SOAN 820
Fall 2020 library workshop
our page and slides:
Thanks to your feedback...
what is and isn't on the agenda today:
On the agenda
- Bibliographic Management with Zotero
- Setting up Google Scholar with Findit@Concordia
- Accessing resources at Concordia and beyond
- Getting help
- >>your say: Research Data Management<<
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Literature Review Sources
- Subject-Specific vs Multidisciplinary Databases
- Search Strategies & Keywords
- Zotero Q&A
NOT on the agenda
but follow the links to learn more about...
Bibliographic Management & Zotero
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 an indication that the Zotero connector is installed:
If you don't see the folder icon (or an icon that looks like a sheet of paper or a book) click on the extensions icon (looks like a puzzle piece) and make sure that the Zotero Connector is PINNED. The pin 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 instead choose to enable the Zotero Web library and save your citations online).
Zotero desktop software library:
Once citations are saved in your Zotero library you can create a bibliography:
- select the items or the folder of items you want to include [right-click in the Zotero desktop software for Windows]
- select "Create Bibliography"
- select a citation style
- paste the citations into your Word document
RECOMMENDED for today:
Create a NEW COLLECTION for items you will be trying to save today, and name it something like
SOAN 820
OPTIONAL:*
Download the detailed Zotero exercises and instructions from our GradProSkills Zotero workshop:
* we can go over these at the end of the session, or you can try it out on your own and ask questions instead.
Setting up Google Scholar with Findit@Concordia
Accessing resources
the Zotero Connector automatically
detects the Concordia Library proxy
Zotero also helps with access to online resources
accept the proxy!
How can you access resources at Concordia?
Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films
what if the library doesn't have it ONLINE?
request/reserve a book and pick it up later....
or request a CHAPTER scan online.
what if the library DOESN'T have it?
FIND:
Duina F. “Consciousness in Classical Sociological Theories.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 25, no. 9-10, 2018, pp. 99–124.
Search for it in any
library worldwide.
requesting books works the same way, just make sure to select Libraries Worldwide from the facets on the left...
...or in Advanced Search
FIND:
Canadian Review of Sociology
What about JOURNAL browsing?
Option 1:
Limit your Sofia search by FORMAT
JOURNAL browsing:
Option 2:
Use the E-journals search
Option 1:
Limit your Sofia search by FORMAT
JOURNAL browsing:
Option 2:
Use the E-journals search
OR...
still unsure or CONFUSED ?
Searching Sofia video
still unsure or CONFUSED ?
Librarian for Sociology & Anthropology
susie.breier@concordia.ca
Find me on "ZOOM WITH A LIBRARIAN":
Wednesdays 1-3 + (usually) Thursdays 10-12
https://library.concordia.ca/help/questions
your subject librarian
On the agenda
- Bibliographic Management with Zotero
- Setting up Google Scholar with Findit@Concordia
- Accessing resources at Concordia and beyond
- Getting help
- >>your say: Research Data Management<<
-
Literature Review Sources
- Subject-Specific vs Multidisciplinary Databases
- Search Strategies & Keywords
- Zotero Q&A
Research Data Management
part of our RESEARCH SUPPORT offerings & guides
Questions? Comments?
REMINDER:
our page:
You need to find an online article that serves as a comprehensive guide to, or at least outlines, important & emerging sociological or anthropological scholarship about:
- migration, diaspora, integration
- STS and algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence
- methodologies
- south asian diaporas and labour, youth, multiculturalism
- the anthropology of development
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colonialism, decolonialism, feminism
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Literature Review Sources
More lit review sources on your SOAN 820 page
for example:
Subject-specific vs. multidisciplinary databases
I need to find articles on climate change for my essay. What difference will it make, if any, whether I search in Sofia, Google Scholar, Anthropology Plus Database, Indigenous Studies Portal or PsycINFO?
Go find out for yourselves!
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Use either the Subject Guides -- or the Databases by Subject -- to find a database which is new to you and which might be of interest.
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Search for a simple topic of your choice and compare results.
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Let us know what you found.
tell us what you found
REMINDER/ TAKE AWAY
Subject databases:
Sofia Discovery tool:
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
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 to search for literature on a topic
my advice:
use multidisciplinary library article databases & Google Scholar to broaden your search across disciplines and find connections
use subject-specific ARTICLE DATABASES like to SocINDEX to focus your search using a disciplinary lens
On the agenda
- Bibliographic Management with Zotero
- Setting up Google Scholar with Findit@Concordia
- Accessing resources at Concordia and beyond
- Getting help
- >>your say: Research Data Management<<
-
Literature Review Sources
- Subject-Specific vs Multidisciplinary Databases
- Search Strategies & Keywords
- Zotero Q&A
Search strategies
& keywords
library search tips and tricks for
ARTICLE DATABASES
boolean operators, truncation, phrase searching:
(YouTube, 7 mins)
Developing your search strategy: VIDEO
from our Library Skills Tutorial- Search Strategies:
BONUS MATERIAL
not on our agenda
Grad spaces
5th floor:
- 4 dissertation writers’ rooms
- Your own quiet reading room
- Lounge, kitchenette & book shelves
- Dedicated printer/copier/scanner
Though this floor is still closed, these spaces await you!
[Findit@Concordia set-up section at 4:00 mins]
Google Scholar how-to video on "cited by" searching [for SOCI 612]
After a very successful conference presentation of yours, the editors of Sociology Mind journal invite you to submit your paper for publication.
How should you proceed?
Open Access Journals:
Run like the wind! That particular journal is not legit, and you mostly shouldn't trust journals that are pursuing you.
Navigating Colonial
Library Terminology &
Ideological Structures:
There is a tension between finding keywords and subjects that will result in the most comprehensive search, and using respectful & appropriate terminology.
Terminology
adapted from Michelle Lakes' 2019 FPST 202 slides
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.
adapted from Michelle Lakes' 2019 FPST 202 slides
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)
Part of a larger ideological structure...
adapted from Michelle Lakes' 2019 FPST 202 slides
Tips for navigating these waters
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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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sometimes "standard" (white settler) terms have to be used when searching. See these search strategies for example.
- Learn more at the GradProSkills Workshop: Researching Indigenous Topics at the Library.
Sociology and Anthropology Professional Development Seminar - PhD students
By susie breier
