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Library Seminar CET 413. Spring 2010 Librarian: Haymwantee Singh Professor: Dr. David Washington singhh@njit.edu , 973-596-8498. Objectives. Determine your information requirements for your research question Locate and retrieve relevant information using websites and databases
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Library Seminar CET 413 Spring 2010 Librarian: Haymwantee Singh Professor: Dr. David Washington singhh@njit.edu, 973-596-8498
Objectives • Determine your information requirements for your research question • Locate and retrieve relevant information using websites and databases • Evaluate the quality of a website • Use citation generators
Web Research Begin our research topic on superfund at: www.google.com
Web Research • Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com • Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek • Restrict web results on superfund and tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar • Further restrict the scholarly items to environmental science only using google advanced search option • Locate full text journal/magazine items
Web Search www.google.com
Web Research • Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com • Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek
Narrow superfund to tar creek Web Search www.google.com
Web Research • Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com • Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek • Restrict web results on superfund and tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar – see google pull down menu.
Web Search www.google.com Restrict your search results to scholarly articles.
Web Research • Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com • Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek • Restrict web results on superfund and tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar • Further restrict the scholarly items to environmental science only using google advanced search option
Web Search Select the “Advanced Search” option above www.google.com
Web Search www.google.com Restrict your search to Environmental Science, etc. here.
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Web Search www.google.com Is the first google scholar item a book or article? Click on this item.
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The Relationship between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining CommunityJournal article by Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 63, 2000 Components of Citation: Title of Article: The Relationship between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler; Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63 Year: 2000 Is the citation complete?
Find the full text article using the library resources since the full article is not at the web What are we looking for? We know that we are looking for a journal article and we know the title of the journal is Journal of Environmental Health Go to: library.njit.edu
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Cited in APA Style Lynch, R. A., Malcoe, L. H., Skaggs, V. J., & Kegler, M. C. (2000). The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community. Journal of Environmental Health, 63 (3), 9. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live Complete Citation – includes issue and page information Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler; Date: 2000 Title of Article: The Relationship between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63 Issue: 3 (or October ) Page: 9 Database URL: Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live
Types of Websites Name a type of website or domain of a website
Types of Websites • .edu educational (often contain student pages as well as scholarly research) • .gov governmental (usually dependable) • .com commercial (may be trying to sell a product and may have inaccuracies) • .net network (may provide services to commercial or individual customers) • .org organization (non-profit institutions; note the source of funding, may be biased) • .mil military • .biz Commercial use (selling a product)
Purposes of Web Resources What are the intentions, goals, objectives of websites?
Purposes of Web Resources • Commercial • Informative • Educational • Entertaining • Advocacy – promote, sponsoring, suuport • Persuasive – influence, convince • Hoax • Institutional
How to Evaluate Information – video tutorial 2 websites are compared and discussed with respect to 4 important criteria for evaluating web resources http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/evaluate.php (presented by Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener University located in Chester Pennysylvania • Authority • Accuracy • Currency • Objectivity
Questions To Ask About A Website To Determine The Quality • What type of web page is this? • What is its purpose? • Who is the author of this page? • Who is the audience? • When was the page last updated? • Is there a contact? If yes, note the contact. • Does it list scholarly sources? • Does the author have a bias or agenda? (Is this bias stated or hidden?)
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Online Citation Generators Can Be Helpful When Creating Your List OF Referenceshttp://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/cite.php
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Web Search www.google.com Search for title words and authors name in all fields
Web Search www.google.com Call Number and location are important for locating book