Tips

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Tips Tricks

• Putting the Research Puzzle Together

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Tips for Searching

• Finding Books
• Name Search
• Finding Articles

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Tips for Searching

• Interlibrary Loan
• Citations/Citing Sources
• Finding Scholarly Sources

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Tips for Searching

• Finding Scholarly Internet Sources
• Journal Abbreviations
• Use Sources to Find More Sources

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Finding Books

• Traditional books and ebooks

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Finding Books

• Search Solomon
• Books with Books and more (Library Catalog)

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Finding Books

• Search Solomon Advanced
• Books with Books and more (Library Catalog)
• Language English
• Publication date

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Finding Books

• Specific Title known
• Select keywords from title - in the title field
• Specific Title unknown
• Search main topic in the title field
• If that doesnt work, use the subject field

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Names

• How to search

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Name Search

• Author or Subject field
• ? Last name only
• OR
• Use first initial if the last name is very
  common, (i.e. Adams, Jones, Smith)
• Use Last name, space, first name (narrower
  search) if necessary

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Name Search

• For Biographies use Subject field
• Last name biography in Subject
• Use Last name biography anywhere in the record to
  find collective biographies

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Finding articles

• Full-text online or physically in the library

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Finding Articles

• Search Solomon/Solomon Advanced
• Articles with Articles and more (searches the
  journals in the Solomon cloud)
• Search Databases
• Select Category (i.e. Biblical Studies,
  Education, Communication, Psychology, etc.)
• Searches journals in other clouds like EBSCO,
  ProQuest and Opposing Viewpoints
• Best method when a professor recommends specific
  journals

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Finding Articles

• Find Databases
• Find Databases again (top right corner)
• Search a personally selected database or set of
  databases.
• Search a database that can only be searched
  directly through the providers portal.
• Discover indexes and databases listed in each
  category
• those searched by Solomon
• those that must be searched directly

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Finding Articles

• Find Journals
• Used when all you have is a citation to a
  specific article.
• usually discovered in the notes of a book or
  article
• sometimes recommended by a professor, fellow
  student, etc.
• Search for the journal title from the citation.
• Discover if the library has access to the journal
• The article may be online or it may be physically
  in the library periodical collection.
• It may be the library has the journal but not the
  specific issue needed to access the article

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Interlibrary loan

• Traditional Books and Articles

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Interlibrary Loan

• Use ILL when needed book or article is not
  available in the library.
• Select Interlibrary Loan from main menu
• Select book or article as needed
• Fill out form and Submit
• ILL will NOT work for
• Theses, dissertations
• CDs, DVD, other media

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citations

• Recognition and Creation

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Citations

• Learn to recognize citation types
• Journal article will have two titles an Article
  Title followed by a Journal Title (usually
  abbreviated) volume and issue numbers often
  included
• Book will have a City and Publisher
• Dissertation or thesis will say dissertation or
  thesis respectively
• Online sources will end with a date accessed.

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Citations

• Use the bibliographic record to
• identify correct citation information
• gather all necessary bibliographic information
• See the Details tab

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Citing Sources

• The best way to know how to cite sources is to
  read the chapter in the style manual that gives
  instructions for proper citation formatting.
• Reduces confusion
• Increases understanding

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Citing Sources

• Resist the urge to simply look for an example
  that seems to fit.
• Take a few minutes to read these very valuable
  pages describing the rules for each element of a
  citation

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Citing Sources

• APA chapters 6 and 7
• Chicago/Turabian chapters 16 and 17
• CSE chapter 29 (Name/Year)
• MLA chapters 5 and 6

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Finding scholarly sources

• Books, Articles, Web sites

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Finding Scholarly Sources

• These Research Guides will help
• Identifying Scholarly Resources Books
• Distinguish primary, secondary and tertiary
  sources
• Identifying Scholarly Resources Periodicals
• Distinguish between magazines, journals,
  scholarly journals and peer reviewed/refereed
  journals

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Finding Scholarly Sources
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Internet Searching
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Internet Searching
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations

• Used in citations, syllabi, conversations

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Journal Abbreviations

• Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations
• acronymfinder.com
• SBL Handbook (Society of Biblical Literature)
  (808.027 Sb41a, 1999 chapter 8)

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Use sources to find more sources

• The key to doing research

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The Key to Research

• Use Sources to find more sources the key to
  doing research
• Cited References / Bibliographies from books,
  articles, Web sites, etc.
• Authors and Titles from text books, cited
  references, OPAC records, etc.
• Subject Headings / Descriptors from bibliographic
  references in OPAC and indexes

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The Key to Research

• The key to doing research
  Use Sources to find more sources
• Call numbers from OPAC records, browse shelves
• Persons, Places, Events from readings
• Related terminology professional jargon,
  colloquialisms, broader/narrower terms, variant
  spellings, common terms, scientific terms, etc.
  from OPAC records, LC Subject Headings,
  abstracts, articles, books and other reading, etc.