MyResearch (Humanities)Module 3

Fall 2013

Natalie ColaiacovoJulie JonesSharon Rankin

Yesterday we went over… Constructing search strategies McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue General academic databases Google search commands/maximizing Google

Scholar

Welcome back!

Locating theses and dissertations

Finding known citations

CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans

Subject guides and subject-specific databases

Citation searching

Alerts and current awareness

Special resources and collections

This week…

Theses and dissertations: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/theses

Specialized Resources

eScholarship ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

27 500+ full text McGill theses• Allows searching by faculty

advisor

McGill theses from 1934 to present day• Full text 1997-• Selected full text before 1997

Also contains: journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, book chapters written by McGill faculty and students

Also contains: theses written by students from North American and European universities

Use for: McGill-specific search requirements

Use for: Broader scope of current research

1. Conduct a keyword search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research.

Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research

2. Search eScholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department.

Specialized Resources

Finding known citations

Search by journal title in the Library Catalogue

- Navigate to the issue that the journal is in.

And:

Search for the article by title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link.

Search for the article by title in WorldCat Local.

How to find a known journal article

Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

Title of article

Title of journal

Volume, issue, year, and page

numbers.

Author

Locate the full text of the following two articles:

Tavoni, Massimo, et al. "The value of technology and of its evolution towards a low carbon economy." Climatic change 114.1 (2012): 39-57.

Vivoni, Enrique R. "Spatial patterns, processes and predictions in ecohydrology: integrating technologies to meet the challenge." Ecohydrology 5.3 (2012): 235-241.

Known article searching exercise

Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada.

Obtain a CREPUQ card at any Library Services Desk on campus.

CREPUQ card: what is it?

Interlibrary loan

- Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item.

- McGill will borrow or obtain a copy of what you require

Interlibrary loan: what is it?

Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area.

Created and maintained by librarians at McGill.

Also known as “Research Guides”.

Subject Guides: What are they?

Subject guides

Your turn

What is a thesaurus?

predefined keyword terms = subject terms

“A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.”

“a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.”

From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24-25.

Databases with Thesauri

Improve relevancy in your results sets

Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study

Why use Thesaurus terms in your search?

Broader Narrower Related

“Explode" a search term

The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms.

Thesaurus terms

What is it?

It is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work.

Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work.

Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time.

Citation searching

Citation searching

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Supplements standard subject searching.

Cuts across disciplines.

Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive.

3 citation databases offer this functionality:

Scopus

Google Scholar

Web of Science

Scopus – cited by

Web of Science – cited by

Google Scholar – cited by

Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar:

Domosh, Mona. "Those ‘Gorgeous Incongruities’: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York City." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 88.2 (1998): 209-226.

Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database.

Exercise

Alerts, RSS, and other current awareness strategies

Setting up a search alert in SCOPUS

What the search alert looks like in your inbox…

Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert.

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs.

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet. BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines. Not all our journal subscriptions are available through BrowZine, but thousands are, and many more are being added. For example, journal aggregators such as Ovid, ProQuest, and EBSCO, will be added on October 31, 2013.

BrowZine allows you to:

• Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet.

• Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals.

• Get alerts when new issues of journals are published

BrowZine

BrowZine

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile

BrowZine and other apps

McGill Archives: http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/

Rare Books & Special Collections: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks

Maps & geospatial data guide: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/maps

The GIC: http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/

EDRS: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs

Statistics: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/about/edrs

Government / International organization documents: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/govinfo/

Specialized Resources

McGill Rare Books & Special Collections

Specialized Resources

http://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/rbsc/

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks

USE FOR:• Canadiana• 17th/18th C.

Philosophy• Book history and

print culture• Special

collections• Boy Scouts• Olympics• Puppets

McGill University Archives

Specialized Resources

http://archives.mcgill.ca

USE FOR:• Primary sources

• Letters• Author notes/

manuscripts• McGill history• Growing online

collection

refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca

The Geographic Information Centre

Specialized Resources

USE FOR:• One-on-one help

from GIS/RS Specialists

• Computers equipped with GIS/RS software

• NEW GIS Introductory workshops

http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/

Electronic Data Resources Services

Specialized Resources

USE FOR:• Finding data sets• Assistance with

data collection• Introductory

workshops using statistical software

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/hssl/about/edrs

Statistics

Statistics and Data Research Guide

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs

Contact: edrs.library@mcgill.ca

Government Information

Government Information Research Guide

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/govinfo

Contact: eamon.duffy@mcgill.ca

Specialized Resources

bit.ly/MyResearchMcGill

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