MyResearch (Humanities)Module 3

Sharon RankinSean SwanickHelena Reddington

Last week we went over… Constructing search strategies McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue General academic databases Google search commands/maximizing Google

Scholar

Locating theses and dissertations CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans

Welcome back!

Finding known citations

Subject guides and subject-specific databases

Citation searching

Alerts and current awareness

Special resources and collections

This week…

For more details: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/theses

Theses and Dissertations

eScholarship ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

35,000 full text McGill theses• Allows searching by faculty

advisor

McGill theses from 1934 to present day• Full text 1997-• Selected full text before 1997

Also contains: journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, book chapters written by McGill faculty and students

Also contains: theses written by students from North American and European universities

Use for: McGill-specific search requirements

Use for: Broader scope of current research

Your turn

1. Conduct a keyword search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses to find a thesis related to your research.

Check the bibliography to see if any articles could be useful for your research

2. Search eScholarship to find a thesis supervised by your current supervisor, or by a professor in your department.

Specialized Resources

Borrow in person from other libraries BCI

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/otherloans/CREPUQ

Interlibrary loan COLOMBO

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/otherloans/interlibrary

Access beyond McGill

Allows you to borrow books from other universities in Quebec and Canada.

Obtain a BCI card at any Library Services Desk on campus.

BCI (formerly CREPUQ)card: what is it?

Use when McGill and other local universities do not have an item.

Administered through COLUMBO; instructions here.

Interlibrary loan: what is it?

Finding known citations

Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.

Title of article

Title of journal

Volume, issue, year, and page

numbers.

Author

1st 2nd 3rd

Journal name A-Z list - link on library webpage –WorldCat index

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/journals

WorldCat search

Classic catalogue - print

Title of the article WorldCat search Google Scholar Database search

Full citation Google Scholar Google Database search

doi http://dx.doi.org/

If you can’t find it ask for help.

Never pay for access to an article

Make an ILL request

Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article

Search by journal title in the WorldCat Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in.

And:

Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link, or any other link that may be available.

Search by article title in WorldCat.

Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number .

Requesting scanned copies from the print collection

Resolve a doi

Your turn

Locate the full text of the following two articles:

Who is the author?

“Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).

“Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice”, Speculum, 67, pp 324-364. doi:10.2307/2864375.

Known article searching exercise

Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area.

Created and maintained by librarians at McGill.

Also known as “Research Guides”.

Subject Guides: What are they?

Subject guides

Your turn

What is a thesaurus?

predefined keyword terms = subject terms

“A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.”

“a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.”

From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24-25.

Databases with Thesauri

Improve relevancy in your results sets

Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study

Why use Thesaurus terms in your search?

Broader Narrower Related

“Explode" a search term

The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms.

Thesaurus terms

Is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work.

Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work.

Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time.

Citation searching

Citation searching

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Supplements standard subject searching

Cuts across disciplines

Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive

3 citation databases offer this functionality:

Scopus

Google Scholar

Web of Science

Scopus – cited by

Web of Science – cited by

Google Scholar – Cited by

Your turn

Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar:

Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy (1996): 91-112.

Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database.

Exercise

Web of Science From 1900 for Science, Humanities from the 1950s, Arts from the 1970s Selective journal indexing

Scopus From 1996 Broader journal coverage than Web of Science

Google Scholar From 2004 Now includes Web of Science citation counts

Article citation counts

When your search keywords are perfect!

Set the alert in the database

SCOPUS –

Web of Science –

Google Scholar -

Set up a database Search Alert

Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert.

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs.

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/

Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert

BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet.

BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand.

Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet.

Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals.

Receive alerts when new issues of journals are published

For more information read - http://library.nd.edu/browzine/

BrowZine

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile

BrowZine and other apps

McGill Archives

Rare Books & Special Collections

Maps & geospatial data guide

The GIC

Statistics

Government / International organization documents:

Specialized Resources at McGill

McGill Rare Books & Special Collections

Specialized Resources

http://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/rbsc/

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/rarebooks

USE FOR:• Canadiana• 17th/18th C.

Philosophy• Book history and

print culture• Special

collections• Boy Scouts• Olympics• Puppets

McGill University Archives

Specialized Resources

http://archives.mcgill.ca

USE FOR:• Primary sources

• Letters• Author notes/

manuscripts• McGill history• Growing online

collection

refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca

The Geographic Information Centre

Specialized Resources

USE FOR:• One-on-one help

from GIS/RS Specialists

• Computers equipped with GIS/RS software

• NEW GIS Introductory workshops

http://gic.geog.mcgill.ca/

Statistics

Statistics and Data Research Guide

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/edrs

Government Information

Government Information Research Guide

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/govinfo

Contact: eamon.duffy@mcgill.ca

Specialized Resources

Where can I find read the newspaper Dominion Post from New Zealand?

How do I find the obituary of a Canadian singer named Nell Rankin? I think she died in the 1930s.

What is Alt-Press Watch?

Newspapers

bit.ly/MyResearchMcGill

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