Online Journal

Searching Tips

Save Money & Time

To Collect various information

sources

Finding more ‘fresh’ ideas

To choose the best research

design/metodology

Avoiding plagiarism

Avoiding mistakes by comparing various sources

To compare with previous work

How are you going to search ?

Where are you going to look?

What are you exactly looking for?

Important Factors In OnlineSearching

• Keywords

• Synonym

• Spelling

• Boolean operator (and, or, not)

• Truncation & Wildcard

• Search engine facilities

• Knowing free journal sites

• An online searching starts from a keyword

• It is very important to know the keyword before starting an inquiry besides thinking our finding topic and considering all synonymous related to the finding topic

• Keywords are terminologies derived from the variable of a topic

• We can use a dictionary or thesaurus help.

Spelling and Synonymous

• If our searching result is nonexistent, we have to check the spelling of keywords we used

• Consider the difference of The British and The American spelling in the following table :

BRITISH AMERICANProgramme Program

Colour Color

Aeroplane Airplane

Defence Defense

Free Journal Sites

• http://www.doaj.org/

• http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

• http://scholar.google.com/

• Etc

INPUT A KEYWORD

Input keyword, eg. : catalyst

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RESULT : 1 JOURNAL FOUND!

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SELECT A SUBJECT

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