http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/ A weekly guide to the many great resources available to UNLV students and faculty. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:58:52 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss American masculinities, activism and social justice, African American society, American urban history, anthropology, applied developmental science, behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy, black studies, business ethics and society, cancer and society, career development, children adolescents and the media, community, crime and punishment, death and dying, disability, distributed learning, educational leadership and administration, educational psychology, environment and society, epidemiology, evaluation, geographic information systems, governance, health and aging, health care management, health and behavior, homelessness, human development, human geography, immigration and migration in the American west, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational studies, juvenile justice, law and society, law enforcement, leadership, 21st century management, measurement and statistics, multicultural psychology, murder and violent crime, new media, political communication, politics the left and the right, prisions and correctional facilities, psychological assessment, psychology and the law, 21st century psychology, public relations, religious and spiritual development, school psychology, social psychology, social science research methods, social theory, social welfare history in North America, 21st century sociology, terrorism, united states national security, war and American society, white-collar and corporate crime, women in the American West and World Poverty. All the resources in the database are searchable separately or as a whole. Search Tips:

• The SAGE eReference site provides two ways to search its content - the Quick Search box and the Advanced Search option. The Quick Search box is at the top right of every page of the site. You can access the Advanced Search using the tab which is also on every page of the site.
• The Browse feature allows you to view all of the content of an Encyclopedia using the Reader’s Guide, an alphabetized list of all Entries, or the book’s Index.
• It is possible to sort your search results by relevance (the default option), by alphabetical order or by reverse alphabetical order. You may select the option you prefer by using the dropdown box under Display Options labeled sort results by.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter S and select Sage eReference. Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://www.sage-ereference.com/]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/sage_ereference_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/sage_ereference_1.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:58:52 -0800

All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts).

Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts).

Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to Computer and Control Abstracts). The Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts contains more than 873,700 records. These records contain tables, graphs and figures from original source documents. They also include longer abstracts than the 100-200 word abstracts typical today. These vary in length from half a page to several pages, including diagrams and complex mathematical proofs, because printed copies of source documents were more difficult to obtain. Search Tips:

• The default search limits are: alllanguages, all document types and all treatment types. Selected limits stay in effect until you clear them by clicking the Clear button.
• The tiny magnifying glass symbol at the end of a search box signifies a browseable field. By clicking on this symbol you will be able do search a list of all items, such as author’s name in the database. This is particularly useful if you don’t know how an author’s name is listed. Some use their entire name, some use first initials only. Click on the word add by the author’s names you want to include in your search.
• Wildcards can be used in all search fields that allow words and phrases. They can be used in a search query to represent unknown characters.
  1. The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character.
  2. The question mark (?) represents any single character.
  3. The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character (useful when searching for expressions).
  Wildcards may be used inside or at the end of search terms -- but not at the beginning. For example, sul*ur is allowed, but *ploid is not. When you search by Topic or Title, you must use at least three characters before the asterisk, question mark, or dollar sign or your search will generate an error. When you search by any other field (except the Topic and Title fields), you must use at least one character before the asterisk, question mark, or dollar sign or your search will generate an error. You cannot use wildcards after special characters (/ @ #) and punctuation (. , : ; !). You cannot use wildcards in a publication year search. For example, 2007 is OK but 200* is not.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter I and select Inspec. Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=INSPEC&Func=Frame]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/inspec_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/inspec_1.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:15:18 -0800 Search tips:

• To begin your search click on the word search in the bar near the top of the page. To list all records containing a particular word: Enter the words you wish to search for in the Keyword box and click the Search button. Note: Use the predefined operators such as and and or if you wish to perform a search for multiple keywords which are not usually found next to each other in the same phrase.
• If you want to search for a particular phrase, place quotation marks around all the words that make up the phrase. For example, "cotton weaving".
• HCPP allows you to use the * (asterisk) wildcard character to find variations on a word ending. e.g. work* finds work, works, working, worker, workman, workmen
• All searches are case-insensitive, so you don't have to know whether a word should be capitalized or not. For example, there is no difference between london, London or LonDon.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter H and select House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://parlipapers.chadwyck.com]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/house_of_commons_parliamentary.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/house_of_commons_parliamentary.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:56 -0800 Search tips:

