Ph d theology2011

PhD Theologyworkshop

Joan de Roos

Course outline

•Any questions?•Website UL

•Search strategy•Open access

•More questions?

Any questions already?Any questions already?

How can I use the UL VU website?

www.ubvu.vu.nl

UL wesbite

• PiCarta www.ubvu.vu.nl

• Open access e-journals, e-resources and ILL

• Webcourses, Researcher’s toolbox

www.ubvu.vu.nl

• Don’t forget UL’s in your neigbourghood

• Alerts, RSS feeds

Search StrategySearch Strategy

1. Select Subject

2. Formulate Search Query

3. Select Keywords

5. Include literature references in report

4. Select Suitable Information Sources

Formulate Search Query Formulate Search Query

To investigate in Europe the effect of sensemaking on people when they are ill.

What?What? Can religions help people with sensemaking when they are ill

When?When?

Where?Where?

Who?Who?

Why?Why?

Nowadays / in our time / 2000 - 2010

Europe

Religious organisations

Because you want to know if religious groups canHelp people when they are ill.

Select KeywordsSelect Keywords

• Religious groups

• Churches

• Mosks

• Temples

• Islam,

• Hinduism etc.

• Religious groups

• Churches

• Mosks

• Temples

• Islam,

• Hinduism etc.

ReligionsReligions

• Meaning

• Interpretation

• …

• Meaning

• Interpretation

• …

SensemakingSensemaking

• Illness,

• Ill

• Sickness

• Cancer (e.g.)

• Illness,

• Ill

• Sickness

• Cancer (e.g.)

IllnessIllness

• European Union

• UK

• France

• Germany

• Netherlands

• Spain

• Italy

• …

• European Union

• UK

• France

• Germany

• Netherlands

• Spain

• Italy

• …

EuropeEurope

ANDAND ANDAND ANDAND

OROR OROROROROROR

Select Suitable Information Select Suitable Information Sources (II)Sources (II)Type of InformationType of Information SourceSource

Current InformationCurrent Information Religious press, newspapers

Overview of a subjectOverview of a subject

General backgroundGeneral background

Statistical InformationStatistical Information

Textbooks: VU Library Catalogue

Encyclopedias, yearbooks & book reviews

Academic InformationAcademic InformationATLA Religion Database, Web of Science, PiCarta, Google Scholar.

CBS Statline, Eurostat, …

Theories about a subjectTheories about a subject Textbooks & encyclopedias: VU Library catalogueand e-resources

Academic InformationAcademic Information

UL and Google

Google I

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deep web

Google Scholar I

Open access

Back to the Middle Ages or an new era ?

Advice

• Don’t forget the UL or archives in your neighbourhood

• Send a mail to the person who wrote the article you need

• Don’t forget to install “working form home” and UL-link to Google Scholar

Questions?Questions?