EVAR 3000

Research Session

Today we will look at:

  • Search strategies
  • Searching beyond the UM Libraries collection
  • Citing: Images, articles, books, and more

Preliminary Searching

  • Start brainstorming keywords
    • What do you know about the subject so far?
      • Architect's name
      • period - Renaissance, modern, "20th century"
      • country name
      • style - postmodern, "gothic revival", bauhaus

 

  • Expand your background information
    • Reference sources: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc...

Search Tip #1

Put a phrase "in quotation marks" to find results with that phrase.

 

E.g.: "gothic revival" - finds documents with this phrase

Searching for gothic revival without quotation marks finds all documents with gothic and all documents with revival.

 

Gothic architecture = medieval, mid-12th to 15th centuries

Gothic revival architecture = 18th & 19th centuries, renewed interest in Gothic style

UM Library Search

As you learn more about the topic, you can find more keywords to try in future searches

PollEv.com/ellent118

Library Resources

1. UM Library Search

  • All physical resources within the Libraries
  • Some (not all) of the e-resources we subscribe to
  • Very broad search engine - might get a lot of unrelated results.

2. Subject Databases

  • Mainly journal articles
  • May be more narrow in terms of subject

bit.ly/UMLevds

Search Tip #2

  • Use AND between keywords to narrow your search

E.g.: (Canada AND "new urbanism") - results will contain both of these keywords

 

  • Use OR between keywords to make your search more broad

E.g.: ("climate change" OR "global warming") - results will contain at least one of these phrases

 

 

Other potentially useful guides...

Search Tip #3

Try to find all the different ways of expressing the concept you're searching for. This can be done by:

  • putting OR between synonyms (Canada OR Canadian)
  • adding an asterisk (*) to the root of a word:

 

E.g.: Canad* - finds Canada, Canadian, Canadians...

"new urbanis*" - finds "new urbanism", "new urbanist"...

 

(note: don't use this for short root words - art* = art, arts, artist, artificial, arthritis, Arthur... 292 million results in Library Search)

Chicago citation style

 

Chicago style has two systems:

  • Notes & Bibliography System: sources are cited in numbered footnotes or endnotes
  • Author-Date System: sources are briefly cited in the text, with author's last name & publication year in parentheses

Basics of Citing in Chicago Style

In her book The Great Big Sea & Me, Smith raises the excellent point that "architects handle rising sea levels like champs."

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Footnote:

 

Routledge, 2008), 33.

Bibliography:

Smith, Jessie. The Great Big Sea & Me. New York:

Routledge, 2008.

1. Jessie Smith, The Great Big Sea & Me (New York:

Citing an image

Matisse had a strong penchant for painting women with things on their heads, as evidenced in his 1905 masterpiece, The Woman with the Hat.

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Footnote:

 

canvas, 81.3 x 60.3 cm., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

Bibliography:

Matisse, Henri. The Woman with the Hat. 1905. Oil on

Seen in person:

canvas. 81.3 x 60.3 cm. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

1. Henri Matisse, The Woman with the Hat, 1905, oil on

The best diptych by far is widely recognized as Rogier van der Weyden's Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

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Footnote:

 

1430-1432, diptych panel, 18.5 x 12 cm., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, accessed January 20, 2012, http://www.artstor.org.

Bibliography:

Weyden, Rogier van der. Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Citing an image seen online:

1430-1432, diptych panel, 18.5 x 12 cm., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, accessed January 20, 2012, http://www.artstor.org.

1. Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Catherine of Alexandria,

Questions?

  • Environmental Design Research Guide: bit.ly/UMLevds
  • All library staff can help with basic questions
  • Research support: librarians on desk 1:30-4:30 Monday-Friday
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