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MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3

MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3. Fall 2013 Natalie Colaiacovo Julie Jones Sharon Rankin. Welcome back!. Yesterday we went over… Constructing search strategies McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue General academic databases Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar.

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MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3

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  1. MyResearch (Humanities)Module 3 Fall 2013 Natalie Colaiacovo Julie Jones Sharon Rankin

  2. Welcome back! Yesterday we went over… • Constructing search strategies • McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue • General academic databases • Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar

  3. This week… • Locating theses and dissertations • Finding known citations • CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans • Subject guides and subject-specific databases • Citation searching • Alerts and current awareness • Special resources and collections

  4. Specialized Resources • Theses and dissertations: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/theses

  5. Specialized Resources • Conduct a keyword search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research. • Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research • Search eScholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department.

  6. Finding known citations

  7. How to find aknown journal article • Search by journal title in the Library Catalogue • Navigate to the issue that the journal is in. And: • Search for the article by title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link. • Search for the article by title in WorldCat Local.

  8. Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

  9. Title of article Author Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy.13.2 (1996): 91-112. Title of journal Volume, issue, year, and page numbers.

  10. Known article searching exercise • Locate the full text of the following two articles: Tavoni, Massimo, et al. "The value of technology and of its evolution towards a low carbon economy." Climatic change 114.1 (2012): 39-57. Vivoni, Enrique R. "Spatial patterns, processes and predictions in ecohydrology: integrating technologies to meet the challenge." Ecohydrology 5.3 (2012): 235-241.

  11. CREPUQ card: what is it? • Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada. • Obtain a CREPUQ card at any Library Services Desk on campus.

  12. Interlibrary loan: what is it? Interlibrary loan • Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item. • McGill will borrow or obtain a copy of what you require

  13. Subject Guides: What are they? • Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area. • Created and maintained by librarians at McGill. • Also known as “Research Guides”.

  14. Subject guides

  15. Your turn

  16. Databases with Thesauri • What is a thesaurus? • predefined keyword terms = subject terms • “A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.” • “a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.” From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24-25.

  17. Why use Thesaurus terms in your search? • Improve relevancy in your results sets • Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study

  18. Thesaurus terms • Broader • Narrower • Related “Explode" a search term The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms.

  19. Citation searching What is it? • It is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work. • Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work. • Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time.

  20. Citation searching Supplements standard subject searching. Cuts across disciplines. Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive. 3 citation databases offer this functionality: Scopus Google Scholar Web of Science

  21. Scopus – cited by

  22. Web of Science – cited by

  23. Google Scholar – cited by

  24. Exercise Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Domosh, Mona. "Those ‘Gorgeous Incongruities’: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York City." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 88.2 (1998): 209-226. Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database.

  25. Alerts, RSS, and other current awareness strategies

  26. Setting up a search alert in SCOPUS

  27. What the search alert looks like in your inbox…

  28. Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert • Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert.

  29. Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert • Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs. http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/

  30. BrowZine • BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet. BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines. Not all our journal subscriptions are available through BrowZine, but thousands are, and many more are being added. For example, journal aggregators such as Ovid, ProQuest, and EBSCO, will be added on October 31, 2013. BrowZine allows you to: • Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet. • Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals. • Get alerts when new issues of journals are published

  31. BrowZine

  32. BrowZine and other apps • http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile

  33. Specialized Resources • McGill Archives: http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/ • Rare Books & Special Collections: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks • Maps & geospatial data guide: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/maps • The GIC: http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/ • EDRS: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs • Statistics: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/about/edrs • Government / International organization documents: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/govinfo/

  34. Specialized Resources • McGill Rare Books & Special Collections http://blogs.library.mcgill.ca /rbsc/ http://www.mcgill.ca/library /branches/rarebooks • USE FOR: • Canadiana • 17th/18th C. Philosophy • Book history and print culture • Special collections • Boy Scouts • Olympics • Puppets

  35. Specialized Resources • McGill University Archives http://archives.mcgill.ca refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca • USE FOR: • Primary sources • Letters • Author notes/ manuscripts • McGill history • Growing online collection

  36. Specialized Resources • The Geographic Information Centre http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/ • USE FOR: • One-on-one help from GIS/RS Specialists • Computers equipped with GIS/RS software • NEW GIS Introductory workshops

  37. Specialized Resources • Electronic Data Resources Services http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/ about/edrs • USE FOR: • Finding data sets • Assistance with data collection • Introductory workshops using statistical software

  38. Specialized Resources Statistics Statistics and Data Research Guide • http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs • Contact: edrs.library@mcgill.ca Government Information Government Information Research Guide • http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/govinfo • Contact: eamon.duffy@mcgill.ca

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