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Media 2nd year Finding Stuff

Jayne Dunlop

Covering……..

Reading listsLibrary Catalogue Journals and Electronic JournalsMedia & Film Studies subject guides

DVDsFilm Index InternationalCiting – Harvard Style

Reading List

To access scanned articles/chapters

Click heading

Location, location, location

Catalogue

Books, Ebooks, journals, DVDs,

Electronic Journals

When you don’t know where to start….

Subject Guides

Via Portal/ Learning Resources tab/ Subject Guides/Arts

Film Studies

Media Studies

Searching

Define your search terms clearly and simply

“The portrayal of young people in the media in Northern Ireland”.

What are the key words or phrases? Synonyms

youth/adolescent/teenagerUlsterBroadcast (media), radio, TV,

(television)

Spelling variations

Remember Americanisms

Colour or color

Theatre or theater

Movie or film

Limit your search

Year range

Geographical area

Language

Type of publication

AND This means that all terms must

appear in the results

This will NARROW your results down

e.g. youth AND media AND Northern Ireland

OR This means that any of the

alternative terms can appear

This will BROADEN the search out

e.g. adolescent OR youth

NOT/AND NOT This will EXCLUDE terms

This will NARROW the search down

Use this with caution!

E.g. broadcast media NOT radio

TRUNCATION This will keep you to find all

variations of a word

Most databases use the * symbol but always check the HELP section to be sure

e.g. adolescen* will find adolescent, adolescents and adolescence

Remember

Plan your search strategy in advance

Be prepared to be flexibleMake use of the HELP features in databases

Evaluate your findingsRecord your search strategyRecord your results

Film databases

Film Index International

International Film Archive

JISC Media Hub

(for others see subject pages)

Film Index International

Quick search help

Quick search for “A streetcar named desire”

Film details

Articles about the film

CitationReference the articles/books/films you have

consulted to: give credit to other authors' concepts and ideas Provide evidence of the breadth and depth of your

reading enable others to locate the references easily avoid being accused of plagiarism

Harvard http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/

citing_references/docs/Citing_Refs.pdf http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm

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