1. MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick Helena Reddington

2. Last week we went over…  Constructing search strategies  McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue  General academic databases  Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar  Locating theses and dissertations  CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans Welcome back!

3.  Finding known citations  Subject guides and subject-specific databases  Citation searching  Alerts and current awareness  Special resources and collections This week…

4. For more details: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/theseswww.mcgill.ca/library/find/theses Theses and Dissertations eScholarship ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 35,000 full text McGill theses Allows searching by faculty advisor McGill theses from 1934 to present day Full text 1997- Selected full text before 1997 Also contains: journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, book chapters written by McGill faculty and students Also contains: theses written by students from North American and European universities Use for: McGill-specific search requirements Use for: Broader scope of current research

5. Your turn

6. 1.Conduct a keyword search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research.  Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research 2.Search eScholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department. Specialized Resources

7.  Borrow in person from other libraries  BCI http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/otherloans/CREPUQ  Interlibrary loan  COLOMBO http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/otherloans/interlibrary Access beyond McGill

8.  Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada.  Obtain a BCI card at any Library Services Desk on campus. BCI (formerly CREPUQ)card: what is it?

9.  Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item.  Administered through COLUMBO; instructions here.here Interlibrary loan: what is it?

10. Finding known citations

12. Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

13. Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112. Title of article Title of journal Volume, issue, year, and page numbers. Author

14. 1st2nd3rd Journal name A-Z list - link on library webpage –WorldCat index http://www.mcgill.ca/library /find/journals WorldCat search Classic catalogue - print Title of the articleWorldCat searchGoogle ScholarDatabase search Full citationGoogle ScholarGoogleDatabase search doihttp://dx.doi.org/ If you can’t find it ask for help. Never pay for access to an article Make an ILL request Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article

15.  Search by journal title in the WorldCat Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in. And:  Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link, or any other link that may be available.  Search by article title in WorldCat.  Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number. Requesting scanned copies from the print collection

16. Resolve a doi

17. Your turn

18.  Locate the full text of the following two articles:  Who is the author?  “Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).  “Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice”, Speculum, 67, pp 324-364. doi:10.2307/2864375. Known article searching exercise

19.  Locate the full text of the following two articles: Who is the author?  “Vanishing Points: The Heterotopia of the Romantic Book.” European Romantic Review. 23.3 (2012): 381-391. DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2012.674272  “Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended to Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience.” Women’s Writing 20.2 (2013). Known article searching exercise

20.  Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area.  Created and maintained by librarians at McGill.  Also known as “Research Guides”. Subject Guides: What are they?

21. Subject guides

22. Your turn

23.  What is a thesaurus?  predefined keyword terms = subject terms  “A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.”  “a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.” From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24-25. Databases with Thesauri

24.  Improve relevancy in your results sets  Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study Why use Thesaurus terms in your search?

25.  Broader  Narrower  Related “Explode" a search term The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms. Thesaurus terms

27.  Is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work.  Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work.  Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time. Citation searching

28. 28  Supplements standard subject searching  Cuts across disciplines  Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive 3 citation databases offer this functionality:  Scopus  Google Scholar  Web of Science

29. Scopus – cited by

30. Web of Science – cited by

31. Google Scholar – Cited by

32. Your turn

33. Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy (1996): 91-112. Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database. Exercise

34.  Web of Science  From 1900 for Science, Humanities from the 1950s, Arts from the 1970s  Selective journal indexing  Scopus  From 1996  Broader journal coverage than Web of Science  Google Scholar  From 2004  Now includes Web of Science citation counts Article citation counts

35.  When your search keywords are perfect!  Set the alert in the database SCOPUS – Web of Science – Google Scholar - Set up a database Search Alert

36.  Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert. Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

37.  Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs. http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

38.  BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet.  BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand.  Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet.  Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals.  Receive alerts when new issues of journals are published For more information read - http://library.nd.edu/browzine/http://library.nd.edu/browzine/ BrowZine

39.  http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile BrowZine and other apps

40.  McGill Archives  Rare Books & Special Collections  Maps & geospatial data guide  The GIC  Statistics  Government / International organization documents: Specialized Resources at McGill

41.  McGill Rare Books & Special Collections Specialized Resources http://blogs.library.mcgill.ca /rbsc/ http://www.mcgill.ca/library /branches/rarebooks USE FOR: Canadiana 17 th /18 th C. Philosophy Book history and print culture Special collections Boy Scouts Olympics Puppets

42.  McGill University Archives Specialized Resources http://archives.mcgill.ca USE FOR: Primary sources Letters Author notes/ manuscripts McGill history Growing online collection refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca

43.  The Geographic Information Centre Specialized Resources USE FOR: One-on-one help from GIS/RS Specialists Computers equipped with GIS/RS software NEW GIS Introductory workshops http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/

44. Statistics Statistics and Data Research Guide  http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs Government Information Government Information Research Guide  http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/govinfo http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/govinfo  Contact: eamon.duffy@mcgill.ca Specialized Resources

45. Where can I find read the newspaper Dominion Post from New Zealand? How do I find the obituary of a Canadian singer named Nell Rankin? I think she died in the 1930s. What is Alt-Press Watch? Newspapers

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