Core 2 Library Session

There will be a library workshop for Core 2 students on Tuesday, July 24th, from 2-3pm in the Instruction Room (Rm 211 in the Library). We will be talking about journal article databases, RefWorks, Google Scholar and more. Bring your questions! Hope to see you all there!

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Core 1 Library Session Follow-up

I am glad we were finally able to have our session on Thursday. I hope you were able to get something out of it! As promised, I have added a bit more info in this post about some of the things we talked about.

Finding Theses/Dissertations

Theses (from the Brock Library website)

This page outlines how to use the Library Catalogue to find theses/projects and provides links to other resources for locating full text theses and dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Brock theses available in full text from 2003. Searchable by university name, advisor name, keyword and more.

Cited Reference Searching

Cited reference searching enables you to find articles that have cited a previously published work.

Web of Science

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that contains three key sources for cited reference searching: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Cited Reference Searching (Web of Science) Tutorial (5:56 minutes)

Google Scholar

You can also use Google Scholar to find cited references. When you do a search in Google Scholar you may see a "Cited by ##" link below the article. This link will take you to a list of articles/books that cite the original item.

Other databases will also allow you to search for cited references. For more information on this, see this page from Queen's University Library: Cited Reference Searching in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Refworks

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management system that allows you to keep track of your references and easily create bibliographies.

Sign up for an individual account here.

View a tutorial here.

Quick Start Guide (PDF)

Cited reference searching

Some links on cited reference searching:

In Web of Science:
Information about Cited Reference Search
Tutorials on cited reference searching: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wos/ (scroll down to see one called Cited Reference Searching)

Cited Reference Searching in the Social Sciences and Humanities (from Queen's University Library)

Core 1 Library Session

It has been great to meet some of you and hear about your research interests. I look forward to learning more over the next few months.

I will be holding a session for Core 1 students on Wednesday July 11th at 3:00 pm in the Instruction Room in the Library. I will be talking about searching various education databases and resources, getting full text articles and all of that fun stuff. Bring your questions...

If you can't make this session or if you are in Core 2 and still want a mini-course in Brock's databases, just let me know and we can arrange something.