Marcie Jacklin, B.Sc., MLIS Tourism and Environment Librarian

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Marcie Jacklin, B.Sc., MLISTourism and
Environment Librarian

• mjacklin_at_brocku.caext 3960

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Ecotourist
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Assignment Part I
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Assignment One Part I and II 10

• Help you master the skills and techniques of
  information retrieval
• Part I make a list of citations for several
  different types of information resources

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Marcies top seven tips for this assignment
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Tip 1 Dont leave this assignment until the last
day
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Tip 2 Selecting a topic

• You can select any environmental issue that has
  a sustainable development or environmental policy
  dimension. You may choose a topic that also has
  links to tourism.

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Tips for selecting a topic

• TIP Avoid choosing a topic which is too broad
  or too narrow
• E.g birdwatching 32,500,000 results

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Start looking for a topic with the librarys new
SuperSearch

• A web-scale discovery tool
• You can search the contents of multiple library
  catalogues and indexes at the same time (like
  google but more scholarly sources)

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Note the menu on the left side
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SuperSearch allow you to

• Search by keyword
• Check availability
• Limit by format type (very important for this
  assignment) and other criteria
• Do an advanced search (very important for
  focusing your research)
• Sort your results by relevance or year of
  publication

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Citation information is available in Supersearch
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SOLD OUT ?
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Format types in SuperSearch

• Depending on your keywords and the number of
  results
• Academic (scholar, peer-reviewed) journals
• Magazines
• News
• Books
• eBooks

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Tip 3

• Use SuperSearch to find better keywords and
  subject headings

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Keywords

• Birds
• Bird watching or birdwatching or birding
• Niagara Peninsula
• Niagara River

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Subject Headings

• Bird watching - Ontario Niagara Peninsula
• Bird watchers
• Tourism
• Ecotourism
• Sustainable tourism
• (Obsession over-determination)

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Subject headings allow you to find relevant
articles on your topic

• E.g. Hunting without guns

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Tip 4 Selecting the best database(s)

• Depends on your topic
• SuperSearch Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
  Abstracts Canadian Newsstand Google Google
  Scholar and Google Books

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Research Guides by Program
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Videos coming soon!
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Tip 5

• Refining keywords for larger databases and using
  field searches/boolean
• Less can be more e.g. use habitat instead of
  habitat loss
• May need 3 or 4 concepts
• Birds
• Conservation
• international

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Keywords and concepts

• Use as many
• concepts as
• possible to
• reduce the
• number of
• results

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Example

• (birds or bird watch or birdwatch) and
  ecotour
• Birdwatching birdwatcher ecotourism ecotourist
• Then limit by format type and/or year of
  publication

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Google Advance Search
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Tip 6 Scholarly peer reviewed academic articles
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Key features
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Key features

• Detailed titles
• Can be multiple authors
• Reports original research
• Detailed charts, diagrams etc
• Bibliography
• Indication of peer-reviewed process

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Example of citation information

• The value of species rarity in biodiversity
  recreation A birdwatching example. By Booth,
  Josephine E. Gaston, Kevin J. Evans, Karl L.
  Armsworth, Paul R. Biological Conservation.
  Nov2011, Vol. 144 Issue 11, p2728-2732. 5p. DOI
  10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.018.

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Tip 7 Getting HELP

• TAs
• Research a topic in. (for videos)
• Research Help desk
• TREN 1F90 E-classroom Drop-in Clinics TBA (me)
• Me

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Research Help Desk

• Main floor (my availability)
• Thurs Oct 11 5 to 7 pm
• Thurs Oct 18 5 to 7 pm
• Sunday Oct 25 5 to 7 pm

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TREN 1F90 E-classroom Clinics

• Bring your own laptop to work along or borrow one
  from circulation
• You can come and go but I will try and help
  people out as they arrive

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Drop-in schedule

• Tues Oct 2 230 4 pm Classroom B
• Fri Oct 12 1100 1230 pm
• Thurs Oct 25 7 8 pm
• Fri Oct 26 noon- 2 pm