• Godey’s Lady’s Book is in a collection with several other publications. To search only Godey’s select it from the drop down box in the middle of the search page. It is also possible to browse whole issues by clicking on Browse the Archives. Then click on the word issues, by the title Godey’s Lady’s Book and select the issue you wish to browse.
• Wildcards/Truncation/Stemming - Use the ? and * to search for single and multiple letters at the end or in the middle of a search term. Search terms must have at least 3 characters with the wildcards. Single letter – use the ? Wom?n finds woman or women Te?t finds test or text Multiple letters – use the * at the end or middle of a word Geo* finds Geo., George, and other endings Chamber* finds chamber, chamberer, chambered, chambering, chambers Colo*r finds color, colour
• Boosting a Search Term – use to elevate the relevance, or importance, of search words. Use with two or more search terms or phrases. To boost a term, use the ^ symbol with a boost factor. Any positive number may be used as the boost factor. Examples • “underground railroad” and death^5 • indian and apache^3

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter G and select Godey’s Lady’s Book. Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://www.accessible.com/accessible/preLog]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/godeys_ladys_book_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/04/godeys_ladys_book_1.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:09:35 -0800 Ed/ITLib Digital Library for Education and Information Technology is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. This database is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Within the database are user-created collections of papers, generally grouped together by a theme or topic called binders. You can create your own binder, or browse through binders created by other Digital Library users. Search tips:

• Phrase Searching: Search for phrases by enclosing search terms in quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes ("like this") will appear together in all results exactly as you have entered them. For example “distance learning” will retrieve all articles where the word distance appears immediately before the word learning.
• Case sensitive searching: This can be useful for searching acronyms and names. A search for Bell will not find bell. A search for USE will not find use.
• Wildcards: The * symbol can be used at the end of any word stem to represent any ending. For example teach* will retrieve teacher, teaching and teach. The ? can be used within a word to represent a character. For example vir??al will retrieve words beginning with vir and ending with al with any two characters between.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select EdITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://www.aace.org/dl]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/the_editlib_digital_library_fo.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/the_editlib_digital_library_fo.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:03:18 -0800 Search tips:

• Wildcard searches. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard. Attach an asterisk to a search term and it matches any text that follows. For example: searching for "rhet*" matches "rhetorical", "rhetoric", "rhetoric of science", etc.
• Conflation. Use the squiggle or tilde (~) character to find forms of a word. This is different than in wildcard searches. For example, searching for "post~" will find "post", "posted", "posts", "posting" but not "post-haste", "post mortem", or "postulate". These latter three terms would be matched with a wildcard search for "post*" but not with a conflation search for "post~". Beware, however, that there are limits to the capabilities of conflation searches. They cannot find all grammatical forms. For example, searching for "hold~", will match "holding" and "holds" but will not match "held".
• Word proximity. Placing a number between forward slashes indicates that the search terms must be located within so many words of each other. For example, "organizational /10/ network" would return only those items that contain the word "organizational" within ten words of the word "network".
• Items located in a search result can be saved in a temporary user folder. This feature permits collection of items across searches for different terms. The collection saved in the folder can be downloaded in plain text or in RIS format for direct incorporation into reference software such as Refworks. Items from the folder can also be emailed to a recipient address. Click on add items to folder. This folder will disappear after sixty minutes of inactivity.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter C and select ComAbstracts. Quick Link: http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://www.cios.org/www/absrch.htm]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/comabstracts.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/comabstracts.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:35:22 -0800 CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. It offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Examples of titles offered in CINAHL include: AANA Journal, California Hospitals, Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Paediatric Nursing, Parents, etc. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Search tips:

