ Microforms
Statistics Statistical databases such as Singstat, EIU Country data2
Other resources (particularly Singapore statistics)4
Other internet sources Mailing lists Blogs Wikis, Citeulike
1. Only for checking if a certain source title such as journal title, database or newspaper title is available but not for searching for article titles.
2. Other relevant databases can be found in Economics subject guide.
3. Other sources of thesis can be found in LION.
4. See also Statistics on Singapore.
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Endnote
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EndNote Desktop
Software that stores & organizes referencesCan import references directly into a Word document in a preferred citation styleProcedure to Install EndNote X2 Import saved citations from other sources into EndNote X2Insert Citations from EndNote into Microsoft Word
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Endnote Screenshot
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Search Strategy
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Case Study
National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) research grant
“Reimbursement of direct expenses incurred on the research up to maximum of $1,000 for Honours or equivalent degree students.”
“Cash award of $1,000 and it will be given out each application year to the most outstanding thesis”
More here
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Potential topics
Social costs of gambling
Cost-benefit analysis of gambling industry
Impact studies of casino industry
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Mechanics of searching
Use natural language List keywords, synonyms & variant spellingsMay have to refine or broaden search with
AND, OR, NOT, * , ( ) Formulate a keyword search statementCan limit search by language, by dateSort by relevance and times cited if availableEdit search statement and refine search again.Mark, save, print, email, export resultsRetrieve full-text if necessary
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Search Strategy
Boolean operators
Truncation
Grouping using parentheses
Proximity search - e.g. “near 4”,
Keywords & Concepts
Search statements
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Build your search: Boolean operators
AND is used to indicate that both terms must be present
OR is used to indicate that either terms may be present
NOT is used to indicate that one term must not be present
Casino ANDgambling
casino gambling
Gambling NOT
onlineonlineGambling
Casino Gambling
Casino Gambling
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Build your search:Truncation *, Round parentheses (
)Use * for variant forms of term
Gambl* = gambling, gamblerscasino* = casinos,
Use ( ) to execute commands inside innermost parentheses first
“social cost” and (casino or gamblers)
= social cost of casino = social cost of gamblers
“social cost” and (casino* and gambl*)
= social cost of casinos HIT!= Social cost of gambling HIT!
HIT! HIT!
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Proximity operators (advanced AND)
Proximity operators allow you to retrieve items where one search term is within n (where n is a number) words of another.
Near Operator — finds words within x number of words from each other, regardless of the order in which they occur.Example: cost n2 gambling would find “cost of gambling" or “gambling on cost" but not “The cost of very long term addiction to gambling“
Within Operator (Wx) — finds words within x number of words from each other, in the order they are entered in the search.Example: cost w2 gambling would find “Cost of gambling” but not “gambling cost”
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Consistency of search operators?
And, OR, NOT, are standard symbols and can be used in almost all databases.This is less true of the multi-character wildcard * ! For example EconLit, use $ instead.Use of proximity operators varies even more.Be careful! For most databases, there is no difference between using “AND” versus “and” , but a few might.Therefore please consult specific search guide for each database.
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SAMPLE SEARCH QUERY
What are the economic impacts of Legalized
casino gaming?
“Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl*
(“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)
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BOOKS
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Searching for books
DEMO
Search using LINC, keyword search
Show expansion of search using subject headings
Import into Endnote desktop
Look for limited previews in Google books
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Search for Journal articles
Searching article databases
Getting the full-text articles (online or print)
What to do when you can’t get the full text article – Document Delivery Service
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E - RESOURCES
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E-Resources
Databases
E-Journals
E-Books
Newspapers
Exam Papers
E-Reserves
Statistical Data
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Ways to access databases from Library portal
Search under E-Resources
Click on More Databases
Select E-Resources
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Comprehensive article search
Look for “pure” Economics papers – papers written from the Economist’s point of view = EconLit, NBER Working Papers
Supplement with closely related business and social science databases = Social Sciences Abstracts, ABI/Inform Complete, Business Source Premier
Further supplement with cross-disciplinary papers using comprehensive databases = Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar.
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Databases (articles) we will cover
EconLit
Scopus
Web of Science
PERIND
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EconLit
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EconLit
Producer: The American Economic AssociationCoverage: 1969 – presentProvides bibliographic references and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters/reviews, working papers from RePEC, some dissertations, etc. More details.
