Get off to a good start with searching!

Introduction

• This presentation for Sports students aims to help you with the following:– Searching for periodicals on the library catalogue– Searching electronic periodicals on ECO and

Swetswise (our main service providers)– Recap other options available on library catalogue– Searching SportDISCUS database– Finding the Library’s Sport subject guide

• Please ask at the Information desk for further advice and help.

Searching for periodicals

Periodical record on library catalogue

Class number

Online version from 1996

Volume range

Searching for periodicals on the catalogue (iBistro)

• Points to remember about searching• Periodicals about sport are not all at the same

class number so it’s important to search iBistro• iBistro lists periodical titles only, not articles

• Searching for periodicals on the catalogue• Specific title – eg: Journal of sports sciences• List of periodicals use Powersearch - eg: sports

(in subject) combined with periodicals (in Item category1)

Searching for periodicals: Powersearch

Searching electronic periodicals: ECO

Searching electronic periodicals: ECO

• Click on ‘Available issues’ to browse the contents of each journal issue

• Click on ‘Search this journal’ to search by subject keywords to find out if the journal has an article on your topic eg: cycling injury

• The result for this search is shown on the next slide. To see the full text click on

View Full Text in PDF format (ECO)

ECO search results

Searching electronic periodicals: Swetwise

Click here to browse the content of each journal issue

Click here to search journal articles by keywords

Other options on Library catalogue

– User services on Library catalogue• Display books on loan with barcode number & PIN• Renew books

– Placing holds: guide on web pages• Link from main Library webpage to Fountains

Learning Centre web pages then ‘Placing holds’

– Reserve collection – eg: Dave Smith UK Sport strategy and administration 2PE230

SportDISCUS: database facts

Searching SportDISCUS

Searching SportDISCUS

• Subjects can be combined in the Find box eg: netball and United Kingdom

• If you use ‘field codes’ you can specify which index you wish to search eg: ‘su netball’ will search only subject keywords and ‘ti netball’ will search titles only

• Use the source index (below the Find box in the limit your results section) to limit to one periodical such as British journal of teaching physical education

• Use the publication type index to select for example ‘Journal articles’ to search for articles only

Search results

Search results

• Title (of article, book chapter, etc.)• Source: literally means ‘where it comes from’, often a

periodical title or if the item is a book chapter it may be the title of the whole book. To find out if our library holds the item, search for this title on our catalogue.

• Keywords: subject words assigned to that item which you can use to search on and refine your search

• Document information: the type of publication such as a ‘Journal article’ or a book/ conference report often called ‘Book analytic’ on this database.

Sport subject guide• Don’t forget that you can find out more information about

the print and electronic resources in the Learning Centre from the Sport subject guide! To access this, select Library services>scroll down to subject guides>

Sport science and physical education subject guide• This Powerpoint presentation is accessible from the

subject guide.• More details about searching databases and periodicals

also available from a further link on the subject guide.