My Research Humanities Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean

My. Research (Humanities) Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick Helena Reddington

Welcome back! Last week we went over… § § Constructing search strategies Mc. Gill World. Cat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue General academic databases Google search commands/maximizing Google Scholar § Locating theses and dissertations § CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans

This week… § Finding known citations § Subject guides and subject-specific databases § Citation searching § Alerts and current awareness § Special resources and collections

Theses and Dissertations e. Scholarship Pro. Quest Dissertations and Theses 35, 000 full text Mc. Gill theses • Allows searching by faculty advisor Mc. Gill theses from 1934 to present day • Full text 1997 • Selected full text before 1997 Also contains: journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, book chapters written by Mc. Gill faculty and students Also contains: theses written by students from North American and European universities For more details: http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/find/theses

Your turn

Specialized Resources 1. Conduct a keyword search in Pro. Quest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research. § Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research 2. Search e. Scholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department.

Access beyond Mc. Gill § Borrow in person from other libraries § BCI http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/services/otherloans/CREPUQ § Interlibrary loan § COLOMBO http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/services/otherloans/interlibrary

BCI (formerly CREPUQ)card: what is it? § Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada. § Obtain a BCI card at any Library Services Desk on campus.

Interlibrary loan: what is it? § Use when Mc. Gill and other local universities do not have an item. § Administered through COLUMBO; instructions here.

Finding known citations

Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn - of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton. ” Legacy. 13. 2 (1996): 91 -112.

Title of article Author Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn - of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton. ” Legacy. 13. 2 (1996): 91 -112. Volume, issue, year, and page numbers. Title of journal

Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article 1 st 2 nd 3 rd A-Z list - link on library webpage –World. Cat index World. Cat search Classic catalogue - print Title of the article World. Cat search Google Scholar Database search Full citation Google Database search Journal name http: //www. mcgill. ca/library /find/journals Google Scholar

Requesting scanned copies from the print collection § Search by journal title in the World. Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in. And: § Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at Mc. Gill link, or any other link that may be available. § Search by article title in World. Cat. § Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number.

Resolve a doi

Your turn

Known article searching exercise § Locate the full text of the following two articles: § Who is the author? § “Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science, ” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002). § “Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice”, Speculum, 67, pp 324 -364. doi: 10. 2307/2864375.

Subject Guides: What are they? § Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc. ) key to a subject area. § Created and maintained by librarians at Mc. Gill. § Also known as “Research Guides”.

Subject guides

Your turn

Databases with Thesauri § What is a thesaurus? § predefined keyword terms = subject terms § “A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them. ” § “a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms. ” From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources. ” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24 -25.

Why use Thesaurus terms in your search? § Improve relevancy in your results sets § Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study

Thesaurus terms § Broader § Narrower § Related “Explode" a search term The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms.

Citation searching § Is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work. § Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work. § Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time.

Citation searching § Supplements standard subject searching § Cuts across disciplines § Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive 3 citation databases offer this functionality: § Scopus § Google Scholar § Web of Science 28

Scopus – cited by

Web of Science – cited by

Google Scholar – Cited by

Your turn

Exercise Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar: Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton. " Legacy (1996): 91 -112. Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database.

Article citation counts § Web of Science § From 1900 for Science, Humanities from the 1950 s, Arts from the 1970 s § Selective journal indexing § Scopus § From 1996 § Broader journal coverage than Web of Science § Google Scholar § From 2004 § Now includes Web of Science citation counts

Set up a database Search Alert § When your search keywords are perfect! § Set the alert in the database SCOPUS – Web of Science – Google Scholar -

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert § Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert.

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert § Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs. http: //www. journaltocs. hw. ac. uk/

Brow. Zine § Brow. Zine delivers thousands of academic journals to your i. Pad or Android tablet. § Brow. Zine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. § Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet. § Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals. § Receive alerts when new issues of journals are published For more information read - http: //library. nd. edu/browzine/

Brow. Zine and other apps § http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/services/computers/mobile

Specialized Resources at Mc. Gill § Mc. Gill Archives § Rare Books & Special Collections § Maps & geospatial data guide § The GIC § Statistics § Government / International organization documents:

Specialized Resources § Mc. Gill Rare Books & Special Collections http: //blogs. library. mcgill. ca /rbsc/ http: //www. mcgill. ca/library /branches/rarebooks USE FOR: • Canadiana • 17 th/18 th C. Philosophy • Book history and print culture • Special collections • Boy Scouts • Olympics • Puppets

Specialized Resources § Mc. Gill University Archives http: //archives. mcgill. ca refdesk. archives@mcgill. ca USE FOR: • Primary sources • Letters • Author notes/ manuscripts • Mc. Gill history • Growing online collection

Specialized Resources § The Geographic Information Centre http: //gic. geog. mcgill. ca/ USE FOR: • One-on-one help from GIS/RS Specialists • Computers equipped with GIS/RS software • NEW GIS Introductory workshops

Specialized Resources Statistics and Data Research Guide § http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/find/edrs Government Information Research Guide § http: //www. mcgill. ca/library/find/govinfo § Contact: eamon. duffy@mcgill. ca

Newspapers Where can I find read the newspaper Dominion Post from New Zealand? How do I find the obituary of a Canadian singer named Nell Rankin? I think she died in the 1930 s. What is Alt-Press Watch?

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