ANTH/SOCI 660
Fall 2022 library workshop
6
SUGGESTED 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 instructions on your own time
- attend a library or GradProskills workshop just on Zotero
- come ask questions during my Zoom reference/office hours.
More ways to improve your Zotero skills
our page and slides:
Thanks for your feedback!
your questions/requests
-
Accessing materials beyond the library (e.g. materials at another university); specific resources for graduate students
-
More bibliography tools like Zotero
-
How to look for definition of words
-
news archives, access to local material (montreal archives)
-
I think it can be helpful to consider when you have done enough research, and when it's time to just start writing. Often I carry on with compiling possible sources for too long. But this may be more of a writing skill than a research-related one.
YOUR "real life" tips & tricks:
-
Google
-
researching explanations of concepts/theories on Youtube
-
reverse image search
-
taking detailed notes as im thinking of ideas for research or school
-
I often ask professors for recommendations of where to start.
-
building out my research by scanning abstracts until I find a relevant paper, and then going through its bibliography.
who needs the library?
-
The most handy trick for me is directly looking at the discipline's databases...
-
or looking for a specific journal using the library's handy search engine: I usually find what I'm looking for.
-
I usually always refer to SocINDEX, personally! :)
library-specific tips
YOUR "real life" tips & tricks:
Thanks to your feedback...
what is and isn't on the agenda today:
On the agenda
...
follow the links to learn about:
lingering doubts or questions?
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
Text
ZOOM office hours: most Tuesdays 3-5,
OR by appointment
AskUs Desk, LB building: most Wednesdays 1-3
http://bit.do/asksusieonzoom
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.
TIP: go back the last slide to see how to find and request it via Interlibrary Loans!
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
JOURNAL FINDING/BROWSING
Use E-journals searching
FIND:
Canadian Review of Sociology
OR:
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
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
still unsure or CONFUSED ?
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.....
Literature Review Sources!
REMINDER:
our page:
More lit review sources on your SOAN 820 page
for example:
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]
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
Questions? Comments?
Subject-specific vs. multidisciplinary databases
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 databases: what are they?
Multidisciplinary databases: what are they?
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
Where can you FIND them?
REMINDER/QUICK TAKE AWAYS
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 or iPortal to focus your search using a disciplinary or thematic lens
ON YOUR OWN TIME: 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?
climate change in Sofia:
climate change in Google Scholar:
climate change in iPortal:
climate change in Anthropology Plus:
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:
Navigating Colonial
Library Terminology &
Ideological Structures:
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
-
be aware of libraries as ideological structures
-
make use of specialized subject-specific databases when relevant.
-
follow Indigenous authors in all your favourite ways, chase their citation trails in tools like Google Scholar.
-
note that sometimes "standard" (white settler) terms have to be used when searching. See these search strategies
- Learn more at the GradProSkills Workshop: Researching Indigenous Topics at the Library.
Did you find anything??
Save it to Zotero!!
BONUS MATERIAL
Search strategies
& keywords
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:
Grad spaces
Grad spaces
5th floor:
- 4 dissertation writers’ rooms
- Your own quiet reading room
-
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.
-
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.