Slide presentation for FSEM 090: Money in Literature, Fall 2008.

1. Start

2. Preliminaries

3. Preliminaries
• Resource page(s)
• Library Web page

4. Information wants to be easy to
access.

5. Our expectations as consumers of
information are constantly evolving.

6. Time
Existence of
Search
Information

7. What am I looking for?

8. What types of information best
meet my needs?

9. What are my professor’s
expectations?

10. Do the resources I have access to
meet the criteria for scholarly
research?

11. My Goals: Skills /
(1) Consider what type of
information resource best meets
Navigation
your needs.
(2) Determine what content best
meets your needs.
(3) Teach you how to get your hands
on the material.
Selection

12. Introduction to a topic.

13. Encyclopedias and Reference
Works
Used for fact checking, quick, and authoritative
definition or summarization of a topic.

14. Encyclopedias
• Encyclopedia Britannica
– Online
– Print (1998)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
– International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
(2nd ed., 2008) - online
– Encyclopedia of Population
• Online (2003) or Print (2003)

15. Research Game
Strategy
FIND:
(1) Enough (not too many)
sources.
(1) High quality (scholarly)
sources.

16. Finding Articles

17. Finding Articles
• Social Science Index with Full Text
– Getting your hands on the article
• JSTOR
– Navigating the result set

18. Finding Books

19. Finding Books
Standard tool is the catalog.
• Voyager – books in the HWS library
• WorldCat – books in many other libraries
Supplementary tools:
• Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
• Google Books

20. Exercise:
Cousin Marshall by Harriet Martineau