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IMC 406 – LIBRARY SKILLS 

FACULTY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA 

KAMPUS PUNCAK PERDANA 

SHAH ALAM 

BACHELOR OF INFORMATION SCIENCE ( HONS ) 

INFORMATION RECORD MANAGEMENT 

IMC 406 ( LIBRARY SKILL ) 

ASSIGNMENT : 

DESCRIPTION ONLINE DATABASE 

PREPARED BY : 

NUR EZATUL SHAZWANIE BT SAHARANI (2019342457) 

NURUL ADILA BINTI MOHD ALIZAN ( 2019776191 ) 

PREPARED FOR : 

MR. MOHD ZAIHAN BIN HUSSIN 

SUBMISSION DATE : 

19 MAY 2019


TABLE OF CONTENT 

CHAPTER CONTENT 

NUMBER PAGE 

TABLE OF CONTENT 1 

ABSTRACTS 2 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2 

OBJECTIVE 2 

SEARCHING METHOD 3 

INTRODUCTION BOOLEAN SEARCHING 4 

I. “AND” LOGIC 4 

II. “OR” LOGIC 5 

III. “NOT” LOGIC 5 

INTRODUCTION WILDCARD SEARCHING 6 

I. PERCENT (%) IN WILDCARD 6 

II. ASTERISK (*) IN WILDCARD 6 

III. QUESTION MARK (?) IN WILDCARD 6 

IV. OPEN AND CLOSE BRACKETS ( [ ] ) 6 

INTRODUCTION TRUNCATION SEARCHING 7 

INTRODUCTION ONLINE DATABASE 8 

INTRODUCTION PROQUEST DISSERTATION & THESES 9 

I. BASIC SEARCH 10 

II.BASIC SEARCH USING WILDCARD 11 

III. BASIC SEARCH USING TRUNCATION 12 

IV. ADVANCE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN 13 

INTRODUCTION EMERALD PREMIUM 16 

I. BASIC SEARCH 16 

II.BASIC SEARCH USING WILDCARD 18 

III.BASIC SEARCH USING TRUNCATION 19 

IV. ADVANCE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN 21 

BEST ONLINE DATABASE TO FIND FULL TEXT ARTICLE 23 

CONCLUSION 25


ABSTRACTS 

This assignment require us to show the step of searching in library online database. There are 

many online database that available in PTAR portal. But we have choosen two online database 

and it is shown every step of searching the database. The online databases that we choose is 

Proquest Dissertation & Theses and Emerald Premium as subject to this assignment and explained 

more about both of database. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

In performing this assignment, we 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 the 

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 our classmates that have 

made valuable comment and suggestions on this proposal which gave us an inspiration to improve 

this assignment and help directly or indirectly to complete this assignment. 

OBJECTIVE 

Objective of this assignment is to enhance the skills and understand the level of the Online 

Database. It’s about learning 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 article, we needs to 

attached it together. For this assignment, we have choose two different online database which is 

PROQUEST DISSERTATION & THESES and EMERALD PREMIUM. At the end of this 

assignment we choose Online Database Emerald Premium to search an information.


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 database 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 19 th 

century English mathematician. Boolean searches allow you to combine word and phrases using 

the words AND, OR, NOT ( known as Boolean operator) 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 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. 

IOS 

ANDROID 

Example : 

“Ios” AND “Android”


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. 

IOS 

ANDROID 

Example : “Ios” OR “Android” 

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. 

IOS 

ANDROID 

Example : “Ios” NOT “Android”


INTRODUCTION WILDCARD SEARCHING 

Alternatively referred to as a wild 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 time. 

II. 

Asterisk (* ) in a wildcard 

The asterisk in a wildcard matches any character zero or more time. For examples “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 in the question mark also can match any trailing questions mark zero or one 

times For example, “co??” would match all of the above matches, but because they are 

trolling question marks would also match “cop” even though it’s not four characters. 

IV. 

Open and close brackets ( [ ] ) in a wildcard 

With Unix shells, Windows PowerShell, and programming languages that support regular 

expressions the open and close bracket wildcards match a single character in a range. For 

example, [a-z] matches any character “a” through “z, which means anything not in that 

range like a number would not be matched.


INTRODUCTION TRUNCATION SEARCHING 

This search technique refers to the ability to search just a portion of a word. Truncation is a 

searching technique used in database in which a word ending is replaced by a symbol. 

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 Example : colleg* finds college., colleges, collegial 

Internal Truncation Examples : colr finds color, colander.


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 well generally 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 online database which is 

1. PROQUEST DISSERTATION & THESES 

2. EMERALD PREMIUM 

As we can see below is front page for PERPUSTAKAAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK UITM library 

( PTAR Library ) 

Click on Online 

database link


INTRODUCTION : PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS & THESES GLOBAL 

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive 

collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the 

Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes 

millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together 

with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 

million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of 

the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate 

works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. 

More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through 

dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and 

collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as 

submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image. 

Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. 

Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations 

are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page 

previews of dissertations and theses. 

