ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY RESEARCH

STRATEGIES

WRITING SEMINAR

Kathleen Baril

Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY

• Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu

• Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu

• Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu

• Reference Email, reference@onu.edu

Librarians on duty:

Monday – Wednesday

8:00 AM - 12PM, 1PM – 4:30 PM

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursday - Friday

8:00 AM - 12PM, 1PM – 4:30 PM

WHAT THIS WEEK IS ALL ABOUT

Constructing/developing a research strategy for

finding resources

Finding available resources in the library’s catalog

and databases

Tools for managing the resources that you have

found

WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:

~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog

~20,000,000 items in OhioLink

260 Databases

400+ print periodicals

Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles

Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel

collections

DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and streaming

music

LIBRARIES AT ONU

Heterick Memorial Library

Undergraduate library and accessible to all students

Taggart Law Library

Library for law school and accessible to all students

ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD

Use the entire 11 digit number

UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF

THIS…

UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF

THIS…

HOW TO DO RESEARCH:

SEVEN STEPS OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS

Step 1: Identify and develop your topic

Step 2: Find background information

Step 3: Use catalogs to find books and media

Step 4: Find internet resources (if appropriate for

the assignment)

Step 5: Use databases to find periodical articles

Step 6: Evaluate what you find

Step 7: Cite what you find

Amended with permission by the Librarians at the Olin and Uris Libraries of

Cornell University

HOW TO START YOUR RESEARCH

State your topic as a question

Identify main concepts or keywords

Test the topic – look for keywords and synonyms

and related terms for the information sought

Subject headings in catalogs

Built-in thesauri in many databases

Reference sources

Textbooks, lecture notes, readings

Internet

Librarians, instructors

EXAMPLE OF A CONCEPT MAP

CONCEPT MAPPING

INTERNET RESOURCES

Google

Google Scholar

Wikipedia

Helpful for identifying additional keywords and

subjects for your concept map

Does the information located satisfy the research

need?

Is the information factual and unbiased?

Refer to Critically Analyzing Web Sources/CRAAP

Test

CRITICALLY ANALYZING WEB SOURCES

CRAAP TEST

Currency

Timeliness of the information

Relevance/Coverage

Depth and importance of the information

Authority

Source of the information

Accuracy

Reliability of the information

Purpose/Objectivity

Possible bias present in the information

BACKGROUND RESEARCH

Background research = Reference and Encyclopedias

Library catalog

Look at Databases/Reference tab in the Writing Seminar research guide for a link to the library’s databases as well as links to electronic encyclopedias and reference materials

CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA

POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic items

(ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick

Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH

Looks in several locations

Subject

Article title

Abstracts

Table of contents

Does not require an exact match

Generates comparatively large number of hits

Good if you are not familiar with terminology

Good for a beginning search

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH

Looks at the subject headings in the records

Requires an exact match

Provides a results list with related headings to use

for broader and narrower searches

Generates comparatively smaller number of hits

Good if you are familiar with terminology

Good for a next step after a keyword search

POLAR – RESULTS

ebook

Law Library

Heterick Library

POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio:

colleges, universities, public libraries

Can submit request for an item to be delivered to

Heterick Memorial Library

Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days

No charge to request items (unless they become

overdue)

Maximum of 25 requests at a time

Items can usually be renewed

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

From POLAR results list:

Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK

From an item record:

Button will go directly to the same item

Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out

Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:

http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

What is the basic definition of a library database?

A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index

Library databases contain information about published items

Library databases are searchable

The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU community has

access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you

are not searching “the web.”

What types of items are indexed by library databases?

Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers

Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,

etc.)

Books & other documents

Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES

Internet

Material from numerous

sources, individuals,

government, etc.

Search engines must work

with material prepared

without regard for specific

software

Quality of material varies

Generally do not access for-

profit information

Content often anonymous

and undated

Databases

Usually created by a single publisher

Content pre-arranged for easy searching

Quality-controlled by editorial staff

Most are available only to subscribers

Sources are usually identified and dated

Databases often focus on a specific subject or discipline, but some cover several areas

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

General Databases

Academic Search

Complete

Business Source

Complete

JSTOR

Lexis-Nexis

MasterFILE Premier

MEDLINE with Full

Text

Databases by Subject

Magazines or Popular Periodicals

• Glossy pages and lots of pictures

• Edited by magazine editors

• Articles usually written by staff journalists

• Short articles

• Targeted to general audiences

Scholarly Journals/Periodicals

• Peer-reviewed

• Longer

• Citations/Bibliography

• Written by scholars, experts in the field of study

• Targeted to scholars, students in a particular field

of study

POPULAR VERSUS SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

FIND ARTICLES - DATABASES:

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Use Boolean operators in library databases and catalogs when searching to find more relevant results.

AND – Use for narrowing a search.

Example: United States and Immigration

OR – Use to expand a search.

Example: United States or America

NOT – Use to exclude a search term.

Example: Mexico not New Mexico

ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

FIND IT @ ONU

Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where

you don’t have full text access to a database where

you do have full text access

SEARCH

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

POLAR

Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases

Article-level searching for a variety of other

databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy,

etc.

Title-level searching for most other databases:

IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health

OhioLINK Central Catalog

RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

RESULTS: OHIOLINK

RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

RESULTS: ILL

When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

EXPORT TO REFWORKS

Most databases

will have

“export”

If there isn’t an

export, check for

“download”

STILL NEED HELP?

Librarians on duty:

Monday – Wednesday

8:00 AM - 12PM, 1PM – 4:30 PM

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Thursday - Friday

8:00 AM - 12PM, 1PM – 4:30 PM