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1 POLI 203 Library Workshop MICHELLE LAKE POLITICAL SCIENCE, SCPA AND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS LIBRARIAN

2 Webster Library SGW Campus Floors 3, 4, and 5 Open for study until 9 or 10pm, Services close earlier Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners Group Study Rooms Course Reserves Current Print Journals Poli Sci, Gov publications, Maps, History, Social Sciences, Humanities, Engineering & Fine Arts Vanier Library Loyola Campus Open for study until 9 or 10pm, Services close earlier Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners Group Study Rooms Course Reserves Print Journal Archive Sciences, Psychology, Applied Human Sciences, Communications & Journalism

3 Agenda Find an article from a complete citation Find an article from an incomplete citation Find articles using keyword searching in a Journal Database

4 Find an article from a complete citation Soifer, Hillel State Power and the Economic Origins of Democracy. Studies in Comparative International Development 48(1): doi: /s Discovery search: article title Google Scholar : author, article title, journal title With Library Links turned on

5 Find an article from a complete citation Jackson, Robert H. and Carl H. Rosberg, Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa. Comparative politics July: Discovery search: article title Google Scholar : author, article title, journal title Library Catalogue: journal title

6 Library Catalogue Search

7 Switch to Journal title You are looking for the journal title that also contains [electronic resource]

8 The article we want is from Expand the 1980s The article we want is from pages

9 Download PDF

10 What if Concordia doesn t have the journal article? Use Interlibrary loans/colombo to access articles from other libraries [and borrow print books] Request a journal article from another university library Generally a PDF copy will be ed to you within a week Use the Create Request option on the left hand menu in COLOMBO to request articles

11 Find an article from an incomplete citation Google Scholar Kanji. Support from the political community 2015(?)

12 Find an article from an incomplete citation Google Scholar Federalism and Women's Representation from the journal of federalism

13 Database Searching with Keywords: Breakdown your topic Comparative analysis of Nigeria and Iraq to examine whether and under what conditions federalism alleviates violent ethnic conflict. IRAQ NIGERIA FEDERALSIM VIOLENCE ETHNIC CONFLICT

14 Database searching with Keywords: AND Iraq AND federalism Nigeria AND federalism AND limits your search, by adding AND in between words, you are telling the database that all those word MUST appear

15 Database searching with Keywords: OR Federalism OR Federal government Ethnic conflict OR ethnic violence OR expands your search, By adding OR between two synonyms, you are telling the database that EITHER of those words can appear

16 Database searching with Keywords Iraq AND federal* AND ethnic conflict OR ethnic violence Federal* Finds: Federal Federalist Federalism Nigeria AND federal* AND ethnic conflict OR ethnic violence ethnic conflict Finds: This EXACT PHRASE

17 Database Searching with Keywords: Political Science Complete Use the Thesaurus to look up your terms and add them to your search. Divide up your keywords using AND.

18 Use the Scholarly/Peer reviewed option to narrow down to scholarly journal articles

19 Scholarly articles what to look for Extensive Reference lists/bibliographies of other academic sources, including books and journal articles

20 Scholarly Articles what to look for Length of the article, scholarly journal article range from pages long Author affiliations, are they a researcher at a university?

21 Accessing journal articles Use Find Concordia, to access the article from another Concordia Database If there is a PDF, download it

22 Accessing journal articles Find Concordia 1 Clicking on any links under the green banner should take you directly to the article 2 If there are no direct links, try searching for the journal in the library catalogue 3 If we don t have the journal, you can use the Interlibrary loans link to request it from another library

23 Accessing journal articles You may click through to another database or a journal page, from there look for the PDF option to access the article

24 Help is Available! Ask Us. Chat here with librarians!

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