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Economics-Digital Resources An Introduction

The document provides an introduction to digital resources for research and education. It discusses the Higher Education Commission Digital Library, which provides access to e-databases, e-books, and the Pakistan Research Repository of electronic theses and dissertations. It also covers how to search databases effectively using keywords and Boolean operators. Tools for citing sources electronically like EndNote are introduced. Finally, it gives an overview of searching on Google, including file types searched and using basic and advanced search functions.

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Economics-Digital Resources An Introduction

The document provides an introduction to digital resources for research and education. It discusses the Higher Education Commission Digital Library, which provides access to e-databases, e-books, and the Pakistan Research Repository of electronic theses and dissertations. It also covers how to search databases effectively using keywords and Boolean operators. Tools for citing sources electronically like EndNote are introduced. Finally, it gives an overview of searching on Google, including file types searched and using basic and advanced search functions.

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Digital Resources

An Introduction
Muhammad Arif
Head/Assistant Professor
Dept. of Library and Information
Science

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Contents
HEC

Digital Library
Pakistan Research Repository
E-Databases Searching
ETDs
E-Citation Tools
Google (Basic & Advance Search)
Google Scholar & Google Books
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Introduction

Launched in 2004.

Beneficiaries includes:

Public Sector Universities

Private Sector Universities

Research Institutions/Non-profit and


development organizations for education or
research.

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E-Resources

Digital Library is comprised e-databases and e-books.


For example,
Science Direct
Springer Link
JSTOR
McGraw-Hill

Emerald
IEEE
Ebrary
ISI Web of Science

For a complete list of e-resources please visit www.digitallibrary.edu.pk


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Usage Stats An Insight

Downloads - Overall Usage

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Usage Stats An Insight

Downloads - Contributions

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Pakistan Research Repository


http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/

Objective
To maintain digital archive of Mphil and
PhD Theses produced by Pakistani
Universities/Degree awarding institutes

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E-Databases Searching
Subject Coverage (Most important aspect)
Searching By
Title
Keyword
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Analyse the topic


Example topic: THE EFFECTS AND BENEFITS
OF COMMUNICATION IN THE MOTIVATION
OF EMPLOYEES.
The basic key concepts of the search are:
employee AND motivation AND communication

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Emerald Interface
Enter search terms

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Quick Search allows you to search for words or


phrases in all fields, all fields (excluding full text),
or one or more selected fields (abstract, author,
article, journal title, keyword or company name).

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Viewing articles in full text


To view details of an item, click on the article title. You will see an abstract of the
document and one or more links to the article in full text.

Click on either 'View


HTML' or 'View PDF to
view full text. The article
will appear in a new
window.

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Refining your search strategy

In addition to AND to link the search


terms in your search, you can also use
the Boolean operator OR to search for
synonyms (words that mean the same
thing) or similar concepts, e.g. employee
OR worker. This will retrieve results
containing either (or both) of the search
terms, thus widening your search
It is recommended that you use
Advanced Search when using both AND
and OR.
Advanced search also allows for
searches to be:

Limited to specific fields in a


document, e.g. author, title, by
selecting from the using' drop down
boxes.

Between specified dates

Restricted to certain types of articles,


eg Case study

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www.sciencedirect.com

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Find journals/books of interest.

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Subject Wise Browsing (Eco)

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Find journal of interest

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Subject Wise Browsing (Eco)

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Find articles of interest

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Searchingfor more advanced features

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Example

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Example

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ETDs-Electronic Theses & Dissertations


NDLTD-Network

Digital Library of Theses &


Dissertations, http://www.ndltd.org
UoT Research Repository
Theses Canada Portal,
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanad
a/index-e.html
University College London
University of Glasgow
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Commercial ETDs
Proquest
The

Digital Dissertations

British Library http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/dsc/theses.html

The British Library provides citations of theses


from British universities since the 1970s, nearly
500,000 from the United States, and from
Canada since 1980. Full-text documents may
be ordered for a fee.
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E-Citation Tools
MS-Word

EndNote

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EndNote; Step by Step

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1. Aderinto, C. O., & Aderinto, J. A. (2006). Effect of information technology on


the managerial efficiency of academic libraries: a case study of H. O. Library,
Obafemi Awolowo University. European Journal of Social Sciences, 2(2), 331337.
2. Adeyoyin, S. O. (2005). Information and communication technology (ICT)
literacy among the staff of Nigerian university libraries. Library Review, 54(4),
257-266.
3. Adeyoyin, S. O. (2006). ICT literacy among the staff of West African university
libraries: A comparative study of anglophone and francophone countries. The
Electronic Library, 24(5), 694-705.
4. Adogbeji, O. B., & Adomi, E. E. (2005). Automating library operations at the
Delta State University Library, Nigeria. Library Hi Tech News(5), 13-18.
5. Ahmad, I. (2005). Interlibrary lendings in the university libraries of Pakistan.
Paper presented at the National workshop on resource sharing and
networking of libraries and documentation centres
6. National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad
7. Ahmed, M. (1993). Library automation: Survey of computerized library
services in Federal Area (Islamabad/Rawalpindi). News Bulletin, Pakistan
Library Association, Federal Branch(30-31), 76-77.
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Google

File

Types

Basic

Search

Advance

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13 main file types are searched by Google in


addition to HTML.

Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)


Adobe PostScript (ps)
Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wki, wks, wku)
Lotus WordPro (lwp)
MacWrite (mw)
Microsoft Excel (xls)
Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
Microsoft Word (doc)
Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
Microsoft Write (wri)
Rich Text Format (rtf)
Shockwave Flash (swf)
Text (ans, txt)

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Basic Search
Searching by
Key

Word

Exact

Phrase through Quotations mark


(Economic development)

Searching

Specific file type For Example,


Economy of Pakistan filetype:ppt as part of
your search query

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Thank You for Your Patience!


Any Question?

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