1) The document provides guidance on conducting research for an annotated bibliography, including developing a research strategy with key terms, using library databases and catalogs to find relevant sources, and properly citing sources. 2) It reviews resources for research like the library catalog, databases, and evaluating websites. Tips are provided for searching databases, limiting results, and accessing full-text articles. 3) Contact information is included for the librarian instructor and reference librarians who can provide research assistance.

1. ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RESEARCH
STRATEGIES
Writing Seminar
Professor Traci Welch Moritz
Public Services Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2. What today is all about
•Aid in constructing research
strategy for finding resources
for annotated bibliography
•Find resources in library catalog
and databases available

3. How am I going to remember all this stuff she
is talking about?

4. Research Guide

5. Libraries at ONU
•Heterick Memorial
Library
•Undergraduate
Library, accessible
to all
•Taggert Law
Library
•Library for Law
school,
accessible to all

6. ONU ID is Library card
EVA
Eva Maglott
00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use all
digits in your
student ID
number.

7. Annotated Bibliography
•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

8. What do I do first?
Take a look at your topic and identify key
search terms, Ask a question.
Most databases now use an implied
Boolean logic search scheme so a
keyword search will get you started.
Boolean logic is the use of AND, NOT, OR
to narrow or expand your search
See Research Guide for Writing Seminar
WHO

9. •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
How to conduct research

10. Research Strategy
Are the concerns about
garbage island a myth?

11. What about the web?

12. Research Tools -- Internet
Google and Wikipedia aren’t evil, just use
them for the correct purpose in your
research.

13. Google Scholar
ONU buys
Full-text
database
OhioLINK
Permits
Google to
link to full-text
Google asks
to link to
content
ONU user sees
licensed full-text
articles
Run Google
Scholar
Search
Note: If
working off
campus user
sees
only citation
to
articles not
full text. See
the
Research
Guide for
help in
setting up
Google
Scholar for
off-campus
access.
RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET

14. Critically analyzing web sources
•Currency
•Relevance/Coverage
•Authority
•Accuracy
•Purpose/Objectivity
• Timeliness of the information.
• Depth and importance of the
information.
• Source of the information.
• Reliability of the information
• Possible bias present in the
information.

15. RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET
•Does the information located satisfy
the research need?
•Is the information factual and
unbiased?
•See handout “Critically Analyzing
Information Sources” at the “Web”
tab on the Writing Seminar Research
Guide.

16. SEARCH

17. 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

18. Results: Full Text, Polar

19. Results: OhioLink

20. Results: Find It @ ONU

21. Results: ILL

22. Facets: Limit Your Results

23. Things to Remember
•Facets are your Friend: After you
search, limit your results to what
you really want
•A tool not a solution: This is not the
solution to everything
•Ask the librarians for help
•There will still be some small
changes coming

24. What do I do next?
Consider using critically evaluated websites

25. What do I do next?
Use library resources to continue your background
research.

26. CATALOGS
•POLAR -- Accessing items located at
HML (physical and electronic) as
well as Law Library
•OhioLINK -- Next Step if you can’t
find what you want in the HML
collection
•ILL -- option of last resort

27. POLAR

28. Find a book -- POLAR

29. Keyword Search
•Looks in several locations (usually
subject, article title, abstracts or
contents)
•Does not require an exact match
•Generates comparatively large
number of hits (not precise)
•Good if you are not familiar with
terminology
Find a Book -- POLAR

30. Find a Book -- POLAR
Checked out
at HML, try at
OhioLINK
Checked out at HML but
available at law library
so head over there
Available as e-book,
click the link and follow
the directions

31. Find a Book -- POLAR
E-books

32. Find a Book -- POLAR

33. Public terminal on
third floor

34. •Materials owned by all Ohio
colleges, universities, several public libraries
•Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests
•Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
•No charge
•Only 25 requests at a time
•May keep up to 84 days
Find a Book -- OhioLINK

35. Find a Book -- OhioLINK

36. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
1. Make sure
copies are
available at other
libraries
2. Click on request
button

37. Find a book -- OhioLINK
3. Select Ohio Northern
4. Enter your first and last
name and all 11 digits
exactly as they appear on
your ID
5. Be sure to select Heterick as
your pick up location and then
click submit.
6. An email will be sent
when the item is ready
for pickup

38. Find a book -- SearchOhio
•Access to several Ohio public libraries
•Access via OhioLINK
•An option when item wanted is not
available at ONU or through OhioLINK

39. My Library Account
Allows you to see what you have checked out
and requested. Allows you to renew online (if
possible). Allows you to see charges on your
account.

40. My Library Account
Enter first and last name and
all 11 digits on university ID

41. My Library Account
• For more information visit the Library Information page

42. Library App
•http://journals.onu.edu/home_page/libinfo/mobile.c
fm

43. Bibliographic Citation Software
Use “RefWorks”
tab in the ENGL
Research guide
for more
information

44. What do I do next?
Use databases to find articles based on your
search strategy

45. •Often tools for locating journal and
newspaper articles
•Most are subject-specific – some
multi-disciplinary
•Many give access to full text of
articles
•Heterick has 212

46. Find an Article
Click on “Databases”

47. Find an Article

48. 48
Find an Article
BIG THREE
•Academic Search
Complete
•Lexis-Nexis
•Opposing
Viewpoints
SUBJECT SPECIFIC

49. Find an Article
•Periodical means the
same as Magazine
Usually magazines are
more “popular”
•Journals
Scholarly or Professional
Peer reviewed

50. General Database
Scholarly
journals, peer
reviewed articles

51. General Database
Scholarly
journals, peer
reviewed articles

52. Find an Article

53. Some articles available full-text html or pdf
Find an Article

54. Find an Article
• What if it’s not available PDF or HTML?
• Always hit the “find it” icon and see what happens next.

55. •It may have to be requested
ILL
Find an Article

56. Find an Article
•It may be available Full text from
OhioLINK or another database

57. Find an Article
•And could be available in print

58. Lexis-Nexis

59. Lexis-Nexis

60. Lexis-Nexis
Consider
using the
“Advanced
search”
option

61. Opposing Viewpoints

62. Opposing Viewpoints

63. Subject Specific Database

64. There are 3 citation styles that
are in frequent used at ONU.
They are:
•MLA (Modern Language
Association)
•APA (American Psychological
Association)
•CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
Cite what you find using standard formats
HOW TO DO RESEARCH

65. Off campus access
Web Management
Be sure to click on the “Off
campus access tab” to begin

66. HELP
Traci Welch Moritz, MLS
Public Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library
t-moritz@onu.edu
419-772-2473
419-772-2185
Reference
Librarians on duty
8a-4p Mon-Fri
6p-9p Mon-Thur
10a-3:30p Sundays