SOCI 415: Economy and Society

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Michele Hayslett
Subject Liaison for Sociology & Data Services Librarian
Davis Library - Research and Instructional Services
michele_hayslett@unc.edu
962-1151

Instruction Session

March 27
Davis Library 247
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

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Introduction to Library Research

Strategies | Search for Books | Search for Articles

Strategies

• Brainstorm a list of similar keywords for each of the concepts on which you want to focus
  • poverty, poor, welfare, low-wage workers, subsidized housing, food stamps, school lunch program, etc.
  • education, schools, teachers, students, primary school, secondary school, adolescents, teens, pre-schoolers, etc.
• Look for subject headings, descriptors, etc. in item records that closely match your topic to zero in on the terms that will be successful in a given database
  • In the catalog: poverty--united states [Library of Congress subject headings]
  • In Sociological Abstracts: poverty or low-income groups [Descriptors]
  • In Web of Science: poverty or inequality [KeyWords Plus]
• Expand your search by using OR to search for similar terms
  • poverty OR poor OR low-wage workers
• Narrow your search by using AND to combine different concepts
  • secondary schools AND poverty AND United States
• Check out articles' and books' bibliographies for other possible sources

Library Catalog

• Articles+
• Catalog
• Articles + Catalog
• Google Scholar

   Keyword Titlex Journal Title Author Subject   

Catalog | Advanced Search | New Books | Classic Catalog | Search TRLN | WorldCat | eBooks

E-Journal Title Search

Remember to Expand Your Search to the other Triangle institutions if UNC doesn't have what you want. You can request materials from NCSU, Duke or NCCU and get them delivered here within two to three days. Look for this box in your search results at the top of the page:

E-Research Tools

Sociological Abstracts - provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Abstracts only - have to track down full articles through library's catalog using Find at UNC buttons.

Web of Science (ISI) - provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded(TM), Social Sciences Citation Index(R), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index(R). Remember to uncheck Sciences and Arts and Humanities sections. Remember "view related records."

CQ Researcher - offers in-depth research on dozens of current events and issues each year. From Adoption to Ozone, each issue gives you: comprehensive review of the controversies, historical background, chronology of important events, opposing views from experts on the subject, and extensive bibliographies for additional research.

RAND Publication Database - The RAND research organization publishes many papers and reports on topics of current public policy interest, including such areas as criminal justice, education, health, national security and international affairs, energy, environment, and science and technology. The RAND Publication Database contains indexing records for all of RAND's publicly available documents, 1963 to present. In many cases, the index record links to the full text of the report.

*Remember Articles+ for interdisciplinary topics (tab above the catalog search box).*

*Remember E-Journals for searchable NYT, WSJ and The Economist (another tab above the catalog search box).*

Citing 

Citing Information Tutorial (UNC Libraries)

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InterLibrary Loan

Request materials from other institutions or across campus