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Conducting Research at UBC Library for WMST 325
Tara Stephens
September 16th 2008
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What do you need to know?
How to:
Connect to library resources from home Find primary and secondary sources Find print and electronic materials for your
topic Use subject terms to find related materials Keep track of your research
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Connect from home
UBC subscribes to thousands of journals, hundreds of databases and much more
UBC students get access to these subscriptions through our Virtual Private Network (VPN)
VPN=Library at home How do I connect from home?
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Five Steps to Finding Books and Articles
Women’s Studies Research Wiki
Step 1: Choose a topic Step 2: Identify key concepts and search
terms Step 3: Look for books and articles Step 4: Review your results Step 5: Cite what you find
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Part 1: Choose your topic
Sara Baartman b. 1789 d. 1815 Also known as:
The Hottentot Venus Sartje (Sahr-key)
Baartman Khoisan from South
Africa Exhibited as a
sideshow attraction in London and Paris
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Step 2: Identify key concepts and search terms What are the main ideas in your topic?
Sara Baartman, the Hottentot Venus Racial constructions of female sexuality Representations of the female body as
‘monstrous’ or ‘grotesque’ Feminist history of colonial science
What search terms could you use?
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Part 2: Identify key concepts and search terms
sara baartman hottentot venus
khoisan khoikhoi hottentot
south african slave
steatopygia hypertrophic labia minora
sideshow attraction human exhibition
exhibition ethics eurocentrism
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Step 3: Find books and articlesGet Started
OneSearch From UBC Library
Books, videos, newspapers
Google Scholar Articles, book citations
MetaLib Articles, book citations
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Go Pro
Boolean searching (and, or, “phrase”)
Library Catalogue Subject Guides Indexes & Databases
Women’s Studies International (EBSCO) Web of Science (ISI) Contemporary Women’s Issues (RPI)
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Find articles
Women’s Studies International Covers core disciplines in Women’s
Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research
Full-text and index from 1972 to the present
Use for broad disciplinary coverage Save search history/create alerts ‘Cite this article’ feature RefWorks compatible
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Finding articles
Web of Science Science, Social Science and Humanities
articles back to the 1960s Cited reference searching Journal impact factors
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Finding articles
Contemporary Women’s Issues Find full-text and index articles in all
areas relating to Women’s Studies Use for catching articles not covered
anywhere else Search by subject area
i.e. beauty standards 4 concurrent users
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Step 4: Evaluate your results
What is the author’s main argument? How does the author go about making and
defending this argument? What style do they use? What literature or theoretical traditions do they
draw from, build upon, and criticize? What are the readings’ strengths and
shortcomings? How might this topic, study, or argument be
approached differently? How does it compare with previous readings and
discussions in the class?
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Step 5: Cite what you find
APA, MLA, Chicago Visit the Women’s Studies Subject
Guide or the Research Wiki for help.
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Other key resources
Women and social movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000
Defining gender, 1450 to 1910 eHraf World Cultures
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Evaluation
Student and faculty feedback is invaluable in keeping instruction sessions relevant and current Women’s Studies Library Tutorial Evalu
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Tara Stephens
2nd floor, K219Koerner Library1958 Main MallUniversity of British ColumbiaTel: (604) 822-2160
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Thank you!
Any Questions?