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Research tips & tricks:
contentious politics
POLI 522
January 27, 2012
Liaison librarian
        =
 Bibliotherapist
Tour de table




  What is the
      most
  challenging
    aspect of
   research?
Today’s topics

Shaping your topic

To cite or not to cite

Information timelines

Key resources

Search tips & tricks

YOUR QUESTIONS!
Mapping tools

• CmapTools
• Popplet
• VUE
• Mindomo
• ….
Advice for selecting a topic

• WHY: are you taking this class? doing this degree?
• Is the topic compelling? (SO WHAT?)
• Start big, narrow down: map it out
• Logical consistency = good
• Let the thinkers talk to each other
• Read: what questions have others left unanswered?
• Join the conversation
Tools for joining the conversation
Tools for joining the conversation
http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
To cite or not to cite?
Points to evaluate

• Currency
• Reliability
• Authorship
• Purpose
Making sense of
  information
Information flow




                   Academic analysis
The literature continuum
Citation searching

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• (and other databases, too)
Making sense of
  information
The library offers many choices…




       I recommend starting with
             the Subject Guide
Choosing your tools
Where do you usually
find journal articles?


Why???
Recommended databases

• International Bibliography of the Social
  Sciences
• International Political Science Abstracts
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• Alternative Press Index
• Historical Abstracts
Research
    =
hard work
Dogpile
Web tips and tricks
Links for you


  http://delicious.com/mcgillpoli
Take away

• Bibliographies are your friends
• Not all information is equal. Evaluate!
• The information type determines the tool
• Research takes digging. Think creatively!
What are
  your
questions?
Why stop here?
Merci!


megan.fitzgibbons@mcgill.ca
(514) 398-2763
Credits
•   Information timeline. Created by Anna Stewart, Librarian, St. Edward’s
    University. Retrieved September 21, 2009 from:
    http://libr.stedwards.edu/about_library/depts/instruction/instr_class_docs.
    htm. Used with permission.

•   Data from P. Gil, "What is the invisible web?" Dec. 2010. Schematic by N.
    Tann, Goshen College, March 2011.

•   Wikipedia image copyright Wikimedia foundation
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png

•   Chocolate tools by By JanneM
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/3312116875/ License: Attribution-
    ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

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