Research for MATC Classes August 2015

Stephanie Willen Brown

Librarian, Park Library

swbrown@unc.edu

919.843.8300

Questions about Pre-Orientation Exercise?• Issues with any of these tasks?

• Find an article in EBSCO

• Sent yourself an article

• Chatted with Stephanie or another UNC staffer …

• Set up Zotero on your browser …

• You’ve got great research tools in your toolbox.

• Now let’s learn more about them!

About You & Search• What kind of information needs have you had?

• Health• Travel• Recipes• College / other grad program

• Where have you searched?• Google …• What else besides Google?

• What helped you prepare to do research in grad school?

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Librarian as Coach• Neutral

• Experienced working with MATC students’ research

• Don’t expect you will know everything

• Interdisciplinarity

• Silly questions ok

• Second opinion

• No judgment!

Where, How to Search?•UNC Catalog for books

•Venn diagram for better searching

•EBSCO, aka Library Search Engines aka “Databases”• Quality “indexes”

• Links to free full-text

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Basics: Books & Articles – FREE!• UNC Library will deliver books to your home for free!

∗• We will also scan articles for you if they’re not online.

• To participate, register for the University Library’s Interlibrary Borrowing Service (“ILB”).

Students who live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro must go to UNC to retrieve books.

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Finding Books

• Search by keyword

• Identify books you want

• Request item

• Borrow for 30-90 days

• Renew online!

Book Results

Register in Carolina BLU for books, articles

• Create an account http://www.lib.unc.edu/carolinablu/ (or link on library course page)

• When completing the request form,• Enter the course number in the Additional Notes field

like this MATC: JOMC716.• Books are mailed to you via the U.S. Postal Service and

return postage is included.• Any books can be requested except for required

textbooks.

Practice Research Question

The audience for online-only TV shows• EBSCO search = 0

• Emotional reaction:• Really, there are no articles on this topic?• EBSCO is stupid & won’t help me.• Stephanie was wrong.

• Sort of true.

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Good Search Terms

Audience for online-only TV shows

audience OR rating*

netflix OR roku OR “Internet

television” OR TiVo OR

Orange is the New Black

AND

Translated to Search Engine-ese

•(audience OR rating*) AND (netflix OR roku OR “INTERNET television” OR TiVo OR Orange is the New Black)

Look Outside the Box

Citing in EBSCO

If you “Add to folder” in EBSCO, Sign In! first

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First: Create a new Account

Now: Safe to “Add to Folder”

Look for PDF/ HTML to Get Full-text

Use Find @ UNC if no pdf, html link

Full-text of articlesomewhere else

Options for gettingfull-text via Interlibrary Loan

When Are You Done With Research?

•Past experience?

•Thoughts?

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A Citation Management System

Features of Zotero

• Free Account for all users

• Requires installation, and supports Firefox,

Chrome, and Safari.

• Works well with library e-resources and other websites

• 300mb of free storage space for PDFs

• Can add & edit some citations offline

Register and DownloadFor full functionality, register for an online account, then download either Zotero for Firefox or Zotero Stand-alone

www.zotero.org

Two Views of Zotero

Firefox web plug-in

Web Browser/Desktop

ApplicationView

Crucial Set-up Tidbits

Click on the “gear” icon to set up your preferences

Enter username and password,make sure to check ‘Sync automatically’

Add citation styles to your favorites

Save citations to ZoteroIn Firefox & Chrome:

In Safari:

To open Zotero pane in Firefox:

Other ways to add citations to Zotero

Add manually

Save webpage that you’re on

Add by identifier

• ISBN• Digital Object Identifier (DOI) • PubMed ID

Type in all data:

• Title• Author• Publisher• Etc.

Saves• URL• Snapshot of page as it is

Enter other data manually

Add PDFs to ZoteroDrag PDF into library

Right-click PDF

Organize your Citations in Zotero

Click on Folder Icon to create new

collection

Right-click on folder to create sub-collection

View and search tags in bottom left corner of Zotero pane(Double-click dotted line if you don’t see tags!)

Create a Bibliography from ZoteroRight-click on a collection or on a single item, then select “Create

bibliography.”

Select the citation style and format, then click OK

Tips from Prior MATC Students• Home delivery of books is terrific• Use to find full-text of articles• Use Interlibrary Loan to get articles that aren’t online!

• Course pages very useful: Links work for all classes

• Ask Stephanie for help with search terms• Chat• Twitter• Email• Phone

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Resources for 716 & Other MATC Classes

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