trex morrison final

TREX 1001 MorrisonResearching the Buddha in

America

Robert AitkenZen Master

Prof Traci Welch MoritzPublic Services Librarian

Assistant Professor

What we’ll do today The assignment : Research Zen master Robert

Aiken Find information to support an 8-10 page paper Resources to consider:

Internet informationBiographical informationBooks by and about himBook reviewsNews articlesJournal or magazine articles

The resourcesDo background research and build your search strategy

The resources: Internet Biographical references Catalogs News Databases Periodical Databases Book Reviews

First place to visit

Google and Wikipedia

Aren’t evil Can prove valuable Can’t be used as a source Turn to the databases for source

materials

From the University of Wisconsin Library, worksheet for evaluating web sites

First place to visit

While you’re on the internetFind biographical informationCheck out Youtube videos and

other multimedia sources for Mr. Aitken

Remember to check for validity of the website

To verify and cite

Reference Sources -- Biographical

Library Catalog -- POLAR

Any books by or about him?

Don’t forget to check

OhioLINK too!

Find Book reviews

Finding Book Reviews From the Cornell Libraries

Google scholar

Lexis Nexis

JSTOR

Academic Search Complete

News Articles

Articles

Articles

Journal Articles Not limited to just scholarly peer reviewed

articles, however, never hurts to include these!

Can start with the general or head straight to the subject specific

Academic Search Complete Masterfile Premier Look at list and see if others sound like

possibilities (choose databases) JSTOR

EbscoHost Databases

JSTOR

RefWorks

Ask at the Front Desk Phone the Reference Desk – 2185 (see

library page for available hours) Contact by E-mail t-moritz@onu.edu Use Chat Help feature or the IM

QUESTIONS?