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1. Figuring out Sofia: does the library HAVE IT or NOT?
    
2. Beyond Sofia: SUBJECT-SPECIFIC search tools just for you
    
3. Search strategies 1:
   tips & tricks for entering and COMBINING SEARCH TERMS
    
4. Search strategies 2:
   navigating white settler LIBRARY TERMINOLOGY and structures
    
5. Finding ACADEMIC or SCHOLARLY sources
    
6. CITING your sources
    
7. Using ZOTERO software for automated bibliographies
    
8. Answers to your QUESTIONS:  reserves, library spaces, etc.

Figuring out Sofia: does the library HAVE IT or NOT?

what if the library DOESN'T have it?

search for it in any library worldwide...

... and simply request it!

another way to search worldwide:
set your search options on the left

Still not sure whether we have it or not?

BEYOND Sofia: subject-specific search tools just for you

example of a search in a specialized subject-specific source

subject-specific source: browse by topic

Search strategies part I:

helpful library tips and tricks

library search tips and tricks for "standard" article databases

example of a search in "standard"
EBSCO Article Databases

Search strategies part II:

Navigating library terminology

There is a tension between finding keywords and subjects that will result in the most comprehensive search, and using respectful & appropriate terminology

Terminology

Terminology

In the most common university library classification system (LCSH), the main subject heading for material about Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States is “Indians of North America”.

The term Indigenous is still very new in these systems. Though relevant, correct and appropriate, terms for nations such as the Kanien’kehá:ka or confederacies such as the Haudenosaunee are virtually non-existent in our Sofia Discovery .

On the library shelves, most books about First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples are found in the E classification area, for “History of North America”.  This represents an erasure of living peoples.

browse the shelf:

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS

“The library is always an ideological structure. It’s not just what goes into the library that matters, but how it’s organized and under which norms.”

“...The actual ‘information’ contained in libraries, and how it is organized ... somehow manages to construct a reality wherein whiteness is default, normal, civilized and everything else is Other.”  

Daniel Heath Justice, Ph.D, ACRL Choice Webinar: Indigenous Literatures, social justice and the decolonial library

nina de jesus, Locating the library in institutional oppression, In the library with the lead pipe (Sept 24, 2014)

adapted from Michelle Lake's FPST 201 slides, September 2019

... of which there are more examples:

Tips for navigating these waters

• sometimes you will have to use "standard" (white settler) terms when searching in  library databases and search tools. See the guide: Terminology & Search Strategies (bottom of page)
   
• make use of specialized subject-specific tools when relevant.  See the BEYOND SOFIA  section of these slides.
   
• Follow Indigenous authors in all your favourite ways, chase their citation trails in tools like Google Scholar.
   
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Finding ACADEMIC or SCHOLARLY sources

In Library Databases you can often simply use a checkbox to select only scholarly sources

TEST YOURSELF:

is it academic/scholarly/

peer-reviewed?

Citing Sources

Why cite?

• To meet the standards of university-level research
  =  because you often have no choice.
   
• To avoid plagiarism.
• To give credit where it is due.
   
• To clearly demonstrate the research you have done.
• To provide the reader (your prof or TA) with information on the sources you’ve consulted.

How do you cite?

use a citation style guide:

typical examples:

in-text citations (APA style)

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).

typical examples:

Bibliography (APA style)

References

Doherty, T. J., & Clayton, S. (2011). The psychological impacts of global climate change. American Psychologist, 66(4), 265-276.

Hakkinen, K., & Akrami, N. (2014). Ideology and climate change denial. Personality and Individual Differences, 70, 62-65.

McCright, A. M., & Dunlap, R. E. (2011). Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States. Global environmental change, 21(4), 1163-1172

What about automatic citation tools?

a) citation generators

Many library databases (for example, Sofia Discovery tool, EBSCO and ProQuest databases) and even 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,    ...........

1. DEMO

Once those two steps are completed and everything is installed, go to your favourite library database or to Google Scholar, and search for articles on a topic.

At the top right corner of your browser  you should see something like this:

If you don't see the folder icon (or an icon that looks like a sheet of paper) click on the extensions icon (looks like a puzzle piece) and make sure that Zotero is PINNED.  It will turn blue.

To save items to you Zotero library of citations, click on the folder icon (or paper or book  icon  if you are looking at only one citation)

By default ZOTERO tries to save items to your Zotero library in the desktop software you installed, but you can also choose to enable the  Zotero Web library  and save your citations there.

Zotero desktop library:

Web library:

Once citations are saved in your Zotero library you can create a bibliography:

1. select the items you want to include
2. click on the Create Bibliography icon
3. select a citation style
4. copy-paste the citations into your Word document