Finding Your Article...

Using FindIt!...p. 7-8

Marking Records for Printing or Emailing...p. 8

 

Finding Books and Other Materials

Book Delivery...p. 9

Finding Materials at USM Libraries...p. 9

How to Search ANNA...p. 10

 

Additional Help Ask-a-Librarian...p. 11 APA Style Guide...p. 12 APA Tutorial...p. 12 Plagiarism Tutorial...p. 12

 

 

 

 

 

Accessing USM Library Resources from a Distance

What’s Available

All of the library's electronic resources and services are available from off-campus to currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff. This includes about 170 article databases, encyclopedias and dictionaries, statistical handbooks, and biographies. These subscription databases as well as the reserve collections and document delivery services require student logins for access (your SOAR login and password). ANNA, the library’s online catalog, and the Special Collection’s Digital Archives are available to all of the public who have Internet access.

How to Access from Off-Campus

Other than ensuring that your computer is set to accept cookies, no adjustments to your computer are necessary. Simply select the resource that you need and, when asked, type in your USM SOAR ID/Empl number (w######) and password. If you are a currently enrolled student or a current employee of the university and your USM ID number does not give you access to electronic resources from off-campus, please contact USM ITech at 601-266-HELP (4357).

 

Does USM Libraries Have Full-text Access to a Particular Journal?

You can easily search our E-Journal databases to find out if a particular journal is available full-text online and what years (volumes and issues) are available to you. From the library’s homepage <http://www.lib.usm.edu>, choose the E-Journal tab from the top of the blue search box. Type the name of the journal you are looking for and click “Submit.”

 

 

If the title is not available full-text, a link to ANNA, the library’s online catalog will appear. But if the journal is available full-text, the title will appear in red (see above right). Clicking on the title will give you info about the availability (see bottom left). Clicking the “Full text from” link will give you a page with a list of all the volumes and issues. You can look at single issues here or you can search the entire publication (see bottom right).

 

Finding the Right Article Database

 

 

 

 

Finding Article Databases for Education

USM Libraries has over 170 discipline-specific article databases (business, education, science, etc.) These databases are used for finding citations to articles, papers and/or book chapters. To find a list of the library’s databases that cover the discipline of “Workforce Development” locate Databases & Resources by Subject on the library’s homepage then choose “Workforce Development” from the drop down menu and click “Submit.”

 

 

Selecting the Appropriate Workforce Development Database

Once you have chosen “Workforce Development,” you will see a list of those article databases. For each database listed, a short description is given explaining 1) what aspects of the discipline are covered (ie ERIC covers “books, conference proceedings, curriculum guides, U.S. Dept. of Education reports, Congressional hearings and reports...”), 2) whether or not it is a full-text database and 3) how many years are covered by the database.

Here are some selected databases available under “Workforce Development” (* represents databases that may be particularly helpful):

*Business Source Complete BSI

Citations and selected full-text for scholarly business journals (back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal). Also included are financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

 

 

 

 

Computer Source

Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

 

*Computers & Applied Sciences Complete

CASC provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

 

Education Full Text

Abstracts (back to 1983) and selected full-text coverage (back to 1996) of international, English-language academic and peer-reviewed journals, periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks covering topics in K-University education and special education.

 

ERIC (Ebsco version - 1966-Present )

Bibliographic citations (back to 1966) to both ERIC Documents (ED) and Educational Journals (EJ). ERIC Documents include books, conference proceedings, curriculum guides, bibliographies and literature reviews, U.S. Dept. of Education reports, Congressional hearings and reports, and more.

 

Hospitality & Tourism Complete

Citations and selected full-text covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Coverage dates back to 1965.

 

*Human Resources Abstracts

Includes bibliographic records covering human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage back to 1975.

*Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides citations and full-text coverage of a select group of education journals and reports. Full text dates as far back as 1965.

 

Regional Business News

Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 60 sources.

 

*SocINDEX with Full-Text

Citations and selected full-text access to core sociology research journals (and related disciplines) dating as far back as 1895. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is included.