• The CINAHL Subject Headings authority file is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus that assists in more effectively searching the CINAHL database. Each bibliographic reference in the database is associated with a set of subject terms that are assigned to describe the content of an article. There are more than 10,600 main subject headings as well as thousands of cross-references that assist in finding the most appropriate subject heading. CINAHL subject heading terms are arranged in a hierarchy, or "tree structure", that permits searching at various levels of detail from the most general level to more narrow levels to find the most precise terms. The headings can be exploded to retrieve all references indexed to that term as well as all references indexed to any narrower term(s). Searches can also be limited with specific qualifiers (subheadings) to improve the precision of the search, and limited to major subject headings indicate the main focus of an article. To search these subject headings click on the words CINAHL Headings in the green bar near the top of the page.
• The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.
• To export items to the RefWorks software, click on add to folder by the items you want to include. When you are ready to export them to RefWorks, click on the word folder at the top of the page. Then click on the word export and select direct export to RefWorks. Finally, click on the word save. This will open a window to allow you to log in to your RefWorks account and complete the export.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter C and select CINAHL. Quick Link: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cin20 ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/cinahl_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/cinahl_1.html Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:46:06 -0800 BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. All research articles in BioMed Central's journals receive rapid and thorough peer review. The detailed peer-review policy of each journal is the responsibility of the journal editor(s) concerned. Many journals operate traditional anonymous peer review. Others, including the medical BMC-series titles, operate 'open peer review', in which reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. For these titles, the pre-publication history of each paper (including submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses) is linked to from the published article. BioMed Central's portfolio of 186 journals includes general titles such as Journal of Biology alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines. All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access, but BioMed Central also provides access to various additional products and services that require a subscription. For example, certain BioMed Central journals such as Genome Biology publish commissioned review content available only to subscribers. Other subscription-only products include Faculty of 1000, a literature evaluation service that covers both biology and medicine. BioMed Central also operates Open Repository, a hosted digital repository solution for institutions. Search tips:

• Click on the advanced search tab located near the top of the page. Type your search terms in the four empty boxes, one or more per box. With the menus at the left of each box you can restrict to a specific field: author, title etc. The menus at the right determine what happens if the box contains more than one word. All words: will return articles that contain all words, anywhere in the requested field. Any word: will return articles that contain at least one of the words in the requested field. Exact phrase: will return articles where the words appear as a continuous phrase in the requested field.
• For author searches, use the format smith_cp. Author names are automatically expanded to include all combinations of initials, e.g. smith_c returns Smith C, Smith CA etc. You can turn this off by using exact phrase (instead of all words/any word)
• A question mark stands for any single character. An asterisk stands for any number of characters. These wildcards can be used at the end of a search term, and also at the beginning or in the middle of a word. The search may be slower in these cases. Examples: tumo* retrieves tumor, tumour, tumors, tumours, tumorigenisis, tumoricidal etc. nf* retrieves NF-κB, NFκB, NF-kB, NFkappaB, NF1 etc. j*son retrieves Johnson, Jonson, Janson, Jenson, Jackson, Johanson etc. j?nson retrieves Jonson, Janson, Jenson etc., but not Johnson.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter B and select BioMed Central. Quick Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/biomed_central.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/03/biomed_central.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:41:08 -0800 Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Subjects covered include; advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, Pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Search tips:

• Basic Search Searching automatically includes the All-Smart Search (a rules-based search). Simply enter terms, or type in a more structured Boolean search. To search for specific terms, using the All-Smart Search:
  1. Select one or more databases from the selection area. Click Close Database Selection Area or Open Database Selection Area, as appropriate.
  2. Enter a word or phrase.
  3. Mark or unmark the full text search option: Also search within the full text of the articles, for extra results. (Choice available only for appropriate databases.)
  4. Click Start.
• When using the All-Smart Search query do not use truncation symbols or other special characters. The Wilson All-Smart Search query will automatically search those options. Simply type the word or phrase that you are interested in and click Start. Truncation Symbol: * (asterisk) Wildcards: ? (question mark) Wildcard Operator: Relational Operators: retrieves a term/number in a context/sequence Stemming: term as root retrieves word variations Truncation Symbol The truncation symbol (*) serves as a substitute for zero or a string of characters. For example the search: cat* retrieves catalyst, catatonic, as well as category m*cdonald retrieves both mcdonald and macdonald.
• Wildcards The wildcard symbol (?) serves as a substitute for a single alphanumeric character. It is particularly useful when you are unsure of spelling. For example, the search einst??n retrieves the correctly spelled einstein (albert einstein). When searching for SIC codes, which are 4 digits, use the wildcard symbol (?) to search ranges. For example, 12?? sic retrieves all available codes between 1200 and 1300.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select Art Full Text. Quick Link: http://hwwilsonweb.com]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/02/art_full_text.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/02/art_full_text.html Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:00:20 -0800 Search tips:

