POLI 322 Library WorkshopMichelle Lake

Political Science, Government Publications, SCPA & FPST Librarian

Library Workshop Course webpage

http://bit.ly/POLI322W18

Vanier Library – Loyola Campus

24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm

1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor VL – “Vanier Library”

Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners

Group Study Rooms & Course Reserves: Textbooks

Print Journal Archive

Webster Library – SGW Campus

24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm

2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floor of LB - “Library Building”

Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners

Group Study Rooms & Course Reserves: Textbooks

Current Print Journals

Grey Nuns Reading Room – SGW Campus

1190 Guy St.

Access 9am-9pm, with student card

Group Study Rooms & Quiet Study

Outlets/Wifi

Bring your own device

Discovery Search, searches through the library

catalogue and somejournal article databases

It’s a great place to start if you’re looking for a specific book or

article

Here is where you login to the library,

when you’re off campus

This is the section for undergrads, click

‘More…’ to see all services available

Course Reserves & textbooks

Login here to find your

online course readings

Search for print textbooks, by course

code here

How do I find a book or an article, when I already know

the title?

Rabinovich, I. (2017). Israel facing a new middle east: in search of national security strategy. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press.

We want the BOOK result. It matches all the information from the citation we have.

It’s on the 5th floor of Webster Library.

Greene, T. (2015). “Israel’s two states debate.” International Affairs 91(5): 1009-1026.

Schechter, A. (2017). “‘We’ve Won’: How Trump empowers Israel’s far right.” World Policy Journal 34(1): 33-41.

If you use Find it @ Concordia and click on the link under the green bar, it should take you directly to

the article, with an option to download the PDF.

Behar, M. (2016). Past and present perfect of Israel’s One-State solution. In J. Ehrenberg & Y. Peled (Eds.), Israel and Palestine: alternative perspectives on statehood. (pp. 243-270). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

This is the book we want, it contains the chapter we are

looking for and is available on the shelf at Webster Library.

What if we don’t have the book or article at Concordia ?

Interlibrary loans/COLOMBO

Request print books and e-journal articles from other libraries.

Print books are delivered to Concordia for you to borrow.

E-journal articles are emailed directly to you.

What if we don’t have the book at Concordia ?

BCI Card

Go the Loans/Circulation desk at Webster library with your student ID card and request a BCI card.

You can go to other university libraries in the city, like McGill and University of Montreal, and borrow books from their collections, in person.

Three types of sourcesGovernment: publications, websites or statistics written and published by governments.

Non-government: publications and websites written and published by international organizations, non-governmental organizations, independent institutions, news agencies, newspapers and other media organizations.

Scholarly/academic: books and journal articles written by academic researchers, affiliated with universities, colleges and other academic institutions, usually having gone through a peer review process. Published by university presses and in academic journals.

Non-Scholarly Sources

Advanced Google – searching smarterAND

“phrase search”

OR

Searching News sources: International Newsstream

Searching news sources: Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post archive 1932 – 1988 is available through ProQuest Historical

Newspapers: Jerusalem post.

Current issues 1988 – present of The Jerusalem Post are available through ProQuest Central.

Searching news sources: Jerusalem Post

You can limit to certain

parts of the newspaper

You can limit the

publication dates to a particular

time range

Search using keywords and names

Searching news sources: Jerusalem Post

This database is an online archive and all the historical newspaper images have been scanned as

PDFs.

When you search for keywords, they will be highlighted throughout the scanned image.

You can download and save the PDF images of the newspaper.

Searching

Combining keywords in searchesIsrael AND Knesset – when you search with AND, all the books, articles and publications in your search will have both words in the results

Immigration OR emigration – when you search with OR, all the books, articles and publications in your search can have either word in the results

“political parties” – when you put quotation marks around two or more words, it searches those words as a phrase and will only find results with that exact phrase in them

* - when you add an asterix on the end of a word, your results will contain all the words with those endings or suffix

for example Democra* finds: democracy, democracies, democratic, democratically, democratization

Break your topic into keywordsTopic: The Israeli electoral and party systemKey Idea Keywords

Israeli Israel, Israeli

Electoral system Electoral system, elections, electoral politics, voting

Party system Party system, political parties

Break your topic into keywordsTopic: Israel as a Jewish and democratic state

Key Idea Keywords

Israel Israel, Israeli

Jewish Jewish, Judaism

democratic Democratic, democracy

State State, government, nation

Scholarly Sources

Scholarly Sources: Finding Books

All of the red highlighted

words are our keywords

Check out the Subject headings for a way to

narrow down your search quickly

Scholarly Sources: Political Science Complete

How do I know if an article is scholarly?

How long is the article? Scholarly articles are

generally 15+ pages long.

Is the author affiliated with a

university or academic institution?

How do I know if an article is scholarly?

Scholarly articles will either have footnotes, endnotes, a bibliography or

reference list.

This is the list of sources the authors used to build their arguments.

Scholarly Sources: Historical Abstracts

Once you’ve identified Subjects from the results, you can incorporate them into your searching.

Scholarly Sources: JSTOR

Need help? Just ask us!Chat with a librarian

online

Or visit the librarians at the Ask Us desk for

help.