Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
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1. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY RESEARCH
STRATEGIES
WRITING SEMINAR
Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian
Jenny Donley, Catalog and Serials Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library
2. WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu
Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu
Reference Email, reference@onu.edu
Librarians on duty:
Monday – Thursday
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Friday
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
3. 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
4. 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
7. 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
8. ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD
Use the entire 11 digit number
9. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that
includes a summary and/or evaluation of the source
What an annotated bibliography does:
Allows you to see what is out there
Helps you narrow your topic and discard any irrelevant
materials
Aids in developing the thesis
Makes you a better scholar
10. 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
11. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. BACKGROUND RESEARCH
Background research = Reference and
Encyclopedias
Look at Databases/Reference tab in the Writing
Seminar research guide
16. CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA
POLAR – Heterick Memorial Library and Taggart Law
Library
17. 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
18. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
Content quality-controlled
by editorial staff
Content usually available
only to subscribers
Content’s source is usually
identified and dated
25. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
General Databases
Academic Search
Complete
Business Source
Complete
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis
MasterFILE Premier
MEDLINE with Full
Text
Databases by Subject
26. ARTICLES – POPULAR VS. SCHOLARLY
Popular = Magazine
Scholarly = Journal
Magazines tend to have glossy pages, lots of
pictures, and can be read and understood by the
general public
Scholarly journals are usually peer-reviewed and
tend to be aimed at professionals in the field
30. 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