 

*Vocational & Career Collection

This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

 

Westlaw Campus Research

Compilation of law-related sources such as journals and law reviews, legal encyclopedias, law cases, statutes, and administrative materials. In addition, links are available to legal guides that provide overviews of such areas as business and commercial law, environmental law, health care law, and several others.

 

Developing a Search on Your Topic

Writing out Keywords
To search in a database, you must enter keywords that describe what you are looking for. Before starting your search, it is a good idea to write out a statement about what you are looking for. From this thesis or statement, pull out all of the major keywords. For each of the keywords, write as many synonyms and word variations as possible. That way, if you are unable to find citations with your initial keywords, you can try some of the synonyms. Example:

 

Thesis/Statement – An analysis of an employee job task is a vital aspect of a human performance review for determining training needs.

 

Keywords:    

employee

task

human performance

training

 

Synonyms:    

worker, workers, employees

tasks, assignment, duty, duties

function
development, preparation

*Tip: Some databases have a built-in Thesaurus, or Subject Terms and Descriptors to determine the appropriate terms to use. If nothing else, use the Thesaurus built into Microsoft Word.

Putting Your Keywords Together
Start your search by entering some of your major keywords in the given search box. When using more than one term or phrase, though, you must combine the terms or phrase using what are known as Boolean operators (and, or, not). The most used Boolean is AND. AND connects terms when you want both terms to be present somewhere in the citation/abstract. If you do not use AND, the words will typically be searched as a phrase.

Example search string using our thesis/statement above:

 

A Shortcut for Searching Word Variations
The computer looks for the exact words you give it. So technically, to do a thorough search, you would have to do multiple searches using the different forms of each word (administrative, administrator, administrators, leaders, leading, leadership). But it is possible to do in one stroke a search that looks for all the various word endings of your words. This is done with a trick called truncation. Almost every database allows you to use truncation and the truncation device is usually the asterisk (except in ANNA which uses a dollar sign). To find the different word endings, simply type the root word and insert the asterisk at the end.

Example:         employ*    (will find employee, employees, employer and employment)   

            task*                (will find task, task, tasking)

 

Use Advanced Searching to Limit by Date or to Full-text or Peer-reviewed
Look for an Advanced Search or Limiters to narrow your results:

By Date

To Full-text

To a Type of Material (i.e. journal article or book chapter)

To a Type of Study (i.e. case study, empirical study or peer reviewed)

To an Audience (i.e. general public or researcher).

 

A few limiters are often located on the basic search screen, but additional limiters can usually be found at the bottom or on a separate page labeled "Advanced or Guided Searching" or "Change Limits."

 

 

Sorting Through Your Results
When you type your search terms in the given box and click on Search, a list of results will appear - the database is set to automatically show only a brief citation. To see the full citation including an abstract of the article, click on the highlighted article title. If the item is full-text, a link should indicate that (pdf or html).

 

 

Finding Your Article

Using Find It!
If the article is not full-text within the database you are currently searching, you will see a button. Find It! brings up a box that will tell you if the article is available full-text in another database – if it is, it will give you a link to the article:

If the article is not full-text in any of the other databases, you will be given the option to search Google. If the article isn’t full-text through Google, try the link to the library’s online catalog ANNA to see if the library subscribes to the paper version of the journal:

If the library owns the article in paper, you can come to the library to copy it. If you cannot get to the USM Libraries to copy the article, you may have the article emailed to you for a fee. To do this from ANNA, click on the Document Delivery button at the top of the screen, “Access Illiad” and then the button labeled “Eagle Express Article Delivery Request” and fill out the form with the article citation information (see “Document Delivery Services” at the end of this handout).

 

If the library does not own the article and it is not available through Google, you may still use Document Delivery (Illiad) button located in “FindIt! to get the article – the library will make the request to receive the article from elsewhere and email it to you (usually within 1-3 days).

Marking Records for Printing or Emailing
Mark records that you want to print or email to yourself by clicking on the “Add to folder” or by check marking records (depending on the database). You can then print or email all the records at once by going to the link labeled “Go to: Folder View” or “View Marked Records” (again, depending on the database).

