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Andy Jarvis (ELC), Christine Ho (Library) 29 September 2017
Helping your students identify academic sources
29 September 2017
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Learning Outcomes
Understand what you can do on the Library’s new OneSearchIdentify databases that are best for first year studentsGuide students to quality sources
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Starting Point
Imagine you are a student who is having difficulties finding sources for your essay. How would you, as an instructor, help this student?
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Responses
• Directed students Google Scholar @ PolyU• Directed students to OneSearch• Direct students to the library’s Databases by Subject list to
explore relevant disciplinary databases• Recommended disciplinary databases such as Science
Direct• Requested a library workshop on searching• Troubleshot some searches together (too few results? too
many? typos in search statement? relevance of results?)• Helped students distinguish between types of sources• Used writing exemplars
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1 - OneSearch
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6
search anything
www.lib.polyu.edu.hk
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What’s in OneSearch?
Search the totality of our collections• 3.7M books of which 3M are e-books• 75K journals of which 73K are e-journals• 500+ databases• 500K+ AV/multimedia materials
+• Journal articles not owned by us [ log in to
request through ILL ]• Books now owned by us [ log in to request
through HKALL or ILL ]
20%
Electronic
80% Our collection spending
* In rough figures
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OneSearch Demo https://youtu.be/1ZCxbnW4AAk
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What is OneSearch
• A single search box to access the Library’s collections
• Searches (nearly) everything PolyU Library: our books, journals, articles and media items, print and digital
• Use filters to refine search results• Can also expand search to get citations first,
then initiate a request via ILL or HKALL
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…any observations?
1. Go to the PolyU Library website
2. Put in search terms
3. Click “More…”
4. Filter results by “Resource Type” --“Books”
Find a book…
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Tips 1
caffeine
health
Use advanced
search
For books: use broad
terms
Start broad, refine later
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Tips 2 Refine by filter
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Tips 3 Peer review articles only Full-text online only
Books Articles Reference
Entries ….& more
Collection = Database
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Tips 4Click to expand results beyond PolyU Library.
This pulls citations from all member libraries
Then request items we
don’t have through
HKALL or ILL
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A sample e-book
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2 – Credo Reference
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What’s inside Credo Reference is a searchable collection of reference books covering over 20 disciplines. Cross-search millions of full text articles in 800+ dictionaries and encyclopedias from reputable publishers.
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Credo 1
Default: Basic
Search
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Credo 2
Topic page =
broadest overview
Entries from subject-specific
reference books
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Sample entry
Credo 3 Cite / Email /
PDF / Save / Translate
Permalink to this entry
Mind map of related
topics
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Credo 4
Sample mind map
Related topics are
hyper-linked
Related entries
are listed
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Credo 5 Scope your
search at the outset
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Access from the library guide
University English
Go to guide
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University English > Find Topic Overviews > Credo
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How to Find the Guides
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How to Find the Guides
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= Explore Credo
• Go to “University English” guide
• Go to “Find topic overviews” tab
• Go to “Use Credo”
• Do a search on your topic
• Find a useful overview on your topic
• Email the result to yourself
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Other online reference collections
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3 – Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier• A good place to look for periodical articles on a
wide range of topics -- business, education, social sciences, health, science and technology.
• Contains full-text articles of 1000+ periodicals, plus 3,000+ magazines and trade journals.
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Explore Academic Search Premier
• Go to “University English” guide
• Go to “Find books and articles” tab
• Go to “Articles”
• Open “Academic Search Premier”
• Do a keyword search & locate an article
• Email the article to yourself
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Wrap up
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Comments & questions
• Provide a scoped OneSearch search box for Year 1 students (I’ll check to see if I can build one)
• Provide a guide to MLA style (Will follow up)
• Other databases for Year 1 students (I’ll create a list of other disciplinary databases suited for first year students)
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