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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