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Library Seminar CET 413
Spring 2010Librarian: Haymwantee SinghProfessor: Dr. David [email protected], 973-596-8498
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Objectives
• Determine your information requirements for your research question
• Locate and retrieve relevant information using websites and databases
• Evaluate the quality of a website
• Use citation generators
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Web Research
Begin our research topic on superfund at:
www.google.com
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Web Research
1. Begin our research topic on superfund at the web: www.google.com
2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek
3. Restrict web results on superfund and tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar
4. Further restrict the scholarly items to environmental science only using google advanced search option
5. Locate full text journal/magazine items
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Web Research
1. Begin our research topic on superfund
at the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar
creek
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Web Search
www.google.com
Narrow superfund to
tar creek
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Web Research
1. Begin our research topic on superfund
at the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar
creek3. Restrict web results on superfund and
tar creek to scholarly items using google scholar – see google pull down menu.
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Web Search
www.google.comRestrict your search results to scholarly
articles.
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Web Research
1. Begin our research topic on superfund at
the web: www.google.com2. Narrow web results on superfund to tar creek3. Restrict web results on superfund and tar
creek to scholarly items using google scholar 4. Further restrict the scholarly items to
environmental science only using google advanced search option
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Web Search
www.google.com
Select the “Advanced Search” option above
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Web Search
www.google.comRestrict your search
to EnvironmentalScience, etc. here.
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Web Search
www.google.com
Is the first google scholar item a book or article?
Click on this item.
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Web Search
www.google.com
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The Relationship between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining CommunityJournal article by Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 63, 2000
Components of Citation:Title of Article: The Relationship between
Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community
Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler;
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63Year: 2000
Is the citation complete?
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Find the full text article using the library resources since the full article is not at the web
What are we looking for?We know that we are looking for a journal article and we know the title of the journal is Journal of Environmental Health
Go to: library.njit.edu
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Web Search
www.google.comJournal Title
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Web Search
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Lynch, R. A., Malcoe, L. H., Skaggs, V. J., & Kegler, M. C. (2000). The Relationship Between Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community. Journal of Environmental Health, 63 (3), 9. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live
Complete Citation – includes issue and page information
Author(s): Robert A. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Valerie J. Skaggs, Michelle C. Kegler;
Date: 2000Title of Article: The Relationship between
Residential Lead Exposures and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in a Rural Mining Community
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Health Volume: 63 Issue: 3 (or October )Page: 9Database URL: Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=aph&AN=3641848&site=ehost-live
Cited in APA Style
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Evaluate The Quality of a Website
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Types of Websites
Name a type of website or domain of a website
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Types of Websites
• .edu educational (often contain student pages as well as scholarly research)
• .gov governmental (usually dependable)• .com commercial (may be trying to sell a product
and may have inaccuracies) • .net network (may provide services to commercial
or individual customers)• .org organization (non-profit institutions; note the
source of funding, may be biased)• .mil military• .biz Commercial use (selling a product)
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Purposes of Web Resources
What are the intentions, goals, objectives of websites?
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Purposes of Web Resources
• Commercial• Informative• Educational• Entertaining• Advocacy – promote, sponsoring, suuport• Persuasive – influence, convince• Hoax• Institutional
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How to Evaluate Information – video tutorial
2 websites are compared and discussed with respect to 4 important criteria for evaluating web resources
http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/evaluate.php(presented by Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener
University located in Chester Pennysylvania
1. Authority2. Accuracy3. Currency4. Objectivity
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Questions To Ask About A Website To Determine The Quality • What type of web page is this?• What is its purpose?• Who is the author of this page?• Who is the audience?• When was the page last updated?• Is there a contact? If yes, note the contact.• Does it list scholarly sources?• Does the author have a bias or agenda? (Is this
bias stated or hidden?)
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Web Search
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Online Citation Generators Can Be Helpful Online Citation Generators Can Be Helpful When Creating Your List OF ReferencesWhen Creating Your List OF References
http://library.njit.edu/researchhehttp://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/cite.phplpdesk/howto/cite.php
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Web Search
www.google.com
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Find a Book in the Library
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Web Search
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Search for title words and authors name in all fields
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Call Number and location are important
for locating book