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Native Issues-CATC: Research Strategies. Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library [email protected]. Outline of session. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Native Issues-CATC:Research Strategies
Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa
Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library [email protected]
Outline of session• Plan your search/Keywords/Boolean • Choosing appropriate
Sources/Databases• Citations/Identifying//Reading/Tracking
• Google Tricks• Sample searches• Key Elements…
Major Concerns
• Topic Selection
• Narrowing the search
• Using the library effectively
Define what you want to know “I am looking for literature and
sources that focus on Spanish exploration and settlement. ”
Use this statement to choose keywords and key phrases
Define key words and phrases
Spanish
Exploration
Settlement
or Mexican
or Conquest
or Colonization
Accurate SearchRequiresAccurate Language
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.
Boolean
• AND = Narrow
• OR = Expand
• NOT = Exclude
Class Exercise
• Keyword Building ExerciseTopic: Spanish Exploration & Settlements
• Thesaurus.com
Spanish Exploration & Settlements
Missions
Jesuits
Explorers
Southwest Exploration
Mexico
Texas Conquest
Trade
Books
• Al Harris Catalog• Open World Cat • Ebrary
Open World Cat
• Meta search engine for online catalogs of libraries all over the world. Search for any book using a geographic location for the closest sources.
• Over 9000 libraries combined. • If you find it in WorldCat, and it's
not in our library, we can get it through ILL.
• CREATE A USER ACCOUNT
Ebrary: eBooks • 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Multiplicity of Use
• CREATE A BOOKSHELF
Choose Appropriate Databases• Google is not (usually) the answer• Start with Library Resources for
your Subject First• Search a range of databases• Think about the range of sources:
books, journal articles, statistics, websites, conference reports…
Databases: Social Sciences
• America: History and Life with Full Text
• JSTOR• North American Indian Thought &
Culture• Project Muse
• And Many More…..
EBSCO Databases
• America: History and Life with Full Text
JSTOR
• Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Search by discipline: History
Project Muse
• Peer-reviewed journals• Wide variety of humanities and
social science subjects• Complete journal content,
including charts, graphs, and images
North American Indian Thought & Culture
• The collection is comprised of material that covers the entire history of North America; from 17th century accounts of the first encounters involving Indians and European colonists to the stories of aboriginals living in a 21st century world.
We think of citation patterns as the flow of information," says Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington. "That's what a citation is — the trace that an idea flowed from one place to another."
Handout: Identifying types of citations• Book• Journal or Magazine• Conference Reports• Newspaper Article• Website
Handout: Reading citationsA citation is a short, multi-part description of a specific information source. It provides
the information that is needed to find a particular source. Journal citations contain such
basic information as:
Snowballing
• Building on the works of others
• A scholarly article will always have References/Bibliography
• A bibliography is always ripe for
the picking…
Tracking Citations
Tracking Citations
Damp, Jonathan E., Stephen A. Hall and Susan J. Smith 2002 Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. American Antiquity 67: 665-676
Tracking Citations
Damp, Jonathan E., Stephen A. Hall and Susan J. Smith 2002 Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. American Antiquity 67: 665-676
The Citation Video
Class Exercise
• Is it a book or a journal?
• Check the appropriate source– Open WorldCat/Ebrary/Al Harris Catalog – Periodicals List
• If the citation is an article, do we have access through the databases?
Google: Improve Your SearchesSite Specific Command
What it does: searches only specific domains
What to type: Zuni Indians site:edu Zuni Indians site:gov
Google Scholar
• Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google Scholar
• Works best for Citations
• Restrictions to Content– Fee-based
– Often your Library already owns material
– We’re working on improving access
Native Issues:Internet Resources• Tribal Government and Native Am
erican Resources
• Native American Documents Project
• Indian Affairs Laws & Treaties
Review
• Keywords/Boolean• Books:
– Ebrary/Open WorldCat/Catalog• Databases: • America: History and Life with Full
Text/JSTOR/North American Indian Thought & Culture/Project Muse
• Google Site Search/Scholar
Class Exercise
• Divided into teams of four
• Find 2 articles & 2 books on Spanish Settlement and Exploration in the North American Southwest
• Use JSTOR/Ebrary/Open WorldCat
• Jot down Titles & Sources
KEY Elements for Your Paper• Stress analysis: Do not simply parrot
your sources i.e. “radical leaders” “Marxist Professors.”
• Who says they are radical? Marxist?
• Watch your assumptions.
• Do your own analysis.