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1 About the Library APA style Preparing to search Searching library e-resources for articles Searching the Internet ENG 206 Report Presentation for Community Service Workers 13 May 2015 David McCarthy, Professor; Liz Dobson, Librarian 1

2 library.centennialcollege.ca You need an active library account to have FULL use of the library Come in person to the Library with your Student Card and staff will activate it for library use. Ashtonbee Library, Room L-202 Distance Access 2

3 LIBRARY RESOURCES Centennial Libraries homepage START YOUR RESEARCH Search all Library Resources & Check your Library Account

4 Go LIBRARY Guides APA style Annotated bibliographies Literature Review Etc.

5 More help with APA Style Microsoft Word Library databases

6 APA Style Rules & guidelines on how to format your report & cite your sources American Psychological Association

7 Format a cover page (student report) in APA style

8 Sample reference in APA style A journal article from a library database Reference example: Manti, E., Scholte, E. M., & Van Berckelaer-Onnes, I. A. (2013). Exploration of Teaching Strategies That Stimulate the Growth of Academic Skills of Children with ASD in Special Education School. European Journal Of Special Needs Education, 28(1), Retrieved from ERIC database.

9 Sample journal reference in APA style Manti, E., Scholte, E. M., & Van Berckelaer-Onnes, I. A. (2013). Exploration of Teaching Strategies That Stimulate the Growth of Academic Skills of Children with ASD in Special Education School. European Journal Of Special Needs Education, 28(1), Retrieved from ERIC database. Rubric: Authors. (year). Title. Journal name, volume number(issue number), pages. Retrieval statement.

10 Format a cover page in APA student report

11 Sample reference in APA style with accompanying paragraph

12 HOW TO FIND GOOD QUALITY RESOURCES TO ANSWER YOUR RESEARCH QUESTIONS?

13 Which to use?? LIBRARY OR INTERNET?

14 What s the difference? Library databases Internet Source: 14

15 Library databases (E-resources) More academic Easy to find academic (peer reviewed) journal articles You can use precision tools for searching - & often save time! 15

16 Quality varies widely; inherent commercial bias Internet You rely more on the search engine to determine search results Source: 16

17 Your presentation & handout Learn the strengths and weaknesses of Library & Internet sources and use them both appropriately

18 Your Literature Review Assignment.

19 A sample research question How is racism expressed in Canada today? (Hmmmm Canadians tend to think of themselves as a tolerant, officially multicultural society! True?)

20 An example of a natural language search using Google

21 An example of a keyword search using Google

22 Search styles.. natural language &/or keywords keywords only Both work well! Best results this way!

23 Planning for keyword searching Pick out the main concepts in your research question

24 Language matters! Think of synonyms and related terms that you may need to use in your searching Recommend using publication date limit when searching to get current resources ( today ) Note the use of AND & OR

25 AND & OR AND tells the search engine to look for documents that contain at least one term from both rows. OR tells the search engine to look for any of the terms in each row you want them all

26 LIBRARY DATABASE SEARCH You can lay on your search strategy directly onto the search page. Easy!

27 Your literature review assignment asks for ARTICLES ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

28 LIBRARY DATABASE Most library databases allow you to limit your search results to academic peer reviewed Easy!

29 Academic Peer reviewed articles A committee of scholars must approve quality before the editor publishes Also called refereed or scholarly All are fully documented ideas and quotations from others are cited, and a bibliography is provided Most peer reviewed articles are primary sources (write-ups of original research) 29

30 Library database Documentation is a sign of scholarliness Example of a scholarly journal article Note: in-text citations

31 Example of documentation in a scholarly journal article Note: References at end of article which provide full publication info for citations made in the essay above

32 Searching directly in LIBRARY DATABASES (E-RESOURCES)

33 With your search strategy in hand you can go directly into the Library s E-Resources & E-Books / Journals (Full Text) (databases)

34 Centennial Libraries E-Resources page Approximately 100 library databases Listings by Subject, Type, Title

35 Go E-Resources by Subject library web page Social Sciences group

36 LIBRARY E-RESOURCES ( DATABASES ) Canadian Studies group

37 Canadian Reference Centre database: A simple one-concept search (with two terms), limit to full text

38 A simple one concept search 30,842 results With full text limit

39 A more complex search with two concepts, each with more than one term Use one row per concept (you can add more rows if you need them)

40 A two concept search 7,941 results With full text limit

41 Precision tools in library databases Limit tools: Use to reduce the number of results, and get more relevancy Full Text limit Using more concepts (add rows) Field limits (e.g. title, subject, geographic, abstract) Scholarly (Peer Review) limit More limits (publication date, etc.)

