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Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review

Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review . Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu. General Review.

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Writing Across the Profession Library Resources: General Review

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  1. Writing Across the ProfessionLibrary Resources: General Review Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

  2. General Review • Navigating the Library Web Page • Keywords • Boolean

  3. Identifying Keywords • Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. • These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases and search engines for information about your subject.

  4. Visuwords • An online graphic keyword generator

  5. AND = Narrow OR = Expand Boolean • NOT = Exclude

  6. Boolean Operators • Connect keywords only • Must be placedbetween keywords • AND • Narrows your search • OR • Expands your search with synonymous terms • NOT • Excludes words from your search • If used too much, it can work against you!

  7. Catalogs Al Harris Library - Local Holdings - Boolean - Subject Headings - Add Limiter - 2nd Floor - Last 5 years Open WorldCat - Global - Boolean - Related Subjects - Refine Your Search - Interlibrary Loan Keywords

  8. Dewey • All of human knowledge is broken into Ten Major Categories

  9. E-Books: Ebrary/Netbook • 24/7 • Full Text Searching* • Highlight Markup • Note Taking • Changeable Font Size • Online Bookshelf • Multiplicity of Use

  10. Searching in Databases • Keywords with Boolean • Subject terms from thesaurus • Limiters: date, peer reviewed, geography, and full text

  11. Article Databases

  12. JSTOR • JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines.

  13. Project Muse • Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences

  14. Finding Articles: Citations

  15. Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope .” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p Formats: PDF (Portable Document Format) HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

  16. Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p PDF / HTML Citations Search the Virtual Stacks Search the Virtual Stacks

  17. Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope.” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p PDF / HTML Citations Search the Virtual Stacks Search the Virtual Stacks

  18. Tracking Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope .” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p

  19. The Citation Video

  20. Writing Your Paper • Writing Center • Located in the basement of the library • Call for appointment #774-7083 • MLA Style • Style Sheets • MLA Handbook at Reference & Circulation Desk • http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

  21. Questions? • Contact me: • Frederic Murray • 774-7113 • frederic.murray@swosu.edu

  22. Thanks!

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