Week Three

Tutorial


MEDline

The MEDline plus website would most probably be use by those who have a limited knowledge of something medical related, be it illness, medication, Est. As well as people studying at a university who wish to use creditable references for their work. The Information posted there is informative and useful, hell I even managed to work out I have either case 2 Insomnia or Hypochondria so its information has its uses.


10 Hints, tips and functions involving the ECU Library

1.Having the journals split down into facilities or subjects allows for quick access to what you want.

2.Only include the core points in a search so instead of searching the economic impact of global warming on business using global warming + economic impact on business would be more effective.

3.ALWAYS cheek if the book your after is at the campus you are going to, nothing worse than catching a bus to Mt Lawely only to find that the book you wanted is out at the Joondalup campus

4.You can also be linked to the other UNI sites where you can search there databases for information as well. You can also use their Libras as well apparently.

5.Meta Quest helps find data bases easily and effectively by using it search abilities to scan a max of 10 sources at once.

6.Indoor can be used as an alternative to Meta Quest, and searches a wide spectrum of sources.

7.You can access the Library from home but to have access you will have to gain the right authentication information because it will to be operating in the ECU network.

8.And, or, Not. These three words can be used to either include or exclude topics and help narrow down your search results to a more refined level.

9.Searching for journals that are either peer-reviewed or scholarly will give you high quality information. An article for a peer- reviewed journal is submitted to a body of experts and reviewed before it is allowed to be included and most scholarly journals are peer- reviewed

10.Quotation marks can be used to define exactly what you are searching for and can siphon out UN wanted information from the list.


Lecture

Now where getting somewhere, today’s lecture was divided between Online Libraries and online data bases and was quite informative, and considering the main source for online information back in high school was Wikipedia It will be good to actually get some solid credible evidence for a change.
The first half was just running through the variety of different forms of libraries such as ones that compile electronic journal articles, act as storage for sheet music, or even browse through the Louvre gallery. The flip side though is that most of the high quality sites require a subscription to access.
The same applies to Data bases, which are similar to Libras but have more focused objectives and are geared towards providing access to a wealth of up to date relevant information on a specific topic and will more often than not have advanced searching features to allow for practice data retrievals from the database. Though too much of a good thing can have the reverse effect and it can be quite easy to become overwhelmed with the amount of information you can gather and not all of the online database sites are known for their user friendless.

Readings


Finding what you want on the web

Finding what you want on the web is a good article for giving you a few more ideas for searching apart from just goggling it, and the idea of having creditable news sites bookmarked for quick use is looking more and more like a good idea every week. The concept of relieving ourselves from the “Dumb Web” is also an interesting idea but the sheer effort and time that would be required would be ungodly high but if the flaws in search engines turning up information that has been tooled up to come out top of the list while not containing any good relevance (I.e. Google) is a problem that needs to be countered.


Bare Bones Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips

Quite a handy list of tips and hints for refining and aiding your searching on the web such as the use of + and – signs, as well as a few quick tips for a Boolean search. Well worth a bookmark. And Boolean has to be the coolest word ever conceived.


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