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LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS

LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS. GNED 500 Global Citizenship: from Social Analysis to Social Action 24-25 Jan 2011 ssw Tom Kokkinias , Instructor; Liz Dobson, Librarian. Social Action Project. Sample topics: Equality & inequality Poverty War Pollution Peak oil Cars and the environment Etc.

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LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS

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  1. LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS GNED 500 Global Citizenship: from Social Analysis to Social Action 24-25 Jan 2011 sswTom Kokkinias , Instructor; Liz Dobson, Librarian

  2. Social Action Project Sample topics: • Equality & inequality • Poverty • War • Pollution • Peak oil • Cars and the environment • Etc

  3. GNED 500: Social analysis to social actionWorld electricity map (Source: NASA photo – 5 Oct 2008)

  4. World electricity map (detail)(Source: NASA photo – 5 Oct 2008)

  5. OECD countries (2009)

  6. World Energy Consumption (Source: International Energy Agency (2008) OECD - Approx 50%

  7. OECD Population & World(Source: OECD World Factbook (2009) 17.7%

  8. World Population Chart1950 – Projected 2050Source: International Monetary Fund ,2004)

  9. … Library overview…

  10. library.centennialcollege.ca Distance Access

  11. Start your research • Get background information – Internet, encyclopedias, books… • Get research reports & tune into the issues and debates- electronic databases (‘e-resources’) for journal & newspaper articles , Internet (selected sites)…

  12. Need to revise your topic? Once you have done some searching, you may find that you will need to revise your topic Possible Reasons: • You can’t find publications on your topic • Your topic is discussed, but not in the way you expected • Your topic is too general – you discover that it has too many aspects (‘sub-topics’) to handle in one essay • You see a lot of material on a related aspect that you find more interesting and/or more practical

  13. Google Scholar – for academic journal articles on the Internet

  14. Google Books – for e-books on the Internet

  15. Personal contacts…

  16. … Research help…

  17. Purdue University Library – Online Writing Lab (OWL) website on APA style…

  18. About Plagiarism

  19. Your essay normally includes 3types of material… • Your ideas • Your summaries of others’ ideas and facts • Quotations from your sources (MLA Handbook, 2009)

  20. From: Centennial College Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Policy

  21. … E-resources in the library(journal & newspaper articles, & specialized databases) …

  22. About databases & journal articles… Databases: Licensed electronic resources - many let you search tens of thousands of articles at one time Journals: • Published in issues regularly (weekly, monthly, etc.) • Each issue contains several articles (essays) by different authors

  23. About databases & the Internet – what’s the difference…? Internet Quality varies widely Inherent commercial bias Huge Limited user search tools Databases (E-resources) More academic info, more consistent reliable quality Commercial free Big Precision tools for searching 40

  24. Sample record in a database – Note: FIELDS Manage your results… print, email, save, etc…

  25. Sample APA style citation from Research Library database (ProQuest vendor)

  26. Sample search for full text articles in a database…

  27. ORBoolean operator that collects

  28. ANDBoolean operator that combines…

  29. LIMIT tools – e.g. fields

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