Tony Tin Librarian Renison University College Library Find books, journal articles and many others for Humanities research Humanities 101 Tony Tin Librarian Renison University College Library

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A federated search tool one stop searching for every thing (BASIC) How to find books, journal articles, library website and many others .. A federated search tool – one stop searching for every thing, including book, journal article, video, e-book and etc Books and media Articles Library web pages Research Databases Journal titles More search options for "technology" Research guides Frequent library questions and answers Google Scholar UWSpace (Institutional Repository) University of Waterloo search A federated search tool one stop searching for every thing (BASIC)

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Advanced Search options Topic: Homeless Search: Searches everything, including books, articles, audios, videos and many others. Books +: Searches physical resources (books) and E-books. Articles+: Searches articles available through many of the Library’s electronic subscription

Narrow or Broaden your search results: Boolean can help Boolean: Operator which links concepts within a search. OR (to include at least one term / concept) – Broaden (trout OR salmon) AND (to include all terms / concepts) – Narrow (fish AND food) NOT (to exclude terms / concepts) – Narrow (trout NOT salmon) Make sure you are using “UPPER CASE” OR : A OR B: more result A AND B A NOT B: fewer result

Examples: City More Results using “OR” city OR town 83,824,881 Results Fewer Results using “AND” city AND food 4,288,069 Results Fewer Results using “NOT” city NOT town 17,841,224 Results For further Info: http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/803/546712/Basic_Searching_Techniques.pdf

More Tips: Phrase Searching: look for two or more words together using “ “. Instead of: urban planning 1,199,019 Results “urban planning” 217,978 Results Truncation/Wildcards: expands a term to include all forms of the root word using * Cultur* 13,665,983 Results (finds culture and cultural) Asterisk

Review Find as much info as possible on student’s grades/marks AND b) OR c) NOT Find info on student grades relevant to ESL a) AND b) OR c) NOT Find few results on student’s grades/marks Find articles on student achievement AND b) “ “ c) NOT Find articles on multicultural, multiculturalism AND b) “ “ c) *

Beyond Boolean: Faceted Searching Search information organized according to a classification system such as peered reviewed, material Type, library location, date and Subject. Attributes

Research Databases (Journal articles) 3 different access points: Research Journal Database Browse Research Databases by Title: (Example: ProQuest) Browse Research Databases by Subject: (Example: Humanities) Primo Article+ Find E-Journal Title Example: Ropp, L., Visintainer, P., & Uman, J. (1922). Death in the city. An American childhood tragedy. JAMA : The journal of the American Medical Association. 267(21), pp.2905-10 [Peer Reviewed Journal].

What is a Peer reviewed article? Articles evaluated by several researchers or subject specialist in the academic community prior to accepting it for publication. Also known as scholarly or refereed.

Difference between scholarly journal & magazine

Humanities E-Book Project (ACLS) Full text of books in the humanities via the American Council for Learned Societies. Includes literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, folklore, gender studies, history, & religion. 1885 to present Example: Cities

Jstor Indexes back issues of the core journals in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Full text and many of which date from the 1800s. Narrow by item type, date range, language, discipline & title. Example (rise AND Jerusalem) Further info: http://about.jstor.org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/video-tutorials

Useful Humanities Research Databases Academic Onefile CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) Readers' Guide Full Text Mega IBZ Online LexisNexis Academic (Newspapers, including KW Record) Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge)

Subject Guides for Humanities: Provides instructions for locating humanities books and journals, and web-based reference titles. History Social Work Interdisciplinary Geography Planning Health and many more…

How to Write a Bibliography Citation / Style Guides: provide access to different citation styles including APA, Chicago, MLA, and others. Primo Citation: allow you to copy-and-paste formatted citations from search results. Google Scholar Cites: allow you to copy-and-paste formatted citations from search results. Refwork: Online bibliographic management program that allows users to create a personal database of references and generate bibliographies in a variety of formats (Group Code* = RWUWaterloo)  Poverty Wagner, Viqi, 1953- Detroit : Greenhaven Press 2008

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Thank You! E-mail:tony.tin@uwaterloo.ca Online tutorial: http://alturl.com/i8ckx Download ppt: http://rspace.uwaterloo.ca/xmlui/handle/20.500.11895/324 Website: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca

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