• Wherever possible King James Bible features the first authorized edition of any given literary work and preserves the spelling and punctuation of the copy text. Users should be aware when searching that the spelling of some words has changed and that a modern-spelling search term will not in itself be adequate to retrieve all the relevant results from historical texts. For instance, entering the search term virtue will not retrieve occurrences of vertue; sensibility will not match with sensibilitie or sensibillity, and honor will not pick up honour. King James Bible provides 2 ways to search for variant spellings: Using the ? or *characters, referred to as a wildcards. For example, v?rtue, hono?r or sensibil?it*. Alternatively, you can now use the new Variant spellings check box. If you enter a modern English word in the Keyword(s) in Work box and check the Variant spellings box, you will automatically retrieve all instances of your search term and its early modern variant forms in King James Bible. For example, if the box for Variant spellings is checked and you type the word soldier in the Keyword(s) field, when you submit your search you will retrieve all occurrences of the word soldier and its early modern variants such as soldiour, souldiour, souldyer, and sovldiovr.
• To list all texts containing a particular word: Enter the word in the Keyword(s) box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works containing your chosen word. To list all books containing a particular word: Enter the word in the book box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works with a title containing your chosen word.
• You can also use the drop down options to limit the search criteria to any of the following: Old and New Testaments Apocrypha Old New Biblical Text, Notes and Apparatus Biblical Text Only Notes and Apparatus Only

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter B and select Bible – King James Version. Quick Link: http://collections.chadwyck.com/home/home_kjb.jsp?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/02/king_james_bible_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/02/king_james_bible_1.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:00:35 -0800 Search tips:

• Tables of Contents -- Use these to see what's contained in the database. This is the best way to check whether an author, a source, a date is included. It's also the best way to examine what personal or historical events are in the database. To use this tool, simply click on the appropriate table of contents button on the navigation bar.
• Find Tools -- The "FIND" tools let you search for specific authors or specific works in the database. Find Authors returns a list of all authors that match your specific criteria. Find Sources returns a list of all sources (works and manuscripts) in the database. The difference between the "FIND" tools and the "SEARCH" tools (explained next) is in the results they give. The "FIND" tools do not return documents, but rather lists of sources and authors. Note the difference between a source (a collection of documents) and the documents themselves (items within a source).
• Search Tools -- The "SEARCH" tools let you analyze words and documents that meet your search criteria. The "SEARCH" tools return documents or bibliographic citations or both. In this database a document is defined as a month of diary entries, or a letter, or editorial matter.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter A and select American Civil War: Letters and Diaries. Quick Link: http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/cwldlive/]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/01/american_civil_war_letters_and.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2008/01/american_civil_war_letters_and.html Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:32:37 -0800 Search tips:

• Author names may appear in the following ways: Lastname, AB Lastname, Firstname B Lastname, A B Lastname, A Firstname The best way to search for an author is to use the Author Name Index. Use the drop-down list to select the author index. You will find an alphabetical listing of terms used in the author field of the database. This list includes any alternative spellings or formats that have been used. For co-authors, it is usually sufficient to use just the last names, e.g. Wilson and Swanson.
• Use the * to truncate. This expands a search term to include forms of a root word, e.g. patent* retrieves patent, patents, patentable, patented, etc. You can also use the * to find an unlimited number of characters within a word, e.g. h*ophilia retrieves haemophilia and hemophilia, and behavi*r retrieves behaviour and behavior. Use the ? to find alternative spellings. The ? represents any single character; ?? represents two characters, and so on. Use within or at the end of a word, e.g. wom?n finds woman as well as women, and carbon fib?? finds records containing carbon fiber orcarbon fibre.
• You can use standard Boolean operators to combine terms when searching Social Services Abstracts. If you do not use an operator, the system will assume you want all the words immediately adjacent to one another and in the same order you entered them. The AND operator narrows a search and retrieves records containing all of the words it separates. The OR operator broadens a search and retrieves records containing any of the words it separates.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter S and select Social Services Abstracts. Quick Link: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=lasv7&access=lasv77&db=ssa-set-c ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/12/social_services_abstracts_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/12/social_services_abstracts_1.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:57:05 -0800 Global Market Information Database is an integrated online information system covering over 350 markets in 207 countries. Information is accessible in four modules:

1. statistics (quantitative data and forecasts on consumer lifestyles, retailing, countries, consumer markets)
2. analysis (in-depth market analysis report format)
3. companies (profiles of leading FMCG companies along with financial data, market share and brand information)
4. sources (lists data providers by specific subject area)

Statistical data goes back as far as 1977 (but most series start in 1990) and is forecast out to 2015. Reports generally stay in the database for 5 years. 4 million statistics on industries, countries and consumers. It is possible to create a wide variety of statistical reports using this database that can be downloaded to Microsoft Excel. Search tips:

An easy way to search the Global Market Information Database is by using the green search bar across the top of the page. For example, to find a summary by country with a general fact file, a statistical summary, a list of the latest industry reports and easy link to consumer lifestyles click on the word geographies. Use the drop down menu to pick the region of the world you are interested in and then select the country from the region page. You can also use this bar to search general reports by industry, country, company and consumer.

