Proseminar in Communication Studies

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Proseminar in Communication Studies

• Research Resources

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Session Overview
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Evaluating Periodicals

• Scholarly/professional

• popular

• Jargon
• Peer-review process
• Audience experts, students, professionals,
  professors
• Illustrations/graphics
• NO ADS
• REAL research

• Everyday language (even slang)
• Editorial (? peer-review)
• Audience very wide anybody and everybody, and
  your little dog, too (if he can read)
• Eye-candy
• LOTS OF ADS (think Vogue)
• Editorials, opinion pieces, articles of general
  interest

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Example Periodicals

• Scholarly/professional

• popular

• The Journal of Nutrition
• Journal of Sports Medicine
• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Journal of Music Education
• Journal of Gynecology

• Martha Stewart Living
• Sports Illustrated
• People
• Rolling Stone
• Cosmopolitan

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Evaluating Websites
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Need Books?
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Books ULM Library Catalog

• Looking up books (print or electronic)
• Checking to see if we have a subscription for a
  particular journal (print or electronic)
• Will tell you whether or not the material is
  available and where it is located
• Cannot be used for searching for articles

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Books Catalog
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Catalog
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Catalog
Call number Location

• Stacks are on 2-5 floors
• A-F on 2nd
• G-P on 3rd
• Q on 4th

• R-Z on 5th

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Need articles?
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Articles Databases

• Databases are large searchable collections of
  articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers
• Full-text is not available in all databases
• Are available off-campus (AKA remotely)
• Some are multi-disciplinary, some are
  subject-specific

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Articles Databases
D A TABASES
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Databases Off-Campus
Social Security Number (no dashes/spaces)
MMYY (birthmonth and birthyear)
PUSH!
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Databases JSTOR
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JSTOR
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JSTOR
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JSTOR
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JSTOR
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Other Databases

• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Newspaper
• Legal
• Business
• Medical
• Reference
• Gale Biography Resource Center
• Ebscohost

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Ebscohost Aggregated Searching
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Ebscohost
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Ebsco Databases Communication

• Communication Mass Media Complete (full)
• Academic Search Premier Complete (both full)
• Library, Information Science, Technology
  (full)
• Newspaper Source (full-text)
• Professional Development Collection (full)
• Psychology Behavioral Sciences Collection
  (full)
• SocINDEX (full)
• PsychInfo

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Ebscohost
You are able to eliminate articles that will not
be available in desirable formats you can get
PDF only.
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Ebscohost
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Ebscohost
Not available in full-text
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LinkSource Successful
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LinkSource Unsuccessful
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If we dont have it
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.Interlibrary Loan can help!

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a free service whereby
  we borrow material from other libraries and lend
  it to you
• Requires setting up an account (not hard)
• Does take time (shorter times for articles,
  longer times for books)

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ILL
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ILL Setting Up Your Account
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ILL Setting Up Your Account
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ILL Setting Up Your Account
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ILL Setting Up Your Account
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ILL Setting Up Your Account
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ILL Material Type Selection
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ILL Article Borrowing Form
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Question Answer Time
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Resources

• Presentation URL
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/comproseminar.ppt
• Internet Researching
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/internetresearch.htm
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• My Website
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe
• My Contact Info
• Phone [phone]
• Email lowe_at_ulm.edu

If you need help, dont hesitate to contact me!
Id be glad to sit down with you one-on-one!
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Thanks for your attention!

• Remember, if you need help, you can ask at the
  Reference Desk!