 

 

Emailing records from an EBSCO database gives you the option to email the citation in APA, MLA or Turabian Style.

 

 

 

Finding Books and other Materials

 

 

Book Delivery

Books, DVDs, videos and other material owned by USM Libraries can now be delivered free of charge to students who live outside a specified zip code through a service known as Document Delivery (visit “Document Delivery Services” at the end of this handout for more information).

 

Finding Books at USM Libraries

A search for the library’s books and other materials such as DVDs, videos, pamphlets, e-books (full-text electronic books), etc. can be done through USM Library’s online catalog called ANNA. A link to ANNA can be found at the top right of the library’s home page.

 

 

Searching ANNA

A.) Author, Title, Subject Searching:
When you know the exact name of an author, title, or subject you are looking for you can use the Search for drop-down menu on the left of the search box to select "Author (last name first)" "Title begins with" or "Subject begins with." The Author, Title, Subject keyword allows you to search for parts of an author’s name, part of a title or part of a subject area.

B.) Words Anywhere (Keyword)

Upon entering ANNA, the default search is a keyword or “Words Anywhere” search. Unlike a title search that only searches titles in a record or a author search that only searches authors in a record, a keyword search searches keywords that might show up anywhere in a record. For instance, a search of “principals and achievement” could produce this record in which the word principals was part of the publisher’s name and achievement was part of the table of contents:

 

 

When doing keyword searches in ANNA, it is important to keep in mind the same rules discussed previously for articles (see “Developing a Search on Your Topic”).

 

Document Delivery Services

 

 

 

What is Document Delivery Service?

Document Delivery (DD) has a variety of services for USM students. Through DD:

 

1) Students who live outside a designated zip code can have books from USM Libraries delivered to their home (first 10 at no charge).

2) For a minimal fee, students can have articles from the library’s collection scanned and sent to them via email.

3) Students can obtain library materials from one of the other USM Library campuses and have them delivered to another USM Library campus (campus-to-campus delivery)

4) Students can obtain library materials not available at USM Libraries and have them delivered to USM (article, book, dissertations)

 

How Long Does Document Delivery Take?

Articles are sent via email as .pdf files. Though there is so guarantee on the time of article delivery, typical delivery time is 1-3 days. Books, dissertations, and the like usually arrive at USM within ten to fourteen working days after a request is placed. In some instances the process may take longer.

 

How Do I Request Materials Through Document Delivery Services?

There is a link to Document Delivery on the library’s homepage. From there, click on “Access Illiad” and enter your SOAR login and password. There is also a link to Document Delivery through the article databases under (see Getting Your Article in this handout.)

 

 

 

 

Additional Help

 

 

Email Ask-a-Librarian

Maneuvering through the research process to find what you need can sometimes be a daunting task, particularly if you’re far away. USM Libraries maintains an Email Reference service called “Ask-a-Librarian.” If you are needing help with a research task or are having a technical problem using the library’s services, please email us! You’ll see the Ask-a-Librarian link on the library’s web pages or you can find it at http://www.lib.usm.edu/askalibrarian/

 

 

APA Style Guide

USM Libraries provides a printed and online guide to citing sources in APA Style. The guide is located at http://www.lib.usm.edu/help/style_guides/apa.html Be sure to note the instructions at the top of the guide.

 

APA Tutorial for Formatting and Parenthetical Citations

USM Libraries provides an online tutorial that walks students through the processes of formatting a paper and citing sources parenthetically (in-text) in APA. The section on formatting has screen captures for formatting using Microsoft Word. The tutorial can be found at http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/apatutorial/tutorialindex.html

 

Plagiarism Tutorial

Plagiarism occurs when students summarize, paraphrase or quote other materials without giving proper credit. It is a serious offense in which students could receive an F in their course or expelled from school. Often students plagiarism without even knowing that they are doing it. USM Libraries provides a simple tutorial to help students understand how to appropriately cite sources within their papers. The tutorial can be found at http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php