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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 [email protected]

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Page 1: Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political

Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review

Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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General Review

• Navigating the Library Web Page

• Keywords

• Boolean

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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.

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Visuwords

• An online graphic keyword generator

http://www.visuwords.com/

http://www.visuwords.com/

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Boolean

• AND = Narrow

• OR = Expand

• NOT = Exclude

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/wise/

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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!

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CatalogsAl Harris Library

- Local Holdings- Boolean - Subject Headings

- Add Limiter - 2nd Floor - Last 5 years

Open WorldCat

- Global - Boolean - Related Subjects

- Refine Your Search- Interlibrary Loan

Keywords

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Dewey

• All of human knowledge is broken into Ten Major Categories

http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/dewey.html

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E-Books: Ebrary/Netbook

• 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Online Bookshelf

• Multiplicity of Use

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Searching in Databases

• Keywords with Boolean • Subject terms from thesaurus• Limiters: date, peer reviewed,

geography, and full text

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Article Databases

http://swosu.edu/library/

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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.

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Project Muse

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

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Finding Articles: Citations

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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)

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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

Search the Virtual Stacks

http://swosu.edu/library/

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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

Search the Virtual Stacks

http://swosu.edu/library/

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Tracking Citations

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

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The Citation Video

http://screencast.com/t/NjRhZjZhZTY

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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/

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Questions?

• Contact me:

• Frederic Murray• 774-7113• [email protected]

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