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Section Four Contents:
Database Information
Evaluating Online Sources
Review Questions
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- Databases are repositories of article information from journals, magazines, conferences, and sometimes books and newspapers. Databases cover a wide range of topics. For example, INSPEC and Compendex index engineering information while MathSciNet covers math.
- Some databases offer a full text feature that links you directly to an article, so you can download and print it directly off the Internet. Explore databases that you use regularly to determine if they have this feature (usually denoted by an "FT" next to the article citation).
- For this assignment a database you will be using frequently is LISA, the acronym for Library and Information Science Abstracts, covering library literature from 1969 to present. LISA covers the field of librarianship and information science but includes many related areas such as Publishing, and specific applications of information technology in such fields as Medicine and Agriculture. In addition to including articles, book reviews and conferences, LISA indexes selected research report series.
- Wilson’s Library Literature database (Library Lit) is another useful database. Library Lit indexes more than 229 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters within books, conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
- Links to LISA and Library Lit are located on the LIS library home page.
- Once you have located the citation of a promising source, you need to find the source and determine whether it will be useful for your paper. To locate materials, the most important information needed from the citation is found in the Source field. This information gives the name of the book, newspaper, or journal. It also tells you which volume, year and page number to look for.
- To determine whether the LIS library or the U of I campus holds that source, enter the title of the journal, book, conference or newspaper into the "browse title" function of the telnet catalog. It will tell you if our library holds the source, and where it is located.
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