Research for MATC Classes August 2014

Stephanie Willen Brown

Librarian, Park Library

swbrown@unc.edu

919.843.8300

Questions about Pre-Orientation Exercise?• Issues with any of these tasks?

• Find an article in EBSCO – more scholarly, more magazines – less clutter than Google

• Email the article to Stephanie (and maybe to yourself to read later?!)

• Chatted with Stephanie or another UNC staffer

• You’ve got great research tools in your toolbox.

• Now let’s learn more about those tools!

About You …• How long since your undergraduate degree?

• 0-2 years• 3-6 years• 6-10 years• >10 years

• Library experience?• In undergraduate• Other graduate program

• What do you remember about using the library?

• What helped you prepare to do research @ MATC?

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Librarian as Coach• Neutral

• Experienced working with MATC students’ research

• Independent

• Interdisciplinarity

• Silly questions ok

• Second opinion

• No judgment!

Where, How to Search?•UNC Catalog for books

•Venn diagram for better searching

•EBSCO, aka Library Search Engines aka “Databases”• Quality “indexes”

• Links to free full-text

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Basics: Books & Articles – FREE!• UNC Library will deliver books to your home for free!

∗• We will also scan articles for you if they’re not online.

• To participate, register for the University Library’s Interlibrary Borrowing Service (“ILB”).

Students who live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro must go to UNC to retrieve books.

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Finding Books

• Search by keyword

• Identify books you want

• Request item

• Borrow for 30-90 days

• Renew online!

Book Results

Practice Research Question

The audience for online-only TV shows• EBSCO search = 0

• Emotional reaction:• Really, there are no articles on this topic?• EBSCO is stupid & won’t help me.• Stephanie was wrong.

• Sort of true.

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Good Search Terms

Audience for online-only TV shows

audience OR rating*

netflix OR roku OR “Internet

television” OR TiVo OR

Orange is the New Black

AND

Translated to Search Engine-ese

•(audience OR rating*) AND (netflix OR roku OR “INTERNET television” OR TiVo OR Orange is the New Black)

Look Outside the Box

Citing in EBSCO

If you “Add to folder” in EBSCO, Sign In! first

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First: Create a new Account

Now: Safe to “Add to Folder”

Look for PDF/ HTML to Get Full-text

Use Find @ UNC if no pdf, html link

Full-text of articlesomewhere else

Options for gettingfull-text via Interlibrary Loan

When Are You Done With Research?

•Past experience?

•Thoughts?

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Options for Managing Citations• What

• Reformat in MLA, APA, etc. formats• Save citations in folders you choose (for class, for project,

for thesis)

• How

• Export formatted citations from EBSCO & other library search engines.

• RefWorks: Online, anywhere. Works with any browser. Somewhat clunky.

• Zotero: Browser plugin. Robust. Must be installed. Works best with FireFox.

http://guides.lib.unc.edu/jomcCitations

Tips from Prior MATC Students• Home delivery of books is terrific• Use to find full-text of articles• Use Interlibrary Loan to get articles that aren’t online!

• Course pages very useful: Links work for all classes

• Ask Stephanie for help with search terms• Chat• Twitter• Email• Phone

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