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Bringing the Library and Literature Research

into your classroom

Christina Hwang (BioSci & Ren Res Librarian)

For GRADS • Forward and

Backwards citation searching

• Theses tools & searching

• Alerts RSS, ToC • Profiles &

Repositories (ERA) • ILL • Citation Managers • And more….

Physical Library Online Library Resource Searching Literature Searching Library & Teaching Related

• CCID & Password

• Library Card

Book Journal

Journal Article

Online article Print article

Cite the URL for an article

Databases…

• Keywords & Synonyms

• AND = LESS

• OR = MORE

• NOT

• *

• “ “

• ( )

Scholarly Source Popular Source

Scholarly Articles

• Written BY academics, researchers, experts in the field

• FOR other experts in the field

• Not editorials, opinion pieces, 1st person

Primary Source Secondary Source

Primary Source

• Original report, findings, ideas

• Includes: research articles, government reports, newspapers, dissertations

Secondary Source

• Summaries/syntheses of other articles

• Overview and critical analysis of recent developments

• Includes: Review articles, textbooks, encyclopedia, dictionaries

Academic articles are found as PDFs

Scholarly Journal Peer-Reviewed Journal

Peer-reviewed

Citation Machines

• EasyBib (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian)

• Knight Cite (MLA, APA, or Chicago style)

• Citation Machine (MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago style)

http://www.easybib.com/

http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

http://citationmachine.net/

• Accuracy

• Bias

• Authority

• Source

• Currency

• Plagiarism

• …etc.

Watch For:

Wikipedia is common knowledge

Instructors

• Copyright & Linking

• Course Reserves

• Invite Librarians – we could help with this

Christina Hwang christina.hwang @ualberta.ca

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