GUIDE TO LISA (Library Information Science Abstract)

LISA : A Brief Introduction

LISA is Library Information Science Abstract that was firstly published by Silver Platter Information Ltd on April 1988, in the form of a CD-ROM database. It contains approximately 100000 bibliographic records, with abstract, from 1969 to March 1988, of the literature in Librarianship and Information Science. It is produced in London by Library Association Publishing Ltd. It is twice per year updated. Nowadays, LISA is the part of Cambridge Science Association (CSA) internet database service, covering more than 500 periodicals from over 60 countries. It also contains the unpublished institutional and academic research from the recent research in Library and Information Science database. The following guideline is to use LISA via CSA.

Guideline of using LISA

1. Find the web of the University of Sheffield : www.sheffield.ac.uk

2. In the above part, click “log into MUSE” , then

3. On this screen, fill your username and password, and click “login”

4. Just under the heading MUSE (on the top), click “library”

5. In the box, find and click “Access library’s Subject Database”

6. In this university library web, click “Alphabetical table” (in the database box),
then

7. Select the capital “L” (for LISA) , then

8. Find “LISA via CSA”, then click it, you will watch on the screen about
the information like this :

LISA via CSA
LISA provides bibliographic information about past and present developments in librarianship, information science, online retrieval, publishing and information technology. This database covers over five hundred periodicals from over sixty countries. It also includes unpublished academic and institutional research from the Current Research in Library and Information Science database.LISA is part of CSA Internet database service: Core Cambridge sciences collection.
Full text linksAs part of the Library´s ongoing commitment to adding value to electronic resources, links to the Library´s ejournal subscriptions have been implemented in this database via the Ovid LinkSolver™ link resolver software. Click on Full text at Univ of Sheffield Library? (below the abstract) and a new window will open. This window will display links to full text (where the Library has one or more subscriptions to the item) and two Library holdings links. Selecting the Library Catalog Holdings link will search Star for the journal's international standard serial number (ISSN), while selecting the COPAC Library holdings link will search the COPAC database for the journal's ISSN.
In the Other links section, Find Journal Website and Search Library catalogue provide the opportunity to search journal publishers' web sites, and to check Star for further details of the Library's print and electronic subscriptions.
Access This service is available via the campus network. It can also be accessed directly from this page by connecting to the LISA via CSA web site.

9. In the “Quick Links” box, then click “connect to LISA via CSA”, you will wacth
on the screen like this :


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10. Type in the “search” box what you want to look up, for example “information
need”. If so, you will watch on the screen like this :


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294 results found for: information need in LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts Alert Me

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Cognitive growth, instruction, and student successBudd, John M.College & Research Libraries, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 319-330, July 2008As Diane Zabel points out, the literature on information literacy is voluminous. Amidst the challenges of volume and multiple points of view, there are some astute observations, innovative approaches, and critical assessment. Of necessity, ... View Record Full text at Univ of Sheffield Library?

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Descriptors:Information literacy Academic achievement Standards University libraries Association of College and Research Libraries, USA
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Information needs and information competencies: A case study of the off-site supervision of financial institutions in BrazilMiranda*, Silvania V.; Tarapanoff, Kira M.A.Information Research, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2008Introduction. The paper deals with the identification of the information needs and information competencies of a professional group. Theoretical basis. A theoretical relationship between information needs and information ... Resource Location: http://informationr.net/ir/index.htmlView Record Full text at Univ of Sheffield Library?

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Descriptors:Information seeking behaviour User needs Competencies Financial services Brazil


11. If you want to know the next found record, click “Next” (just below or above
of the found records).

12. If you want to save, print, or send email the found record, just click one of
them

13. If you want to retrieve another term, just type what you want. Then, click
“search”, then you can follow the number 10, 11, 12, and so on.

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