ANTH 315

library research workshop Winter 2024

 

GOOGLE: anth 315 concordia library

today's context - 

FINAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Your  final research proposal is cumulative and should build on your previous research.... You are required to locate your research within a larger body of literature, indicating how your research expands or addresses a gap in the literature. ... must include a comprehensive bibliography... use a minimum of 3 references from course readings and a minimum of 4 references from outside the course.

Any other assignments on your mind??

What do YOU want to cover?

tell me here:

OUR Agenda....

but first:

need assistance with any of these agenda items?

 ask questions - GET HELP:

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at the AskUs desk

 

via chat

 

via email

 

by phone

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Need assistance beyond a quick chat,
and have a bit of time to plan?

your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca (she/her)

ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment

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ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays

3:30-5:30 pm

OR by appointment

AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
 

most Mondays 3-5

AskSusie, every Tuesday 3:30-5:30 pm, ask any question under the sun about research or the library

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Google: concordia library anthropology

how else can you find me?

under anthropology see:

OUR Agenda

accessing resources at concordia & beyond

Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films

what if the library doesn't have it ONLINE?

request a book and pick it up later....

or use the call number and locate button to find it

what if the library DOESN'T have it at all?

search for it in any library worldwide:

... and simply request it!

but you CAN'T borrow ebooks from other libraries!!

what if you are looking

for a journal?

for example, the latest issue of American Ethnologist journal?

or continue on to finding articles

that inform your study ....

to find academic articles 

RELATED TO YOUR TOPIC

where wouldyou search?

tELL your CLASSMATES

why does it matter  where you search again??

where you search affects

what you find and how you find it

Search for specific library books, ebooks, articles and films

 but go beyond sofia 
to search for topics...

anthropology databases

Anthropology and anthropology-related Databases

examples

Anthropology and anthropology-related Databases

search examples

In Anthropology Plus most results will be from anthropological journals or  written by anthropologists, but there won't be many hits.

In multidisciplinary databases like Academic Search Complete and related subject databases like SocINDEX, there will be more hits, but you may want to add keywords to find articles which employ anthropological or ethnographic methods.

select Library Databases and try some searches -- save to Zotero!! 

for your own further review:

 sample searches  on "CLIMATE CHANGE"

in various databases:

  • Sofia
  • Google Scholar
  • Anthropology Plus

climate change in Sofia:

climate change in Google Scholar:

CLIMATE CHANGE in anthropology plus

or continue on to scholarly

conversations in google scholar....

GOOGLE SCHOLAR scholarly conversations 

I loved Kim TallBear's 2014 article:  "Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to Inquiry".

 

I want to find more recent articles that engage with (ie that cite) this work, but that also deal with my current tentative area of interest, environmental justice and social movements.

 "CITED BY" - search EXAMPLE:

environmental justice social movements

google scholar findit@concordia TIP:

select Google Scholar and try some searches -- save to Zotero!! 

or continue on to anthropology

bibliographies and literature reviews....

academic anthropology bibliographies / review articles

you will find short literature reviews within most academic articles 

EXAMPLE:

literature review JOURNAL

SEARCH

EXAMPLE of an article in

annual review of anthropology:

more

bibliography/review journals:

select Annual Reviews, Oxford Bibliographies or Compass Journals and try some searches -- then save to Zotero!! 

or continue on to identiying

academic/ scholarly / peer-reviewed articles....

scholarly / Peer-reviewed / academic

articles

peer-reviewed articles

In some Library Databases you can use a checkbox: 

TEST YOURSELF:

is it academic / scholarly /

peer-reviewed?

This blog entry reports on an interesting study which involved many academics, but it has NOT been published as an academic/scholarly/ peer-reviewed article

This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: academic language, author outlines specific research method, long bibliography of references, published in a peer-reviewed journal, Transforming Anthropology

what about this one:

or continue on to entering

keywords and search strategies....

How to properly enter your KEYWORDS in Library Databases

search strategies

handout to download:

search strategies

TIP WHAT IT DOES EXAMPLE

AND

 
Combines concepts. Limits how many results your search produces
 

police
AND
violence
OR

 
Allows for synonyms or alternative terms. Increases the number or results your search produces.
 
violence OR brutality
 
*

 
Near the end of a word, retrieves all words that start with the letters entered. Increases the number of results a search produces Canad*
(retrieves Canada, Canadian)
 
“ ” For two words or more, search for an exact phrase only, rather than each keyword separately. Limits how many results your search produces “systemic racism”
(retrieves systemic racism, but not systemic oppression related to racism)

search tips & tricks
 standard library article databases

in Anthropology and anthropology-related Databases

review: entering keywords

In Anthropology Plus most results will be from anthropological journals or  written by anthropologists, but there won't be many hits.

In multidisciplinary databases like Academic Search Complete and related subject databases like SocINDEX, there will be more hits, but you may want to add keywords to find articles which employ anthropological or ethnographic methods.

example of a keyword

combination in socindex

(YouTube, 7 mins)

Developing your search strategy: VIDEO

or continue on to citation &

bibliography formats....

formatting referencES:
citations & bibliographies

why is citing important??

This is a challenge for all of us:  Reflect on the way you approach referencing the work of others in your own writing, presenting and thinking. Whose work do you build on to make arguments ... Who are you citing, and why do you cite them (and not others)?

Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández,"Citation Practices" Critical Ethnic Studies, April 2015

I believe that bibliographies and endnotes and references and sources are alternative stories that can, in the most generous sense, centralize the practice of sharing ideas about liberation and resistance and writing against racial and sexual violence. 

Katherine McKittrick,"Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)", Dear Science and Other Stories,2021

some different perspectives....

what's the simplest way to  properly cite?

it depends.

Start by picking a citation style 

and consulting a:

use a citation style guides:

APA STYLE: typical examples:

in-text citations

Hakkinen and Akrami (2014) found that “individuals are receptive to climate change communications, regardless of ideological position” (p. 65).

Research shows that people from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen & Akrami, 2014).

 

APA STLe: typical exampleS:

Bibliography

see this sample paper with a reference list on p. 17 

What about automatic citation tools?

take your pick:

a) citation generators*
b) citation management tools*

Make sure to  double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use those citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.

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a) citation generators

Many library databases (for example: Sofia Discovery tool, EBSCO and ProQuest databases) as well as Google Scholar will provide you with formatted citations in the style of your choice that you can copy and paste into your bibliography, reference list or works cited list!

b) citation management tools

Sometimes also called bibliographic management tools, these allow you to:

  • Download citations you find in library catalogues, databases, Google Scholar, and on the web.
     
  • Store and organize citations, and prepare a bibliography or reference list automatically.
     
  • Automatically format and insert in-text citations and a bibliography into papers you are writing with Microsoft Word, for example.
     

There are several citation management tools available.
Concordia Library provides support for ZOTERO...........

your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca (she/her)

ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment

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ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays

3:30-5:30 pm

OR by appointment

AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
 

most Mondays 3-5

AskSusie, every Tuesday 3:30-5:30 pm, ask any question under the sun about research or the library

Text

Google: concordia library anthropology