SOCI 409

 Fall 2024 library workshop

 Grad student guide with lots of today's stuff:

RESOURCES FOR YOU

2. Statement of research topic and initial bibliography:

...convincing statement of your proposed research topic in three parts: 1) a contextualisation of your topic, including its relevance in both the academy and society at large; 2) an outline of your topic, including your preliminary research question(s); and 3) an initial bibliography comprised of your “golden articles” (3-4), which will set the stage for your preliminary bibliography. For library assistance, please contact Susie Breier by email or see her in office hours: Tuesdays, 15h30-17h30, Zoom, or by appt. 

today's context

1. news stories: thematic overview

your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca

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at the AskUs desk

via chat

via email

by phone

YOUR AGENDA

YOUR Agenda...

 Agenda

1. ZOTERO bibliographic management [zotero slides]
2. LITERATURE REVIEW sources & examples
3. Subject-Specific databases for your topic 
4. Search Strategies & KEYWORDS (boolean operators, wildcards)

5. "Cited by" searching: Google scholar and beyond

6. Ensure articles are academic / PEER-REVIEWED / scholarly
7. ACCESS STUFF at Concordia & beyond using Sofia
8. Referencing and bibliographies (Chicago)

Where can you find a set of academic articles that situate and summarize important sociological or social science scholarship around past and current topics, with titles such as:

• Drug War Politics

• The opioid crisis: the war on drugs is over. Long live the war on drugs

• Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review
   

• Sociological Perspectives on Addiction

• Drugs, addiction, and the social bond
   

• The forms of climate action

• Sociology and the Climate Crisis

• Climate Change and Society
   

• Men, masculinities, and gender-based violence

• Gender and Social movements 
   

• The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates
• Social science research on America's death row
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• Language Policies and Language Rights
• Nationalism in Settled Times
   
• On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century
• Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities
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• Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective
• The social movement for reproductive justice: Emergence, intersectional strategies, and theory building
   

• Sociological perspectives on artificial intelligence

• The Society of Algorithms
   
• Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality
• Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism
• Hook-Up and Dating Apps

Literature Review Sources!

Try it for yourself!

Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!

More Lit review sources: Theses

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

Google Scholar how-to video on "cited by" searching [for SOCI 612 course]

Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!

Google Scholar competitors:

think of YOUR relevant (or 'golden') sources and give it a try!

Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!

  Search strategies

& keywords

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:

("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:  

 Subject-specific databases for your topic

 Subject-specific databases: what are they?

 Subject-specific databases:

where can I FIND them?

or:

or:

 Subject-specific databases: why use them?

Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!

subject-specific databases can help you focus your search and take advantage of specialized search features.

 Subject-specific databases: why use them?

reminder of another example:

Sociology subject database:

Sofia Discovery tool:

 Subject-specific databases for various topics

My climate change searches:

climate change in Sofia:

climate change in Google Scholar:

climate change in iPortal:

climate change in Anthropology Plus:

Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!

use multidisciplinary library article databases & Google Scholar to broaden your search across disciplines and find connections

use subject-specific ARTICLE DATABASES like SocINDEX or MEDLINE to focus your search using a disciplinary or thematic lens

my advice:

Accessing resources at Concordia & beyond
using Sofia

what if the library doesn't have it ONLINE?

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:

search for it in any library worldwide:

FIND:

JOURNAL finding/browsing option:

 still unsure or CONFUSED ?

Accessing items -final words of advice

SCHOLARY /ACADEMIC / PEER-REVIEWED SOURCES

test yourself - which one(s) is/are peer-reviewed?

still not quite getting it?

Concordia video

In many Library Databases you can use a checkbox:

Referencing & Bibliographic Management

BUT FIRST.

WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT CITING & CITATIONS????

some different perspectives

Reference formatting & management good practices

use a citation style guide:

CHICAGO STYLE: typical examples:

in-text citations

People from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen and Akrami 2014)

Hakkinen and Akrami (2014) found that “individuals are receptive to climate change communications, regardless of ideological position” (65).

CHICAGO style: typical examples:

Bibliography

Doherty, Thomas. J., and Susan Clayton. 2011. “The psychological impacts of              global climate change.” American Psychologist 66, no. 4: 265-276.

Hakkinen, Kristi, and  Nazar Akrami. 2014. “Ideology and climate change                      denial.” Personality and Individual Differences 70: 62-65.
 

McCright, Aston M., and Riley E. Dunlap. 2011. “Cool dudes: The denial of                    climate change among conservative white males in the United States.”                Global environmental change 21, no.4: 1163-1172.

References

What about automatic citation tools?

a) citation generators

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!

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...........