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04/19/23Marcie Jacklin, B.Sc., MLISTourism and Environment Librarian
[email protected] 3960
Ecotourist04/19/23
Assignment: Part I04/19/23
Assignment One Part I and II –
10 % Help you mastermaster the skills and techniques
of information retrieval Part I – make a list of citations for several
different types of information resources
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Marcie’s top seven tips for this assignment
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Tip #1 Don’t leave this assignment until the last day
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Tip # 2 Selecting a topic You can select “any
environmental issue that has a sustainable development or environmental policy dimension. You may choose a topic that also has links to tourism….”
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Tips for selecting a topic TIP : Avoid choosing a topic which is
too broad or too narrow E.g birdwatching – 32,500,000 results
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Start looking for a topic with the library’s new SuperSearch A “web-scale discovery tool” You can search the contents of multiple
library catalogues and indexes at the same time (like google but more scholarly sources)
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Note the menu on the left side04/19/23
SuperSearch allow you to: Search by keyword Check availability Limit by format type (very important for
this assignment) and other criteria Do an advanced search (very important for
focusing your research) Sort your results by relevance or year of
publication
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Citation information is available in Supersearch
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SOLD OUT 04/19/23
Format types in SuperSearch Depending on your keywords and the
number of results: Academic (scholar, peer-reviewed) journals Magazines News Books eBooks
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Tip # 3 Use SuperSearch to find better keywords
and subject headings
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Keywords Birds Bird watching or birdwatching or birding Niagara Peninsula Niagara River
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Subject Headings Bird watching - Ontario – Niagara
Peninsula Bird watchers Tourism Ecotourism Sustainable tourism (Obsession; over-determination)
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Subject headings allow you to find relevant articles on your topic E.g. Hunting without guns
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Tip # 4 Selecting the best database(s) Depends on your topic SuperSearch; Leisure, Recreation and
Tourism Abstracts; Canadian Newsstand; Google; Google Scholar and Google Books
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Research Guides by Program04/19/23
Videos coming soon!04/19/23
Tip # 5 Refining keywords for larger databases and
using field searches/boolean
Less can be more e.g. use habitat instead of
habitat loss May need 3 or 4 concepts
Birds Conservation international
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Keywords and concepts Use as many
concepts as
possible to
reduce the
number of
results
Example (birds or “bird watch* or birdwatch*”) and
ecotour* Birdwatching; birdwatcher; ecotourism;
ecotourist
Then limit by format type and/or year of publication
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Google Advance Search04/19/23
Tip # 6 Scholarly peer reviewed academic articles
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Key features04/19/23
Key features Detailed titles Can be multiple authors Reports original research Detailed charts, diagrams etc Bibliography Indication of peer-reviewed process
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Example of citation information The value of species rarity in biodiversity
recreation: A birdwatching example. By: Booth, Josephine E.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Evans, Karl L.; Armsworth, Paul R. Biological Conservation. Nov2011, Vol. 144 Issue 11, p2728-2732. 5p. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.018.
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Tip # 7 Getting HELP TA’s
Research a topic in…. (for videos) Research Help desk TREN 1F90 E-classroom Drop-in Clinics
TBA (me) Me
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Research Help Desk Main floor (my availability)
Thurs Oct 11 5 to 7 pm Thurs Oct 18 5 to 7 pm Sunday Oct 25 5 to 7 pm
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TREN 1F90 E-classroom Clinics Bring your own laptop to work along or
borrow one from circulation You can come and go but I will try and
help people out as they arrive
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Drop-in schedule Tues Oct 2 2:30 – 4 pm Classroom B Fri Oct 12 11:00 – 12:30 pm “ Thurs Oct 25 7 – 8 pm “ Fri Oct 26 noon- 2 pm “
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