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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY RESEARCH
STRATEGIES
WRITING SEMINAR
Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian
Jenny Donley, Catalog and Serials Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
 Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu
 Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu
 Reference Email, reference@onu.edu
 Librarians on duty:
Monday – Thursday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Friday
 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:
 ~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog
 ~20,000,000 items in OhioLink
 260 Databases
 400+ print periodicals
 Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles
 Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel
collections
 DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and streaming
music

WHAT THIS WEEK IS ALL ABOUT
 Constructing/developing a research strategy for
finding resources
 Finding available resources in the library’s catalog
and databases
 Tools for managing the resources that you have
found

UH…I’M NOT GOING TO REMEMBER ALL OF
THIS…

LIBRARIES AT ONU
 Heterick Memorial Library
Undergraduate library and
accessible to all students
 Taggart Law Library
Library for law school and
accessible to all students

ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD
 Use the entire 11 digit number

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that
includes a summary and/or evaluation of the source
 What an annotated bibliography does:
Allows you to see what is out there
Helps you narrow your topic and discard any irrelevant
materials
Aids in developing the thesis
Makes you a better scholar

HOW TO DO RESEARCH:
SEVEN STEPS OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS
 Step 1: Identify and develop your topic
 Step 2: Find background information
 Step 3: Use catalogs to find books and media
 Step 4: Find internet resources (if appropriate for
the assignment)
 Step 5: Use databases to find periodical articles
 Step 6: Evaluate what you find
 Step 7: Cite what you find
Amended with permission by the Librarians at the Olin and Uris Libraries of
Cornell University

HOW TO START YOUR RESEARCH
 State your topic as a question
 Identify main concepts or keywords
 Test the topic – look for keywords and synonyms
and related terms for the information sought
Subject headings in catalogs
Built-in thesauri in many databases
Reference sources
Textbooks, lecture notes, readings
Internet
Librarians, instructors

INTERNET RESOURCES
 Google
Google Scholar
 Wikipedia
 Helpful for identifying additional keywords and
subjects for your concept map
 Does the information located satisfy the research
need?
 Is the information factual and unbiased?
 Refer to Critically Analyzing Web Sources/CRAAP
Test

CRITICALLY ANALYZING WEB SOURCES
CRAAP TEST
 Currency
Timeliness of the information
 Relevance/Coverage
Depth and importance of the information
 Authority
Source of the information
 Accuracy
Reliability of the information
 Purpose/Objectivity
Possible bias present in the information

BACKGROUND RESEARCH
 Background research = Reference and
Encyclopedias
 Look at Databases/Reference tab in the Writing
Seminar research guide

CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA
POLAR – Heterick Memorial Library and Taggart Law
Library

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH
 Looks in several locations
Subject
Article title
Abstracts
Table of contents
 Does not require an exact match
 Generates comparatively large number of hits
 Good if you are not familiar with terminology
 Good for a beginning search

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH
 Looks at the subject headings in the records
 Requires an exact match
 Provides a results list with related headings to use
for broader and narrower searches
 Generates comparatively smaller number of hits
 Good if you are familiar with terminology
 Good for a next step after a keyword search

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio:
colleges, universities, public libraries
 Can submit request for an item to be delivered to
Heterick Memorial Library
 Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
 No charge to request items (unless they become
overdue)
 Maximum of 25 requests at a time
 Items can usually be renewed

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 From POLAR results list:
Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK
 From an item record:
Button will go directly to the same item
Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out
 Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES
Internet
 Material from numerous
sources, individuals,
government, etc.
 Search engines must
work with material
prepared without regard
for specific software
 Quality of material varies
 Generally do not access
for-profit information
 Content often anonymous
and undated
Databases
 Usually created by a single
publisher
 Content pre-arranged for
easy searching
 Content quality-controlled
by editorial staff
 Content usually available
only to subscribers
 Content’s source is usually
identified and dated

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 General Databases
Academic Search
Complete
Business Source
Complete
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis
MasterFILE Premier
MEDLINE with Full
Text
 Databases by Subject

ARTICLES – POPULAR VS. SCHOLARLY
 Popular = Magazine
 Scholarly = Journal
 Magazines tend to have glossy pages, lots of
pictures, and can be read and understood by the
general public
 Scholarly journals are usually peer-reviewed and
tend to be aimed at professionals in the field

FIND IT @ ONU
 Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where
you don’t have full text access to a database where
you do have full text access

WHAT IS INCLUDED?
 POLAR
 Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases
 Article-level searching for a variety of other
databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy,
etc.
 Title-level searching for most other databases:
IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
 OhioLINK Central Catalog

RESULTS: ILL
 When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

EXPORT TO REFWORKS
 Most databases
will have
“export”
 If there isn’t an
export, check for
“download”

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