trex katayama fall 2012

SCIENCE FICTION AND PHILOSOPHYTREX 1001

DR. KATAYAMA

Professor Traci Welch MoritzPublic Services Librarian

Heterick Memorial Library

Introduction

Welcome Traci Welch Moritz,

t-moritz@onu.edu Feel free to visit or email Librarians on duty 8-4:30, 6-9 Mon

– Thurs, 8-4:30 Friday and 10-3:30 on Sundays

Reference@onu.edu

WELCOME to the LIBRARY

What you can expect from HML

Knowledgeable degreed librarians on duty over 60 hours per week

Friendly faces ready to help 101.5 hours per week

Access to the resources you need both on and off campus

Resources available in a timely manner

Librarians and support staff

http://www-new.onu.edu/academics/heterick_memorial_library/staff

OhioLINK

POLAR

WorldCAT

Ca. 400,000items

Ca. 20,000,000items

1.6 billionitems

What we expect you to know

+ even more!

250+Databases 550+ print periodical subscriptions Ca. 10,000 online journals Juvenile collection Audiovisuals – physical and

streaming

What we’ll do today

How to construct a research strategy

How to use library resources to do research

A philosophical problem and a thought experiment

Research Guide

Research Guides

Research Guides

What about the Internet?

See “Critically analyzing web resources” at the Google Scholar tab at the TREX research

guide.

Research Tools ∞ Internet

Google and Wikipedia aren’t evil, just use them for the correct purpose in your

research. Such as finding philosophical problems associated with your discipline.

Google Scholar ONU buys

Full-textdatabase

OhioLINKPermits

Google tolink to full-

text

Google asksto link tocontent

ONU user sees licensed full-textarticles

Run Google ScholarSearch

Note: If working offcampus user sees only citation to articles not full text. See Research Guide for info on how to set up off campus access.

Research Tools ∞ Internet

Does the information located satisfy the research need?

Is the information factual and unbiased?

See handout “Critically Analyzing Information Sources” under the “Handouts” tab at the Research Guide.

Research Tools ∞ Internet

Evaluate what you find Currency

Relevance/Coverage

Authority

Accuracy

Purpose/Objectivity

Timeliness of the information.

Depth and importance of the information.

Source of the information.

Reliability of the information

Possible bias present in the information.

Find a Book -- POLAR

Oh no!! There

are so many,

and they are

so big!!!

Current Events resources

• Newspapers• Lexis Nexis Academic

Major World publicationsBlogsTV shows

• Click on “Finding Information”

Libraries at ONU Heterick Memorial Library

Undergraduate Library, accessible to all•Taggert Law Library

•Library for Law school, accessible to all

Find a book ∞ POLAR

Could be an electronic

book, click on link to open

Could be at the law library.

Be sure to take your ID.

Could be upstairs on the

3rd floor.

Materials owned by all Ohio colleges, universities, several public libraries

Ca. 10 million items Link from POLAR permits you to submit

requests. Available from Heterick home page

Most requests arrive in 3-5 working days

No charge Limited to 100 items at a time May renew up to 6 times if no holds

Find a Book ∞ OhioLINK

Find a Book ∞ OhioLINK

ONU ID is Library card

EVAEva Maglott00021559801

Eva Maglott

Please use all digits in your student ID number.

Research Tools∞Databases

Often tools for locating journal and newspaper articles

Most are subject-specific – some multi-disciplinary

Many give access to full text of articles

Heterick has 250+

Databases -- Find an article

Academic Search Complete Masterfile Premier JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal

Archive Oxford Scholarship Search by Subject/Discipline for subject

specific databases Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection SocINDEX with Full Text Medline Religion and Philosophy Collection

Find an Article

Over thousands of journals indexed, most are full text

Divided by subject area offered at ONU

Begin with a general database, Academic Search Complete

Find an Article

Find an Article Academic Search

Complete

Find an Article

You may choose to limit by date by sliding the date bar.

Find an Article

You can choose to narrow by an additional subject, geographic location or type of publication.

Find an Article

Click on the pdf or hmtl link to bring up the full text of the article.

Find an Article

No html or pdf link?Always click on the “FIND IT” button to find out where else you can find the article!

Could be available full text from another

database so click on the link

Find an Article

May not be accessible by you and so you’ll

need to use the InterLibrary Loan process to ask the

librarians to get it for you

Find an Article

InterLibrary Loan

Use when you need a book or article not available online, not owned by ONU or available via OhioLINK

No charge/ limit on requests Most requests take 5-7 days to

fill Use ILL form on

library web pages.

InterLibrary Loan

InterLibrary Loan

Fill in the blanks

Help Reference Librarians

on duty 8a-4:30p Mon-Fri 6p-9p Mon-Thur 10a-3:30p Sundays Reference@onu.edu

Traci Welch Moritz, MLSPublic Services Librarian

Assistant Professor

Heterick Memorial Library

t-moritz@onu.edu419-772-2473419-772-2185