library research workshop Fall 2024
GOOGLE: anth 315 concordia library
from yourAssignment Guidelines:
.... Students must identify 4 peer-reviewed sources that are directly relevant to their topic/research question(s). For each of your 4 sources, identify the author’s key arguments / methods and briefly explain the relevance for your proposed research.
... at least 2 of your 4 sources must be anthropological/ethnographic in focus
...APA-style citation preferred...If you are not using APA citation, you must clearly identify the other major citation format you are using (MLA/Chicago) and use it consistently.
What do YOU want to cover?
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Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films
Search for specific library books, ebooks, articles and films
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.
try some searches in our ARTICLE DATABASES
-- save your results to Zotero!!
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https://bit.ly/3YJieKS
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.
environmental justice social movements
select Google Scholar and try some searches -- save to Zotero!!
literature review JOURNAL
peer-reviewed articles
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
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https://bit.ly/3YJieKS
How to properly enter your KEYWORDS in Library Databases
handout to download:
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) |
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.
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings")
AND
(racis* OR discrimination OR bias or profiling)
AND
(defund OR aboli* OR reform)
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") (racism OR discrimination OR bias OR profiling) (defund OR abolition OR reform)
DEMO/TRY IT OUT
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,Canada Research Chair in Black Studies. from:"Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)", Dear Science and Other Stories,2021
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).
see this sample paper with a reference list on p. 17
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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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!
Sometimes also called bibliographic management tools, these allow you to:
There are several citation management tools available.
Concordia Library provides support for ZOTERO...........
Concordia Library provides support for Zotero.
Citation Management SOFTWARE
(for example RefWorks, Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero....)
Office hours:
ZOOM & H-1132
Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 pm
or by appointment
AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
most Tuesdays 1-3
most Fridays 4-5
pronouns: she/her/elle