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Finding Information Resources in Political Science

Finding Information Resources in Political Science. R. Hazelwood 06/02/01. All Information is NOT Created Equal. Primary Secondary Tertiary Scholarly Trade Popular. Getting Started. Access to the Resources Your Library Card Technological Requirements

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Finding Information Resources in Political Science

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  1. Finding Information Resources in Political Science R. Hazelwood 06/02/01

  2. All Information is NOT Created Equal • Primary Secondary Tertiary • Scholarly Trade Popular

  3. Getting Started • Access to the Resources • Your Library Card • Technological Requirements • Connecting from Off-Campus • Proxy Set-Up • Help Desk

  4. Finding Your Way • Organization of the Library • Real • Virtual (http://www.uleth.ca/lib) • Organization of the Information Resources • By Subject (most collections) • By Department (govt docs) • By Title (Current Serials)

  5. Library Website • http://www.uleth.ca/lib • Resources • Library Catalogues • Journals/Indexes • Web Search Tools • Government Information • E-Reference • Research Help • UAsk@ULeth

  6. Open a Research Log Keep a file of everything you do • Dates • Strategies • Searches and Results • Resources consulted • Quotes and Sources Don’t go anywhere without it!

  7. Background Information • Definitions • General Overviews • Narrowing & Focusing • Issues & Relationships

  8. UofL Library Catalogue • What’s There and What’s Not There • Keyword Searching • Searches the complete record • Usually retrieves large number of records • May retrieve many non-relevant records • Subject Searching • Searches subject (descriptor) fields only • Use the controlled language (from index, thesaurus) • Usually retrieves fewer records • Many relevant records

  9. Library Catalogue Keyword Searching • Fundamentalism • Terror* Subject Searching • Fundamentalism • Terrorism • Subdivisions • Limiting Searches

  10. Library Catalogue Subject Searching Continued • People as Subjects • St Augustine • Ralph Klein • Journal Titles by Subject • Political Science Periodicals • International Relations Periodicals

  11. Other Library Catalogues • University of Calgary • Interlibrary Loans • TAL

  12. Government Sources • U of L Library • Catalogue – limit by collection or material type • Online • Library Home Page – Resources – Government Information • Government Databases

  13. Government Web Sites • Canada Site – About Government http://canada.gc.ca/howgoc/howind_e.html • Justice Canada http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/index.html • Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/start.html • Parliament Canada http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=2 • Government of Alberta http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/index.cfm

  14. Many different choices - Same basic function!

  15. Constructing Your Search Speaking the Language of the Database! • Subject vs Keyword Searching • Boolean Operators • Truncation or Wildcards • Proximity Operators • Field Searching • Parentheses (Nesting)

  16. Finding Journal Articles • Scholarly vs Trade vs Popular • Library Web page http://www.uleth.ca/lib/indexes/ • Subjects>Political Science • IPSA (International Political Science Abstracts) • JSTOR • Academic Search Premier

  17. More Online Resources • Expanded Academic ASAP • Canadian Newsstand • CPIQ • CANLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)

  18. The WILD World Web • Bare Bones 101 http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml • Search Tools Chart http://infopeople.org/search/chart.html • Guidelines for Evaluating Information • Gateways and Mediated Sites

  19. Gateways and Mediated Sites • Mapleleafweb http://www.mapleleafweb.com/main.shtml • Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html • Social Science Information Gateway http://sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/politics.html • Academic Info: Political Science http://www.academicinfo.net/polisci.html • Political Science Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html

  20. Evaluate What You Find PROOF Purpose Recency Origin Objectivity Facts

  21. Acknowledge Your Sources • Choose a style guide and be consistent - MLA

  22. Creating Citations • Citing Sources Library Home Page > Help > Citing Sources • KnightCite Bibliography Composer http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/ • Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/

  23. When You Need Some Help. . . • Library Home Page http://www.uleth.ca/lib • Information Services Desk Level 10 in the Library • UAsk@ULeth http://www.uleth.ca/lib/uask/ • Rae Hazelwood rae.hazelwood@uleth.ca or 380-1892

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