TREX 1001 Intro to Creativity

1. TREX 1001
INTRO TO CREATIVITY
Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2. WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
 Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu
 Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu
 Traci Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu
 Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu
 Reference Email, reference@onu.edu
 Librarians on duty:
 Monday – Thursday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
 Friday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

3. UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF
THIS…

4. UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF
THIS…

5. HOW TO DO RESEARCH:
SEVEN STEPS OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS
 Step 1: Identify and develop your topic
 Step 2: Find background information
 Step 3: Use catalogs to find books and media
 Step 4: Find internet resources (if appropriate for
the assignment)
 Step 5: Use databases to find periodical articles
 Step 6: Evaluate what you find
 Step 7: Cite what you find
Amended with permission by the Librarians at the Olin and Uris Libraries of
Cornell University

6. STEP 2:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
 Library Reference
Databases

7. STEP 4:
INTERNET RESOURCES
 Google
 Google Scholar
 Wikipedia
 Helpful for identifying additional keywords and
subjects for your concept map
 Does the information located satisfy the research
need?
 Is the information factual and unbiased?
 Refer to Critically Analyzing Web Sources/CRAAP
Test

8. STEP 6: CRITICALLY ANALYZING WEB SOURCES
CRAAP TEST
 Currency
 Timeliness of the information
 Relevance/Coverage
 Depth and importance of the information
 Authority
 Source of the information
 Accuracy
 Reliability of the information
 Purpose/Objectivity
 Possible bias present in the information

9. STEP 3:
USE CATALOGS TO FIND BOOKS AND MEDIA
 POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic items
(ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick
Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

10. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH
 Looks in several locations
 Subject
 Article title
 Abstracts
 Table of contents
 Does not require an exact match
 Generates comparatively large number of hits
 Good if you are not familiar with terminology
 Good for a beginning search

11. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH
 Looks at the subject headings in the records
 Requires an exact match
 Provides a results list with related headings to use
for broader and narrower searches
 Generates comparatively smaller number of hits
 Good if you are familiar with terminology
 Good for a next step after a keyword search

12. POLAR – RESULTS
ebook
Heterick Library
Law Library

13. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio:
colleges, universities, public libraries
 Can submit request for an item to be delivered to
Heterick Memorial Library
 Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
 No charge to request items (unless they become
overdue)
 Maximum of 25 requests at a time
 Items can usually be renewed

14. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 From POLAR results list:
 Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK
 From an item record:
 Button will go directly to the same item
 Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out
 Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:
 http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

15. STEP 5:
FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 What is the basic definition of a library database?
 A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index
 Library databases contain information about published items
 Library databases are searchable
 The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU community has
access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you
are not searching “the web.”
 What types of items are indexed by library databases?
 Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers
 Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
etc.)
 Books & other documents
Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

16. WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES
Internet
 Material from numerous
sources, individuals,
government, etc.
 Search engines must work
with material prepared
without regard for specific
software
 Quality of material varies
 Generally do not access for-profit
information
 Content often anonymous
and undated
Databases
 Usually created by a single
publisher
 Content pre-arranged for
easy searching
 Quality-controlled by editorial
staff
 Most are available only to
subscribers
 Sources are usually identified
and dated
 Databases often focus on a
specific subject or discipline,
but some cover several areas

17. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

18. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 General Databases
 Academic Search
Complete
 Business Source
Complete
 JSTOR
 Lexis-Nexis
 MasterFILE Premier
 MEDLINE with Full
Text
 Databases by Subject

19. STEP 6:
ARTICLES – POPULAR VS. SCHOLARLY
 Popular = Magazine
 Scholarly = Journal
 Magazines tend to have glossy pages, lots of
pictures, and can be read and understood by the
general public
 Scholarly journals are usually peer-reviewed and
tend to be aimed at professionals in the field
 Make sure to use the types of sources that are
appropriate for the assignment: a research paper
may use only peer-reviewed sources, but an
overview paper may use a combination

20. ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

21. FIND IT @ ONU
 Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where
you don’t have full text access to a database where
you do have full text access

22. STEP 7:
CITING YOUR SOURCES

23. MANAGE INFORMATION - REFWORKS

24. EXPORT TO REFWORKS
 Most databases
will have
“export”
 If there isn’t an
export, check for
“download”