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ES 298: Advanced Library Research Skills
Advanced Research Skills
Peter GenzingerGeography Liaison Librarian
[email protected] ext. 3912
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ES 298: Advanced Library Research Skills
Session overview:
• Choosing a research topic
• Evaluating sources
• Finding information effectively
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ES 298: Advanced Library Research Skills
Choosing a researchtopic
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• Not creating research questions
• Being overwhelmed by the amount of
information
• Picking a topic too broad for the length of the
paper
Common Problems
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Evaluating Sources
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• Don’t know what a scholarly article is or how
to identify one
• Not sure how to evaluate if something isappropriate to use in a paper or not
• Critical reading of sources
Common Problems
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• Get into groups
• Access the two articles from the course
homepage
• Discuss if they are scholarly or non-scholarly
• What are the differences/similarities?
Evaluation exercise
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The non-academic publishing process
Writer Reader
Editor ofPeriodical
(Globeand Mail)
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The peer-reviewed publishing process
Researcher
Academic
Referee 3
Academic
Referee 2
Academic
Referee 1
Editor ofAcademicJournal
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How can I know what credible, reliable
information resources are, both online and inprint?
• Author
• Publisher
• Purpose
• Audience
• Content
• Accuracy
• Timeliness
(taken from Resources for Evaluating Internet (and other) Information)
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For further help in evaluating online
information, check out our pages:
– Finding Quality on the Internet
– Resources for Evaluating Internet (and
other) Information
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Finding informationeffectively
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• Determining what information is needed
• Searching effectively
• Locating resources
Common Problems
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What information is needed?
• Where do you get background information on
your topic?
– Try our Dictionaries and Encyclopedias page
• Annual Reviews – for scholarly overviews of the latest research in
the natural and social sciences
• Importance of differentiating between
sources:
– Primary vs. secondary
– Scholarly vs. non-scholarly
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Searching effectively
• Where to search
• Using good keywords to search
– See our quick webcast on Using Keywords Effectively
• Using and/or
– See our short webcast on Better Searching using Boolean Operators
• Using subjects or descriptors
– Important to use the Subject headings found in the library catalogue or Descriptors used
in a database to pick up discipline-specific information and articles
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Locating resources
• Finding print or online articles (scholarly and
non-scholarly)
– For news articles – see our News databases
– Scholarly articles – start at our Geography and
Environmental Studies databases page
• Finding books
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ES 298: Advanced Library Research Skills
Peter Genzinger
Geography Liaison Librarian
[email protected] ext. 3912