Agenda • Learn to use the library catalog to find books from Pace and

other libraries

• Understand the difference between key words and subject

headings

• Learn advanced database searching, including using Boolean

operators

• Learn how to find the full-text of articles

• Get library barcodes and create InterLibrary loan accounts

• Gain a basic understanding of hand searching

• Learn how to use Google more effectively

Getting started

0Who has a library barcode?

0 If you don’t have a barcode (or you don’t have it with you) place your Pace ID in the basket as it goes around

Using the library catalog 0There are two ways to search the library catalog:

0 From the library home page: www.pace.edu/library

Search Plus

(Encore)

Classic

Catalog

Tips for using Search Plus (Encore) to search the catalog

0 Use the tags on the right to narrow your search

0 When you find a book that looks helpful, look at the Subjects for similar books

0 If you need books that are immediately available to you, click on “Birnbaum Stacks” on the left0 Note E-book options as well

0 Use Request It button to have books sent to NYC from other Pace campuses

0 While you’re browsing, you can click on the “Add to List” link to keep track of items you were interested in 0 Use the “My List” button at the top right to access your list. You can e-mail the list to yourself.

0 Use the ConnectNY button to find resources from other universities 0 Note: you need your library barcode to request books from ConnectNY

0 Note: Encore will also give you results from a few databases, but it’s hard to narrow them down using this interface

Understanding Subject Headings

0 Subject headings are:0 Controlled vocabulary: carefully selected list of words and

phrases, which are used to tag units of information (document or work) so that they may be more easily retrieved by a search (Wikipedia)

0 Assigned by a human indexer

0 Can be broad or narrow

0 Entry terms lead to the exact subject heading

0There are many kinds of subject headings:0 Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

0 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

0 Database specific subject headings

Beyond Pace and ConnectNY

0 If neither Pace nor Connect NY has the book you need 0 Try the public library

0New York Public Library: nypl.org

0Brooklyn Public Library: brooklynpubliclibrary.org

0Queens Public Library: queenslibrary.org

0WorldCat0 Access from the library databases page

0 Use Request ILLiad-Complete Form link

0 Note: can take more than 2 weeks

0Metro Pass0 If you know the book or article you need is at another

NYC university, ask at the Information desk for a Metro pass

Independent practice

0 10 min: Use Encore and/ or the classic catalog to look for books on your topic

Library Databases 0 General Databases:

0 Academic Search Premier

0 Jstor

0 New York Times Archive

0 Accounting

0 Accounting and Tax Database

0 RIA Tax Information

0 Computer Science

0 ACM Digital Library

0 Note SIGS for Computer Graphics and Computers and Society

0 Computing

0 IEEE Computer Society Digital Library

0 Criminal Justice

0 Criminal Justice Collection

0 Criminal Justice Periodicals

0 Hein Online (for law journals)

0 Economics 0 ABI Inform0 OxResearch

0 Marketing0 AdAge Data Center0 Adforum (examples of

advertisements) 0 Communication & Mass Media

Complete 0 Psychology:

0 CINAHL 0 Pubmed (prefer to Medline via Ebsco) 0 PsycInfo

0 Theater, Film & Literature 0 International Bibliography of Theater

and Dance0 International Index to Performing

Arts 0 Literature Resource Center

Crafting your search strategy 0 Step 1: Write your basic topic question

0 Step 2: Pull out the main ideas from your topic

0 Eg: Topic:

Human trafficking in relation to the global economy and the financial crisis

Main ideas:

Human Trafficking Economy Financial crisis

Crafting your search strategy0 Step 3: Brainstorm synonyms for your main ideas

0Note: your search is not static. Try different search terms and different combinations of search terms and compare the results

Concept A Concept B Concept C

“Human trafficking” Economy “Financial crisis”

“Forced labor” Business “Economic crisis”

Slavery “Economic aspects” Recession

Crafting your search strategy

0 Step 4: Combine your search terms with Boolean operators

Eg:

(“human trafficking” OR “forced labor” OR slavery) AND(econom* OR business) AND (“financial crisis” OR“economic crisis” OR recession)

• *: retrieves all alternate endings, eg. economy,

economic

• Place phrases in quotation marks

• Use parentheses to separate OR terms

Database Search Strategies

0 If you can, use the limits the database provides to narrow your search

0 Eg. Publication type, publication date, subject, etc.

0 Limit to Scholarly Articles

0 Jstor- limit to Article and journals in the relevant disciplines

0 NY Times Archive: limit by date and limit to Article

To get the full text of an article

0Use the button Click here for the

full text

Click here to request the article

Independent Practice

0 10 min: Try searching Academic Search Premier for your topic

0 Let me know if you don’t find anything and I can suggest a different database

Hand Searching 0Mining a list of references for more sources

0Watch the video for more information:

0 http://youtu.be/IicVsNIe-K0

0 If it’s a book, search for the book title in the library catalog

0 If it’s an article search for the journal or publication title using Journal Title Search

0 If Pace doesn’t have access to the journal you can fill out an Interlibrary Loan request

Hand Searching

Google Scholar

scholar.google.com• Configure your settings to show articles available from

Pace • Video tutorial: http://youtu.be/MRFYjeNrFPM

• Use Metrics and # of citations to judge influence of a journal, article or book

General Google Searching

0Get More Out of Google: http://tinyurl.com/bmhugdj

0Evaluating websites:

0 Who is the author? What are their credentials?

0 Who publishes the site? What is their agenda/bias?

0 Look for date updated, make sure it’s current

0 Note: .org doesn’t mean there’s no bias

0 Look for “About” link

Citation Resources 0On the library home page, use the How do I? link and then Cite

Resources

0The Bedford Handbook: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/

0 Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

0zotero.org: free citation manager from Mozilla, the

makers of Firefox

0Questions? :

0E-mail Jennifer: jrosenstein@pace.edu

Wrapping up

0Please fill out a brief, anonymous evaluation:

0http://tinyurl.com/n9lgu9x