Contains more than 350,000 records on accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing etc. One of the major resources for Economics , mostly citations, some full-text.
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OvidSP Test Database
Use http://ovidsp.ovid.com to access EconLit
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Basic Search
“Natural language” search, do not enter boolean operators (And, Or, Not)
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Refine/narrow search
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Accessing record
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Exporting results
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Let’s search ECONLIT! (For advanced ovid search and
multi-field search only)
What are the economic impacts of Legalized
casino gaming?
“Economic impact$” or Cost$ Casino$ or gambl$
(“Economic impact$” or Cost$) and (casino$ or gambl$)
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Basic Search Natural language searchDo not enter Boolean operators, wildcards, truncation in search boxClick on “include related terms”Apply a database limit(s) – optionalUse search aid for “narrow search”
Advanced Ovid SearchAllows for more complex and exact searchesUse Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOTUse * for multi-character wildcard (truncation)More information can be found on the “Database field guide” on the top of the screen.Really advanced – use indexes (see next screen)
Search tips for EconLit
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Ovidsp Multi-field search
New interface added recently, “searcher builder” for multi-field search
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Other search options
Find Citation Uses for searching for full details of a specific known existing article.
Search FieldsSearch using specific indexes such as country, isbn, year of publication etc. Example – In Advanced Ovid search, search using ct.singapore and casino.See me if you want to know more.
Sliver Platter Search To be dropped by OVIDSP, not recommended
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Other generic tips
Search HistoryUse ‘Search History’ to combine the searches with Boolean search operators OR and AND
Sort by score, year of publication etc
“Find citing articles”, to find articles quoting the target article.
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Scopus
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Scopus
Producer: Elsevier
Coverage: 1841-1996 (17 million records) , 1996- (16 million records)
Largest abstract and citation database covering science, technical, medial, social science
Use this to supplement your search to go beyond Economics for multi-disciplinary papers.
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Let’s search Scopus!
What are the economic impacts of Legalized
casino gaming?
“Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl*
(“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)
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Scopus Basic Search
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Scopus results
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Exporting downloading Scopus results
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Export citations to Endnote
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Emailing citations
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Formatting citiations
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Search tips for Scopus
Basic SearchUse Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT, also multi-character wildcard *
Default search in “Article title, Abstract, Keywords”
Use Limit fields
Use Refine results
Combine Search History
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Advanced Search
Command Line search
Not really recommended
Other features relates to citation and are not that relevant for searching.
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science
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Web of ScienceWeb of Science
Producer: Thomson Scientific
Coverage: 1980-
Competes with Scopus
Don’t be fooled by name, includes Social Sciences Citation Index, provides access to
multidisciplinary & scholarly journal literature of the social sciences
author abstracts
cited references
full text articles
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Web of Science
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Search tips for Web of Science
- search subject words (topic), author name(s) or affiliation, journal title,…
- requires search field tags e.g. ts=topic- enables restricting items from your
search with “not.” - allows for combining previous searches
Viewing search results - click on title to view full record
- for combining search result sets- saving search strategies for future use.
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PERINDPERINDPeriodical Index to Articles
relating to Singpaore, Malaysia,
Brunei and ASEAN
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PERIND
Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEANProducer: NUS Libraries Coverage, 1980-
Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, lawJournal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers
Search tipsUse drop-down menu for Boolean operators & fieldsEnter keywords, subject terms, phrases… Save selected records using IE toolbar
• File> Save as> html format.
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Perind Screenshot
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NewspapersNewspapers
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E-Newspapers
Major international & local newspapers:
New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Times, The Straits Times, more…Access via Library portal>E-Resources> E-Newspapers
Two major databasesFactiva Lexis/Nexis Academic
Note at this time, you cannot export citations from these two databases.
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Newspapers
Press ClippingsIn-house collection of articles from Straits Times and Business Times
Articles about Singapore, Malaysia, ASEAN
Check LION under Press Clippings Collection - Subject Headings List
Available from Singapore-Malaysia Collection
MicrofilmsThe Straits Times from 1880 -
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Factiva Search vs search 2.0
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Example of Factiva search
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Factiva results
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Materials Not Found in Library
Document Delivery Services (DDS)Journal articles, book chapters, conference Papers
Request via E-Forms (Library Portal)
All requests must be approved by Supervisor
Free, but maximum 3 requests for Honours years
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THESES
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NUS Theses & Academic exercises (PRINT)
Search LINC, byUnder Find, By call no: HD30* and choose Theses Collection (optional)
Search LINC+, by keywords:m soc sc Economics national university singaporeacademic exercise economics national university singapore
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Online)
Producer: Proquest UMI
Includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year from Universities in United States and Canada.
