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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…

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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…