1. 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

2. Where can I find the information?

3. What I need to know?

4. Community Member
community-members

5. Printing in the Library (Cash Only)
8 Desktop computers
Printing $0.10

6. 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)

7. More Search Options

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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:

11. 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

12. 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) *

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

14. 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 [Peer Reviewed Journal].

15. 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.

16. Difference between scholarly journal & magazine

17. 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

18. 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:

19. 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)

20. 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…

21. 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

22. Ask a Librarian
FAQ,
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In person,
Phone

23. Thank You! E-mail:tony.tin@uwaterloo.ca
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