1. MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3 Fall 2013 Natalie Colaiacovo Julie Jones Sharon Rankin

2. Yesterday we went over…  Constructing search strategies  McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue  General academic databases  Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar Welcome back!

3.  Locating theses and dissertations  Finding known citations  CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans  Subject guides and subject-specific databases  Citation searching  Alerts and current awareness  Special resources and collections This week…

4.  Theses and dissertations: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/theseshttp://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/theses Specialized Resources eScholarship ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 27 500+ 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. 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

6. Finding known citations

7.  Search by journal title in the Library Catalogue -Navigate to the issue that the journal is in. And:  Search for the article by title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link.  Search for the article by title in WorldCat Local. How to find a known journal article

8. 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.

9. 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

10.  Locate the full text of the following two articles: Tavoni, Massimo, et al. "The value of technology and of its evolution towards a low carbon economy." Climatic change 114.1 (2012): 39-57. Vivoni, Enrique R. "Spatial patterns, processes and predictions in ecohydrology: integrating technologies to meet the challenge." Ecohydrology 5.3 (2012): 235-241. Known article searching exercise

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

12. Interlibrary loan -Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item. -McGill will borrow or obtain a copy of what you require Interlibrary loan: what is it?

13.  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?

14. Subject guides

15. Your turn

16.  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

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

18.  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

20. What is it?  It 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

21. 21  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

22. Scopus – cited by

23. Web of Science – cited by

24. Google Scholar – cited by

25. Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Domosh, Mona. "Those ‘Gorgeous Incongruities’: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth- Century New York City." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 88.2 (1998): 209-226. Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database. Exercise

26. Alerts, RSS, and other current awareness strategies

27. Setting up a search alert in SCOPUS

28. What the search alert looks like in your inbox…

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

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

31.  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. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines. Not all our journal subscriptions are available through BrowZine, but thousands are, and many more are being added. For example, journal aggregators such as Ovid, ProQuest, and EBSCO, will be added on October 31, 2013. BrowZine allows you to: Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet. Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals. Get alerts when new issues of journals are published BrowZine

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

34.  McGill Archives: http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/  Rare Books & Special Collections: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks  Maps & geospatial data guide: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/mapshttp://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/maps  The GIC: http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/  EDRS: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrshttp://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs  Statistics: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/about/edrshttp://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/about/edrs  Government / International organization documents: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/govinfo/ http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/govinfo/ Specialized Resources

35.  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

36.  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

37.  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/

38.  Electronic Data Resources Services Specialized Resources USE FOR: Finding data sets Assistance with data collection Introductory workshops using statistical software http://www.mcgill.ca/lib rary/branches/hssl/ about/edrs

39. Statistics Statistics and Data Research Guide  http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs  Contact: edrs.library@mcgill.ca 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

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