COMM 2P15Literature Review

Justine Cotton, Liaison Librarian for CPCF

Library Research=Stress?

Source: Project Information Literacyprojectinfolit.org

Library Research=Stress?

Do you agree?

www.polleverywhere.com/comm2p15lib

Create and shape your research topic

Learn how to search the literature effectively

Identify the best sources for your topic

Objectives

Pick something that interests you…

Dip into SuperSearch to get ideas…

Be prepared to modify your topic…

Developing a Research Topic

Beginning the search…

Courtesy Matthew Reidsmahttps://twitter.com/mreidsma

Dream library database?

Maybe the next best thing…

This is linked

on your Sakai page

Research involves trial and error, with the occasional frustrating moment

It’s not as simple as clicking peer-review and grabbing quotes from the first few pages of the first articles that look good!

Myth of the perfect source

let’s acknowledge

that this happens

You are doing university-level research so it’s important to:

Acquaint yourself with library databases

Find appropriate sources

Read the books/articles thoughtfully

You don’t need to be a librarian, but

Why peer-reviewed?

What is SuperSearch?

Basically, it’s a discovery layer.

It lets you “discover” the Library collections, online and in print:

DVD in our collection

book in our collection

SuperSearchfinds:

-books at Brock-articles from

many different databases

-ebooks

It has a LOT of content – use it to get ideas

e.g. what have other

researchers studied?

Search has been narrowed

Limits have been set

This is an example of a scholarly article.

-it is 21 pages-methodology is outlined in the abstract

SuperSearchcan help you

find more specialized databases

www.brocku.ca/library

Let’s try a few searches & discuss

Questions?