Transcript Mrs. O`s Research Tips

Bibliographies…
Who needs ‘em?
…and Why?
You do.
And here’s why:
1. The reader can trace sources for themselves and use
them.
2. Writers have to stay accountable for the sources they use.
Would you buy a used car without a record of its history?
(if so, have I got a deal for you!)
Trust me, A little old
lady owned it and it
never left her garage!
And reason number 3….
PLAGIARISM
Pre-search prep
A. Open doc in googledocs or
word. This is your working
bibliography, so save it carefully!
B. Open Bibme (link found on
NBCHS Library Webpage)
Resources:
Where do I look?
• Library Databases
• L4U
• Internet search engine (Google)
Library Databases
(on Library Home Page)
a. “Limits” – Articles/Books/etc.
b. Look at citation info (paste into
reference doc)
L4U
On Library Home Page
• Sign in: nbipac/1234
• Search term (eg. John Locke) and click “subject”
a.Books
b.Britannica (can use tag from book search)
i)Main article – will provide good keywords
for google searches
ii)Table of Contents
iii)“Expand your search”
• Journals
• Web’s best
• Primary Sources
Internet (Google) Search
The internet offers the BEST
information on MANY topics.
The internet offers the WORST
information on MOST topics.
You can use internet resources for
research papers, but you have to be
careful.
Evaluating websites
When using the internet, be critical.
This short mnemonic can help:
BAT
Bias
Authority
Timeliness
Bias: What is the site’s purpose, who is the
intended audience, and what motives does
the author have?
Authority: Who created and maintains the
site, who contributes to it, and what is their
knowledge, expertise, or experience?
Timeliness: How current is the information
and when was the site last updated?
Just because it's on the
internet, doesn't make it
true - even if it looks
professional. For
example, check this
out:
Save the Pacific
Northwest Tree
Octopus!
Some sites may be harmless satires, but
others have a more sinister purpose:
http://www2.suffolk.edu/sawlib/instruc
tion_modules/evaluate/mlk.html
Beware, and use BAT to check your web
sources.
Web search tips
AND
is implied in Google searches
and therefore is not necessary.
Quotation marks (" ")
will limit your search to a
specific phrase:
philosopher Thomas Hobbes
1.68 million hits
“philosopher Thomas Hobbes”
400 thousand hits
OR
helps you search using multiple words
which express a similar concept. OR
must be capitalized so Google
understands this is a searching word,
not a word to be searched:
philosophy – 300 million + hits
philosophy OR beliefs OR ideology
500 million+ hits
Asterisks (*)
will retrieve words with
multiple endings.
philosoph* will cover:
philosophy , philosophies,
philosopher, philosophers…
(~)
helps you to search for
synonyms and can help you
locate words with similar
meanings.
~car will retrieve automobile,
vehicle, etc.
Set limits
• intitle: retrieves search words which appear in the
website's title field (intitle:canad* "climate change“)
• inurl: retrieves search words which appear in the
websites's url (inurl:shakespeare "elizabethan england“)
• filetype: retrieves specific file types such as HTML, PDFs,
MS Word (doc), Excel (xls), PowerPoint (ppt)
(filetype:pdf "organizational development" leadership)
• site: limits to .edu, .com, .org, .ca, etc.
(site:edu john locke will bring up educational sites)
You can search
for more tips
on…wait for it…
GOOGLE!! 
or go to Research 101 on the
NBCHS Library Webpage
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