1. Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

2. General Review Navigating the Library Web Page Keywords Boolean

3. Identifying Keywords Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases and search engines for information about your subject.

4. Visuwords An online graphic keyword generator

5. Boolean AND = Narrow OR = Expand NOT = Exclude

6. Boolean Operators Connect keywords only Must be placed between keywords AND –Narrows your search OR –Expands your search with synonymous terms NOT –Excludes words from your search –If used too much, it can work against you!

7. Catalogs Al Harris Library - Local Holdings - Boolean - Subject Headings - Add Limiter - 2 nd Floor - Last 5 years Open WorldCat - Global - Boolean - Related Subjects - Refine Your Search - Interlibrary Loan Keywords

8. Dewey All of human knowledge is broken into Ten Major Categories

9. E-Books: Ebrary/Netbook 24/7 Full Text Searching* Highlight Markup Note Taking Changeable Font Size Online Bookshelf Multiplicity of Use

10. Searching in Databases Keywords with Boolean Subject terms from thesaurus Limiters: date, peer reviewed, geography, and full text

11. Article Databases

12. JSTOR JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.

13. Project Muse Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences

14. Finding Articles: Citations

15. Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p Formats: PDF (Portable Document Format) HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

16. Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p PDF / HTML Search the Virtual Stacks

17. Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p PDF / HTML Search the Virtual Stacks

19. Tracking Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p

20. The Citation Video

21. Writing Your Paper Writing Center –Located in the basement of the library –Call for appointment #774-7083 MLA Style –Style Sheets –MLA Handbook at Reference & Circulation Desk –http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

22. Questions? Contact me: Frederic Murray 774-7113 frederic.murray@swosu.edu

23. Thanks!