Native Issues-CATC: Research Strategies
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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]
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Outline of session• Plan your search/Keywords/Boolean • Choosing appropriate
Sources/Databases• Citations/Identifying//Reading/Tracking
• Google Tricks• Sample searches• Key Elements…
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Major Concerns
• Topic Selection
• Narrowing the search
• Using the library effectively
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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
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Define key words and phrases
Spanish
Exploration
Settlement
or Mexican
or Conquest
or Colonization
Accurate SearchRequiresAccurate Language
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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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Boolean
• AND = Narrow
• OR = Expand
• NOT = Exclude
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Class Exercise
• Keyword Building ExerciseTopic: Spanish Exploration & Settlements
• Thesaurus.com
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Spanish Exploration & Settlements
Missions
Jesuits
Explorers
Southwest Exploration
Mexico
Texas Conquest
Trade
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Books
• Al Harris Catalog• Open World Cat • Ebrary
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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
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Ebrary: eBooks • 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Multiplicity of Use
• CREATE A BOOKSHELF
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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…
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Databases: Social Sciences
• America: History and Life with Full Text
• JSTOR• North American Indian Thought &
Culture• Project Muse
• And Many More…..
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EBSCO Databases
• America: History and Life with Full Text
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JSTOR
• Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Search by discipline: History
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Project Muse
• Peer-reviewed journals• Wide variety of humanities and
social science subjects• Complete journal content,
including charts, graphs, and images
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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.
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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."
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Handout: Identifying types of citations• Book• Journal or Magazine• Conference Reports• Newspaper Article• Website
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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:
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Snowballing
• Building on the works of others
• A scholarly article will always have References/Bibliography
• A bibliography is always ripe for
the picking…
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Tracking Citations
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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
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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
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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?
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Google: Improve Your SearchesSite Specific Command
What it does: searches only specific domains
What to type: Zuni Indians site:edu Zuni Indians site:gov
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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.
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Google Scholar
• Works best for Citations
• Restrictions to Content– Fee-based
– Often your Library already owns material
– We’re working on improving access
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Native Issues:Internet Resources• Tribal Government and Native Am
erican Resources
• Native American Documents Project
• Indian Affairs Laws & Treaties
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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
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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
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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.