Assignment Online Database

FACULTY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
KAMPUS PUNCAK PERDANA
SHAH ALAM

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION SCIENCE (HONS)
INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

IMC406 (LIBRARY SKILL)

ASSIGNMENT:
ONLINE DATABASE

PREPARED BY:
MUHAMMAD EKHWAN BIN SHUA’IB 2015958755
MOHAMAD HAFIZZUDIN BIN OTHMAN 2015799063

PREPARED FOR:
MR. MOHD ZAIHAN BIN HUSSIN

SUBMITION DATE:
15 MEI 2016

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TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER CONTENT

TABLE OF CONTENT…………………………………………………………………………… 1
ABSTRACTS……………………………………………………………………………………… 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………………………. 3
OBJECTIVE………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
SEARCHING METHOD…………………………………………………………………………. 4

INTRODUCTION BOOLEAN SEARCHING…………………………………………………… 4
i. “AND” LOGIC…………………………………………………………………………….. 4
ii. “OR” LOGIC………………………………………………………………………………. 5
iii. “NOT” LOGIC…………………………………………………………………………….. 6

INTRODUCTION WILDCARD SEARCHING………………………………………………….. 7
i. PERCENT (%) IN WILDCARD…………………………………………………………. 7
ii. ASTERISK (*) IN WILDCARD………………………………………………………….. 7
iii. QUESTION MARK (?) IN WILDCARD………………………………………………… 7

INTRODUCTION TRUNCATION SEARCHING………………………………………………. 8
INTRODUCTION ONLINE DATABASE……………………………………………………….. 9

INTRODUCTION EBSCO: ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER………………………............ 10
i. BASIC SEARCH…………………………………………………………………………. 10
ii. BASIC SEARCH USING WILDCARD…………………………………………………. 11
iii. BASIC SEARCH USING TRUNCATION……………………………………………… 12
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iv. ADVANCE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN……………………………………………...

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INTRODUCTION EMERALD PREMIUM……………………………………………………… 16
i. BASIC SEARCH………………………………………………………………………… 16
ii. BASIC SEARCH USING WILDCARD………………………………………………... 18
iii. BASIC SEARCH USING TRUNCATION……………………………………………... 20
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iv. ADVANCE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN……………………………………………..

BEST ONLINE DATABASE TO FIND FULL TEXT ARTICLE………………………………. 23
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………….... 25

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ABSTRACTS

This assignment in its present form is the step of searching in library online database. There are
many online databases that available in PTAR portal. But we have choose two online database
and it is shown every step of searching the database. The online databases that we choose is
EBSCO: Academic Search Premier and Emerald Premium as subject to this assignment and
explained more about both of database.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In performing this assignment, I and my partner take guideline from respected person who
deserve our greatest gratitude. The completion of this assignment gives us much pleasure. We
would like to show gratitude to Mr.Mohd Zaihan Bin Hussin, IMC 406 – Library Skills course
Lecture, University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for giving us a good guideline for this assignment
throughout numerous consultations. We also like to expend our deepest gratitude to all those who
have directly and indirectly guided us in writing this assignment.

Many people especially my classmates have made valuable comment suggestions on this
proposal which gave me an inspiration to improve this assignment and help directly or indirectly
to the completion of this assignment.

OBJECTIVE

Objective of this assignment is prepared to enhance and to understand of level the Online
Database. It’s about learn the correct step in the quest notice something in the database. In this
assignment, it should be stated how to find the article and as a proof of the articles needs to be
attached together. For this assignment, we have choose two different online database which is
EBSCO: Academic Search Premier and Emerald Premium. At the end of this assignment we
would like to choose EBSCO: Academic Search Premier to search an information.

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SEARCHING METHOD

To completed this assignment we have been requested by our Lecturer to use the searching
method to search article in Online Database. Finding the right article and other materials is not
happenstance. Therefore, some of the databases work differently than others. The following
searching techniques will work in most databases. To use any database effectively, we used three
searching method to find the article as below.

i. Boolean Searching
ii. Wildcard Searching
iii. Truncation Searching

INTRODUCTION BOOLEAN SEARCHING

Boolean searching is built on a method of symbolic logic developed by George Boole, a 19th
century English mathematician. Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using
the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) to limit, broaden, or define your search.
A good researcher should know how to do a Boolean Search.

i. “AND” Logic
Using AND narrows a search by combining terms. The more words you enter connected
by AND the fewer documents you get. All your words will be searched on.
The AND operator is generally used to join different kinds of concepts, different aspects
of the question.

