Anthro4850

Library research clinic for Anthropology 4850

Marinus Swanepoel

1. Developing a research topic

2. Constructing a search string

3. Using databases

4. Using search engines

5. Citation management

Developing a research topic

A. Choose a preliminary topic.

B. Get background information2.1 Use encyclopedias for an overview

e.g.Biographical dictionary of social and cultural

anthropology [electronic resource] / edited by Vered Amit

access title online (U of L users only)

Or

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3.

2.

Or

http://www.britannica.com/#

or

Right click

or

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Finding more sources

C. Reformulate your preliminary topic

2. Constructing a search string

The research process will take you from evidence to topic and back to evidence again many times. It will be about compromise and

default as much as design and tactics at times.

The impact of transgenic plants on peasants in Latin America

Boolean re-cap

http://www.uleth.ca/lib/guides/research/display.asp?PageID=35

((transgenic plants) OR (genetically modified organisms) OR (GMOs)) AND ((peasants OR campesinos) AND (Peru OR Latin America))

Use subject searching

3. Use databases

Expand Proquest family

Expand to Ebsco family

4. Use search engines

http://www.google.ca/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861

More Google:

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

http://www.hakia.com/

Sections of format: Web/Blogs/etc

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl.t3.3/search/home

5. Citation management

http://www.zotero.org/

http://www.citeulike.org/Social

http://www.mendeley.com/

http://www.endnote.com/enwebinfo.asp

http://www.uleth.ca/lib/guides/technology/display.asp?PageID=110

http://www.uleth.ca/lib/guides/research/display.asp?PageID=1

Compare

http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/files/2010/09/Reference-Manager-Overview.pdf

Thank You