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HIST 4P36
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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10+ secondary sources
- 2 from 2016 - 2018
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Primary sources
- no set number, but "must be at your paper's core"
- Final paper: 4000 words, March 22
Essay Proposal, due Feb. 8
- 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
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
PhD and MA theses
All subject areas
Search Strategy
1. Search techniques and keywords
2. Finding related items with subject headings
Activity
Go to America: History and Life
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:
Seminar 3: Religion and Political Ideas
Seminar 4: Colonial Relations with Britain
Seminar 7-8: Constitutional Thought
Seminar 9: Race, Slavery, Political Thought
Seminar 10: Education and American Political Ideas
Post your headings here: goo.gl/vtoDtq
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
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
Locate at least 2 sources related to these seminar topics:
Seminar 3: Religion and Political Ideas
Seminar 4: Colonial Relations with Britain
Seminar 7-8: Constitutional Thought
Seminar 9: Race, Slavery, Political Thought
Seminar 10: Education and American Political Ideas
Post links here: goo.gl/vtoDtq
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?