Everything you Wanted to Know about Research Systems
at TWU Library
 

Library Home Page      Library Catalog       Journal Articles   
  
Interlibrary  Loan        Linking Google Scholar to TWU Resources

Refworks - See tutorials at http://www.twu.ca/library/refworks.htm

1. Meet our Home Page (Graphics Complements Duncan Dixon, TWU Assistant Librarian)
 

Here it is without the explanations:

2. The Library Catalogue

    a. What's in it? - An index of books, audio-visual materials and journals to which we subscribe.  It is NOT an index to individual journal articles.

    b. How does it work?

   c. What results can I expect?

    Books:

    Media:

3. Journal Articles

    a. Article databases

Article databases are the best means to find individual journal articles on a topic.  In a nutshell, such databases (either based in a certain subject area or covering many subject areas) act like a catalog for journal articles.  You enter keywords or a subject heading and get a list of articles.  Many of the items (citations) in the result list have links to the electronic full text of the article, though this is not by any means always the case.

Start at the library home page by clicking on "Articles (Databases)."

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Leads to:

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Here's an example of the subject area Psychology:

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Here is a sample results list from a search in PsycINFO:

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Clicking on "Check for availability at TWU" may lead you to a link to full text from another database:

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Sometimes the library does not have the article in any form.  In this case, you can choose a different link in the article's citation to go to an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form:

More on Interlibrary Loan below.

    b. Identifying TWU's Journal Subscriptions

Sometimes you come across a journal article in your reading and want to know if TWU subscribes to it.  This is when you need to click on the Journal Titles link from the library home page.

Simply type in the name of the journal on the next page, and you will get a listing.  If it gives a "zero result, we do not have the journal, and you will likely need to use interlibrary loan to get the article you want.  Or it may list the journal, along with the years we have and the format(s):

4. Interlibrary Loan

Most of our journal databases have links to make an interlibrary loan. You can also do so with the link from our library home page:

You will need to provide the barcode number from your library/student card (typed in twice for both user name and password).  The ILL page (http://www.twu.ca/library/libreq.htm) is filled with information about procedures, so no more will be added here.

5. Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a database from Google to scholarly books, articles, online studies, conference proceedings, etc.  For journal articles it is possible to show links to the TWU journal list.  If you want to do so, you must log in to Google Scholar through the library home page:

On the way to your search, will need to configure Scholar Preferences to connect with TWU's journals, and you may also want to configure Google Scholar to show links that allow you to download citations to RefWorks:

On the next screen, you will see:

After a search, you can check TWU’s journal resources and/or download a citation to RefWorks.  

5. Types of resources available in Google Scholar:

  Ø      Journal Articles – Look for the journal name just under the title link in the citation.

Ø      Books – Not the full text in most cases; designated by [Book]

Ø      Citations – This is a bit tricky – a citation is a reference to a scholarly article or book found within one of the articles or books in the GS database.  So it’s a reference to a reference.  As such, it has no link to take you to a place where you can obtain it, though you can link to the source that referred to it, as well as do a search on Google to see if it’s available on the open Net.  This type of source is designated as [Citation].

Ø      Conference Proceedings – These results have no special designation to tell them apart from journal articles, so you have to look at how they are described under the title link in the citation.  Here’s an example: 

   From WEB to GRID, a new perspective for archaeology
G Pelfer, PG Pelfer - Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... In addition to the above- mentioned sites, Iraq houses some of the most important
archaeological collections of the world, such as the Iraqi Museum of Baghdad. ...
Cited by 2 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into RefWorks 

Note the name of the conference under the title.  As long as we are looking at this entry, note also that you can find out what sources referred to (cited) this conference address, and you can identify related (= similar) articles.  

Ø      Academic, government, etc. websites – These will be identifiable because they have URLs instead of journal names or descriptions like [Book] or [Citation].

Prepared by William Badke, June 2008.  Last updated December 5, 2011