04/19/23Marcie Jacklin, B.Sc., MLISTourism and Environment Librarian

mjacklin@brocku.caext 3960

Ecotourist04/19/23

Assignment: Part I04/19/23

Assignment One Part I and II –

10 % Help you mastermaster the skills and techniques

of information retrieval Part I – make a list of citations for several

different types of information resources

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Marcie’s top seven tips for this assignment

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Tip #1 Don’t leave this assignment until the last day

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Tip # 2 Selecting a topic You can select “any

environmental issue that has a sustainable development or environmental policy dimension. You may choose a topic that also has links to tourism….”

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Tips for selecting a topic TIP : Avoid choosing a topic which is

too broad or too narrow E.g birdwatching – 32,500,000 results

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Start looking for a topic with the library’s new SuperSearch A “web-scale discovery tool” You can search the contents of multiple

library catalogues and indexes at the same time (like google but more scholarly sources)

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Note the menu on the left side04/19/23

SuperSearch allow you to: Search by keyword Check availability Limit by format type (very important for

this assignment) and other criteria Do an advanced search (very important for

focusing your research) Sort your results by relevance or year of

publication

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Citation information is available in Supersearch

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SOLD OUT 04/19/23

Format types in SuperSearch Depending on your keywords and the

number of results: Academic (scholar, peer-reviewed) journals Magazines News Books eBooks

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Tip # 3 Use SuperSearch to find better keywords

and subject headings

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Keywords Birds Bird watching or birdwatching or birding Niagara Peninsula Niagara River

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Subject Headings Bird watching - Ontario – Niagara

Peninsula Bird watchers Tourism Ecotourism Sustainable tourism (Obsession; over-determination)

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Subject headings allow you to find relevant articles on your topic E.g. Hunting without guns

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Tip # 4 Selecting the best database(s) Depends on your topic SuperSearch; Leisure, Recreation and

Tourism Abstracts; Canadian Newsstand; Google; Google Scholar and Google Books

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Research Guides by Program04/19/23

Videos coming soon!04/19/23

Tip # 5 Refining keywords for larger databases and

using field searches/boolean

Less can be more e.g. use habitat instead of

habitat loss May need 3 or 4 concepts

Birds Conservation international

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Keywords and concepts Use as many

concepts as

possible to

reduce the

number of

results

Example (birds or “bird watch* or birdwatch*”) and

ecotour* Birdwatching; birdwatcher; ecotourism;

ecotourist

Then limit by format type and/or year of publication

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Google Advance Search04/19/23

Tip # 6 Scholarly peer reviewed academic articles

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Key features04/19/23

Key features Detailed titles Can be multiple authors Reports original research Detailed charts, diagrams etc Bibliography Indication of peer-reviewed process

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Example of citation information The value of species rarity in biodiversity

recreation: A birdwatching example. By: Booth, Josephine E.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Evans, Karl L.; Armsworth, Paul R. Biological Conservation. Nov2011, Vol. 144 Issue 11, p2728-2732. 5p. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.018.

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Tip # 7 Getting HELP TA’s

Research a topic in…. (for videos) Research Help desk TREN 1F90 E-classroom Drop-in Clinics

TBA (me) Me

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Research Help Desk Main floor (my availability)

Thurs Oct 11 5 to 7 pm Thurs Oct 18 5 to 7 pm Sunday Oct 25 5 to 7 pm

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TREN 1F90 E-classroom Clinics Bring your own laptop to work along or

borrow one from circulation You can come and go but I will try and

help people out as they arrive

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Drop-in schedule Tues Oct 2 2:30 – 4 pm Classroom B Fri Oct 12 11:00 – 12:30 pm “ Thurs Oct 25 7 – 8 pm “ Fri Oct 26 noon- 2 pm “

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