Workshop for Graduate Students

Library Research Workshop Megan Fitzgibbons Liaison Librarian October 15, 2008 Political Science Graduate Students

Did You Know?
Provide help by phone, e-mail, chat and in Second Life
Offer individual consultations
Find stuff!
Give classroom presentations
Prepare Subject Guides
Your Liaison Librarian can:

Office Hours Every Monday 14:30-16:30 Leacock 541

Agenda
Planning a research strategy
Selecting a retrieval tool
Searching databases
Searching the library catalogue
Library services

Concept maps

Did You Know?
The McGill Library has more than six million items

Information Types and Sources Information Type Description Tool Suggested databases Encyclopedias, handbooks Background information. General or specialized. Catalogue Subject Guides Books (scholarly monographs) Broad, thorough, academic treatment of a subject. Catalogue Bibliographies Scholarly journal articles Detailed scholarly examination of a topic. Peer-reviewed. Article indexes Google Scholar Web of Science International Bibliography of the Social Sciences International Political Science Abstracts Newspaper articles Historical and current. Article indexes Internet Factiva, Canadian Newsstand Theses & dissertations Master’s and doctoral theses. Detailed scholarly analysis. Article indexes Catalogue eScholarship Internet ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

How do I find all of this?

Individual articles are NOT listed directly in the library catalogue!

Article indexes and databases
Provide references to articles and other documents published in journals , which may or may not be in our library
Subject-specific or multidisciplinary
Index one or many types of documents
Provide citations, abstracts or full- text articles

But why can’t I just it?

Search term triangulation

Using AND, OR AND AND

VPN
Off campus?

The library catalogue
What
Information about the library’s materials
Why
Finding books and known journal titles
How
Online, from the library’s website

Did You Know?
Renew books
Place holds
Book a meeting room (Cyberthèque pods)
Access e-exams
You can use your library account to:

Search the library catalogue for the journal title Use CREPUQ or Interlibrary Loan (ILL) If full text is not available online What to do if… If not

Ways to access materials
Print : search the library catalogue
Full-text online
If no full-text, use
Not in Montreal? Use Interlibrary Loan
Use the VPN to access materials off-campus

Did You Know?
Government Information Service
Electronic Data Resources Service
The Library offers specialized services:

A good place to start: The Subject Guide

To take away
Start with the library’s website!
Books: use the catalogue
Articles: use indexes (databases)
VPN for off-campus access
Specialized services available

Contact a librarian
NOT a last resort!
Office hours :
Mondays 2:30-4:30 Leacock 541
E-mail: megan.fitzgibbons@mcgill.ca
Phone: 514-398-4696

http://blogs.library.mcgill.ca	99
http://mcgillpolisci.wordpress.com	57

Workshop for Graduate Students

by megan.fitzgibbons

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

2 Embeds 156

Statistics

Workshop for Graduate Students Presentation Transcript