Research Methods. Dr. Sivan Hirsch Hoefler

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1 Research Methods Dr. Sivan Hirsch Hoefler IDC LIBRARY

2 Introduction You will learn about Library catalogs Printed and online material (books and journals) Search strategies Tips for searching Recommended sites Examples of some recommended sites

3 Contents Access to Library Catalogs Searching and Results Electronic Sources some examples

4 Access to Library Catalogs My IDC Click My IDC to access the Library site

5 Access to Library Catalogs Library Home Page Click E-Resources to search online database collections Click Tutorials for training materials and Refworks to set up documents for citations and bibliographies Search the library collection using OneSearch from the home page

6 Contents Access to Library Catalogs Searching and Results Electronic Sources

7 Searching Good-to-know strategies Phrase or words together use inverted commas: Diplomatic incident Wildcard: diplomat* Retrieves: diplomat, diplomatic, diplomats (the symbol * may differ check HELP in the database help) Boolean logic: AND, OR, NOT

8 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Simple Search Perform simple searches in the library collection from the home page. Type in your search term(s) Make a selection from the drop-down boxes and click Search

9 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Simple Search Example Note: you can select your preferred language Search results according to search criteria books with words appearing anywhere in the record In this example you can refine the result list by selecting a topic, subject, language

10 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Simple Search Example Click Locations & Request to: *see where the book is housed *see how many copies there ar *check if the copies are availab *make a request if on loan

11 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Advanced Search Type in your keywords using the options available to enhance or limit your search results. This example shows political participation in the subject limited by the publication date, language

12 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Advanced Search The search has retrieved a list of books, one of which is an e-book

13 Searching Getting Started OneSearch Advanced Search Note: you can link to the full text through the View Online tab Click Details to view more information and to link to the full text of the book. Click Full Text to open the book

14 Searching Other Libraries If the material you require is not held by the library, you can search and see if another library has relevant material Click Union List of Israel

15 Searching Other Libraries The ULI page opens select Advanced Search and type in your search

16 Searching Other Libraries Select the title and click Available at to see which library carries the title

17 Contents Access to Library Catalogs Searching and Results Electronic Sources

18 Electronic Sources You can also access the electronic sources from My IDC Select E-Resources in the library home page and then select the type of resource you require

19 Electronic Sources Databases Provides direct access to various databases, arranged alphabetically, or according to subject First have to agree to proper usage when selecting Databases

20 Electronic Sources Databases Select a database by name from the alphabetical list, or by subject. This example shows the electronic resources under the subject, Government. Note the access rites.

21 Electronic Sources Databases Recommended databases Ebsco ProQuest Jstor Lexis Nexis News APA Psychnet Questionnaires IPOLL Additional tools Google Scholar

22 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCOhost Web is a good place to start searching. It is a repository of mostly scholarly articles

23 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCO Select the databases in which you would like to run the search. There is a short explanation of each database

24 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCO Type in your search terms, using the options in the drop-down lists and the Boolean operators. This example shows the search terms political marketing in the abstract and public opinion in the subject To find an academic article, you can add another search term such as Research or Method in any field You can also limit your search results. This shows limitation by full text and scholarly journals

25 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCO The results are displayed. At a glance you can see your Current Search terms and limitations Note: you can access full text from the brief record

26 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCO You can limit your search further by making required selections Note: subject terms can help in developing alternate search strategies

27 Electronic Sources Databases EBSCO Click on the record to display record details. You can view the full text from this page. It may be a link, as this example shows, or a PDF icon. Click Link to Full Text Note: you can search for similar results from this page

28 Electronic Sources Databases ProQuest Proquest Central and Proquest Dissertations for articles and dissertations

29 Electronic Sources Databases ProQuest Type in your search terms and select limitations from the dropdown boxes. This example shows election polls in the abstract and Israel or Middle East as a subject heading Click Search You can also select the source type for example, dissertations Note: do not select the Peer reviewed box if you want a thesis or dissertation

30 Electronic Sources Databases ProQuest Your search strategy is displayed and can be modified You are prompted with additional subjects that can be searched. Click the subject link to retrieve the material You can save, print or your selected item, or open the full text You can narrow your search using any of the listed criteria

31 Electronic Sources Databases ProQuest This example shows the same search with a source type, Dissertation & Theses

32 Electronic Sources Databases ProQuest This example shows the same search with AND APPENDIX added to the search strategy. This will retrieve tables, graphs, statistics and questionnaires

33 Electronic Sources Databases JSTOR JSTOR is an archive of primary sources for academic content

34 Electronic Sources Databases JSTOR Type in your search terms and click the search icon. Or use the Advanced Search option

35 Electronic Sources Databases JSTOR This shows the results of an advanced search note when searching, do not select ABSTRACT for the source as only 10% of the articles have abstracts. You can limit the results by selecting only Journals, Books or Pamphlets

