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Written By: Naveed Dr. MahaAkhtar Arooj Dr. Maha Arooj (M.B.B.S) Reviewed by: Farooq Wahab Jilani Roy
This forum Research Articles, Books and & Literature was established to help you as a member of the academic community. This document has been written to help you become an independent researcher so that you can fully benefit from being the member of this forum by requesting well searched literature. If you search according to the given instructions you may find 10-15% technical literature of your subject area/ research topic freely from these sources without any assistance of others.
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A request may not be entertained if donors have to research the articles for you.
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? 1. BOOKS Keep in mind not all books are online/ or exist as pdf. Provide us with full details, as a link from AMAZON http://www.amazon.com/. If donors have access they will respond to you as soon as possible There are other options such as Worlds Largest Catalogue: http://www.worldcat.org/ You may be able to find out which library owns that Naveed Akhtar book near your university.
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? 2. THESIS Go to the following databases to locate the link of the required thesis: Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations British Library EThOS Proquest Dissertations & Thesis Database PROQUEST IS AN IDEAL SOURCE FOR CHECKING THE THESES.
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? 3. ARTICLES: This is what most people are looking for
HOW TO FIND DIRECT LINKS if a reference article is required i.e. year, volume and pages are known. 1. Find out the full name of the journal. 2. Google the full name of the journal. This will lead you to the direct publishers/ journal website. 3. Search your article from the journal websites. The ABSTRACTS are FREE.
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YOU MAY BEGIN FROM HERE: GOOGLE (www.google.com) SIMPLE SEARCH OPTIONS GOOGLE ADVANCED OPTIONS GOOGLE SCHOLAR- a very useful FREE resource or Start from SCOPUS (Contains 49 millions records) www.scopus.com or http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus
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SIMPLE SEARCHES
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Go to: www.scholar.google.com
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Boolean Operators Phrase Searching Truncation / Wildcard Searching Proximity Searching Focusing / Limiting a Search
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Boolean Operators
Boolean operators allow you to join terms together, widen a search or exclude terms from your search results. This means you can be more precise in locating your information. Many databases rely on AND/ OR/ NOT Options.
AND OR NOT
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS PHRASE SEARCHES: Allow you to search an exact quote It narrows your search down by searching for an exact phrase or sentence. It is particularly useful when searching for a title or a quotation. Usually quotation marks are used to connect the words together. For example entering Effect of Gold Nanoparticles on Total Cell Proteins Will make the search engine find the exact phrase in the literature.
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS TRUNCATION / WILDCARD These search techniques retrieve information on similar words by replacing part of the word with a symbol usually a * or ?. However, different databases use different symbols, so check what is used. In truncation the end of the word is replaced. For example physiother* will retrieve physiotherapy, physiotherapeutic, physiotherapist and so on. In wildcard searching, letters from inside the word are replaced. For example wom*n will retrieve the terms woman and women.
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ADVANCED SEARCHING TECHINIQUES FOR EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS Focusing / Limiting a Search There are many ways to focus your search and all search tools offer different ways of doing this. Some of the ways of limiting your search are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Date Language Place Publication type Age groups Type of material e.g. you could just need to find case studies
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ONLINE DATABASES Bibliographic databases ERIC, EI, SCI, CSA, PsychINFO Numeric databases ACS, Common Database Full text databases ScienceDirect, Emerald, AIAA, PQDT, IEEE, ELSEVIER, JSTOR,
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