CS 595 Step 3:
Wade into the research waters to find sources
URL: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=flamingoes&origin=FX101741979#ai:MC900351010|. Accessed 6 February 2011.
Objectives for this session:
Review: Ideas and keywords (develop strategy)
Discover: Sources (work your strategy)
Evaluate: What you found (does the strategy work?)
Go deep: Tools for more in-depth research
For later: Citing your sources
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Review from Step 2:
Ideas:
Keywords:
narrower terms and broader terms
synonyms and antonyms (opposites)
proper names?
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Example
Idea:
Cloud computing is a secure option for business
Terms: cloud computing, security, business
Narrower terms: privacy, confidentiality, medical records, financial transactions
Broader terms: information, data, management
Antonyms: risk, hacking
Proper names: Amazon, IBM
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Work your strategy
Starting points:
Log your searches
Evaluate results...
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Does your strategy work?
Can you find good material to refine your idea?
1. Google searching
Quick evaluation: Any relevant results?
Deeper evaluation: quality of results
Tip sheet: Evaluating Web Sites for Quality
2. Wikipedia
Quick evaluation: Any relevant results?
Deeper evaluation: quality of results
Tip: Look for Wikipedia editors’ comments at top of article
Tip sheet: Evaluating Web Sites for Quality
Quick evaluation: Any relevant results?
More evaluation: quality of results
Tip: Selection process for library resources
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Look ahead:
In Step 4, you evaluate the viability of your idea.
In Step 5, you refine your idea into a thesis statement.
For Step 6, you’ll dive more deeply into searching
with your refined thesis statement and into really
reading your sources.
The search strategy is much the same,
but you may need some more powerful search tools.
So...
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Go deep
The Library provides specialized discovery tools.
To get to these, go to the UNH Library web site...
Choices:
To search for books and other content by subject, keyword, etc.:
UNH Library web site>Research tools>UNH Library Catalog (Advanced)
UNH Library web site>Research tools>Boston Library Consortium Catalogs
or – search either catalog with keywords on UNH Library web site>Books & Media tab
Online computing books: Safari Online Books
For articles
General (all types)
UNH Library web site>Articles & Databases tab (filter results with options in left column)
Mostly scholarly
UNH Library web site>Research tools>Databases> choose by topic and description
Examples: PubMed for medical articles
SportDiscus for sports research
ACM Digital Library for professional-level and research computing
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Cite sources that you used
citation = path to your source
Cite your source for: a quote, a paraphrase, a key concept or fact
Sample quote:
"If customer data ... is held in the cloud, then all practices involved with customer data ... have to be re-assessed for compliance purposes."
(Schneider 2010)
Sample citations:
1. Article (author, year, article title, journal, volume, issue, pages):
Schneider, Ivan. 2010. "Auditing and Compliance in the Cloud" Popular Computing 118:1, 78-82.
2. Book (author, book title, place & year published, pages where you found the idea, fact or quote):
Schneider, Ivan. 2010. Auditing and Compliance in the Cloud (New York: McGraw-Hill), p. 78.
3. Web site (author if one is listed, title (at top of page), URL, date accessed):
Schneider, Ivan. 2010. Auditing and Compliance in the Cloud. URL:http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/large-business/auditing-and-compliance-cloud.aspx (Accessed 20 January 2011).
You can check a few citation styles quickly at:
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/help/checkcite/
For more info, see:
UNH Library website>Research Tools>Bibliography formats
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Try it!
For more help on searching, ask library staff or contact me:
Emily Poworoznek, Engineering & Physical Sciences Librarian
el@unh.edu
862-4168