Using the Library for your Research Papers

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Using the Library for your Research Papers

• Sociology 269
• Introductory Sociology of Globalization
• October 2007
• grant.kayler_at_ualberta.ca

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Welcome to the UofA Libraries

• One of the biggest library systems in Canada -
  over 6 million print volumes plus abundant
  electronic full text material
• Most sociology materials in print form will be in
  RUTHERFORD LIBRARY which houses the social
  sciences humanities collection, but you may
  find materials in other libraries

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Some things to remember

• UofA Library is member of the NEOS Library
  Consortium
• Catalogue gives access to materials we own plus
  materials in the other NEOS libraries
• Items from BARD other NEOS Libraries must be
  requested and take time to get here
• Look for books in the Catalogue, look for
  articles in a database
• Databases include things the Library doesnt own

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Operating Essentials

• CCID PASSWORD
• Authentication for web access and Library
  databases from Library PAC stations, computing
  labs, your laptop, home, etc.
• OneCard (bar code number and PIN)
• Library Card for circulation services, e.g.
  borrowing/renewing, placing holds/requests, my
  account tracking, etc.
• photocopy/printing card (add to card)
• UofA E-mail account
• notices from the library

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Finding materials where to start

• www.library.ualberta.ca
• Information on library hours, services, getting
  help (Ask Us), etc.
• Many different kinds of guides finding materials
  by subject, research and writing guides, citation
  guides, guides on using applications like
  Refworks, etc.
• Lets look at Sociology on the webpage

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Steps in your research process

• Analyze your topic
• Break it into concepts/keywords
• Search by subject or keywords
• Keep track of your references, e.g using Refworks
• Read, reflect, write

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How to searchsome tips

• Narrow search using AND between concepts
• Globalization and homelessness
• Use OR between synonyms or similar concepts
• Environment or ecology or pollution

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More tips

• Phrase searching
• Environmental degradation
• Sometimes environmental degradation
• Truncation
• global global, globalization, globalism, etc.
  (symbol varies, could be ! or ?

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Searching Tipsmore complex

• Nesting combine and and or in a single
  search, e.g.(environment or pollut) and (oil
  or petroleum or gas) and Nigeria
• Nesting and Proximity terms near each other,
  e.g.(environment or pollut) within 10 (oil or
  petroleum or gas) within 10 Nigeria (may also be
  N10) check tips/help to know what symbol to use

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Dont forget print materials - books!

• Book citation
• Rainwater, Lee, and Timothy M. Smeeding. 2003.
  The poor kids in a rich country America's
  children in comparative perspective. New York
  Russell Sage.
• search Library Catalogue by keyword and/or
  subject heading
• New books listing on Sociology website

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Dont forget print materials - articles

• When you find an article citation, e.g.
• Crawford, Gerry, and Victoria K. Gosling. 2004.
  The Myth of the 'Puck Bunny' Female Fans and
  Men's Ice Hockey. Sociology, 38, 3 (July),
  477-493.
• Get It button will take you to
  catalogue listing of print source as well as to
  an online full text version if we have it

Look up periodical title in the catalogue to get
call number (article title wont work)
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DATABASES

• Citation or citation abstract only
• e.g. Sociological Abstracts, Social Science
  Citation Index
• Get It links to the full text
  if available in another database, or to print
  sources, e.g. the Libraries Catalogue,
  Interlibrary Loan, etc.
• Full-text databases (pdf or html)
• Databases that contain the full-text of some or
  all of the articles, e.g. SocINDEX with Full
  Text, Sociological Collection, SAGE Full Text,
  Social Sciences Full Text

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Scholarly Literature

• Written by experts in the field, credentials
  given, usually associated with a postsecondary
  institution or research institute
• Includes bibliography of references on which the
  content is based different from popular
  magazines or trade literature
• Examples journal articles, books, conference
  proceedings/reports, encyclopedias dictionaries

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Scholarly / Peer reviewed

• Process of reviewing an author's scholarly
  work, research, or ideas by others who are
  experts in the same field editorial boards,
  blind review process
• Some databases let you limit your search to
  scholarly/peer reviewed journals, e.g.
  Sociological Abstracts, SocINDEX with Full Text,
  Sociological Collection, Social Sciences Full
  Text, CBCA
• Ulrichs International Periodical Directory (a
  database) can be used to determine if a journal
  is scholarly/peer reviewed

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• Web-based citation management, access from
  anywhere
• Create database of references you build as you go
  (e.g. import directly from database)
• organize into individual folders for specific
  assignments, etc.
• Pull references from database/folders to create
  bibliography for specific assignments, in proper
  format (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.)
• Insert in-text references from folder/database as
  you write your paper

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