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Library Research Workshop

Join Susie Breier for an informative workshop on how libraries can enhance your research capabilities. Discover how to meet your professor's expectations and assumptions of library research knowledge. Learn the importance of using reputable sources such as journals, books, databases, and citation formats. We will demonstrate practical methods for finding online articles, using complete and incomplete citations, and leveraging resources like CLUES and Google Scholar. Equip yourself with the tools to excel in your research assignments.

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Library Research Workshop

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  1. Library Research Workshop ANTH 202 Susie Breier – susie.breier@concordia.ca

  2. How can the Libraries help? • We can help you meet all your prof’s expectations of, and assumptions about, your library research knowledge. • What kind of expectations? What kind of research knowledge?

  3. Expectations & Assumptions Journals - Books Wikipedia Encyclopedias Databases - CLUES Scholarly / Academic /Peer-Reviewed / Anthropological Bibliographies Citation Formats RefWorks

  4. --- Back up slides on how to find online articles in case our live demo does not work. --- Three general examples:

  5. 1 - How to find an article with a complete citation… Bellin, E. 2004. “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective” Comparative Politics 36 (2) pp.139-157 Go to CLUES -> Journal Title Search

  6. Choose Journal Title from these options Type in title of journal you are looking for: Comparative Politics

  7. Print Journal Textbook Electronic Journal

  8. Print Journal We have from 1999-present in Print

  9. Electronic Journal We have from 1968-2009 available online, we need an issue from 2004

  10. We are now in JSTOR, a database of archival journal articles Scroll down to find 2004, vol 36, issue 2

  11. Volume 36, Issue 2, from 2004, we found it!

  12. Here is our article, from here you can download the PDF to save, email, and print

  13. 2 - How to find this article • Gause, F.G. 2011. “Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring: the Myth of Authoritarian Stability” Foreign Affairs 90 (4) • Back to CLUES

  14. This best matches the journal title, so we’ll select it

  15. Print Journal Electronic Journal

  16. Electronic Journal We need Volume 90, Issue 4, from 2011

  17. We are now in the database Political Science Complete, which contains the journal: Foreign Affairs We need Volume 90, Issue 4, from 2011

  18. Scroll down to find our article: “Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab spring: the Myth of Authoritarian Stability”

  19. 3 - How to find an article with an incomplete citation… • Stawarska, R. 1999. “EU enlargement from the Polish perspective.” • Go to Google Scholar • http://scholar.google.ca

  20. Found it!

  21. Access via Concordia

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