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WRI 128/129 Being and Becoming Library Discovery Session ”Locating the Scholarly Conversation”

Learn how to locate scholarly conversations and access vast resources at Princeton University Library for your research needs. Discover tools like Citation Chaining, Keyword Search, and the extensive collection available.

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WRI 128/129 Being and Becoming Library Discovery Session ”Locating the Scholarly Conversation”

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  1. WRI 128/129 Being and Becoming Library Discovery Session ”Locating the Scholarly Conversation” Meghan TestermanPsychology & Neuroscience Librarian Lewis Science Library

  2. Scholarly Conversation In order to enter a scholarly conversation you first have to locate a scholarly conversation. How do we do this?

  3. Princeton University Library • One library, many locations. • Firestone is the main library and there are branches for art, science, engineering, music, manuscripts, archives, social sciences, and East Asian studies. • Within Firestone there is also a Children’s Library, video library, and the Center for Digital Humanities • On the Forrestal Campus we also have the Plasma Physics Library, and Annex, and the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), one of the world’s largest storage facilities.

  4. Princeton University Library • 8 million print volumes • 1600 searchable electronic databases • eBooks & Audiobooks • Journals (print, electronic) • Videos • Data files • Manuscripts • Musical Scores • Maps • Visual Materials • Audio files • Ephemera • Clothing • Newspapers • Magazines • Reports • Grey Literature • Conference Proceedings • Theses/Dissertations • Data Sets • Art • Government Documents • Archival material • Psychological tests • Laws and Statues • Princeton Archives

  5. Princeton University Library • Institutional Partners • Borrow Direct • Rapid lending of items from 12 partner institutions: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Chicago, UPenn, Stanford, and Yale. • ~4 days turn around time • 8 week lending period • Article Express • Electronic document delivery of journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, or newspaper articles. • 1-2 days turn around time • ‘Non-returnable’, you can download or print the item • Interlibrary Loan (ILL) • Borrow from the world. • Turnaround can take some time, depending on the loaning library.

  6. Locating the Scholarly Conversation • We are here to help! • Find Your Personal Librarian • Find Your Subject Librarian • Ask a Librarian via Email and Chat • We can help you: • Locate appropriate resources • Develop search terms • Navigate library resources • Locate research on your topic • Find background information • Help with citation management

  7. Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Back to locating the scholarly conversation….

  8. Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Citation Chaining • Using something you already have (such as an article or book) as bait to lead you to related material. • OR • Keyword Search • Searching for materials that share the same theme or topic.

  9. Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Citation Chaining • SCOPUS • A database of peer reviewed articles with easy ways to connect one article to another via citation chaining, author searches, and suggested subject terms • Google Scholar • Also has citation chaining in the ‘cited by’ link and author profiles • WARNING: Google Scholar does not limit to peer-reviewed articles. Proceed with caution!

  10. To the Library! Exercise 1: Citation Chaining • Select one of the ‘Multidisciplinary Scholarly Conversations’ articles • Go the library homepage and search for Scopus • Copy and paste the title of the article in the search box and click search. What did you find?

  11. Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Keyword Search • Library Catalog: • Books, journals, videos, manuscripts, musical scores, visual materials, audio files • Articles + • Everything in the Catalog PLUS journal articles and other holding such as clothing, posters, transcripts, ephemera, technical reports • Databases • Best for journal articles and electronic resources • ProQuest Central • EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate • Web of Science • JSTOR • Or, use the Chose a Subject drop down list to filter databases by subject area

  12. To the Library! Exercise 2: Keyword Searching • Select one of the ‘Exhibit Sources’ • Brainstorm a short list of topics or themes related to your resource • Go to this link and share your source and your list of topics and themes with the class. These will become your search terms: https://padlet.com/meghant1/writingseminar (example on the screen) • Go to the library homepage and search for EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate • Take your top two search terms and enter them in the search fields, one concept per box. What do your results look like? (Example: race in America, segregation, Detroit)

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