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HIST 3P16
Library Workshop
Me, your librarian
Finding and evaluating information
John Dingle
Help with....
Refining a research topic
Managing and citing sources
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4+ scholarly sources
- at least 1 from 2016-2018
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4+ primary sources
- at least 2 from America's Historical Imprints
- Final paper: 10-12 pages, March 20
Paper Proposal, due Feb. 6
- Starting points for secondary research
- Search strategy and techniques
- Primary source collections
- Managing your sources
Today:
Activity
Find two good books on the history of women in colonial America
Be prepared to demonstrate and explain your process
Broadest search
Get to know the filters
Ask Button for help
Books and ebooks
Best way to find related books
Subject-specific search engines
Find under "Research" tab
America: History and Life
Mostly journal articles
Primarily US and Canadian History
Search Strategy
1. Search techniques and keywords
2. Finding related items with subject headings
Activity
Go to America: History and Life (hint: it's a "database")
With a partner, compare the results of each pair of searches.
Which returns more results? Can you explain the difference?
1. colonial america VS "colonial america"
2. america VS america*
3. indigenous OR native VS indigenous AND native
Techniques
- Use quotation marks for phrase searches: “colonial america”
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Use truncation for variant word endings: child* retrieves child, children, childhood, childlike, childish
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Use OR for synonyms: indigenous OR native
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Use AND to combine two different concepts: slaves AND missionaries
Subject Headings
Subject headings are a powerful way to find related items
Activity
Locate subject headings related to these seminar topics:
Lecture 6: Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Lecture 13: The Peace of Paris
Lecture 12: Religion and Republicanism
Lecture 13: Loyalists and African Americans
Lecture 17: Constitution of the United States
Primary sources
- Collections of sources
- Full-text databases
Primary sources
Add one of the following terms to your search in SuperSearch or the catalogue. They work best when you add them to a "subject" box:
- personal narratives
- sources ***
- diaries
- letters
- correspondence
- interviews
Primary sources
~40,000 searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera
1639-1800
~6500 periodicals, 100s of thousands of individual issues
1693-1877
Full Text Databases
By Krokodyl (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Use proximity searches:
taxation NEAR5 representation (Imprints)
taxation N5 representation (Periodicals)
Use wildcards (esp. in Imprints)
taxation AND repre?entation
In Periodicals, must change field to TX to search full-text
Limit by date range
Tips for full-text search
Activity
Using America's Historical Imprints, locate two primary sources related to these lecture topics:
Lecture 6: Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Lecture 13: The Peace of Paris
Lecture 12: Religion and Republicanism
Lecture 13: Loyalists and African Americans
Lecture 17: Constitution of the United States
Managing your sources
Zotero
- Add sources as you find them
- Store, organize, take notes on them
- Generate and format citations in Chicago style
Research Guide
Research Help
Thank you!
Questions?
3P16
By jdingle