42 Sample detailed record in a database, showing FIELDS Information about the article is entered in FIELDS. Title field Subject field Geographic field Abstract field all 4 are powerful field limits to use to get fewer records and more relevancy.

43 Title Field limit LIBRARY database tools Direct searching in databases provides you with many tools. Use Field Limits to get fewer records and more relevancy Geographic Terms Field limit

44 Using field limits reduces the number of results, but increases their relevancy 92 results Full text limit Title and Geographic field limits (a vast reduction from previous search with no limits)

45 Scholarly (Peer reviewed) Limit Use this limit to get more academic articles (many of which are write-ups of original research done) 20 results Peer Reviewed (Scholarly article) limit

46 Most databases provide tools to print, , save and cite

47 More Limits typically available in a database : Publication date Document Type Publication Type Image content

48 More precision tools in library databases Expand tools: Use when you want to get more results Multiple database searching Using terms provided in database thesauri

49 Multiple database searching Many databases allow you to add more databases to your search to Expand your results.

50 Multiple database searching Choose more databases for your search

51 Expand your results by adding more databases Exact same search different results: 9 databases 2,674 results 1 database.. 92 results

field terms in your searches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most

52 Subject field terms (Thesaurus) Another way to Expand - and improve quality - of your results by including these subject field terms in your searches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most databases provide a thesaurus that lists preferred terminology/ subject field terms

53 Thesaurus Browse Subject field terms

54 Thesaurus Subject field terms Use as many terms as you feel will be useful

55 More tools in library databases Browsing tip: Use detailed page option for efficient browsing Managing results: Print, , save, & cite help

56 Page Options To speed browsing your results list Select Detailed Page Option. This will give you title, subject headings and abstracts in your results list.

57 Results page with Detailed Page Options on On display are Title Abstract Subject Terms

58 What we covered today doing direct database searching Limit tools: Full Text limit Using more concepts Field limits Scholarly (Peer Review) limit More limits (publication date, etc.) Expand tools: Multiple database searching Using terms provided in database thesauri Managing results: How to print, , save, & use database citation help Browsing tip: Page options for efficient browsing

59 askon Chat with library staff on your desktop or laptop

60 Direct E-Resources ( databases )searching PRACTICE

61 Google Searching INTERNET

62 Google Basic & Google Advanced Search Google Scholar & Google Advanced Scholar Google Images & Google Advanced Image Search Academic journal articles on the Internet INTERNET

63 Academic journal articles on the Internet.. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

64 On Internet Find Google Scholar

65 On Internet Google Scholar Basic search page Click on arrow to get to Advanced Search page

66 On Internet Google Scholar Advanced Search page Gives you more tools for precision searching

67 On Internet Google basic keyword search

68 On Internet Google Advanced search Provides precision tools ( filters ) to help you refine your search

69 On Internet Google Images Basic search page

70 On Internet Google Advanced Image Search Usage rights filter

71 Guides menu LIBRARY SERVICES Guides reminder

72 OTHER TYPES OF LIBRARY SEARCHES

73 Using the Libraries Search Everything discovery tool LOOKING FOR A LIBRARY BOOK

74 Using the library s Search Everything discovery tool.

75 Over 2 million library records

76 Using the Book / ebook refinement, results are reduced to 9,585 books on this topic

77 Using the Items with full text online refinement, results are reduced to 3,874 all ebooks now

78 Changing refinements to search for full text online scholarly Journal articles Almost one million records Sort, like Google, is by Relevance (can be changed)

79 Using the Library Search Everything discovery tool LOOKING FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE

80 Sample journal article in a database Full text PDF Options to print, , download, cite

81 Using the Search Everything engine Sometimes when you click title to view on results page, you see this intermediary page. Click on Article to get into the database to view full text

82 Another sample journal article in a database Full text PDF Options to print, , download, cite

83 Most databases give you help in citing your sources in APA style Another sample journal article in a

84 option

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