Research

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Research Discover

• English 102 the Library
• Megan Lowe, Reference Librarian

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Session Overview
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Research FYI Things to Remember

• Rule NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE LIBRARY!
• Rule NO TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN THE
  LIBRARY!
• Give yourself time to do research right
• Keywords are your friends
• Dont procrastinate!
• And dont hit

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Keywords Example

• Thesis Racism is a recurring theme in the
  movie To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Racism race prejudice bigotry
• Theme issue
• Movie film motion picture
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• When you conduct a search in the Catalog or the
  Databases, youll combine the terms using AND
• Race AND theme AND To Kill a Mockingbird

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What Are Resources?
Our resources come in two flavors Print and
Electronic!
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Evaluating Resources - FYI

• Not all resources are created equal.
• Not all resources are appropriate for research.
• Not all professors will accept the same kinds of
  resources.
• Evaluation is essential, especially when it comes
  to the Internet.

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Evaluating Periodicals

• Scholarly

• Popular

• Written by experts
• Intended for others in the field
• Jargon Technical language of the discipline
• No ads
• Illustrations graphics
• Peer-review
• REAL research

• Written by journalists
• Intended for anybody a much wider audience
• Everyday language even slang and profanity
• Lots of ads
• Eye candy
• Editorial process
• Articles of interest, news, opinion pieces,
  editorials

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Scholarly vs Popular Examples

• Scholarly Shakespeare Quarterly
• Popular People
• Scholarly Journal of Sports Medicine
• Popular Sports Illustrated
• Scholarly Family Consumer Research Journal
• Popular Real Simple

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The Librarys Resources
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The Librarys Resources

• Remember the Library is an ideal source of
  scholarly information.
• There are librarians in the Library who are
  willing and able to help you!
• There are two main sources of information the
  Catalog and the Databases.

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Need Books?
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Books Catalog
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Catalog
marijuana and legalization
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Catalog
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Electronic Books NetLibrary Ebrary

• Our book collection includes 70,000 books that
  arent on the shelf they exist electronically,
  via two collections NetLibrary and Ebrary
• Both are available off-campus
• NetLibrary requires account creation ON CAMPUS
• Ebrary is accessed like the databases
• When you search the Catalog, these collections
  are searched, but you can search them without
  searching the Catalog

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NetLibrary Ebrary
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NetLibrary Account Search
Remember create your account while you are on
campus!
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Ebrary

• Ebrary can do a few things NetLibrary cant do
• Highlight text in the book
• Add stickies to the pages
• Read to you
• Generate citations for your bibliography
• Youll need an account to keep records of
  highlighting, stickies, and search histories.

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Ebrary Search
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Ebrary Account Creation
Remember only create an account to use Ebrarys
cool features. Logging in to Ebrary is like
logging into the databases from off-campus.
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Ebrary Search
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Ebrary Main Search Page
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Need articles?
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Articles Databases!

• Databases are searchable collections of articles
  from real newspapers, journals, and magazines
• Some databases will provide you with the entire
  article (this is called full-text) some dont
  provide full-text
• The databases are available off-campus, but more
  on that later

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Articles Databases
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Databases By Subject
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Databases English
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Databases Ebscohost
This will allow you to add more databases to your
search, which will give you more resources!
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Databases Ebscohost
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Databases Ebscohost
race and A Light in August and Fau
Use these they make life easier.
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Databases Ebscohost
These mean that the whole article is available to
read.
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Databases Ebscohost - Citations
Click here to cite the article
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Databases Ebscohost - Citations
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Accessing Databases from Home
CWID
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Q A Time
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FYI

• Presentation URL
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/english102.ppt
• MLA Style Help The Owl _at_ Purdue
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/
  01/
• My Website chockful o info!
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe
• My Contact Info
• lowe_at_ulm.edu
• 342-3041

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Thanks for coming!

• Remember, if you need help, all you have to do is
  ask at the Reference Desk or email us at
  reference_at_ulm.edu