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Library Research

Library Research. Julie Jones Nikki Tummon. Liaison Librarian Liaison Librarian julie.jones@mcgill.ca nikki.tummon@mcgill.ca. ?. Today’s Topics. Introduction to the Library Understanding popular vs. academic sources and books vs. journals

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Library Research

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  1. Library Research Julie Jones Nikki Tummon Liaison Librarian Liaison Librarian julie.jones@mcgill.ca nikki.tummon@mcgill.ca

  2. ? Orientation

  3. Today’s Topics • Introduction to the Library • Understanding popular vs. academic sources and books vs. journals • Using the Library Catalogue to find books • Defining your research question and building a search • Using a database to find academic articles

  4. McGill’s library has six million items: • Books, DVDs, music, e-journals…

  5. Scope of information sources for doing research ENCYCLOPEDIAS DICTIONARIES BOOKS (General topic) GENERAL BOOKS (Specific topic) BOOKS (Collections of Essays) NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES JOURNALS SPECIFIC

  6. McGill Library Website • Access point for all McGill Library services and resources www.mcgill.ca/library

  7. What is a Library Catalogue? Tells us what the library owns & where to find it

  8. Can you find this book in the catalogue? Title: Peddling poison: the tobacco industry and kids. Author: CleteSnell Publisher and publication year: Praeger, 2005

  9. Where is my book on the shelf? • Text HC 450 N37 1978 HA 76 G44 1974 HB 45 H32 1989 HC 32 C25 1994 HC 514 M922 1922 HA 76 F75 HB 61 C313 HC 100 U555 HC 320 A1 HC895 G36 1877

  10. What is an Academic Journal? http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html

  11. An academic journal is… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeyR30Yq1tA&NR=1

  12. Popular vs. Academic

  13. Words are the key to research Soft drink Beverage ? Soda Coke Pop Drink

  14. Sample research question What causes young people to take up smoking tobacco?

  15. The concepts in the question are: What causes young people to take up smoking tobacco?

  16. Research Tool Kit Step 1: Describe your research topic and circle the main concepts

  17. Create a concept table

  18. Brainstorm synonyms

  19. Research Tool Kit Step 2: Write down your main concepts in the table and brainstorm synonyms.

  20. Combining with Boolean operators AND OR Decreases results Increases results

  21. Combining with Boolean operators • AND smoking AND teenagers • OR smoking OR tobacco

  22. Building your search AND

  23. Truncation * Experiment Teen Teens Teenager Teenagers Teen**

  24. Running your search AND

  25. Research Tool Kit Add truncation symbols to your keywords where appropriate.

  26. Research Tool Kit Step 3: Run your search in either Academic Search Complete or ProQuest Central (two user-friendly multidisciplinary databases)

  27. Important search tip!! “Exact phrase” Examples: • “young adults” • “Stephen Harper” • “climate change”

  28. Free access to academic sources • Both Google and Google Scholar index open access articles (in addition to proprietary content). • PubMed Central Canada provides free access to a stable and permanent online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed, health and life sciences research publications. It builds on PubMed Central in the U.S. through the submission of Canadian-funded research. • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Repository of current social science research. “Encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and distributing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.” • The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.

  29. Citation help OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

  30. questions?

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