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ENG 206 Report Presentation for Community Service Workers
13 May 2015 David McCarthy, Professor; Liz Dobson, Librarian
About the Library
APA style
Preparing to search
Searching library e-Resources for articles
Searching the Internet
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library.centennialcollege.ca
Distance Access
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You need an active library account to have FULL use of the library Come in person to the Library with your Student Card and staff will activate it for library use.
Ashtonbee Library, Room L-202
LIBRARY RESOURCES Centennial Libraries homepage
http://library.centennialcollege.ca/
START YOUR RESEARCH
Search all Library Resources
&
Check your Library Account
Go
LIBRARY Guides • APA style • Annotated bibliographies • Literature Review • Etc.
More help with APA Style …
Microsoft Word
Library databases
APA Style Rules & guidelines on how to format your report
& cite your sources
American Psychological Association
Format a cover page (student report) in APA style
Sample reference in APA style A journal article from a library database
Reference example:
Manti, E., Scholte, E. M., & Van Berckelaer-Onnes, I. A. (2013).
Exploration of Teaching Strategies That Stimulate the Growth
of Academic Skills of Children with ASD in Special
Education School. European Journal Of Special Needs
Education, 28(1), 64-77. Retrieved from ERIC database.
Sample journal reference in APA style
Manti, E., Scholte, E. M., & Van Berckelaer-Onnes, I. A. (2013). Exploration of
Teaching Strategies That Stimulate the Growth of Academic Skills of Children
with ASD in Special Education School. European Journal Of Special Needs
Education, 28(1), 64-77. Retrieved from ERIC database.
Authors. (year). Title. Journal name, volume number(issue
number), pages. Retrieval statement.
Rubric:
Format a cover page in APA student report
Sample reference in APA style
with accompanying paragraph
HOW TO FIND GOOD QUALITY RESOURCES TO ANSWER YOUR
RESEARCH QUESTIONS?
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LIBRARY OR INTERNET?
Which to use??
What’s the difference…?
Library databases Internet
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
Library databases (E-resources)
• More academic
• Easy to find academic (peer reviewed) journal articles
• You can use precision tools for searching - & often save time!
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Internet
• Quality varies widely; inherent commercial bias
• You rely more on the search engine to determine search results
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
Your presentation & handout…
Learn the strengths and weaknesses of Library & Internet sources – and
use them both appropriately
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Your Literature Review Assignment
A sample research question
How is racism expressed in Canada today?
(Hmmmm …Canadians tend to think of themselves as a
tolerant , officially multicultural society!
True?)
An example of a
natural language search using Google…
An example of a
keyword search
using Google…
Search styles…
.
natural language &/or
keywords
Both work well!
.
keywords
only
Best results this way!
Planning for keyword searching Pick out the main concepts in your research question…
Recommend using publication date limit when searching to get
current resources (“today”)
Language matters! Think of synonyms and related terms that you may need
to use in your searching…
Note the use of AND & OR
AND & OR
• AND tells the search engine to look for documents that contain at least one term from both rows.
• OR tells the search engine to look for any of the terms in each row – you want them all
LIBRARY DATABASE SEARCH…
You can lay on your search strategy directly onto the search page….
Easy!
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
Your literature review assignment asks for ARTICLES …
Easy!
LIBRARY DATABASE
Most library databases allow you to limit your search results to academic peer reviewed
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Academic “Peer reviewed” articles
• A committee of scholars must approve quality before the editor publishes
• Also called “refereed” or “scholarly”
• All are fully documented – ideas and quotations from others are cited, and a bibliography is provided
• Most peer reviewed articles are primary sources (write-ups of original research)
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Library database
Documentation is a sign of scholarliness Example of a scholarly journal article Note: in-text citations
Example of documentation in a scholarly journal article – Note: References at end of article which provide full publication info for citations made in the essay above …
LIBRARY DATABASES (E-RESOURCES)
Searching directly in…
With your search strategy in hand you can go directly into the Library’s E-Resources & E-Books / Journals (Full Text) (databases)
Centennial Libraries’ E-Resources page
Approximately 100 library databases • Listings by Subject, Type, Title…
E-Resources by Subject library web page…
Social Sciences group…
Go
LIBRARY E-RESOURCES (‘DATABASES’)…
Canadian Studies group…
Canadian Reference Centre database:
A simple one-concept search (with two terms), limit to full text…
A simple one concept search… 30,842 results With full text limit
Use one row per concept (you can add more rows if
you need them)
A more complex search
with two concepts,
each with more than one term…
A two concept search…
7,941 results With full text limit
Precision tools in library databases…
Limit tools:
Use to reduce the number of results, and get more relevancy
– Full Text limit
– Using more concepts (add rows)
– Field limits (e.g. title, subject, geographic, abstract)
– Scholarly (Peer Review) limit
– More limits (publication date, etc.)
