1. COMM 2P15
Literature Review
Justine Cotton, Liaison Librarian for CPCF

2. Library Research=Stress?
Source: Project Information Literacy
projectinfolit.org

3. Library Research=Stress?
Do you agree?
www.polleverywhere.com/comm2p15lib

4. Create and shape your research topic
Learn how to search the literature
effectively
Identify the best sources for your topic
Objectives

5. Pick something that interests you…
Dip into SuperSearch to get ideas…
Be prepared to modify your topic…
Developing a Research Topic

6. Beginning the search…
Courtesy Matthew Reidsma
https://twitter.com/mreidsma
Dream library
database?

7. Maybe the next best thing…
This is
linked
on your
Sakai
page

8. Research involves trial and error, with the occasional
frustrating moment
It’s not as simple as clicking peer-review and grabbing
quotes from the first few pages of the first articles
that look good!
Myth of the perfect source
let’s
acknowledge
that this
happens

9. You are doing university-level research
so it’s important to:
Acquaint yourself with library databases
Find appropriate sources
Read the books/articles thoughtfully
You don’t need to be a librarian, but

10. Why peer-reviewed?

11. What is
SuperSearch?

12. Basically, it’s a discovery layer.
It lets you “discover” the Library
collections, online and in print:
DVD in our
collection
book in our
collection

13. SuperSearch
finds:
-books at Brock
-articles from
many different
databases
-ebooks
It has a LOT of
content – use
it to get ideas
e.g. what have
other
researchers
studied?

14. Search has
been narrowed
Limits have
been set

15. This is an example of a scholarly article.
-it is 21 pages
-methodology is outlined in the abstract
SuperSearch
can help you
find more
specialized
databases

16. www.brocku.ca/library
Let’s try a few searches & discuss

17. Questions?