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Conducting Research at UBC Library for WMST 325

Tara Stephens

September 16th 2008

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What do you need to know?

How to:

Connect to library resources from home Find primary and secondary sources Find print and electronic materials for your

topic Use subject terms to find related materials Keep track of your research

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Connect from home

UBC subscribes to thousands of journals, hundreds of databases and much more

UBC students get access to these subscriptions through our Virtual Private Network (VPN)

VPN=Library at home How do I connect from home?

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Five Steps to Finding Books and Articles

Women’s Studies Research Wiki

Step 1: Choose a topic Step 2: Identify key concepts and search

terms Step 3: Look for books and articles Step 4: Review your results Step 5: Cite what you find

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Part 1: Choose your topic

Sara Baartman b. 1789 d. 1815 Also known as:

The Hottentot Venus Sartje (Sahr-key)

Baartman Khoisan from South

Africa Exhibited as a

sideshow attraction in London and Paris

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Step 2: Identify key concepts and search terms What are the main ideas in your topic?

Sara Baartman, the Hottentot Venus Racial constructions of female sexuality Representations of the female body as

‘monstrous’ or ‘grotesque’ Feminist history of colonial science

What search terms could you use?

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Part 2: Identify key concepts and search terms

sara baartman hottentot venus

khoisan khoikhoi hottentot

south african slave

steatopygia hypertrophic labia minora

sideshow attraction human exhibition

exhibition ethics eurocentrism

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Step 3: Find books and articlesGet Started

OneSearch From UBC Library

Books, videos, newspapers

Google Scholar Articles, book citations

MetaLib Articles, book citations

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Go Pro

Boolean searching (and, or, “phrase”)

Library Catalogue Subject Guides Indexes & Databases

Women’s Studies International (EBSCO) Web of Science (ISI) Contemporary Women’s Issues (RPI)

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Find articles

Women’s Studies International Covers core disciplines in Women’s

Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research

Full-text and index from 1972 to the present

Use for broad disciplinary coverage Save search history/create alerts ‘Cite this article’ feature RefWorks compatible

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Finding articles

Web of Science Science, Social Science and Humanities

articles back to the 1960s Cited reference searching Journal impact factors

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Finding articles

Contemporary Women’s Issues Find full-text and index articles in all

areas relating to Women’s Studies Use for catching articles not covered

anywhere else Search by subject area

i.e. beauty standards 4 concurrent users

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Step 4: Evaluate your results

What is the author’s main argument? How does the author go about making and

defending this argument? What style do they use? What literature or theoretical traditions do they

draw from, build upon, and criticize? What are the readings’ strengths and

shortcomings? How might this topic, study, or argument be

approached differently? How does it compare with previous readings and

discussions in the class?

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Step 5: Cite what you find

APA, MLA, Chicago Visit the Women’s Studies Subject

Guide or the Research Wiki for help.

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Other key resources

Women and social movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000

Defining gender, 1450 to 1910 eHraf World Cultures

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Evaluation

Student and faculty feedback is invaluable in keeping instruction sessions relevant and current Women’s Studies Library Tutorial Evalu

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Tara Stephens

tara.stephens@ubc.ca

2nd floor, K219Koerner Library1958 Main MallUniversity of British ColumbiaTel: (604) 822-2160

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Thank you!

Any Questions?