Help finding articles for your literature review for MATC 716 with Dr. Anne Johnston. Tips for searching EBSCO & how to make an appointment with Stephanie.

1. Doing Library Research
in MATC Classes
August 2017
Stephanie Brown
UNC’s Park Library
swbrown@unc.edu
UNCParkLib .
919.843.8300
Image: https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-computer-browser-research-2562325/

2. Describe Library Hacks – Interlibrary Loan

3. Crowe Article in EBSCO, “Carolina BLU”

4. Search Scenario, Part 2
• Using what you learned from the Library Hacks videos,
develop a search strategy that you can use in EBSCO to
find more articles on this topic.
• Jot down the answers to these questions:
• What are some words you would use to find articles?
• How would you “truncate” those terms? (Library Hack #1)
• Find at least one scholarly article and one trade article.
(Library Hack #2)
• Create an account in EBSCO (Library Hack #3)
• Reformat the articles you’ve found in APA format (Library Hack #4)
• If the full-text article isn't available through EBSCO, how would you
access it? (Library Hack #6)
• If you didn't find all of the articles in Search Scenario 1, you may
want to revisit them after watching the Library Hacks videos.
Think Pair Share: 10 min.

5. Describe Library Hacks - Truncation

6. Describe Library Hacks - Searching

7. Searching in EBSCO
Social Media Use During Natural Disasters
• EBSCO search = 0
• Emotional reaction:
• Really, there are no articles on this topic?
• EBSCO is stupid & won’t help me.
• Stephanie was wrong.
• Sort of true.
• How about if we change search terms?
Image from http://www.iconarchive.com/show/emoticons-icons-by-artdesigner/offended-icon.html

8. Good Search Terms
Social Media Use During Natural Disasters
natural
disaster* OR
hurricane*
OR flood* OR
blizzard*
Social media
OR Twitter OR
Facebook OR
MySpace OR
YouTube OR
Instagram OR
Social
network*
AN
D

9. Translated to Search Engine-ese
(natural disaster* OR hurricane* OR
flood* OR blizzard* ) AND ( Social
media OR Twitter OR Facebook OR
MySpace OR YouTube OR Instagram
OR Social network*)

10. Search Results

11. Citing in EBSCO

12. Icon from http://www.iconarchive.com/show/shimmer-icons-by-creative-freedom/Warning-icon.html

13. Describe Library Hacks – Make An Account

14. Now: Safe to “Add to Folder”

15. Look for PDF icon to Get Full-text

16. Use Find @ UNC if no pdf, html link
Full-text of article
somewhere else
Options for getting
full-text via
Interlibrary Loan

17. • What’s the difference?
• Why do we care?
• Who is audience?
• Who is the author?
• Are there graphics?
• What is the design/layout like?
• Are there advertisements?
• Article length?
• Writing style?
• Depth of topics covered?
• Currency of topics?
Scholarly, Trade, News Articles? Whaa?

18. Free News! WaPo with @unc.edu
https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/specialoffer/#/gov-mil-edu

19. Free NYT for students with @unc.edu
More info: http://guides.lib.unc.edu/nyt-academic-pass
http://nytimesaccess.com/unc-chapel_hill/

20. When Do You Stop?
•When do you give up on …
• Google?
• Searching?
•Past experience?
•Thoughts?
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21. From a Current MATC Student
• If you need to find articles on a specific subject, meet with Stephanie
so she can show you some tricks in using the search tools.
• Even if you think you know what you’re doing (like I did), I guarantee
she will show you tools you didn’t know of and help you find
relevant articles that you were unable to find.
• You can reserve books through the UNC library website and have
them held and reserved for you at the Park Library [or mailed to you
at home!].
• I was able to find some of our course books that way and saved
myself some time and money.
Kaylon Kirk
Manager, Digital Communications
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

22. Got Books?

23. Finding Books
• Search by keyword
• Identify books you want
(but not textbooks)
• Request item
• Renew online!
• Delivered within 3-4 days

24. Book Results

25. Basics: Books delivered FREE!
• UNC Library will deliver books to your home for free!∗
• We will also scan articles for you if they’re not online.
• To participate, register for the University Library’s
Interlibrary Loan Service (“Carolina BLU”).
 Students who live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro must go to UNC to retrieve books.
Image from: https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/86550/house_o_icon

26. Register in Carolina BLU for books, articles
• Create an account
http://www.lib.unc.edu/carolinablu/
(or link on library course page)
• When completing the request form, write the
course number in the Additional Notes field like
this MATC: MEJO716.
• Notes
• Books are mailed to you via the U.S. Postal Service and
return postage is included.
• Any books can be requested except for required
textbooks.

27. Question You Didn’t Know You Had
• How will I manage & format all the articles I find?
• You will identify LOTS of articles you want to read now, or later …
• Articles you want to use in Research Methods or for your thesis
• You will need to format them in APA or MLA citation style.
• Yipes – that sounds time-consuming!
• Save time with Zotero.
• Save citations into a folder
• Reformat them into hundreds of citation styles, including APA, MLA,
and more.

28. Download from www.zotero.org/download

29. Install Zotero
Download & install Zotero to your browser of choice.
1. Install Zotero from zotero.org
(instructions on next slide)
• FireFox preferred
• Other browsers require “Zotero Standalone”
2. Watch video by former Park Library staffer about Zotero
at http://guides.lib.unc.edu/matc716/zotero

30. Tips from Prior MATC Students
• Home delivery of books is terrific
• Use to find full-text of articles
• Use Interlibrary Loan to get articles that
aren’t online!
• Course pages very useful: Links work for
all classes
• Ask Stephanie for help
with search terms
http://findicons.com/icon/84701/user_group?id=404271#

31. See Me Soon!
• In your Sakai site for MATC716 – in a Discussion Board
thread. (Dr. Johnston will provide details)
• And more:
• Chat
• Email
• Phone
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Synchronous session (online) for doing research for 716
Research Methods