If you are having trouble with accessing articles or online books, contact an SPSCC librarian
through the following link. You can chat through the internet via this address.
http://www.library.spscc.ctc.edu/askalibrarian4.html
The library also has a special link for questions from online classes.
Tips for doing research on the SPSCC library journal website
(The brown colored boxes are Anth. 206 instruction hints.)
1)
Go to http://www.library.spscc.ctc.edu
Library
Find
Books and Media
Articles
Mostly use:
Books and Media
Subject Encyclopedias
Articles
Statistics
eReserves
Other Libraries
You’ll be using Ebsco and Proquest
2)
Click on Articles
Online Databases
Magazines
and Journals
Ebsco
Full-text peer-reviewed journal, newspaper, and magazine articles on all subjects.
Proquest
Full-text peer-reviewed journal, newspaper, and magazine articles on all subjects.
Ebsco is not always free of cost, although librarians are working to make more and more information available to everyone for free.
The types of information you will find on Ebsco. You are looking for academic articles rather than popular magazines or trade journals.
Popular magazines: These are not what you are looking for as research sources. They are usually glossy publications with lots of pictures
and advertising. The articles are probably not written by experts in the field. Time, Newsweek, etc. are popular magazines. The articles in
news magazines are really surface information without a lot of real depth. (Not appropriate for this assignment)
Trade journals: These should be avoided, if possible. These include publications connected with professions such as library trade journals
for librarians, or automotive journals for mechanics. The articles are probably written by experts in their fields, but with likely biases. If you
use an article from a trade journal, let the reader know that there may be biases in the information. (Not appropriate for this assignment)
Academic journals: These are what you are looking for. The writers of these articles are professionals/experts in their fields. Their articles
have been submitted to a jury of their peers. Other professionals in the field have critiqued the article extensively. When and if the article is
determined to be of good scientific quality, only then is it published.
3)
Click on Ebsco
User Id: spscc
Ebsco
User ID: spscc
Password: bucket
Password: chance
When you click on EBSCO you will be directed to three possible sources of material. You can ignore CINAHL
with full text, as it is a site for nursing professionals. You can also ignore the Business Source Complete site.
Continue
Select / deselect all
Database List
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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more
than 7,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 11,200 journals and a total of more than 11,700 publications including monographs, reports, conference
proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable)
PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Title List More Information
4) Once you are into EBSCO,
Searching: Academic Search Complete Choose Databases »
Use terms for your sources that are as simple as possible to bring the most hits.
Use asterisks (*) beside the word to tell the computer to search for varieties of
the keyword.
Example:
Tramp*
(for tramping, tramps, tramper, etc.)
When you are looking for comparison articles about culture groups outside the
United States, you can also click on the little window with and in it, click not.
Type in United States
EBSCOhost Search
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Tramp*
in
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join operator
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join operator
not
United States
not
book review s
SU Subject Terms
in
in
You can also click on not and write in
book reviews, as book reviews are not
appropriate
sources for this assignment.
Add
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Select a Field (optional)
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Boolean/Phrase
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Find all my search terms
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Find any of my search terms
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SmartText SearchingHint
If you click on the Full Text
box, you will limit your
search to complete articles
that are accessible online.
 References Available
 Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Click on Scholarly
(Peer Reviewed)
Journals to narrow
your search to
academic articles.
Full Text
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Number of Pages
 Image Quick View
SEARCH
Top of Page
Once you pull up an article, look at the lists under Document types and Author-supplied keywords as a way to find more
keywords that you can use in your search.
(Example of non-United States comparison article for the subject of tramps.)
Locating ‘The Gypsy Problem’. The Roma in Italy: Stereotyping, Labelling and ‘Nomad Camps’.
Images
Authors: Sigona, Nando1 fsigona@brookes.ac.uk
Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies; Jul2005, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p741-756, 16p, 1 diagram Document Type*TRAMPS
You can click on the
*HOMELESS persons
journal’s name to link to a
*NOMADS
description of the journal.
*RESIDENTS
Here is a source of possible keywords that you can use
This description will tell
*POLITICAL planning
in your library search.
*PUBLIC administration
you if it is an academic
*REFUGEE camps
journal or not.
*CAMPS
Author-Supplied Keywords:
Anthropology of Policy
Camps
Gypsies
Italy
Roma
Spatial SegregationNAICS/Industry Codes:
721214 Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds)
921190 Other General Government Support
624230 Emergency and Other Relief Services
Abstract:
Romani camps are to be found all over Italy and host around 40,000 residents. They are known as ‘nomad camps’, implying that their inhabitants are
vagrants who do not settle in one place. This article investigates how cultural concepts such as nomadism are employed in Italy to legitimise segregation
policy. It also explores the role of space and place in the liaison between the Roma and the Italians. The focus, therefore, is not on the Roma themselves,
but on how Italians interact with them and the degree to which Italian public policy and bureaucratic practice form, transform and manipulate their identity.
By analysing the circularity of the relationship among stereotypes, labelling and policy, the paper deconstructs the so-called ‘problema zingari’ (‘Gypsy
problem’). Finally, it stresses the central role played by the camps as loci of the ‘problem’, both in preserving and reinforcing the status quo and in
providing a refuge for people with minimal social and legal rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a
listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract
may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full
abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts)
Author Affiliations: 1Oxford Brookes University
From this example you can see that the author is with Oxford Brookes University and so has credentials and expertise in the field. You can see
that the journal is likely a peer-reviewed journal, and if you click on the journal title, you will find that it is published by Routledge, an
academic publisher. You can see that the journal “Contains research on all forms of migration & its consequences.” From this example you can also identify the words nomads and
homeless and refugee as possible keywords to help you find more articles.
From the abstract of the article you can tell that this is probably more of a descriptive article, rather than a theoretically-based article. It is a good article to help compare non-United States “tramping”
situations with a more local tramping culture.
Above the article description are the following options:
Format and Delivery Options
View:
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Citation
PDF Full Text (146KB)
Delivery Options:
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Cited References
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Cited References (56)
Times Cited in this Database (2)
If you click on PDF Full Text, you can get a copy of the entire article to save to your computer or print out. Under Delivery
Options: you can click on the icon that looks like a sheet of paper. You will be given a list of possible ways to cite the article in a
bibliography. If you are using MLA style, you can copy the citation format next to the MLA category and paste it directly into
your bibliography or works cited page.
Good luck!
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