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Example: "Global warming" AND "sea level rise"
“Computer” AND “Software” AND “Hardware”

ii. “OR” Logic

Using OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you're
looking for. The OR operator is generally used to join similar, equivalent, or synonymous
concepts.

Example: “Computer” OR “Software”
“Software” OR “Hardware”

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iii. “NOT” Logic
Using NOT is exclude words from your search. Narrow your search, telling the database
to ignore concepts that may be implied by your search terms.

Example: “Computer” NOT “Software”
“Software” NOT “Hardware”

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INTRODUCTION WILDCARD SEARCHING

Alternatively referred to as a wild character or wildcard character, a wildcard is a symbol used to
replace or represent one or more characters. Wildcards are typically either an asterisk (*), which
represents one or more characters or question mark (?), which represents a single character. In
the examples below of how a wildcard may be used, realize that wildcards are relatively universal.

i. Percent ( % ) in a wildcard
The percent symbol is used in SQL to match any character (including an underscore) zero
or more times.

ii. Asterisk ( * ) in a wildcard
The asterisk in a wildcard matches any character zero or more times. For example,
"comp*" matches anything beginning with "comp" which means "comp", "complete", and
"computer" are all matched.

iii. Question mark ( ? ) in a wildcard
A question mark matches a single character once. For example, "c?mp" matches "camp"
and "comp". The question mark can also be used more than once. For example, "c??p"
would match both of the above examples as well as "coop". In MS-DOS and the Windows
command line the question mark also can match any trailing question marks zero or one
times. For example, "co??" would match all of the above matches, but because they are
trailing question marks would also match "cop" even though it’s not four characters.

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INTRODUCTION TRUNCATION SEARCHING

This search technique refers to the ability to search just a portion of a word. Typically, a symbol
such as the asterisk is used to represent the rest of the term. End truncation is where several
letters at the beginning of a word are specified but the ending can vary. With internal truncation,
a symbol can represent one or more characters within a word.
End Truncation Examples: colleg* finds college, colleges, collegium, collegial
Internal Truncation Examples: col*r finds color, colander

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INTRODUCTION ONLINE DATABASE

Online database is a web based filling designed to store information. The database can be
accessed by web scripts and are purchased by subscription. The best strategy for search some
information of the articles is use an electronic database.
A database search will generally yield an abstract, a short summary of an article, which will help
us to make decision whether we should get the full or the complete text or not. So, we use PTAR
Library in web www.uitm.edu.my to choose two online database which is

1. EBSCO: Academic Search Premier
2. Emerald Premium
As we can see below is front page for PERPUSTAKAAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK UiTM Library
(PTAR Library).

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INTRODUCTION EBSCO: ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

EBSCOhost provides a number of subscription databases which provide access to newspapers,
magazines, scholarly journals and trade publications. Its databases cover multiple subjects and
academic disciplines. Interdisciplinary in scope, the database includes abstracting and indexing
for nearly 13,000 publications, over 7,800 of them peer reviewed and 8,750+ full text, covering all
academic subjects.
In EBSCO: Academic Search Premier, to search the information we use Search Basic using
Wildcard and Truncation Method. In Advanced Search we using Boolean Method.

i. Basic Search
Step to get the information through Basic Search. Below attach is front page for Basic
Search when we using EBSCO: Academic Search Premier. In search column you can
directly type the article/topics you want to search.

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Below attach is result after searching the article by Basic Search and the search result
showing is around 407,681 article is related to article we search which is Computer
Technology.

ii. Basic Search using Wildcard
Step to get the information through Basic Search using Wildcard Method. Below attach is
front page Basic Search for EBSCO: Academic Search Premier and using the Wildcard
Method, Asterisk (*) symbol we type word “comp*” to get the related information.

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Below attach is result after searching the word “comp*” using Wildcard Method and the
search result showing is around 9, 941, 767 article which is related information to word
“comp*”.

iii. Basic Search using Truncation
Step to get the information through Basic Search using Truncation Method. Below attach
is Basic Search for EBSCO: Academic Search Premier and using the Internal Truncation
Method we type word “co*mp” to get the related information.

