1. CI 563: Library Research Workshop
“Books in a stack” by austinevan.
Librarian: Lisa Molinelli 1 1

2. What will we learn today?
How to take advantage of the resources available to Portland State’s students at the library.
How to get started with the research process.
How to get help when you need it! 2 2

3. Home Base 3 3

4. Brainstorm!

5. Brainstorming Your Search
What is currently being done to prevent violence in public schools in the United States?

6. Brainstorming Your Search
Break down your subject into keywords.
Find other words to describe your topic.
Use your results to find more words to describe your topic.

7. Keywords and Synonyms Violence Prevention Public Schools United States
Aggression
Bullying
Prevention
Safety
Public Schools
Public Education
United States
America

8. Learning the Language of your Topic: Research Starters - Education

9. Scholarly Journals: Characteristics
Written and edited by scholars or experts in the field—people with MANY years of experience, like your professors!
Written FOR other scholars in the field. Uses the vocabulary and methods of study typical for the field.
Articles are narrow in scope: about a very particular topic and/or group of people in a very specific time or place.
Articles will have LONG bibliographies and reference lists.
Serious in appearance. NO advertisements.
Check out this guide for more info: 9

10. Scholarly v. Popular Sources

11. Find What You Need: Online Research Guides
After you click the link…
Find What You Need: Online Research Guides

12. Find What You Need: Research Guides

13. Find What You Need: Scholarly Databases
From the library homepage…
From the online research guide….

14. Scholarly Database Searching
Remember: We pay a subscription to these scholarly sources! Most are not available for free on the open web (google, etc.)
As a PSU student, you have access to these sources.

15. Where were those databases again?

16. Education Research Complete

17. Education Research Complete: Results

18. Education Research Complete: Record

19. Tips and Tricks: Scholarly Databases Separate out the scholarly stuff.
Need it now? Full text. Remember: this may limit your results.
Use database Subject Terms to your advantage.
Search more than one database.
The tricks used here can be used in almost any database! 19 19

20. Expand Your Search: Combing Through Bibliographies
Take the time to look through bibliographies of the best articles that you find!
This is the number one way scholars do research.
Look for patterns in the bibliographies: what resources or authors are listed the most?

21. Expand Your Search: Google Scholar
Tip: Go through the library homepage to be connected with PSU resources.

22. Be Complete: Use ILL!
If you find an article in a bibliography that you’d like to access, and we don’t have access, don’t despair! Use ILL (Interlibrary Loan)….

23. Citation Management Tools

24. Remember: Stay flexible when you search!
Don’t give up on a search until looking through several pages of results in several databases.
Use the subject headings the database offers you.
Use the button to find the full-text of material that isn’t full-text in the database.
More on finding full text

25. We are here to help! Friendly librarians at the reference desk
Chat from the library homepage
Call:
Start with the word PDX the first time you text us.
Schedule a research appointment 25 25

26. Thank You!
“Thank you note for every language” by woodleywonderworks