Library Seminar CET 413

Van Houten Library @NJIT Research Roadmaps – 2library.njit.edu

Library Seminar CET 413

Spring 2010Librarian: Haymwantee SinghProfessor: Dr. David [email protected], 973-596-8498


Objectives

• Determine your information requirements for your research question

• Locate and retrieve relevant information using websites and databases

• Evaluate the quality of a website

• Use citation generators


Web Research

Begin our research topic on superfund at:

www.google.com


Web Research

1. Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com

2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek

3. Restrict web results on superfund and tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar

4. Further restrict the scholarly items to environmental science only using google advanced search option

5. Locate full text journal/magazine items


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Research

1. Begin our research topic on superfund

at the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar

creek


Web Search

www.google.com

Narrow superfund to

tar creek


Web Research

1. Begin our research topic on superfund

at the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar

creek3. Restrict web results on superfund and

tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar – see google pull down menu.


Web Search

www.google.comRestrict your search results to scholarly

articles.


Web Research

1. Begin our research topic on superfund at

the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek3. Restrict web results on superfund and tar

creek to scholarly items using google scholar 4. Further restrict the scholarly items to

environmental science only using google advanced search option


Web Search

www.google.com

Select the “Advanced Search” option above


Web Search

www.google.comRestrict your search

to EnvironmentalScience, etc. here.


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com

Is the first google scholar item a book or article?

Click on this item.


Web Search

www.google.com


The Relationship between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining CommunityJournal article by Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 63, 2000

Components of Citation:Title of Article: The Relationship between

Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community

Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler;

Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63Year: 2000

Is the citation complete?


Find the full text article using the library resources since the full article is not at the web

What are we looking for?We know that we are looking for a journal article and we know the title of the journal is Journal of Environmental Health

Go to: library.njit.edu


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.comJournal Title


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com


Lynch, R. A., Malcoe, L. H., Skaggs, V. J., & Kegler, M. C. (2000). The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community. Journal of Environmental Health, 63 (3), 9. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live

Complete Citation – includes issue and page information

Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler;

Date: 2000Title of Article: The Relationship between

Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community

Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63 Issue: 3 (or October )Page: 9Database URL: Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live

Cited in APA Style


Evaluate The Quality of a Website


Types of Websites

Name a type of website or domain of a website


Types of Websites

• .edu educational (often contain student pages as well as scholarly research)

• .gov governmental (usually dependable)• .com commercial (may be trying to sell a product

and may have inaccuracies) • .net network (may provide services to commercial

or individual customers)• .org organization (non-profit institutions; note the

source of funding, may be biased)• .mil military• .biz Commercial use (selling a product)


Purposes of Web Resources

What are the intentions, goals, objectives of websites?


Purposes of Web Resources

• Commercial• Informative• Educational• Entertaining• Advocacy – promote, sponsoring, suuport• Persuasive – influence, convince• Hoax• Institutional


How to Evaluate Information – video tutorial

2 websites are compared and discussed with respect to 4 important criteria for evaluating web resources

http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/evaluate.php(presented by Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener

University located in Chester Pennysylvania

1. Authority2. Accuracy3. Currency4. Objectivity


Questions To Ask About A Website To Determine The Quality • What type of web page is this?• What is its purpose?• Who is the author of this page?• Who is the audience?• When was the page last updated?• Is there a contact? If yes, note the contact.• Does it list scholarly sources?• Does the author have a bias or agenda? (Is this

bias stated or hidden?)







Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com


Online Citation Generators Can Be Helpful Online Citation Generators Can Be Helpful When Creating Your List OF ReferencesWhen Creating Your List OF References

http://library.njit.edu/researchhehttp://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/cite.phplpdesk/howto/cite.php


Web Search

www.google.com


Web Search

www.google.com


Find a Book in the Library


Web Search

www.google.com

Search for title words and authors name in all fields


Web Search

www.google.com

Call Number and location are important

for locating book

Documents

Library Seminar CET 413