U.S. History to 1877

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U.S. History to 1877

• Searching for Resources
• Steve Voguit

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Advisory

• You will not use all of the strategies being
  discussed today every time you do a search.
• But knowing that these options are available and
  using them on occasions when your usual search
  strategies do not work is an indication of an
  informed and a good researcher.

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Points for Today

• Simple vs. Advanced Searching
• Subject (Thesaurus) vs. Keyword Searching
• Boolean Logic
• Truncation
• Scholarly/ Peer-Reviewed/ Referred Articles
• HTML full-text/ PDF/ or ILL
• Call Numbers

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Simple vs. Advanced Searching

• Allows you to search for broad information, or
  very specific information
• You use the simple search to find an author or
  title
• One search term/phrase at a time

• Allows you to build a more detailed/accurate
  search
• Several search terms/phrases at a time
• More options for limiting your search

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Subject vs. Keyword Searching

• Official words in a database or catalog, aka,
  controlled language
• Do not limit your use of subject terms found in
  one catalog or database to JUST that catalog or
  database, try them in others too.

• Words you think of to use for searches, aka,
  natural language
• Some databases provide a thesaurus to look up
  similar words or the official term they are not
  always called a thesaurus.

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Boolean Logic

• AND searching for two or more terms in the
  same record, animals AND symbolism
• OR searching for one or the other term in a
  record, animals OR symbolism
• NOT searching for one term, but not the
  other, animals NOT symbolism

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Truncation

• A way to search for all the possible endings of a
  word at once!!
• Find the root of your word, then
• Shift 8
• Ex. word would find word, words, wordly,
  worded, wording, wordily, wordless, etc.

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Article Access

• HTML/ full-text someone has typed the article
  back into the computer
• PDF a scanned copy of the article
• Article-linker/360 search will take you either
  to the article in another Proctor Library
  database, or tells you we do not have it available

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Books for History

• Most history books can be found in the C, D, E,
  and F sections of the library
• For this class on American history, you will use
  mostly the E and F sections of the library
• Other books related to history can and will be
  found in other sections of the library. For
  example, a book on the history of music would be
  in the Ms (the music section)

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Citing

• MLA -- RREF LB2369 .G52 2003
• APA -- RREF BF76.7 .P83 2001
• Chicago -- RREF Z253 .U69 2000 http//www.chicagom
  anualofstyle.org/home.html
• Will want to cite in order to avoid plagiarism,
  the most extreme result being dismissal from
  school
• Showing where you got ideas from/ providing
  acknowledgement

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Websites

• http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Int
  ernet/Evaluate.html
• Use this link called Evaluating Websites to
  find out how to decide if a website is a good
  choice to use in your paper

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Where Well Search Today

• Librarys Catalog
• JSTOR
• Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective
• http//www.flagler.edu/library/
• Under Resources by Subject and then History
  you will find information on more places to search