36 Electronic Sources Databases Lexis.com Search Lexis.com news

37 Electronic Sources Databases Lexis News Select News

38 Electronic Sources Databases Lexis News Select news source. This example shows all news Select the type of news this example shows major world publications

39 Electronic Sources Databases Lexis News Your search results retrieve articles in the original language of the article

40 Electronic Sources Databases Lexis News The results are displayed. You can refine your search

41 Electronic Sources Databases Psychnet (Questionnaires) Search for questionnaires. Select PsycTests and type in your search strategy

42 Electronic Sources Databases Psychnet (Questionnaires) Select the required test view the summary or the test itself

43 Electronic Sources Tools Google Scholar This example shows: suicide bombing AND Israel OR middle east

44 Electronic Sources Tools Google Scholar At a glance you can see if the IDC has the full text article; article citations; related articles and can see how to cite the article

45 Electronic Sources Journals The E-Journals site contains all the electronic journals owned by the library. If you have a citation of a journal article (date, number, year) this is an easy way to find the article

46 Electronic Sources Journals Type in the title of a journal to retrieve a list of titles starting with the same word or select a letter to see an alphabetical list of all titles beginning with that letter

47 Electronic Sources Journals This example shows The American Political Science Review. Click on the journal link and a pop-up window appears with the full text options. Note the available dates and make your selection accordingly

48 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Search IPOLL for public opinion surveys on specific subjects

49 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL What is IPOLL? Roper center archive of opinion polls Mostly in the US but global polls as well Polls in various formats Descriptive summaries to full datasets Data goes back to 1935

50 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Why IPOLL? You can Search for recurring questions in public opinion polls Search for full data sets View results of specific questions Analyze and download data

51 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Note: IPOLL retrieves questions within different polls Datasets retrieves full questionnaires The first step is to register your own account Search for public opinion polls using standard strategies such as Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) or wildcard (% or *), Inverted commas ( ). You can also exclude terms, choose a specific topic, organization and dates

52 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Each search result is a question within a poll Narrow search results. In the DATA section, tooltips explain what data is available Download results

53 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Question results only available online (topline) Demographic crosstabs available online View other questions from the same poll; create crosstabs online Data from the entire poll are available for download Data from the entire poll are available for download on request

54 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Topline Click the link to see how the report has been used in the media Drill down to all questions from the poll and additional information and analysis Drill down for further data The source of the survey and how to cite

55 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL - Demographics Click the link to see how the report has been used in the media Tabs show different demographic data as well as the Topline

56 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Crosstabs This is the topline of 2 questions I want to crosstab. To start, click Analyze Dataset

57 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL Crosstabs Select the first question though topic, keyboard or viewing by row. Select the second question

58 Electronic Sources Databases IPOLL - Crosstabs Step 3 shows the crosstab of two questions. Tabs show different demographic data as well as the Topline

59 Additional Sources Recommended Databases Israel Democracy Institute Israel National Election Studies Polity IV World Bank Congress.gov U.S. Census

60 Additional Sources Israel Democracy Institute The Israel Democracy Institute has useful analysis and data. One example is the Guttman Center for Surveys. Select the Center from Tools and Data or Projects

61 Additional Sources Israel Democracy Institute Select a project

62 Additional Sources Israel Democracy Institute Example of the Peace Index Reports

63 Additional Sources Israel National Elections Studies Studies that began in 1969 investigate voting patterns public opinion and political participation

64 Additional Sources Israel National Elections Studies The studies are free of charge, but you have to register to download a study

65 Additional Sources World Bank The World Bank has useful data you can browse by country, topic, indicators

66 Additional Sources World Bank This example shows a country survey Israel. You can drill down to more detailed data and download data

67 Additional Sources Polity IV Shows individual country regime trends

68 Additional Sources Polity IV

69 Additional Sources Congress.gov Excellent source for legislation from proposal to being introduced into law

70 Additional Sources Congress.gov This shows a search for all legislation of Israel

71 Additional Sources Congress.gov The search can be limited and you see at what stage the legislation is resolution, law and so on

72 Additional Sources US Census Provides census statistics on a country level. You can drill down to see specifics of towns, jurisdictions, states

73 Refworks Tool for citation management Allows import of citations from databases and helps organize them Create personal reference lists Manage, store and share citations Insert instant footnotes and references in a word document (Write N Cite a tool within refworks) Generate a bibliography in different citation styles Available online from any computer connected to the Internet

74 Refworks Access Refworks from the library home page

75 Refworks For remote access: before creating a new account or logging into your own account, you have to sign up with the IDC group code From remote access: enter group code: idc2010

76 Refworks Create your new account

77 Refworks Export the citation to Refworks

78 Refworks

79 Refworks Write n Cite Use of citations from Refworks into a Word document (inserts the citations into your text while writing) Generate a reference list (bibliography) at the end of the document by using all the cited sources inserted previously

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