1. Lecture Five: Searching for Articles INST 250/4

2.  What are LCSH? ◦ Why should one hyperlink on the LCSH in the Library catalogue search?  Subject vs Keyword searches ◦ Which search yields more precise results? ◦ Why? INST 250/4

4.  Publications Cycle  Locating Periodical Articles  Searching a Subject Database  Findit@Concordia  Searching Google Scholar INST 250/4

5. The Scholarly Publication Cycle From http://www.lib.unb.ca/research/success/understanding.html INST 250/4

6. Material that is published at regular intervals (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, annually)  These include: Journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, annual reports  More update to date than books ◦ Take less time to publish and distribute ◦ Reflect contemporary opinion or research on a topic ◦ Reveal trends in certain subject fields ◦ May be the only source for recent information INST 250/4

7. Periodicals with wide circulation and broad appeal  Written for the general audience  Published frequently (e.g. weekly or monthly) by commercial publishers  Useful for background reading INST 250/4

8. Industry publications  Contain news, product reviews, trends, upcoming events  Keeps professionals informed about what is happening in an industry  The articles are reviewed by the staff/editors of the publication INST 250/4

9. Professional or scholarly publications  often published by a non-profit professional organization or academic institution  Provide the most recent scholarship in an area or field  Refereed journals are the most reputable – peer reviewed INST 250/4

10. Peer review http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.ca/2012/01/radical-reform-for-peer-review.html INST 250/4

11. How do you know for sure if the journal is peer reviewed? Look in Ulrich's international periodicals directory ! INST 250/4

12. The Scholarly Publication Cycle http://www.lib.umd.edu/ues/guides/periodical-types INST 250/4

13. Periodicals located at Concordia can be found in any one of the following four formats:  eResource ◦ Online journal ◦ Full-text from within a database  Print  Microfiche or Microfilm INST 250/4

14.  Keyword search: sport research  Limit: Material Type "JOURN/PER/NEWS"

15.  Display entry for [Electronic resource]  Electronic within a full-text database: ◦ Provide access to the reference to the article, and the complete text, along with graphics ◦ Some backfiles for older issues are available ◦ Provides a direct link to the database (e.g. Education Full- text, ASP, JSTOR)  E-Journals ◦ Available via the web directly from the publisher ◦ Sometimes does not match print counterpart ◦ Back issues may be limited ◦ Provides a direct link to the publisher’s website (e.g. SAGE Premier, Taylor & Francis Library) INST 250/4

18.  Conduct a Journal Title search in the library catalogue to locate the scholarly journal: American Psychologist What format does the Library hold for this periodical? INST 250/4

19.  Key indexing tool of periodical – journal articles  Contents: ◦ A citation and an abstract of each item ◦ Access to non-journal material such as conference proceedings, reports, dissertations and books ◦ Access to non-English language material ◦ Sometimes includes the full-text of the article! INST 250/4

20.  Subject specific ◦ Critical to search when conducting research within a field ◦ Examples: ERIC, Medline, Lexis/Nexis  Interdisciplinary or Multi Subject ◦ Broad coverage of many academic disciples ◦ Examples: Academic Search Complete, Web of Science INST 250/4

21.  Locating relevant databases ◦ Consult your Research Guide by Subject ◦ Database Finder ◦ Conduct a Databases searchDatabases  Accessing the databases ◦ In the library ◦ From home INST 250/4

25.  Review your keywords and your working bibliography ◦ Think about the type of information you need to support your arguments  Decide which type and kind of database(s) you need to search ◦ Consult Research Guides --> Look for Finding journal articles – Recommended Databases ◦ Databases by Subject -- > Select your broad subject area  Read the information on the database. Does its coverage suit your research topic? INST 250/4

26.  Prepare search statement(s), because this will: ◦ Help to logically and systematically review what it is you are looking for ◦ Help to plan backup strategies depending on the results found  Review your list of keywords, synonyms and related terms  Formulate your search statement using: ◦ Keywords: terms representing concepts of your thesis ◦ Operators: Boolean, truncation ◦ Nesting: Use of parentheses ◦ Limiting commands: Date, Language, Document type etc. INST 250/4

27.  Records: ◦ Each entry within a database represents a record ◦ A record can represent a citation (and abstract) to a book, a chapter in a book, an article, a conference paper etc. ◦ Example of a record in Academic Search Complete INST 250/4

29.  Search Academic Search Premier using your keywords  Export a record to your RefWorks account  Create a folder for your research topic  Add the record to the folder INST 250/4

30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJoj wIkxaY INST 250/4

31.  Add the PDF of journal article into RefWorks  Download and save the article PDF  Use Attachment in RefWorks to add the PDF  Paper clip will appear! INST 250/4

33.  OpenURL link resolver  Decodes the URL to link as close as possible to the online full text of the journal article  Each library configures the OpenURL server to match their journal subscriptions  The link appears in databases to help you locate the journal article INST 250/4

34. “Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals.” web search enginescholarly literaturebetapeer-reviewedjournals From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_scholar

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36. http://0-scholar.google.ca.mercury.concordia.ca/

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39.  Search Google Scholar using your keywords.  Export a record to your RefWorks account.  Add the record to the folder.  Locate fulltext using Findit @ Concordia  Download the article and attach it to your record in RefWorks  Enter the Data Source  i.e. Google Scholar INST 250/4

40.  Publications Cycle  Locating Periodical Articles  Searching a Subject Database  Findit@Concordia  Searching Google Scholar INST 250/4