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What you’ll learn today
-How to manage your research
-Research resources
-Search tips
-Obtaining resources beyond UW
Before starting your research
- Say YES to Name Release
1. - Set up a RefWorks account
2. - Authenticate if working outside the School [ “Connect from Home”]
Start Here: www.lib/uwaterloo.ca/musagetes/index.html
Name Release
“Yes” means library staff can give out your phone # or e-mail address
Get a RefWorks Account
Create an account
- Add citations from Primo
- Import citations from databases
- Create folders by subject
- Automatically format your papers and bibliographies
RefWorks Tutorials
Authenticate your status
You must authenticate you’re a member of the uW community to access resources paid for by the library from outside of the School of Architecture
Connect from Home
Beginning your research
What do you know?
- book, article, webpage, conversation?
What concepts/keywords can you pull out? Synonyms?
- seniors, aged, old people
What do you need to know?
- definitions, data, geography
Resources
What resources will you need?
- books
- articles/newspapers
- authoritative/academic web information
- images
- maps/geographical info about site
- government statistics/survey data
Search strategy
1. Selected keywords
2. Combined with Boolean Operators [AND, OR, NOT]
3. Setting limits/using punctuation symbols as necessary
What does this look like?
Primo results
Mark records RefWorks
Other library catalogues
Why search them?
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Architecture Guide
Click on “Find
Books” tab
WorldCat
WorldCat.org
Search results
Read online
WorldCat search results
Where is it?
Read it online
Read it online
Read it online
What if we don’t have it locally?
Getting resources beyond uW
Login to RACER
Login:
Your Watcard number
Password:
Your last name
Your Library:
Waterloo
Search the RACER catalogue
Find your title
Choose any title and click on “Get it” to access the
request form
RACER Request form
Choose your pickup location
Questions so far?
Theses
The most popular database
Search a database
Search results
Set up an Alert
Finding Journal Articles
Choose a subject
Choose a database
Explains how punctuation symbols can make your
search more effective
Search results
No links to full text; email your results or search these sources
in Primo
JStor
JStor search
Mark citations RefWorks
Follow up leads in the bibliography
But the journal isn’t available at uW?
Request an article thru RACER
- Use the “Blank Request Form”
- Fill in the required information manually
Newspapers
Web Resources
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
- clicking on GetIt@Waterloo will often take you to the fulltext online through UW Library’s catalogue
Google Books: www.googlebooks.com
- can often see TOC or page previews
Evaluating web pages
Things to consider:
- coverage
- currency
- authority
- objectivity
- accuracy
Library Resources Guides
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be here
GIS Guide
Wrap Up
1. Be Prepared
- what am I looking for?
- what search terms/keywords should I use?
- what resources will I need?
2. Be Organized
- try RefWorks
3. Ask for Help!