Subject coverage 

• Business and Economics 

• Medical Sciences 

• Science 

• Technology 

• Agriculture 

• Social Sciences 

• Arts 

• Humanities


i. Basic Search 

Step to get the information through Basic Search. Below attach is front page for Basic Search when 

we using Proquest Dissertation & Theses. In search column you can directly type the article topics 

you want to search. 

In search column type 

any article you want 

to search 

Below attach is result after searching the article by Basic Search and the search result showing is 

around “1,759,945” related to article we search which is “Special”. 

The article 

we search 

Result from the 

article we search


i. Basic search using Wildcard 

Step to get the information through Basic Search using Wildcard Method. Below attach 

is front page Basic Search for Proquest Dissertation & Theses and using the Wildcard 

Method, Asterisk (*) symbol we type word “heal*” to get the related information. 

In search column 

we type the 

word 

Below attach is the result after searching the word “specia*” using Wildcard Method and the 

search result showing is around 1,941,017 article which is related information to word “specia*”. 

specia* 

The word 

“specia*” we 

search 

The health related to 

the word “specia*” 

The result from 

word “specia*” we 

search


iii. Basic Search using Truncation 

Step to get the information through Basic Search using Truncation Method. Below attach is 

Basic Search for Proquest Dissertation & Theses and using the Internal Truncation Method we 

type word “spec*al*” to get the related information. 

In search we type 

the word 

“spec*al*” 

Below attach is the result after searching the word “spec*al*” using Internal Truncation 

Method and the search result showing is around 2,250,776 article is related information to 

word “spec*al*”. 

The “spec*al*” 

word we search 

The result 

“spec*al*” word 

we search


i. 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. 

Boolean search 

method 

The article we 

search 

Below attach is the way we searching the information using the Boolean Method in Advance 

Search we search “laptop” AND “monitor” OR “library”. 


method


Below attach is the result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance Search, 

we search “health” AND “medicine”. The search result showing is 646,532 article. 


we search “health” OR “drug”. The search result showing is 1,590,171 articles.



we search “health” NOT “medicine”. The search result showing is 808,300 articles.


Introduction to Emerald Premium 

The Emerald database is a distributed, object-oriented database system integrated 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, sel – 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 – lime), 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 see that there have few subjects that we can choose


Below attach is describe we choose Health & Social Care as Main Topics to search the 

information 

We choose Library Studies as 

Main Topic. 

Below attach is we search ‘health’ as Article to get the information related to Health.


Below attach is the result after searching through Basic Search and result showing 110,719 

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.


Below attach is describe we choose Health & Social Care as Subject and we search word 

“medic’ to search related information for that word. 

Below attach is result we get after search word “ medic*’ when using wildcard method and result 

showing 57,009 articles which is related information to word “medic*”.


iii. Basic Search using Truncation 

Step to get information through Basic Search using Truncation method. Below attach is Basic 

Search for Emerald Premium and using the internal Truncation Method , We type word “tr*atm*” 

to get the related information through under Health & Social Care subject. 

Below attach is result we get after search word “tr*atm*”” when using internal Truncation 

Method and result showing 62,028 article which is related information to “ tr*atm*”.


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. 

Thecolumn is article 

we search 


method 


we search “medical” AND “traditional”. The result showing is 25,064 article.


Below attach is result after searching the article using the Boolean Search in Advance Search, we 

search “ medicine” OR “treatment”. The search result showing is 138,720 article. 


we search “ medical” NOT “traditional”. The search result showing is 28,727 article.


BEST ONLINE DATABASE TO FIND FULL TEXT ARTICLE 

From the two Online Database we propose in this assignment, we like to choose Emerald Premium 

Database.We used Basic Search to search article we want. 

Browse your subjects and in 

search column types the 

article you want to search 

We would like to search ‘health’ as Article to get the information and we choose the second result 

listed, as per attached below . 

The articles 

we search 

We choose this 

article


Below attach is an article about ‘health’ that we search using Emerald Premium Database through 

Basic Search. 

In PDF format :


CONCLUSION 

Alhamdulillah, finally, we had finish up the assignment that given to us greatly. From the 

assignment, we can conclude that database is very useful for everyone especially students like us. 

With these assignment, we also learn how to use the advance search on each database which is 

giving a huge benefit and advantage to us. 

Along the way in complete these assignment, we figure out that Proquest Dissertation & Theses 

and Online Database Emerald Premium is quite similar in the way of searching. But, Online 

Database Emerald Premium are more presentable and user friendly. 

In addition, Online Database Emerald Premium also have more option in terms of subject such as 

Accounting, Finance & Economics, Education, Engineering, Marketing, Library Studies and many 

more, so that we have more topics of articles to choose. Other benefit are Online Database Emerald 

Premium can find the article, by tittle, author or publication date which can narrow the searching 

results and get the article that match our needs perfectly. 

Lastly, we recommended for all the society to use Online Database Emerald Premium for your 

needs. 

Thank you.

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