Writing 303 (Prof. Danis Banks)
February 23, 2012 2:10-3:10 P.M. CL204A
Library Research Orientation
(Presented by Prof. Di Su)
Practical issues
- Library Homepage: http://www.york.cuny.edu/library
- ID card barcode
• Borrow books from York College Library
• Order non-York books from other CUNY libraries including using CLICS
service
• Request Interlibrary Loan items from non-CUNY libraries
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Remote access to
- An alternative method of remote access: VPN (your
- Be patient when searching online. Internet speed may vary from time to time.
- Ask reference librarian at Reference Desk for assistance
- Distinguish between popular and scholarly sources, e.g. academic journals vs. popular magazines. (See handout)
Search
- Sample topics (submitted by students):
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Empowering women to overcome domestic violence
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The lack of women in the mathematics field
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The glass ceiling and its limits on women in business
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The relationship between poverty and preventable diseases
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Maternal drug use and its effects on infants
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The relationship between pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and patients
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Medically-approved marijuana (policy, politics)
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The effect of gender roles on couples’ well-being
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Government control over the Internet
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Corruption in urine testing
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Fabrication of paternity blood testing results
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Behavioral problems in children (causes, treatments)
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Peer-influence versus parental-influence on children: which is more dominant?
- CUNY+ Online Catalog: find books
• URL <http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:83/F/?func=find-b-0&local_base=york>
• Access points: Author, Title, Subject, Keyword, ISBN, Call number
• Limits: specific library (within CUNY), format (print, electronic)
• My Account
- Reference databases: find journal articles
• URL<http://www.york.cuny.edu/library/reference-databases/full-text-databases>
• Choosing the right (relevant) databases based upon your research topic
• Finding Keywords: significant and important terms that reflect your research
topic.
• A single, comprehensive database, e.g. Academic Search Complete/EBSCO
• A subject-specific database, e.g. PsycINFO
• EBSCO Multiple database: search through all EBSCO products
• EBSCO Integrated Search: search multiple databases including different vendors
(non-EBSCO)
• Using “Find it” (SFX) to retrieve full-text articles from other databases
• Boolean Logic Operators. And: narrows a search, e.g. women and army.
Or: increases the number of search results, e.g. women or female;
army or Military; computer or pc; adolescence or teenage. Not:
filters out terms that you do not want included in your search, e.g.
computer not programming.
• Truncation/wildcard. child* to retrieve “child”, “children”, “childhood”, and
“childish”; wom*n to retrieve “women” and “woman”
• Nesting in Boolean searching. Use (…) and (…) to group words by
concept and
to indicate the order of execution. Similar to math operation:
1+1×2=3 but (1+1)×2=4,
e.g. (women or female) and (army or
military);
children and violence and ((television or
media) not
cartoon*)
• Serials Solutions: find full-text e-Journals by title or subject. Search or
Browse: <http://dq9tx9bc6r.search.serialssolutions.com/>
- Google Scholar. Linked to
- Compiling citations (APA, MLA,
• Manuals and handbooks are on Library Reserve.
• Online samples: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/
• Built-in citing function in databases, e.g. EBSCO Cite
• Online citation tools, e.g. RefWorks (Group code [case sensitive]:
RWYorkC)
Created: 2/17/2012 Updated: 2/22/2012
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