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Below attach is result after searching the word “co*mp” using Internal Truncation Method
and the search result showing is around 21, 572, 562 article is related information to word
“co*mp”.

iv. Advance Search using Boolean
Below attach is the advance search steps we use to find the article. In advance search,
method of Boolean is already in front page. Boolean search can be define as a search
using the electronic search where the Boolean operator AND, OR, and NOT is introduced
in the search statement combining the keywords.

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Below attach is the way we searching the information using the Boolean Method in
Advance Search we search “computer technology” AND “software” OR “hardware”.

Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “computer technology” AND “software”. The search result showing is
112, 360 article.

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Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “computer technology” OR “hardware”. The search result showing is
456, 068 article.

Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “computer technology” NOT “hardware”. The search result showing is
395, 750 article.

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INTRODUCTION EMERALD PREMIUM

The Emerald database is a distributed, object-oriented database system in-tegrated seamlessly
with the Emerald system. It has an associative query language that can exploit indexes on paths
of functions (method index-ing) (objects are encapsulated) and avoids impedance mismatch with
the application-language.
Significant effort has been put into producing a seamless integration of the database system into
the existing Emerald language: database operations are legal wherever Emerald statements are
legal, all Emerald objects can be used in queries, set-expressions in queries are first-class
objects, the strong typing of the Emerald type system also covers the query language (i.e.,
application programs and their queries are type-checked at compile-time), the scoping rules of
Emerald are extended to also cover the query language. It is possible to have queries (and other
database operations) inside object literals in expressions in queries. There is two ways to used
Emerald Online Database, first is Basic Search and second is Advance Search.

i. Basic Search
Step to get information through Basic Search and below attach is front page for Basic
Search and we can see have a few main topics under Browse Journals and Books.

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Below attach is describe we choose Education as Main Topics to search the information.

Below Attach is we search the Mathematic as Article to get the information is related to
Education.

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Below attach is the result after searching through Basic Search and result showing 322
article.

ii. Basic Search using Wildcard
Step to get information through Basic Search using Wildcard Method, Asterisk (*) symbol
and below attach is front page for Basic Search and we can see have a few main topics
under Browse Journals and Books.

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Below attach is describe we choose Engineering as Subject and we search word “elect*”
to search related information for that word.

Below attach is result we get after search word “elect*” when using Wildcard Method and
result showing 120, 014 article which is related information to word “elect*”

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iii. Basic Search using Truncation
Step to get the information through Basic Search using Truncation Method. Below attach
is Basic Search for Emerald Premium and using the Internal Truncation Method we type
word “ele*ct” to get the related information under Engineering Subject.

Below attach is result we get after search word “ele*ct” when using Internal Truncation
Method and result showing 3006 article which is related information to word “ele*ct”.

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iv. Advance Search using Boolean
Below attach is the advance search steps we use to find the article. In advance search,
method of Boolean is already in front page. Boolean search can be define as a search
using the electronic search where the Boolean operator AND, OR, and NOT is introduced
in the search statement combining the keywords.

Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “Mathematic” AND “Science”. The search result showing is 224 article.

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Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “Mathematic” OR “Science”. The search result showing is 141, 378
article.

Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance
Search, we search “Mathematic” NOT “Science”. The search result showing is 98 article.

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BEST ONLINE DATABASE TO FIND FULL TEXT ARTICLE

From the two Online Database we propose in this assignment, we like to choose EBSCO:
Academic Search Premier because is easy to search compare with Emerald Premium Database.
We used Basic Search to search article we want.

We would like to search Computer Technology as Article to get the information and we
choose the first result listed as below attached.

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Below attach is an article we search using Online Database EBSCO: Academic Search
Premier through Basic Search.

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CONCLUSION

Finally, we had finish up the assignment that given to us greatly. From the assignment we can
conclude that Online Database EBSCO: Academic Search Premier is more friendly use and easy
to get the information and knowledge than Online Database Emerald Premium. These database
are very useful for all the people nowadays especially for student, teachers, lecturers and other
else. Besides, we have gain the database knowledge for our daily life.
In addition, Online Database EBSCO: Academic Search Premier have more benefits than Online
Database Emerald Premium. The benefits are we can search the information for many modules
such as business, history, art and humanities, who’s who, and so on at Source Types. So the
people can find the article in many ways of searching by title, author, dates, keyword and subject.
Lastly, we recommended for all the society to use Online Database EBSCO: Academic Search
Premier for your needs.

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