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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 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
General Review • Navigating the Library Web Page • Keywords • Boolean
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.
Visuwords • An online graphic keyword generator
AND = Narrow OR = Expand Boolean • NOT = Exclude
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!
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
Dewey • All of human knowledge is broken into Ten Major Categories
E-Books: Ebrary/Netbook • 24/7 • Full Text Searching* • Highlight Markup • Note Taking • Changeable Font Size • Online Bookshelf • Multiplicity of Use
Searching in Databases • Keywords with Boolean • Subject terms from thesaurus • Limiters: date, peer reviewed, geography, and full text
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.
Project Muse • Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
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)
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
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
Tracking Citations Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and Hope .” World Policy Journal; Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p
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/
Questions? • Contact me: • Frederic Murray • 774-7113 • frederic.murray@swosu.edu