Native Issues-CATC: Research Strategies

1. Native Issues-CATC:Research Strategies Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

2. Outline of session • Plan your search/Keywords/Boolean • Choosing appropriate Sources/Databases • Citations/Identifying//Reading/Tracking • Google Tricks • Sample searches • Key Elements…

3. Major Concerns • Topic Selection • Narrowing the search • Using the library effectively

4. Define what you want to know “I am looking for literature and sources that focus on Spanish exploration and settlement.” Use this statement to choose keywords and key phrases

5. Define key words and phrases Spanish Exploration Settlement or Mexican or Conquest or Colonization Accurate Search Requires Accurate Language

6. Identifying Keywords • Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. • These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases and search engines for information about your subject.

7. AND = Narrow OR = Expand Boolean • NOT = Exclude

8. Class Exercise • Keyword Building Exercise Topic: Spanish Exploration & Settlements • Thesaurus.com

9. Spanish Exploration & Settlements Missions Texas Conquest Exploration Jesuits Southwest Explorers Mexico Trade

10. Books • Al Harris Catalog • Open World Cat • Ebrary

11. Open World Cat • Meta search engine for online catalogs of libraries all over the world. Search for any book using a geographic location for the closest sources. • Over 9000 libraries combined. • If you find it in WorldCat, and it's not in our library, we can get it through ILL. • CREATE A USER ACCOUNT

12. Ebrary: eBooks • 24/7 • Full Text Searching* • Highlight Markup • Note Taking • Changeable Font Size • Multiplicity of Use • CREATE A BOOKSHELF

13. Choose Appropriate Databases • Google is not (usually) the answer • Start with Library Resources for your Subject First • Search a range of databases • Think about the range of sources: books, journal articles, statistics, websites, conference reports…

14. Databases: Social Sciences • America: History and Life with Full Text • JSTOR • North American Indian Thought & Culture • Project Muse • And Many More…..

15. EBSCO Databases • America: History and Life with Full Text

16. JSTOR • Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. • Search by discipline: History

17. Project Muse • Peer-reviewed journals • Wide variety of humanities and social science subjects • Complete journal content, including charts, graphs, and images

18. North American Indian Thought & Culture • The collection is comprised of material that covers the entire history of North America; from 17th century accounts of the first encounters involving Indians and European colonists to the stories of aboriginals living in a 21st century world.

19. We think of citation patterns as the flow of information," says Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington. "That's what a citation is — the trace that an idea flowed from one place to another."

20. Handout: Identifying types of citations • Book • Journal or Magazine • Conference Reports • Newspaper Article • Website

21. Handout: Reading citations A citation is a short, multi-part description of a specific information source. It provides the information that is needed to find a particular source. Journal citations contain such basic information as:

22. Snowballing • Building on the works of others • A scholarly article will always have References/Bibliography • A bibliography is always ripe for the picking…

23. Tracking Citations

24. Tracking Citations Damp, Jonathan E., Stephen A. Hall and Susan J. Smith 2002 Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. American Antiquity 67: 665-676

25. Tracking Citations Damp, Jonathan E., Stephen A. Hall and Susan J. Smith 2002 Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. American Antiquity67: 665-676

26. The Citation Video

27. Class Exercise Is it a book or a journal? Check the appropriate source Open WorldCat/Ebrary/Al Harris Catalog Periodicals List If the citation is an article, do we have access through the databases?

28. Google: Improve Your Searches Site Specific Command What it does: searches only specific domains What to type: Zuni Indians site:edu Zuni Indians site:gov

29. Google Scholar • Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

30. Google Scholar • Works best for Citations • Restrictions to Content • Fee-based • Often your Library already owns material • We’re working on improving access

31. Native Issues:Internet Resources • Tribal Government and Native American Resources • Native American Documents Project • Indian Affairs Laws & Treaties

32. Review • Keywords/Boolean • Books: • Ebrary/Open WorldCat/Catalog • Databases: • America: History and Life with Full Text/JSTOR/North American Indian Thought & Culture/Project Muse • Google Site Search/Scholar

33. Class Exercise Divided into teams of four Find 2 articles & 2 books on Spanish Settlement and Exploration in the North American Southwest Use JSTOR/Ebrary/Open WorldCat Jot down Titles & Sources

34. KEY Elements for Your Paper • Stress analysis: Do not simply parrot your sources i.e. “radical leaders” “Marxist Professors.” • Who says they are radical? Marxist? • Watch your assumptions. • Do your own analysis.

35. Questions? • Contact me: • Frederic Murray • 774-7113 • frederic.murray@swosu.edu

36. Thanks!