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Enhancing Research Skills: A Guide to Library Resources and Information Literacy

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  1. Digital Library, E-Learning and Study aboard 林孟玲 世新大學 玄奘學院 講師 June 30, 2001

  2. I. Introduction

  3. Why this class? • scholarly research • proliferation of publishing in all academic fields • the development of electronic media and resources

  4. Some other reason • Overall, 93% of students surveyed perceived their library skills as fair , pretty good , or excellent. While only 7% of graduates rated their library skills as pretty poor , in point of fact some 63% of the graduates received poor to failing scores on the survey questions. Only 1.2% of the students scored 90% or higher in correctly answering the survey questions.

  5. How? & What?—an outline I. Introduction II. Research Process III. How to Search Library Materials IV. How to Find Information on the Internet V. How to Write a Research Report VI. Discussion

  6. II.Research Process

  7. What is Research? • Research is a process through which researchers reveal or discover knowledge

  8. Research Method • Quantitative management research methods • Survey designs • Statistical analysis • interpretation of results • Qualitative research methods • Case-study based research • Action research • Ethnographic research • Research based on observation

  9. Approaches to Research • Theoretical Applied • Empirical Non-Empirical • Experimental Non-Experimental • Positivist Interpretive • Induction Deduction

  10. Observation Preliminary information gathering Hypothesizing Deductive research induction Data collection Data analysis Deduction Research process(science method)

  11. Research process • Observation • Preliminary information gathering • Theory formulation • Hypothesizing • Further scientific data collection • Data analysis • Deduction

  12. Research process (science method) • Observation • Problem definition • Hypothesis generation • Testing • Hypothesis accepted, rejected, or modified

  13. Research Methodologies • Library Research • Library research involves accessing • Surveys • questionnaires • Interviews • questioning or discussing issues with selected individuals (face or phone)

  14. Research Methodologies • Case Studies • Experiments • Action Research • Combine with theory with practice such that advances in theory and necessary changes to practices are simultaneously achieved

  15. How to gather information? • Formal • Using Library Services • Informal • Consulting Personal Collection • Asking Friends and Colleagues • Search on the Internet

  16. III.How to search Library Materials

  17. What a Library Can Offer You? • How to Search Library Materials • http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/

  18. Main services on the library’s home page • Using the library • Locating the materials- printed & electronic • Supplying services

  19. Using the library • FAQ & Help • Hours • Proxy Service • Tours & Instruction • Map for different libraries on campus • How to do your research

  20. Locating the materials- printed & electronic • Online catalogs (OPAC, WebPAC) • Pathfinder • Archival • Reserves- assigned readings, books & exam • Electronic indexes & abstracts • Digital libraries-electronic journals, databases, reference texts, archival

  21. Supplying services • Borrowing • loan period, renewal , overdue, fines, replacement charge • Document Delivery • Specific document/article photocopies or inter-library loan from the other libraries • Interlibrary borrowing services (bks,jrl,thes) • More linkages for the resources worldwide

  22. How to do your research • Very helpful for beginners • Good sites to visit

  23. Databases in Various Disciplines • 教育/人文/社會 • ERIC, PsycINFO, PAIS, SSCI, Sport • 法律/政治/新聞 • LEXIS-NEXIS • 化學 • CA Search • 材料科學 • METADEX

  24. Databases in Various Disciplines • 科技 • COMPENDEX, INSPEC, NTIS, ASTI, SCI • 醫學/生命科學 • MEDLINE, BIOSIS, TOXLINE, CANCERLIT • 電腦 • Computer Select, Computer Database • 管理/經濟/商業 • ABI/INFORM

  25. Databases Databases in Various Disciplines in Various Disciplines • 新聞 • Dow Jones News/Retrieval, NewsEdge • 工商名錄 • Dun &Bradstreet(www.dnb.com), Moody series • 專業商標 • CLAIMS, TRADEMARKSCAN, INPADOC, Derwent series

  26. Databases in Various Disciplines • 農業 • Agricola • 圖書資訊學 • LISA, Library Literature • 百科全書 • Compton’s, Encarta, Grolier, Britannica • 其他 • DAO, BIP, Peterson’s GRADLINE

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