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Google: concordia library sociology subject guide
Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films
Webster Library, downtown (SGW). LB building, across from the Hall building
Vanier Library, Loyola campus,
VL building, straight down from the shuttle bus stop and across the Chapel
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd West
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
socindex
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) |
example of a keyword search in other EBSCO databases
YouTube video, 3 mins
scholarly / peer-reviewed articles checklist
This blog entry reports on an interesting study which involved many academics, but it is NOT an academic/scholarly/ peer-reviewed article and was not published in a journal
This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: published in an peer-reviewed journal, academic language, distinct sections such as abstract and introduction, discussion/conceptualization, and a long bibliography of references.
VIDEO: peer-review in 3 minutes
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 the Library's citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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.
Sometimes also called bibliographic management tools, these allow you to:
There are several citation management tools available.
Concordia Library provides support for Zotero.
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 is 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
Learn how to make zines and notebooks, experiment with fibre arts technology, and much, much more:
Libraries and library workers don't necessary have all the answers, but we are definitely part of the evolving conversation.