MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick

Last week we went over…  Constructing search strategies  McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue  General academic databases  Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar  Locating theses and dissertations  CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans Welcome back!

 Finding known citations  Subject guides and subject-specific databases  Citation searching  Alerts and current awareness  Special resources and collections This week…

Finding known citations

 Search by journal title in the WorldCat Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in. And:  Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link, or any other link that may be available.  Search by article title in WorldCat. And:  Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number. Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article

1st2nd3rd Journal name A-Z list - link on library webpage –WorldCat index /find/journals WorldCat search Classic catalogue - print Title of the articleWorldCat searchGoogle ScholarDatabase search Full citationGoogle ScholarGoogleDatabase search doihttp://dx.doi.org/ If you can’t find it ask for help. Never pay for access to an article Make an ILL request Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article

 Search by journal title in the WorldCat Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in. And:  Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link, or any other link that may be available.  Search by article title in WorldCat.  Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number. Requesting scanned copies from the print collection

Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy (1996):

Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy (1996): Title of article Title of journal Volume, issue, year, and page numbers. Author

 Locate the full text of the following two articles: Tavoni, M, E Cian, G Luderer, J C. Steckel, and H Waisman. "The Value of Technology and of Its Evolution Towards a Low Carbon Economy." Climatic Change (2012): Vivoni, E.R. "Spatial Patterns, Processes and Predictions in Ecohydrology: Integrating Technologies to Meet the Challenge." Ecohydrology. 5.3 (2012): Known article searching exercise

 Locate the full text of the following two articles: Who is the author?  “Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).  “Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice”, Speculum, 67, pp doi: / Known article searching exercise

Resolve a doi

 Locate the full text of the following two articles: Who is the author?  “Vanishing Points: The Heterotopia of the Romantic Book.” European Romantic Review (2012): DOI: /  “Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended to Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience.” Women’s Writing 20.2 (2013). Known article searching exercise

 Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area.  Created and maintained by librarians at McGill.  Also known as “Research Guides”. Subject Guides: What are they?

Subject guides

Your turn

 What is a thesaurus?  predefined keyword terms = subject terms  “A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.”  “a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.” From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp Databases with Thesauri

 Improve relevancy in your results sets  Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study Why use Thesaurus terms in your search?

 Broader  Narrower  Related “Explode" a search term The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms. Thesaurus terms

 Is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work.  Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work.  Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time. Citation searching

22  Supplements standard subject searching.  Cuts across disciplines.  Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive. 3 citation databases offer this functionality:  Scopus  Google Scholar  Web of Science

Scopus – cited by

Web of Science – cited by

Google Scholar – cited by

Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Domosh, Mona. "Those ‘Gorgeous Incongruities’: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth- Century New York City." Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1998): Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database. Exercise

 When your search keywords are perfect!  Set the alert in the database SCOPUS – Web of Science – Google Scholar - Set up a database Search Alert

 Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert. Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

 Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs. Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

 BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet.  BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand.  Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet.  Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals.  Receive alerts when new issues of journals are published For more information read - BrowZine

 BrowZine and other apps

 McGill Archives  Rare Books & Special Collections  Maps & geospatial data guide  The GIC  Statistics  Government / International organization documents: Specialized Resources at McGill

 McGill Rare Books & Special Collections Specialized Resources /rbsc/ /branches/rarebooks USE FOR: Canadiana 17 th /18 th C. Philosophy Book history and print culture Special collections Boy Scouts Olympics Puppets

 McGill University Archives Specialized Resources USE FOR: Primary sources Letters Author notes/ manuscripts McGill history Growing online collection

 The Geographic Information Centre Specialized Resources USE FOR: One-on-one help from GIS/RS Specialists Computers equipped with GIS/RS software NEW GIS Introductory workshops

Statistics Statistics and Data Research Guide  Government Information Government Information Research Guide   Contact: Specialized Resources

Where can I find read the newspaper Dominion Post from New Zealand? How do I find the obituary of a Canadian singer named Nell Rankin? I think she died in the 1930s. What is Alt-Press Watch? Newspapers

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