Interdisciplinary research and current awareness Research Refresher – Summer Research Assistants 3 May 2010

1. Interdisciplinary research and current awarenessResearch Refresher – Summer Research Assistants3 May 2010 Julie Lavigne, Law Librarian Brian Dickson Law Library

2. Interdisciplinarity Kathleen M. Sullivan in the Foreword to the Michigan Law Review, 2001-2002, vol. 100.

3. Law and… uOttawa: Law and Technology Law and Social Justice McGill: McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law , co-sponsored with the Faculties of Medicine and Religious Studies Yale Law School: Cultural Cognition Project etc.

4. How should I conduct interdisciplinary research? • Determine the major themes and keywords that relate to your research • Identify the relevant types of information you are looking for • For example, who are the experts in this field? Do you want journal articles only? etc. • Identify the major databases, journals, monographs (books), websites, etc., that are relevant • Don’t forget to search in multidisciplinary databases!

5. uOttawa Subject Guides (A-Z) • www.biblio.uottawa.ca

6. uOttawa Subject Guides

7. LibGuides: uOttawa

8. Some of our multidisciplinary databases Academic Search Complete: Multidisciplinary database designed specifically for academic institutions, it includes full text of journals, magazines, and newspapers. It is the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database. Academic OneFile: This Multidisciplinary database includes abstracts and full text. Academic content is smaller than that of Academic Search Premier.

9. Some of our multidisciplinary databases • Expanded Academic ASAP: • Provides journal literature from over 2,200 full-text titles in a wide variety of subject areas including: social sciences, humanities, science and technology, medicine, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, and newswires. • JSTOR: • Multidisciplinary database giving archival access to scholarly journals within the following areas: arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. Note that Jstor does not provide access to current issues.

10. Some of our business and management databases See also the Management subject guide Business Source Complete This scholarly business database provides the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content (more than 2,800 journals), with indexing and abstracts (more than 3,700 journals) for the most important business journals, and various types of reports. Subjects include management, economics, banking & finance, accounting, international business, labour relations, computer systems, marketing, area studies, taxation, industry & manufacturing, production & operations management, communications & media, human resources, public administration, and health care management.

11. Some of our business and management databases CBCA Complete Includes journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters and newswires, with comprehensive subject coverage, including Current Events, Business, Education, Science and Medicine, Arts, Social Sciences, and Law, all with a Canadian focus. Full text is available for selected titles. Canadian Business Resource (CBR) Profiles on over 50 Canadian Companies, information on 2,500 of Canada's largest firms and all 3,500 TSX and TSX Venture listed firms, and more than 40,000 contact names.

12. Some of our databases in criminology See also the Criminology subject guide Criminal Justice Abstracts @ Scholars Portal Comprehensive coverage of the major journals, books, and reports from government and non-governmental agencies. International coverage. Subjects include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing. Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection @ Scholars Portal Includes the full-text of 15 Sage journals in criminology.

13. Some of our databases in criminology Violence and Abuse Abstracts @ Scholars Portal Index to journal literature on interpersonal violence, including psychological, physical and sexual abuse against women and children, hate crimes against groups such as gay and lesbians and ethnic minorities, elder abuse and neglect, work place violence, gang violence and other violence impinging upon domestic relations.

14. See also the Government Information subject guide and the International Development subject guide • Peace Research Abstracts @ Scholars Portal: index to information on all aspects of peace and conflicts studies research.

15. Some of our databases in public and international affairs See also the Public and International Affairs subject guide Canadian Public Policy Collection: Collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centers and other public interest groups. PAIS International: A bibliographic index with abstracts. Includes journal articles, books, etc. Subjects include political, social, and public policy issues. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): Full-text database of theory and research on international affairs that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

16. Some of our news and currentaffairsdatabases • Seealso the Newspaper Articles and CurrentEventssubject guide • Canadian Newsstand • Canadian newspapers in English. • Factiva • Over 6,000 Canadian and foreign newspapers, magazines and reports; most full text. Includes business news, market research reports, analyst reports and Web sites. • CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) • Provides access to Canadian and American periodical literature. Full text articles for more than 160 titles and full text for selected sections of The Globe and Mail. Emphasis on mainstream and academic titles available in Canadian libraries. Over 400 periodicals are indexed in CPI.Q with more than 80 journals in business.

17. Some of our news and current affairs databases • A number of other databases also include archived newspapers : • Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage (1844 - 2003) • Historical New York Times • Paper of Record • Free registration required • Times Digital Archive

18. Some of our databases for government information • See also the Government Information subject guide • Canadian Census Analyser: Provides access to commonly requested census data, 1971-2001 • Canadian Research Index: Index of provincial and federal documents Located on the 3rd floor of the Morisset library

19. The Invisible or Deep Web Generally, we know how to search what is here (i.e., on the surface) But, as the saying goes, that is just the tip of the iceberg. How do you get to everything (or, at least, some of the everything) that is here?

