SOAN 820 + ANTH/SOCI 660
Fall 2024 library workshop
TO FIND THESE SLIDES & MORE:
Google: SOAN 820 concordia library
course guide for grad students:
RESOURCES FOR YOU
ASK QUESTIONS - GET HELP:
at the AskUs desk
via chat
via email
by phone
Need assistance beyond a quick chat,
and have a bit of time to plan?
your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca (she/her)
ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment
Text
ZOOM & H-1132 office hours: most Tuesdays
3:30-5:30 pm
OR by appointment
AskUs Desk
Webster LB building:
most Tuesdays 1-3
most Fridays 4-5
SUGGESTION for today:
Create a NEW COLLECTION for items you will be trying to save today, and name it something like
PRO SEMINAR
- practice and ask questions throughout this session
- review the basic Zotero instruction SLIDESon your own time
- attend a GradProskills workshop just on Zotero
- come ask questions during my Zoom reference/office hours.
More ways to improve your Zotero skills
Thanks to your feedback...
what we might and might not cover today:
On the agenda
follow the links to learn about:
Accessing resources at Concordia & beyond with Sofia
the Zotero Connector automatically
detects the Concordia Library proxy
*ASIDE: Zotero also helps with access to online resources
Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films
what if the library doesn't have it ONLINE?
request a book and pick it up later....
or use the call number and locate button to find it
what if the library DOESN'T have it at all?
search for it in any library worldwide:
... and simply request it!
but you CAN'T borrow
eBOOKS from other libraries!!
WHAT ABOUT JOURNALS?
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES:
FIND:
Duina F. Consciousness in Classical Sociological Theories. Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 25, no. 9-10, 2018, pp. 99–124.
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
JOURNAL FINDING/BROWSING
Use E-journals searching
FIND:
Canadian Review of Sociology
OR:
use library article databases & google scholar to search for literature on a topic
use FIND options like Sofia and E-journal searching to access items, but:
Accessing items -final words of advice
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
Subject-specific vs. multidisciplinary databases
why does it matter?
why do you want to know?
where you search affects
what you find and how you find it
Tweet reproduced with permission from Hannah @hannajaneface
why use them?
where can you FIND them?
what are they?
Subject-specific and multidisciplinary databases
Subject-specific/specialized databases: what are they?
Multidisciplinary databases: what are they?
Where can you FIND them?
OPTION 1
WHEN YOU ARE EXPLORING BY DISCIPLINE:
OPTION 2
WHEN YOU KNOW THE NAME or YOU ARE EXPLORING BY TYPE:
OPTION 3
SHORTCUT ON YOUR SOAN 820 PAGE:
Subject-specific databases:
If you don't have a topic of your own to try, enter any of these search queries and compare results
- "climate change"
- bodybuilding
- "food policy"
Get out of your comfort zone: try to find -- and enter a search in -- a database that you have never used before but that might be related to your topic(s) of interest.
Try it for yourself
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
SOFIA DISCOVERY TOOL
MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC DATABASES
LIT REVIEW JOURNALS
Number of search results you will get
Number of search words you should enter
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
use library article databases & google scholar to search for literature on a topic
use the Sofia Discovery tool to find and access known items, but not for advanced/in-depth searches on a topic
my advice:
use multidisciplinary library article databases & Google Scholar to broaden your search across disciplines and find connections
use subject-specific databases like SocINDEX or ProQuest Combined Canadian to focus your search using a disciplinary or thematic lens
Tweet reproduced with permission from Hannah @hannajaneface
“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)
Library as ideological structure...
adapted from Michelle Lakes' 2019 FPST 202 slides
where books sit on the shelf matters:
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS
On our 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.
...
subject headings matter:
Tips for navigating these waters
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be aware of libraries as ideological structures
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make use of specialized subject-specific databases when relevant.
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follow Indigenous authors in all your favourite ways, chase their citation trails in tools like Google Scholar.
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note that sometimes "standard" (white settler) terms have to be used when searching. See terminology tips: black studies guide - Indigenous resources guide
- Learn more at the GradProSkills Workshops, ie: Researching Indigenous Topics at the Library.
After a very successful conference presentation of yours, the editors of International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research invite you to submit your paper for publication.
--How should you proceed?
Open Access Journals:
Open Access
find out more on our website
Literature Review Sources
You need to find an article that serves as a comprehensive guide to, or that outlines and situates, seminal or emerging scholarship and scholars (in sociology, anthropology or allied disciplines) around.....
Literature Review Sources!
SEE ALSO:
More lit review sources: others' theses and dissertations
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
"Cited by" or Cited Reference searching
once you have found a relevant article, use
"cited by" to find more recent related material
Findit@Concordia set-up section at 4:00 mins
Google Scholar how-to video on "cited by" searching [for SOCI 612 course]
Google scholar "cited by" competitors:
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
Questions? Comments?
BONUS MATERIAL
Search strategies
& keywords
| TIP | WHAT IT DOES | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
|
AND |
Combines concepts. Limits how many results your search produces |
police AND violence |
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OR |
Allows for synonyms or alternative terms. Increases the number or results your search produces. |
violence OR brutality |
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* |
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) |
search tips & tricks: standard library databases
handout to download:
search strategies
Example of a keyword
combination in SocINDEX
example of a search in "standard"
EBSCO Article Databases
what about
Google Scholar?
Google Scholar strategies:
- use OR for alternative terms
- use quotation marks " " for phrases
- DON'T use AND (it is implied)
- DON'T use * ( happens automatically)
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings")
AND
(racis* OR discrimination OR bias or profiling)
AND
(defund OR aboli* OR reform)
IN EBSCO ARTICLE DATABASES
IN GOOGLE SCOLAR:
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") (racism OR discrimination OR bias OR profiling) (defund OR abolition OR reform)
GOOGLE SCHOLAR findit@concordia TIP:
(YouTube, 7 mins)
Developing your search strategy: VIDEO
from our Library Skills Tutorial- Search Strategies:
Grad spaces
Grad spaces
5th floor:
- 4 dissertation writers’ rooms
- Your own quiet reading room
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Lounge, kitchenette & book shelves
Bibliographies & Citations
Start by picking a
citation style:
Citation formatting & management good practices
For example:
What about automatic citation tools?
take your pick:
a) citation generators*
b) citation management tools*
* Make sure to double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use the Library's citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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.
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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.