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WRI 128/129 Being and Becoming Library Discovery Session ”Locating the Scholarly Conversation” Meghan Testerman Psychology & Neuroscience Librarian Lewis Science Library. Scholarly Conversation.
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WRI 128/129 Being and Becoming Library Discovery Session ”Locating the Scholarly Conversation” Meghan TestermanPsychology & Neuroscience Librarian Lewis Science Library
Scholarly Conversation In order to enter a scholarly conversation you first have to locate a scholarly conversation. How do we do this?
Princeton University Library • One library, many locations. • Firestone is the main library and there are branches for art, science, engineering, music, manuscripts, archives, social sciences, and East Asian studies. • Within Firestone there is also a Children’s Library, video library, and the Center for Digital Humanities • On the Forrestal Campus we also have the Plasma Physics Library, and Annex, and the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), one of the world’s largest storage facilities.
Princeton University Library • 8 million print volumes • 1600 searchable electronic databases • eBooks & Audiobooks • Journals (print, electronic) • Videos • Data files • Manuscripts • Musical Scores • Maps • Visual Materials • Audio files • Ephemera • Clothing • Newspapers • Magazines • Reports • Grey Literature • Conference Proceedings • Theses/Dissertations • Data Sets • Art • Government Documents • Archival material • Psychological tests • Laws and Statues • Princeton Archives
Princeton University Library • Institutional Partners • Borrow Direct • Rapid lending of items from 12 partner institutions: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, University of Chicago, UPenn, Stanford, and Yale. • ~4 days turn around time • 8 week lending period • Article Express • Electronic document delivery of journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, or newspaper articles. • 1-2 days turn around time • ‘Non-returnable’, you can download or print the item • Interlibrary Loan (ILL) • Borrow from the world. • Turnaround can take some time, depending on the loaning library.
Locating the Scholarly Conversation • We are here to help! • Find Your Personal Librarian • Find Your Subject Librarian • Ask a Librarian via Email and Chat • We can help you: • Locate appropriate resources • Develop search terms • Navigate library resources • Locate research on your topic • Find background information • Help with citation management
Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Back to locating the scholarly conversation….
Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Citation Chaining • Using something you already have (such as an article or book) as bait to lead you to related material. • OR • Keyword Search • Searching for materials that share the same theme or topic.
Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Citation Chaining • SCOPUS • A database of peer reviewed articles with easy ways to connect one article to another via citation chaining, author searches, and suggested subject terms • Google Scholar • Also has citation chaining in the ‘cited by’ link and author profiles • WARNING: Google Scholar does not limit to peer-reviewed articles. Proceed with caution!
To the Library! Exercise 1: Citation Chaining • Select one of the ‘Multidisciplinary Scholarly Conversations’ articles • Go the library homepage and search for Scopus • Copy and paste the title of the article in the search box and click search. What did you find?
Locating the Scholarly Conversation • Keyword Search • Library Catalog: • Books, journals, videos, manuscripts, musical scores, visual materials, audio files • Articles + • Everything in the Catalog PLUS journal articles and other holding such as clothing, posters, transcripts, ephemera, technical reports • Databases • Best for journal articles and electronic resources • ProQuest Central • EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate • Web of Science • JSTOR • Or, use the Chose a Subject drop down list to filter databases by subject area
To the Library! Exercise 2: Keyword Searching • Select one of the ‘Exhibit Sources’ • Brainstorm a short list of topics or themes related to your resource • Go to this link and share your source and your list of topics and themes with the class. These will become your search terms: https://padlet.com/meghant1/writingseminar (example on the screen) • Go to the library homepage and search for EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate • Take your top two search terms and enter them in the search fields, one concept per box. What do your results look like? (Example: race in America, segregation, Detroit)