SCC Research Basics

Research BasicsSpecial Care Counselling

Cornelia Penner2011

Today you will learn about:

• Finding books (printed, electronic)• Finding articles• Internet searching

Library catalogues

• find out what books a library owns, and where to find them• no full text of books• no articles• in the past: card catalogues• now: online and accessible from any computer

Champlain Library Catalogue

Call numbers

Encyclopedias & Other Reference Books

• background information

• articles arranged alphabetically

• index volume at the end

Find them in the reference section

•Encyclopaedia Britannica•Encyclopedia Americana•Encyclopédie Bordas•Encyclopédie Universalis

Specialized Encyclopedias

Credo: online reference books

Periodicals

newspapers

magazines

Academic journals

Academic journals

• also called scholarly journals• “peer-reviewed”: articles are evaluated by experts before being published

Books Scholarly articlesLengthy (100+ pages) Short (less than 30 pages)

May contain original research, may be an overview or synthesis

Usually original research

Accepted and edited by publisher Peer review process

Takes a long time to be published Shorter publication process (time-sensitive research)

Usually a broader topic Usually a narrow aspect of a topic

VS.

• Academic Search Premier • Canadian Newsstand, CBCA

• mostly American content • lots of Canadian content

• Articles from scholarly journals, magazines, few newspapers

• Articles mostly from newspapers and magazines, few scholarly journals

VS.

Academic Search Premier: a periodical database

One article

Three citation stylesAPA

Banks, P., Jahoda, A., Dagnan, D., Kemp, J., & Williams, V. (2010). Supported employment for people with intellectual disability: The effects of job breakdown on psychological well-being. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual

Disabilities, 23(4), 344-354. doi:10.1111/j.1468-3148.2009.00541.x

Chicago

Banks, Pauline, et al. "Supported Employment for People with Intellectual Disability: The Effects of Job Breakdown on Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 23, no. 4 (July 2010): 344-354.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-3148.2009.00541.x

MLA

Banks, Pauline, et al. "Supported Employment for People with Intellectual Disability: The Effects of Job Breakdown on Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 23.4 (2010): 344-354. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Aug. 2011.

APA

Banks, P., Jahoda, A., Dagnan, D., Kemp, J., & Williams, V. (2010). Supported employment for people with intellectual disability: The effects of job breakdown on psychological well-being. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23(4), 344-354. doi:10.1111/j.1468- 3148.2009.00541.x

Search Tips

•Try variations on the same word (disabled, disability, disabilities)•Think of synonyms or related terms (disabled, handicapped)•Get more specific – Experiment!

Use AND, OR, NOT to connect your search terms

Periodical databases Websites

Library pays subscription Free content

Published information (edited) Anyone can put webpages online

Articles from magazines, journals, newspapers

Commercial websites, personal websites, etc.

New articles added regularly; old ones remain available

Updating is inconsistent; information may disappear

Fewer results, but greater focus Many results, not necessarily relevant

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Internet searching: tricks and tips

• Who is the author? What are his/her credentials?

• look at where the website is from (domain name, “about us”, mission)

• use quotation marks for phrases, e.g. “great chain of being”

• When was this information published or updated?

• Try Google’s Advanced Search.

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