1. Find books, journal articles and many others for research Winter 2017
Tony Tin
Librarian
Renison University College Library

2. Where can I Start? From Renison

3. Where can I start? To U Waterloo

4. What I need to know?

5. Undergraduate Student

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

7. uPrint Service (Watcard Payment)
Web-based Anytime, anywhere printing at Renison Library using your WatIAM credentials
Print Job

8. How to access Library Resources
from Home (ID 20x)

9. How to access Library Resources

10. Access E-resources for students (ID 10X)
Login/PW will be provided by ELI Staff

11. 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)

12. More Search Options

13. Advanced Search options
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

14. 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

15. Examples: soccer More Results using “OR”
soccer OR football 788,091 results
Fewer Results using “AND”
soccer AND brazil 14,306 results
Fewer Results using “NOT”
soccer NOT football 202,953 results
For further Info:

16. More Tips:
Phrase Searching: look for two or more words together using “ “.
Instead of:
Bruce Lee 274,624 results
Try:
“Bruce Lee” 8,820 results
Truncation/Wildcards: eexpands a term to include all forms of the root word using *
Cultur* finds culture and cultural 13,017,577 results
Asterisk

17. 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) *

18. Borrowing books: 3 steps

19. Returning books:
Loan term: books=2 weeks; journals=3 days; Reserves= 3 hrs.
Return at any designated library book return (N.B. Renison’s in hallway), except Reserves.

20. Research Databases (Journal articles)
3 different access points:
Primo Article+
Research Journal Database
Browse Research Databases by Title: (Proquest)
Browse Research Databases by Subject: (Science)
Find E-Journal Title (Journal of scientific research )
Example: (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Malakoff, D. (2010). AIR POLLUTION Taking the Sting Out of Acid Rain. Science, 330(6006),

21. 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.

22. How to Write

23. 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

24. Ask US
FAQ
Online chat (various IM interfaces)—12 p.m. to 4 p.m., except weekends and holidays
Text
In person
Phone

25. Thank You! E-mail:tony.tin@uwaterloo.ca
Online tutorial:
Website:

26. Mobile Info Literacy challenge
Quizzes
NEOREADER APP Download: (