SOCI 415
Fall 2022 library workshop
Course guide for review:
Grad student guide with lots of today's stuff:
RESOURCES FOR YOU
today's context
Your upcoming assignments in this course include a satement on positionality, three uses of specific research methods, and a final research project.
You will need to gather and cite extensive lists of peer-reviewed references for the final project, including an in-depth literature review that situates and summarizes the current scholarship around your topic and that justifies the relevance of your research question.
Research scholars in sociology and other disciplines often contend that citation management software is an indespensable tool when collecting references, resulting in significant time savings during the preparation and final production of the research report.
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...larger context
In the Sociology Honours (SOCI 409) course this semester, students will complete an independent research project consisting of a critical literature review of an area of sociological study...
Students will be expected to thoroughly familiarise themselves with the literature in their chosen area while developing a systematic method for doing so.... gaining a solid command of key findings, developing an original argument about the state of knowledge, understanding key debates in the field.
Students will be asked to model their papers on those found in Sociology Compass, an international journal publishing surveys of current research on specific topic areas in the discipline.
YOUR AGENDA
YOUR Agenda...
need help with any of those items?
ASK QUESTIONS - GET HELP
Need assistance beyond a quick chat,
and have a bit of time to plan?
your subject librarian: susie.breier@concordia.ca
ZOOM office hours most Tuesdays 3-5, or by appointment
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ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays 3-5,
OR by appointment
AskUs Desk, LB building: most Wednesdays 1-3
http://bit.do/asksusieonzoom
YOUR Agenda
- ZOTERO bibliographic management [zotero slides]
- LITERATURE REVIEW sources & examples
- Search Strategies & KEYWORDS (boolean operators, wildcards)
- SAGE Research Methods Online
- Ensure articles are academic / PEER-REVIEWED / scholarly
- ACCESS STUFF at Concordia & beyond using Sofia
- Referencing and bibliographies (APA)
Can you find an academic article that situates and summarizes important sociological scholarship about topics such as:
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social media and social movements
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racial disparities and food insecurity
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evolution of single-parent families
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settler colonialism and violence
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socially engaged art and activism
Literature Review Sources!
your topic in these sources?
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
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Findit@Concordia set-up section at 4:00 mins
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
Example of a keyword
combination in SocINDEX
example of a search in "standard"
EBSCO Article Databases
library search tips and tricks for
ARTICLE DATABASES
boolean operators, truncation, phrase searching:
another search example in this handout:
(YouTube, 7 mins)
Developing your search strategy: VIDEO
from our Library Skills Tutorial- Search Strategies:
Subject-specific databases for YOUR topic
I need to find articles on climate change for my assignment. What difference will it make, if any, whether I search in Sofia, Google Scholar, Anthropology Plus, Indigenous Studies Portal, PsycINFO ...or SocINDEX?
where can I FIND all these databases?
or:
or:
My climate change searches:
climate change in Sofia:
climate change in Google Scholar:
climate change in iPortal:
climate change in Anthropology Plus:
reminder of another example:
Sociology subject database:
Sofia Discovery tool:
Go see for yourselves!
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 iPortal to focus your search using a disciplinary or thematic lens
my advice:
Accessing resources at Concordia & beyond
using Sofia
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!!
FIND:
Duina F. Consciousness in Classical Sociological Theories. Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 25, no. 9-10, 2018, pp. 99–124.
TIP: go back the last slide to see how to find and request it via Interlibrary Loans!
JOURNAL finding/browsing option:
Use the E-journals search
FIND:
Canadian Review of Sociology
still unsure or CONFUSED ?
use library article databases & google scholar to search for literature on a topic
use Sofia to search for and access items like (e)books, journals and films, but:
Accessing items -final words of advice
SCHOLARY /ACADEMIC / PEER-REVIEWED SOURCES
peer-reviewed articles checklist
test yourself - which one(s) is/are peer-reviewed?
This blog entry reports on an interesting study which involved many academics, but it is NOT an academic/scholarly/ peer-reviewed article
This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: academic language, distinct sections, long bibliography of references, appears in a journal which can be verified as peer-reviewed.
still not quite getting it?
Here are some tips & tools.....
Concordia video
In many Library Databases you can use a checkbox:
VIDEO: peer-review in 3 minutes
APA Referencing & Bibliographic Management
Start by picking a
citation style:
Reference formatting & management good practices
use a citation style guide:
APA STYLE: typical examples:
in-text citations
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).
APA style: typical examples:
Bibliography
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 those citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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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.
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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...........