| AHHR
(Historic Records) |
AMI Australian
Medical Index |
| Australian Public
Affairs Full-Text |
APAIS- Health (Public
Affairs) |
| ARCH
Architecture |
AUSCHRON
(Current,hist.events) |
| AusportMed (sports
medicine) |
CINCH- Health |
| DRUG (alcohol &
other Drugs) |
ELIXER (Library
Catalogue Vic. Dept. NRE) |
| ENDANGER (Endangered
species) |
FILM, VIDEO &
MULTI MEDIA FINDER (Aust & NZ) |
| HERA (Australia's
heritage) |
Health and Society
(H&S) |
| HIV AIDS Database |
MIHILIST (Military
history) |
| REEF (Great Barrier
Reef) |
RURAL (Rural Health) |
| Streamline
(Natural Resources) |
|
1.
Accessing Webspirs & Informit Online databases
Click on the database link on
the Library Web Page for an alphabetical list of databases.
http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/
Select the database required.
At the prompt, enter your CSU online User Name and Password.
Subject Guides available
from the Library Web Page contain links to databases recommended for courses
taught at CSU. The Guides can be found at:
http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/eresource/subject.htm
2.
How to select a database
After login, another list of
databases will appear. Select the Informit Online database(s) required
and then click on
3. ?
Help
Click on
for more detailed information.
4.
Searching
Keywords:
Select Words
anywhere option, enter key words or phrases, and then click
on 
. A search for the phrase "total catchment management" will only find records
that contain this exact phrase.
To find records with both words,
but in no particular order, use the and operator.
Author:
Select
Author
option,
enter the authors last name, a hyphen, their first initial and an asterisk,
and then click on
NB : A search for an
author must include the hyphen .
Use the Index to find
variations of an authors name. Click on 
, then click on the scroll arrow adjacent to Index in the top half
of the screen, and select AU - Author. Enter the authors last name,
hyphen and first initial, and then click on 
Select the variations of
the authors name from the resulting list and click on 
or click directly on the authors name from the list.
Subject:
Select
the Subject option, enter the
subject words or phrase, and then click on
Use the Index to select
from a list of subject headings. Click on
, then click on the scroll arrow adjacent to Index in the top half
of the screen, and select General Index. Enter the search term(s),
and then click on
Select the variations of
the subject heading from the resulting list and click on
, or click directly on the subject heading from the list.
Specific
Fields [eg. journal (so) or title (ti)] : Click on 
, enter the key word(s) or phrase, select the search field and click on
Combine two field searches
by using the and, or & not operators, and entering
additional terms in both search boxes.
Limits:
Click
on
and follow the directions on the screen in order limit subsequent searches
by date, document type or other fields, and then click on 
. The limit options available will vary between databases.
5.
Displaying results
The first page of search
results will be displayed after each search is conducted. The total
number of records found from a search is displayed in the top left hand
corner of the screen. Click on 
and 
to move through the list of results.
Click on the Record number
link to view the complete record, or the author link to search
for more records with the same author.
Select records to be printed,
emailed or saved, by clicking on the check box, corresponding to each record
required.
Click on
and follow the directions on the screen, to alter the way records are displayed.
Click on 
to return to the search screen.
6.
Full-Text searching using APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full-Text)
Scroll down the
screen to locate
Public Affairs
Australian Public Affairs
Full-Text
Tick the
tick box as shown above to select Australian Public Affairs Full-Text.
Hit the 
to move to the Search Screen.
Once at the Search Screen,
a search for information in Australian Public Affairs Full-Text can now
be completed. However, not all of the information in this database is Full-Text.
To narrow your search down to Full-Text select the 
button . Scroll down to the following text box: FTI-Full Text
Indicator.
Select Yes to find
articles that are available in Full-Text.
Select the 
to return to the Search Screen.
7.
Print, Email and Saving search results
Print:
Select
the Citations required - (those selected or marked previously),
or click on 
Choose 
Which records you want to print, i.e. marked records
To Print Citations: (author,
title, source) use default option (displayed fields)
To Print Full Text of marked
records click on  to
access the full-text of
the desired article. Then
click on  to print
the article.
Please note that all full
text articles need to be printed individually.
Email:
Select
the Citations required - those selected or marked previously, and
click on 
. Enter a valid email address to
Mail records to and also a Mail Subject. Choose
Which records you want to email,
Which fields to email, which display options to
Include, and click on 
.
You should receive a message
to advise that the records have been sent. Click on 
as required.
Save:
Select
the Citations required - those selected or marked previously, and
click on 
. Choose
Which records you want to save,
Which fields to save, which display options to
Include, and click on 
.
A window will now appear
to add the location and file name where the records will be saved.
Enter the details required to save the results to a file, and then
as
required.
8.
Combining terms
When a topic involves
more than one keyword, use the Boolean operators AND, OR or NOT
, to limit or broaden a search.
A number of search sets [displayed
in the lower half of the search screen] can be combined by clicking on
the check boxes corresponding to the sets required, selecting the operator,
and then click on 
| sex AND
drugs |
The use of AND
limits a search to items that contain both terms |
| sex OR
drugs |
The use of OR
expands
a search by including all the possibilities, that is, all items containing
the term sex, all containing the term drugs and all containing both sex
and drugs. |
| sex NOT
drugs |
The use of NOT
excludes
an item from a search and thus narrows the topic and the possible matches,
that is all items containing the term sex, but not the term drugs.
This is useful when a keyword may have several distinct meanings. |
| sex NEARn
drugs |
The use of NEARn
retrieves
phrases in which the terms "sex" and "drugs" are within "n" words of each
other. |
Truncation
Truncation symbols
(eg. *?), substitute for one or more characters, and can be used
to retrieve variations of the search term(s).
| Use * to
include unlimited number of characters
Use ? to replace 0
or 1 characters |
aborigin*=aborigine;
aborigines; aboriginal
behavio?r = behaviour;
behavior |
Logoff
Click on 
to exit from the database and the Informit Online service.
| Images
& icons from Silver Platter WebSPIRS Version 4.2 search interface |
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