20. Sometips and techniques for improvingyour Google searches • “exact phrase” • define:  find a definition of a term • site:  search a specific site or domain (e.g., site:.gc.cawillsearchonlyGovernment of Canada sites) • .format  search for particular document types (e.g., “legal ethics” .pdf will retrieve largely only PDF documents)

21. Also try... • Google Scholar • To search for publicly-available scholarly articles • Google Books • To search the full text of many publicly-available books • Google Translate • To get general translations of websites in other languages

22. Recommended reading! Tara Calishain & Rael Dornfest, Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching (Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2005). Available at Morriset Library MRT General / ZA 4251 .G66 C34 2005

23. For current research, you must: Properly situate your research within its discipline Read systematically on the subject, ensuring that all aspects of the question have been properly answered Use relevant information and apply it to actual questions ___ 1Adapted from Lyne Welsh, Université de Montréal, La veilledocumentaire: Demeurez au courant des nouvelles publications (Training presented to the CEFES program, Fall 2007), online: http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/SS/apprendre/guides/veille-documentaire-notes-de-cours.pdf (updated by Christiane Gagnon & Marianne O’Reilly, documentation technicians, in February 2008). Currentawareness – know the differencebetweenensuringyourresearchis up to date …1

24. … and ensuring the researcher (aka YOU) is up to date! • Current awareness: • Makes it easier to locate relevant and new information sources • Helps you continually be aware of developments in your field(s) of interest • Should be preceded by training on various tools for remaining effective researchers • Relies on either “Pull” or “Push” technologies

25. Current awareness “Push”, on the other hand, occurs when the information is “pushed” toward the user; that is to say, information is delivered to the user according to criteria that he or she has set up in the past. “Pull” represents the classic way of using the Web: the user goes regularly and directly to various Internet sites to “pull” information and recent news about particular subjects.

26. RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) feeds • RSS feedsallowyou to automaticallyorganize or index the contents of a website, or part of a site, and to deliverit in a digested format on another site. • It allowswebsites to automatically post the last news articles, or otherpieces of content, that have appeared on a site. • This iscalled the syndication of content. Think of a TV show thatgoesinto syndication – itssame content isnowavailable on alternatechannels. This is the sameidea, exceptyou have more control over which shows youwant to see (likeTivo?).

27. Some RSS icons Look for these on your favourite websites, to see if you can set up an RSS feed to the site. Check out the examples at the Globe & Mail and the New York Times.

28. RSS feeds and RSS aggregators • You can easily access all your requested RSS feeds using an aggregator or reader. • This means you just have to go to one location to quickly check if there have been any updates to your favourite websites.

29. Example of an RSS reader: Bloglines

30. Table of Contents services • Traditionally, libraries would send the table of contents for newly-received journals to all professors who had requested this service. Today, many journals offer this service online, either through their websites or through a database service. The Table of Contents gets sent to your email electronically.

31. Example of a Table of Contents service: Legal Scholarship Network

32. Research alerts • Manydatabases, and evensearchengineslike Google and Yahoo!, allowyou to set up researchalerts; i.e., you set up a searchquerythatyoucanthenask the system to re-run for you on a regular basis • The researchresults are generally sent to your email depending on whatfrequencyyou have requested • The mostfrequently-usedresearchalerts by lawyers are probablythoseoffered by LexisNexis/Quicklaw and Westlaw Canada

33. Where to set up research alert in Google

34. Using blogs • Web log = blog • You all know, more or less, what blogs are. But there are somevery good onesrun by lawyers or people otherwiseaffiliatedwith the justice system. • Check out Blawg (http://www.blawg.com) • A directory of legal blogs, podcasts, and news feeds • Includes lawyers writing about their area of expertise, law librarians offering research tips and tricks, law professors expressing their opinions and analysis, and technologists discussing the latest trends and ideas in legal technology.

35. Social bookmarking • Social bookmarkingis a wayyoucantake all your bits and pieces of documentedknowledge and shareitwithothers. It is a way of sharing your bibliographies on varioustopics, or yourfavouritewebsites, etc., withotherswhoshareyourinterests. • Someexamplesinclude: • CiteULike • Delicious • LibraryThing

36. A free service allowing you to collect, organise, and share the references to articles that you have found on particular topics (i.e., your bibliographies) By searching other people’s bibliographies on the same topic, you can find other literature relevant to your topic. It can also help you find other keywords to search, as well as particular authors who contribute to a field. CiteULike: “Everyone’s library”

37. CiteULike: “Everyone’s library”

38. One of the original social bookmarking sites We all have huge lists of bookmarks on various topics. This site gives you an easy way to share these websites with others who may share your interests. You organize them by assigning “tags”, keywords that describe the sites. Delicious

39. Delicious

40. A free service (up to 200 books) permitting you to share your libraries with other users LibraryThing

41. LibraryThing