FUNDAMENTALS OF FINDING ARTICLES
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How to find periodical articles?
To find articles on your topic you must consult a periodical index
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What's a periodical index?
Each of you might have used an index of some sort: most non-fiction books have one in the back. The index gives you listing of the topics covered in the book and directs you to the pages on which each topic is mentioned or discussed.
Using the same principle, a periodical index looks at the contents of many different magazines/journals/newspapers and refers users to specific issues with articles on the subjects listed.
This periodical index, especially the non-print format (CD-ROM, Online) is popularly known as 'database'. This database contains either
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citation to articles, or
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full-text/full-image articles
At UNITAR Library we have indexes/databases in online and CD-ROM format.
* Due to licensing restrictions, access to some databases (except for free database) is restricted to UNITAR registered students/staff only. Users are required to enter their ID and password (the same ID and Password that you used to access VOISS) while attempting to access these databases.
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What are the difference between the library catalogue (OPAC) and the periodical index?
YOU CANNOT SEARCH FOR PERIODICAL ARTICLES IN THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE. The Library catalogue is a listing of all items that library owns. It will tell you if the library subscribes to a particular journal, but it will not list out articles within those journals. Please bear in mind, at UNITAR Library you might not even find the title of the journal in our Library catalogue because we don't subscribe to the individual journal. We subscribe to a 'databases of journals' which consist of thousands of journals/magazines. Therefore, you need to use these databases to find any particular title.
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Which database should I use?
The following list will help you choose databases to find articles on your topic. Click on the database name to be connected to the database. Please take note that you will need to key-in your ID and Password for those databases subscribed by UNITAR.
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DATABASE
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FORMAT
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COVERAGE
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DESCRIPTION |
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ABI / INFORM Global
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ONLINE - WEB; FULL-TEXT/ FULL-IMAGE |
Dates vary by journal |
Required ID and Password. Consisting of over 1,800 journals and magazines, and new titles are added from time to time. It covers journals and magazines in business, management, economics, trades and marketing. |
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Proquest Computing |
ONLINE - WEB; FULL-TEXT / FULL-IMAGE
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Dates vary by journal |
Required ID and Password. Consisting of over 230 journals and magazines. It covers subjects such as database design, software development, local and wide area network and others. Updated daily. |
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
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ONLINE - WEB; FULL-TEXT/ FULL-IMAGE; ABSTRACTS; REVIEWS |
1960- |
Required ID and Password. Consisting over 69,000 full-text articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. It covers subjects in Computing such as Mathematics of Computing, Information Systems, Computer Applications, etc. |
Emerald |
ONLINE - WEB; FULL-TEXT/ FULL-IMAGE; ABSTRACTS; REVIEWS |
1996- |
Required ID and Password. Provides instant access to over 35,000 full text articles. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including strategy, leadership, library and information management, marketing and human resource management.
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IEEE Computer Society |
ONLINE - WEB; FULL-TEXT/ FULL-IMAGE; ABSTRACTS |
1995- |
Required ID and Password. Consisting a web access to 17 Computer Society periodicals from 1995 to present in the computing field; with over 850 conference proceedings. It covers subjects such as computer graphics and applications, intelligent systems, knowledge and data engineering, etc. |
ERIC |
ONLINE-WEB; ABSTRACT
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1966- |
Free search to education documents and articles. |
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EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Service) |
ONLINE-WEB; ABSTRACT
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1966- |
Free access. It is the world's largest index to journal articles and documents in education, containing over 800,000 citations.
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REMINDER : Please set-up connection to a proxy if you're accessing Online Databases from outside Kelana Jaya Study Centre (refer to next page for Setting up a Proxy Connection)