PCUL 5P02Library Research

Justine Cotton, Liaison Librarian for CPCF

Welcome!

Virtual Tour of the Library

RefWorks

Conducting a “literature review”

• First steps

• In-depth

Getting what you need

• Borrowing/Browsing the stacks

• RACER Interlibrary Loan

Other Useful Tips

The Library WebsiteLinks to RACER,

RefWorksand more

Access to library

catalogue, articles and

more

Renew books,

see fines, etc.

Get to the

Research Guides

5P02 Research Guide

This is also linked from your Sakai

page

“Literature Review” – first steps

Use a general tool, like SuperSearch

It’s a great way to test the water and see what’s out there.

SuperSearch is basically a Google-like

DISCOVERY LAYER,Bringing together the library catalogue and a number of

library databases.

WorldCat

Is a union catalogue of libraries from

around the world.

Use it to find books that we don’t have

at Brock.

Amazon is another tool.

Other Databases

We have over 500 databases

Individual databases (vs. SuperSearch) often include special search features and limiters.

One example – includes fields for director/film title

And is entirely focused on film and television periodicals

so less sifting.

Let’s do section 1 together

Use the Research Guide for all the links to the resources mentioned.

Use the RefWorks account to store what you find:

Login Name = PCUL5P02library

Password = lovethelibrary

More in-depth research

Reference Sources –why??

Mainly for the bibliographies & further reading lists

But also helpful for the historical significance and new angles to take

Proquest Dissertations

Provides subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861 and full-text of over 100,000 dissertations and theses.

Again, very useful for checking out the bibliographies AND…

Dissertations are often revised into books and the names you see (advisors, authors) may be key researchers in the field now.

Tracking Citations

A number of tools exist (Google Scholar, Web of Science, JSTOR)

Citations are of great importance in the sciences esp. STEM, less-so in the Humanities and Social Sciences –but still important for seeing articles/books that have had a lot of influence

Demo of Scholar vs. Web of Science vs. JSTOR

Finding Journals

Library Catalogue

Ulrichs

MLA Directory of Periodicals

Why?

Ideas for publishing

See if it’s peer-reviewed

We don’t subscribe to every journal out there

Part II – hands-on

Final Tips

Useful Websites

Questions/Comments?

Getting in touch.