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Showing posts with label ref tip. Show all posts
Ebsco Online Training - ANZRC
Jacinta
I've finally given this online training a go and it's so simple to do! You can interact as much or as little as you like...(me a little, as I'm so slow at typing - chat is the format - without spelling mistakes that I'd often miss the question time!) but if you want you can dial in by phone or use a headset with a microphone...(there is one of these at the ref standalone, you could borrow)
I have to say it really was just a refresher for me, but even so I think it was worth it. It reminded me of features like;
"Cite this", which will provide the citation for anyone building their bibliography, in one of about 5 formats.
"My account" this allows each user to set up their own folders for storage of articles to come back and access at another time, as well as setting up alerts for new material that is added to the database on the topic of interest.
The key piece of information I got from the session was regarding search results when using Subject Search. Say you do an Advanced search for 'Interest rates' as a subject term, coupled with 'Australia' as a Geographic term. 987 results are returned, but the most recent is the 1/04/10. It is a magazine article. I would have expected quite a few newspaper articles, or News Feed citations as well.
The newspaper articles are not being picked up because they are very cursorily indexed, just a few keywords so they can get them on quickly, ie they are not given Subject Headings, so are unlikely to appear in searches of this kind.
This can be good...use Subject searches to cut out the trash and reduce hits.
Or it could be bad as you can't find recent examples...in this instance give keyword a try, newspapers come in, but hits go up to 26963! Time for more terms to narrow it again!
Happy searching!
I have to say it really was just a refresher for me, but even so I think it was worth it. It reminded me of features like;
"Cite this", which will provide the citation for anyone building their bibliography, in one of about 5 formats.
"My account" this allows each user to set up their own folders for storage of articles to come back and access at another time, as well as setting up alerts for new material that is added to the database on the topic of interest.
The key piece of information I got from the session was regarding search results when using Subject Search. Say you do an Advanced search for 'Interest rates' as a subject term, coupled with 'Australia' as a Geographic term. 987 results are returned, but the most recent is the 1/04/10. It is a magazine article. I would have expected quite a few newspaper articles, or News Feed citations as well.
The newspaper articles are not being picked up because they are very cursorily indexed, just a few keywords so they can get them on quickly, ie they are not given Subject Headings, so are unlikely to appear in searches of this kind.
This can be good...use Subject searches to cut out the trash and reduce hits.
Or it could be bad as you can't find recent examples...in this instance give keyword a try, newspapers come in, but hits go up to 26963! Time for more terms to narrow it again!
Happy searching!
Area of Shire Suburbs
Jacinta
After having a bit of a search, the easiest place to look is on the Shire Statistics site, via council's website.
Once you've opened the Sutherland Shire Community Profile website, use Area Selection (top left) to choose your suburb.
You are then presented with an Introduction & Summary page of your suburb of choice, complete with map highlighting the area covered by that suburb.
At the bottom of the map the area is given in Hectares and the Density ie. people per hectare.
Hope this saves someone some time and angst.
Once you've opened the Sutherland Shire Community Profile website, use Area Selection (top left) to choose your suburb.
You are then presented with an Introduction & Summary page of your suburb of choice, complete with map highlighting the area covered by that suburb.
At the bottom of the map the area is given in Hectares and the Density ie. people per hectare.
Hope this saves someone some time and angst.
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