MATC & the Park Library Fall 2012

Stephanie Willen BrownLibrarian, Park Library

swbrown@unc.edu919.843.8300

#YouLearnedALotAlready#APA #FindingGoodKeywords #LibrariansSaveTime

Questions About Exercise?

• Register to get books delivered at home

• Chat Stephanie

• Find article in CMMC & email citation to Stephanie

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You & the Library• Inside the box–Books from UNC Library delivered to your

home

– Search engines for class research

–Advice on where to search for what

• Outside the box–Advice on managing, reformatting citations• S

–Chat with us! IM: JOMCParkLib or click

Where to Search?• UNC Catalog for books• Library Search Engines “Databases”• “EBSCO” suite–Academic Search Premier

–PsycINFO

–Communication & Mass Media Complete

• Save & reformat results with RefWorks

Finding Books

• Search by keyword

• Identify books you want

• Request item

• Borrow for 30-90 days

• Renew online!

Finding Articles: EBSCO

Look Outside the Box

Resources for 716 & Other Classes

http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/matc/716

Good Search TermsSocial media & the Olympics

AND

Translated to CMMC-ese• (social media or social network* or

twitter or facebook or instagram or youtube or blog*) and (olympics or london2012 or basketball or gymnastics or lochte or phelps or NBC or swim*)

• Notes:– Caps are irrelevant– Use () to indicate what to “OR” together – * is wildcard, so swim* searches for

• swim• swims• swimmers• swimming

Citation Style: Differences?• APA (Research Methods; New Media and Society):

Ning, W., Zhongshi, G., & Fei, S. (2011). Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity. Communication Research, 38(3), 422-445.

• Turabian (Database & Web Research):Ning, Wang, Guo Zhongshi, and Shen Fei. 2011. “Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity.” Communication Research 38, no. 3: 422-445. Communication & Mass Media Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed July 30, 2012).

Citation Style: Some Differences• APA (Research Methods; New Media and Society):

Ning, W., Zhongshi, G., & Fei, S. (2011). Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity. Communication Research, 38(3), 422-445.

• Turabian (Database & Web Research):Ning, Wang, Guo Zhongshi, and Shen Fei. 2011. “Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity.” Communication Research 38, no. 3: 422-445. Communication & Mass Media Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed July 30, 2012).

Wait, What?!• No one can remember all that!

• Use a citation manager or EBSCO’s “cite” option

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Options for Managing Citations• Export citations in MLA, APA, etc.

formats from EBSCO & other library search engines.

• RefWorks: Online, anywhere. Works with any browser. Somewhat clunky.

• Zotero: FireFox plugin. Robust. Must be installed.

• UNC’s Citation Builder Handy for reformatting one citation.

All links on http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/matc1

Citing in EBSCO

Maybe … Buy the Manual• American Psychological

Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Tips from Prior MATC Students• Home delivery of books is terrific• Use Interlibrary Loan to get articles that aren’t

online!• Course pages very useful– Links work for all classes

• Ask Stephanie for help with search terms– Chat– Twitter– Email– Phone

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Early Semester: Training via Elluminate• Stephanie will schedule 2-3 synchronous

training sessions• Sign up for one (or more)• Learn more about– Searching in EBSCO– Generating good search terms– Anything else for Research Methods

• Schedule via Doodle; message via Sakai

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