Provides full text access for many items.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Search for North American Dissertations & Theses
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STATISTICAL SOURCES
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Statistical SourcesAccess via E-Resources>Databases>By type>Statistical Data and Economics subject guide
InternationalEIU CountryData, EIU CityData, EIU Market Indicators and Business ForecastInternational Financial Statistics World development Indicators OnlineSourceOECD (OECD Stat)Statistics Database (World Trade Organisation)
Demo
Intro
Demo
Intro
Time series on international trade of service and commodities, trade and tariff profiles
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Statistical Sources II
Business/industry related/Finance
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
ISI Emerging Markets
Frost & Sullivan
Orbis and Osiris
Excellent business database, draws data from IFS as well.
IT industry related industry reports
Covers 35 countries only
Specific Company related information.
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Statistical Sources III
Singapore
Yearbook of statistics, Singapore (print & web)
SingSTAT Time Series
Statlink
Singapore 1000 (CDROM)
Statistics on Singapore : annotated bibliography
Standard statistics reference, latest version is always online
Other statistics from Dept of Statistics- request with supervisors permissionSingapore Trade
StatsCompany Info on biggest S’pore companies
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More statistics database
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Statistics basics
Select the following
Geographic coverage : Region, Country or Country aggregate (e.g ASEAN)
Statistic series (e.g. Real GDP : US$ at 2005 prices)
Chronological coverage (e.g. 1980-2000 monthly)
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EIU Country data
Producer: Economist Intelligence UnitGeographic Coverage: 150 countries, 45 regional aggregates (e.g ASEAN). Chronological coverage :1980- (annual) , 1993- (monthly, quarterly). 317 series (statistic data on macro indicators – Inflation, GDP, interest rates, trade balance of payments, demographics etc)Includes forecasts (figures will appear in green)Help fileOther EIU databases include
EIU MarketIndicators & ForecastsEIU CityData EIU Commodities
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EIU Citydata
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EIU marketindicators & forecasts
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International Financial Statistics
Producer: IMF (Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund)Geographic Coverage: More than 200 countries and areas Chronological coverage :1948-“contains approximately 32,000 time series” international liquidity, IMF fund accounts, money supply etc.Help file
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IFS
Tip : Change retrieval period first, before entering other data such as country and statistical series.
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Other “all-rounders” to try
World development Indicators Online (by World Bank)Data statistics from 1960s onwards, geographic coverage. World Development Indicators (WDI) database, 800 development indicators, with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2007
SourceOECD (OECD Stat)Currently in beta Covers OECD countries (30 countries) plus selected non-member economies e.g. China, India.1960 onwards
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Country statistics
Country Report Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Commerce Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Profile Datamonitor Plc
Country Review CountryWatch Incorporated
Country Monitor Global Insight Inc.
Global Competitiveness Report
World Competitiveness Report
Search for E-Resources on “Economic studies”, “Economic Competitiveness”, “Forecast”
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Country statistics
Search the site of the countries' official body (e.g. department, ministry, bureau, agency etc) responsible for statistics
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
http://isi.cbs.nl/directory.htm
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List of statistical agencies
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Tips for looking for statistics
If subject is topical and/or country, you can try looking at websites of international or regional organizations devoted to the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_organizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organizations
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Tips for looking for statistics
Don’t neglect print! Search LINC with subject heading . e.g China statistic
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INTERNET RESOURCES
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Resources on WWW
Citeulike
WWW Virtual Library Economics
Blogs on Economics
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/EconVLib.html
http://academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Economics.
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OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
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Subject Guides
Good starting point for research
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E-resource day
9 September 2008 , Central Library Forum
Participate in our Online Quiz and Treasure Hunt to win prizes such as an Asus Eee PC, iPod Nanos, MP3 players, laptop bags, book vouchers, flash drives, optical mice, and other great prizes!
Listen in & Learn ! Our e-resource providers will be conducting talks throughout the day touching on the scope, coverage, and strengths of the various e-resources.
Some of the e-resources highlighted are: Business Source Premier, Scopus, Web of Science, Engineering Village 2, Proquest Dissertations & Theses, SciFinder Scholar, LexisNexis Academic and the list goes on!