MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick Helena Reddington

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…

For more details: Theses and Dissertations eScholarship ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 35,000 full text McGill theses Allows searching by faculty advisor McGill theses from 1934 to present day Full text Selected full text before 1997 Also contains: journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, book chapters written by McGill faculty and students Also contains: theses written by students from North American and European universities Use for: McGill-specific search requirements Use for: Broader scope of current research

Your turn

1.Conduct a keyword search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research.  Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research 2.Search eScholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department. Specialized Resources

 Borrow in person from other libraries  BCI  Interlibrary loan  COLOMBO Access beyond McGill

 Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada.  Obtain a BCI card at any Library Services Desk on campus. BCI (formerly CREPUQ)card: what is it?

 Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item.  Administered through COLUMBO; instructions here.here Interlibrary loan: what is it?

Finding known citations

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

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

Resolve a doi

Your turn

 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

 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

28  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

Your turn

Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy (1996): Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database. Exercise

 Web of Science  From 1900 for Science, Humanities from the 1950s, Arts from the 1970s  Selective journal indexing  Scopus  From 1996  Broader journal coverage than Web of Science  Google Scholar  From 2004  Now includes Web of Science citation counts Article citation counts

 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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