Another way to search the Global Market Information Database is by using the search functions available in the gray bar on the left side of the main page. This allows you to combine more than one of the main search categories more easily. For example you could search for chocolate use in the United State and Japan.

1. First you would click on consumer markets under the industry category.
2. A tree of all the main consumer market areas will appear.
3. Click on the plus sign by the one closest to the product you want, in this case packaged food.
4. The packaged food category would then expand to include a category that includes confectionery.
5. Clicking on the plus sign by confectionary will bring you to a list of confectionary items and you can
6. click in the box next to Chocolate confectionery. When a category has expanded to its maximum level a minus sign will appear by the main heading.
7. Once you have selected chocolate, click on the next button and you will be taken to a page that will allow you to select countries or regions of the world.

Clicking on the red run search button at the bottom of the page will then display a list of all available reports, both on the industry and the companies involved in that industry.

There is more than one way to review the results. You can click on an individual report to display it. You can click on build my selections to develop a time series based on the statistics. Several types of statistical reports are available. The easiest way to get a list of them and help in creating them is to click on the help icon available once you have done your search and have a results page. Among other things you can sum statistics, calculate data as a percentage of the total and export data to Microsoft excel. Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter G and select Global Market Information Database. Quick Link: http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/global_market_information_data_1.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/global_market_information_data_1.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:54:55 -0800 Search tips:

• To export items to the RefWorks software:
  1. Click on add to folder by the items you want to include.
  2. When you are ready to export them to RefWorks, click on the word folder at the top of the page.
  3. Then click on the word export and select direct export to RefWorks.
  4. Finally, click on the word save. This will open a window to allow you to log in to your RefWorks account and complete the export.
• The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.
• EBSCOhost treats certain words as "stop words" for example, and, or and not. Stop words are always ignored, even if they are enclosed in quotation marks. Stop words are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. Stop words are not added to the search dictionary, since their relevance is minimal, but they are counted as words for proximity (the distance between words). The search engine ignores stop words (such as the, for, of and after), finding any single word in its place. For example, if you entered company of America, it would find company of America, company in America, or company for America. It would not find company of the America, because the search engine retains a word distance. The stop word or will be replaced with any word. For example if you searched for sink "or" swim, the results could include sink don't swim. If you enter two stop words, it will find any two words in the place of the stop words. For example, if you searched for company of the America, EBSCOhost finds any two words in the place of the stop words.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select EconLit. Quick Link: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ecn]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/econlit.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/econlit.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:26:10 -0800 Search tips:

• Use the advanced search mode for the most powerful search. Within the advanced search mode you can use Boolean operators which define the relationships between words or groups of words. They are: AND which is used to narrow the search and retrieve records containing all of the words it separates. OR which is used to broaden a search and retrieve records containing any of the words it separates. The | symbol can be used instead of the word OR, for example mice | rats is the same as mice or rats. NOT which is used to narrow a search and retrieve records that do not contain the term following it.
• Truncation can be used in the advanced mode to include all forms of a root word. The * after a word retrieves all possible endings for that root, for example patent* will retrieve patent, patents patentable etc. Using * within a word will find alternative spellings of a word and can stand for an unlimited number of characters. For example, behavi*r retrieves behavior or behavior. For finding only one character use a ?. Each ? will represent one character. For example carbon fib?? will retrieve carbon fiber or carbon fibre. The ? is useful in restricting the number of possible characters retrieved.
• Proximity searches, within the advanced search mode, limit the number of words between your search terms. If you do not use a proximity operator, the search engine assumes you want the words immediately adjacent to one another in the exact order entered. The proximity operator within “x” finds words within a specified radius. For example carbon within 3 fiber retrieves records that contain carbon and fiber in any order and within a three word radius of one another. Near is used to find words within ten words of each other. Before finds words in a specific order, for example social before security, but not necessarily adjacent to each other. After can be used similarly to before, but for the opposite order relationship. Use double quotes to search for the words “near”, “before” or “after” as a term or part of a phrase.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter P and select PAIS. Quick Link: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=lasv7&access=lasv77&db=pais-set-c" ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/pais.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/lib-resource/2007/11/pais.html Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:33:45 -0800