Sample detailed record in a
database, showing FIELDS
Information about the article is entered in FIELDS. Title field Subject field Geographic field Abstract field • all 4 are powerful
field limits to use to get fewer records and more relevancy.
LIBRARY database tools Direct searching in databases provides you with many tools.
Use Field Limits to
get fewer records and more relevancy
Title Field
limit
Geographic Terms Field
limit
Using field limits reduces the number of results, but increases their relevancy 92 results • Full text limit • Title and Geographic field
limits (a vast reduction from previous search with no limits)
Peer Reviewed (Scholarly
article) limit
Scholarly (Peer reviewed) Limit…
Use this limit to get more academic articles (many of which are write-ups of original research done)
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Most databases provide tools to print, email, save and cite…
More Limits typically available in a database : • Publication date • Document Type • Publication Type • Image content
More precision tools in library databases…
Expand tools:
Use when you want to get more results
–Multiple database searching
–Using terms provided in database thesauri
Multiple database searching
Many databases allow you to add more databases to your search to
Expand your results….
Multiple database searching
Choose more databases for your search…
Expand your results by adding more databases…
Exact same search – different results: • 9 databases… 2,674 results • 1 database….. 92 results
Subject field terms (Thesaurus)
Another way to Expand - and
improve quality - of your results by including these subject field terms in your searches… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most databases provide a thesaurus that lists preferred terminology/ subject field terms
Thesaurus Browse Subject field terms
Thesaurus Subject field terms
Use as many terms as you feel will be useful…
More tools in library databases
Browsing tip:
–Use detailed page option for efficient browsing
Managing results:
–Print, email, save, & cite help
Page Options To speed browsing your results list… Select “Detailed” Page Option. This will give you title, subject headings and abstracts in your results list.
Results page with Detailed Page Options on…On display are • Title • Abstract • Subject Terms
What we covered today doing
direct database searching
• Limit tools:
– Full Text limit
– Using more concepts
– Field limits
– Scholarly (Peer Review) limit
– More limits (publication date, etc.)
• Expand tools:
– Multiple database searching
– Using terms provided in database thesauri
• Managing results:
– How to print, email, save, & use database citation help
• Browsing tip:
– Page options for efficient browsing
askON
Chat with library staff on your desktop or laptop
PRACTICE Direct E-Resources (“databases”)searching
INTERNET
Google Searching
INTERNET
Google Basic & Google Advanced Search
Google Scholar & Google Advanced Scholar
Google Images & Google Advanced Image Search
Academic journal
articles on the Internet
GOOGLE SCHOLAR Academic journal articles on the Internet..
On Internet…Find Google Scholar
On Internet… Google Scholar
Basic search page
Click on arrow to get to
Advanced Search page
On Internet… Google Scholar Advanced Search page
Gives you more tools for precision searching
On Internet…Google basic keyword search
On Internet…Google Advanced search
Provides precision tools (“filters”) to help you refine your search
On Internet… Google Images
Basic search page
Usage rights filter
On Internet… Google Advanced Image Search
LIBRARY SERVICES… Guides…reminder
Guides menu
OTHER TYPES OF LIBRARY SEARCHES
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LOOKING FOR A LIBRARY BOOK…
Using the Libraries’
‘Search Everything’
discovery tool…
Using the library’s Search Everything discovery tool….
Over 2 million library records…
Using the “Book / eBook” refinement, results are reduced to 9,585 books on this topic…
Using the “Items with full text online” refinement, results are reduced to 3,874 – all eBooks now
Changing refinements to search for full text online scholarly Journal articles …Almost one million records…
Sort, like
Google, is by Relevance (can
be changed)
LOOKING FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE
Using the Library
‘Search Everything’
discovery tool…
Sample journal article in a database… • Full text PDF • Options to print, email, download,
cite…
Using the Search Everything engine… Sometimes when you click title to view on results page, you see this
intermediary page. Click on “Article” to get into the database to view full text
Another sample journal article in a database… • Full text PDF • Options to print, email, download,
cite…
Most databases give you help in citing
your sources in APA style… Another sample journal article in a
Email option…