ELECTRONIC / ONLINE DATABASE
	Finding articles becomes easy using electronic databases and internet. Put in practical the use of Boolean operators and refer to advanced search techniques that have been suggested by some electronic databases for effective searching
	Currently, MUST Library provide both fee and free based online databases. Most of fee based databases, the subscription begins from 2001 and onwards and are available in full text. The articles under non subscription years limit the view to abstracts only. Please consult librarians for more information
	Fee based titles
	-- ACM Digital Library
	-- ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journals
	-- BioMedNet Journal Collection
	-- EBSCOhost – Electronic Journals Service
	-- IEEE Computer Society
	-- JSTOR (Journal Storage)
	-- NSTP e-Media
	-- Science Direct
	Free based titles
	-- arXiv.org e-Print archive
	-- BioMed Central
	-- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
	-- Genomics and Proteomics
	-- HighWire
	-- MIT Open Courseware
	-- PLos Biology
	Thesis
	This collection has begun with the items date begins from the year 2003 and comprising of individual Masters works of 3 early programs offered in the University; Biotechnology, Transportation and Information Technology. They can be searched using OPAC and available in three forms; original print, computer file and via pdf. To view them in pdf form, generic password for all type of internal online works is being used. The original print copies are available for reference use only and computer files can be loaned out for 14 days
	Government documents
	Government documents are placed in Reference collection comprises of bulletins, annual budget reports, and statistics of organizational agencies
	Reading articles
	Reading articles are reference documents supplied by faculty members for their respective programs students. These collections are placed at RBR area and are compiled in respective subject codes
	Online newspapers
	MUST Library subscribe 3 online local newspapers. They are New Strait Times, The Malay Mail and The Star. Three computers that each designates to respective newspaper are located at Multimedia area. Archive newspaper articles can be searched in NSTP e-Media under electronic database source
LIBRARY GEOWEB OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
	This tool intends to find books, thesis, reports, CDs, course reading/articles, printed journal within the library holding
	Keywords / Subject searching
	GeoWeb OPAC allows using any words and limiting the search using keywords that have been listed in a drop down menu. For instance, if specific subject heading is known, simply type it and choose keyword subject
	The MARC record presents more detail information for each item found. The subject headings, author, series are highlighted in blue italic form. The italic information are online active and may lead to other items disregard of their format that share, carry the same or relevant information
	The relevant subject headings may be narrow or broad. They can be subdivided into more specific field, interest, period of time and geographical area
	The search may or may not retrieve results, depending on the availability of the materials in MUST library or the efficiency of search technique being applied
	Start searching, use GeoWeb OPAC !!
	Keyword searching
	Use “keyword searching“ for specific or known topic in search. Several options of keyword search; All words, title, subjects, notes, ISSN, ISBN, call number, series, Dewey #, LC Class.
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	Example: Search of book (s)
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	Example: Search book(s) on bioprocess
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	Result: 4 books are found that contain word “bioprocess” in their titles. You can view the details of each record by clicking the particular title
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	Browse Searching
	Use “Browse searching” for the unknown subject or to get all related items that might have contain the identified keyword
	Example: Type word “bioprocess” and search by ti: title. The number of results is more as the list will include all titles that contain either word “bio” or process”, and can be both words
	History
	Click history to view your previous search and therefore could help you refine your search or to select keyword either by use narrow or broad keyword