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
• 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
Boolean
• AND = Narrow
• OR = Expand
• NOT = Exclude
Boolean Operators
• Connect keywords only
• Must be placed between 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
Open WorldCat
- Global
- Boolean
- Related Subjects
- Refine Your Search
- Interlibrary Loan
- Last 5 years
Keywords
Dewey
• All of human
knowledge is
broken into Ten
Major Categories
E-Books: Ebrary/Netbook
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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
Article Databases
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
Finding Articles: Citations
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)
Citations
Shriver Jr., Donald W.
“Bosnia in Fear and
Hope.”
World Policy Journal;
Summer2001, Vol. 18
Issue 2, p43, 11p
PDF / HTML
Search
Search the
the Virtual
Virtual
StacksStacks
Citations
Shriver Jr., Donald W.
“Bosnia in Fear and
Hope.”
World Policy Journal;
Summer2001, Vol. 18
Issue 2, p43, 11p
PDF / HTML
Search
Search the
the Virtual
Virtual
StacksStacks
Tracking Citations
Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and
Hope .” World Policy Journal;
Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p
The Citation Video
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
Thanks!