Transcript PhD Students Workshop Academic Research & Communication Journal Articles Conference Proceedings Books Technical Reports Theses & Dissertations Websites Archives & Manuscripts Starting Your Research http://library.garrett.edu.

PhD Students Workshop
Academic Research
& Communication
Journal
Articles
Conference
Proceedings
Books
Technical
Reports
Theses &
Dissertations
Websites
Archives &
Manuscripts
Starting Your Research
http://library.garrett.edu
I. Finding Known Items:
Chasing & Understanding Citations
• Citation Chasing is when you start from a known title
or author, which is given by your professor or which
you find in the bibliography
• Most citations of articles include the following
information:
- Author
- Article title
- Journal or magazine title
- Volume and issue number of the journal or magazine
- Date of publication
- Page numbers of the article (some citations only include
the beginning page number)
• Reading a citation:
Zaru, Jean. “Biblical Teachings and the Hard Realities of
Life.” In Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous
Women’s Theology (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010),
123-137.
Pickstock, Catherine. “Liturgy, Art and Politics.” Modern
Theology 16.2 (April 2000): 159-180.
Ahn, Ilsup. Situating the Moral Self in Organizations
and Corporations: A Co-reconstructive Study of
Jürgen Habermas and Reinhold Niebuhr on the
Concept of the Positional Self. PhD diss., University of
Chicago, 2005.
• To find sources cited, try looking in the
following places:
1. Use the Library Catalog to find books,
journals, audiovisual materials, etc.
2. Search the NU Library’s e-journals list to
locate electronic copies of articles
3. Use ProQuest Dissertation Database to find
dissertations and theses.
• “Cited author searching” – Searching for
articles that reference the article that you are
reading or which cite an important researcher
in your field:
- Web of Science (includes social sciences and
humanities)
- Google Scholar
II. Exploring the Unknown:
Searching Keywords vs. Subjects
• When searching for information on a subject,
you can search by a keyword or subject heading:
Keyword Searching
Subject Searching
Natural language
Pre-defined “controlled”
vocabulary
Not always intuitive
Familiar
Searches all fields in catalog
record
May yield irrelevant results
Searches subject and/or
descriptor fields only
Results are usually relevant
to topic
• Keyword search when:
– You don’t know the exact title or author of the item
– A variety of terms describe the topic (e.g. History of
Christian symbols in 16th-century Europe)
– You want to retrieve information by grouping two or
more terms (e.g. mission OR evangelism)
– More than one discipline or topic is involved (e.g.
churches AND statistics)
– You want to exclude documents which are not about
your topic (e.g. depression NOT great)
– You don’t know the subject heading
• Subject search when:
- You are looking for information on a broad
topic
- You are looking for information about
something, someone, or someplace (e.g.
books about Thomas Merton, not those
written by him)
- If you don’t know a subject heading, try a
keyword search first. Take a look at the record
of an item and review what subject headings
are listed
• Start your search in the following places:
1. Library catalog
2. Databases relevant to your field
3. Google Scholar, which is linked to the NU Library’s
Resources
4. Dissertations in your field – Dissertations
generally include a comprehensive review of all
relevant literature
III. Background Research
• Finding background information about a
topic can help you put your research in a
broader context and help direct you to areas
for further research
• To get oriented to prior research on a topic or
learn more about a particular methodological
or theoretical approach, consult a handbook
or subject-specific encyclopedia.
• To find subject specific encyclopedias or
handbooks:
1. Check the online reference collection
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Blackwell Reference Books Online
Credo Reference
plus other encyclopedias listed under “general
reference and multi subject” on the databases page
2. Search the Library Catalog using the name
of your research area plus “handbook” or
“encyclopedia.”
- Look for encyclopedias covering relevant
disciplines, with signed articles by scholars
in the field and bibliographies of works
cited
IV. Browsing in print and online
• Browsing is less targeted than searching, but
can be good for accidental finds
1. WorldCat.org – You may search WorldCat to
find new titles in your field
2. Major journals in your field – You may look
at new issues when they arrive in the library
or when they are posted online
3. Browse the shelf for books with similar
topics
V. Citation Management: EndNote
• Use Endnote for citation management
• This will store the citations of the articles that
you import into it and make creating your
bibliography easier
• It will also allow you to keep track of what
you have found and what you have read
• To learn more about the Endnote:
- Attend the library workshop on 10/15 at 10:00.
- Read the document about getting started
using Endnote, which is available on the
library website
(http://library.garrett.edu/Getting%20started
%20with%20Endnote.pdf)
- Check the NU Library’s Endnote guide
- Make an appointment with the reference
librarian
VI. Citing Sources
• Check out the library website to learn about style
manuals and guides:
library.garrett.edu/index.php/citing-sources
- Turabian Style, 8th ed.
(call no: LB 2369 .T8 2013)
- Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.
(call no: Z 253 .U69 2010)
- APA style
(call no: Ref. BF 76.7 .P83 2010)
Research Help?
• Contact either Kathleen or Lucy
- Call at 847-866-3870 (Kathleen)
- Email at [email protected] or
[email protected]
- Chat with us (M-F 8:30 am – 4:30 pm)
- Visit during the reference help hours
(M/W/F 11 am – 1 pm)
Questions?