This document provides an overview of research strategies and resources available at Ohio Northern University's Heterick Memorial Library. It discusses constructing a research strategy, finding books and media using the library catalog POLAR and OhioLINK, evaluating internet and database resources, and managing citations using RefWorks. Key resources covered include the library catalog, databases, reference sources, and the research guides.

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

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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

12. CONCEPT MAPPING

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

19. POLAR – RESULTS

20. POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

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

24. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

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

27. ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

28. FIND IT @ ONU
 Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where
you don’t have full text access to a database where
you do have full text access

29. SEARCH

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

31. RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

32. RESULTS: OHIOLINK

33. RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

34. RESULTS: ILL
 When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

35. FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

36. MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

37. EXPORT TO REFWORKS
 Most databases
will have
“export”
 If there isn’t an
export, check for
“download”