1. Professor Traci Welch Moritz
Public Services Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2.  Welcome
 Traci Welch Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu
 Feel free to visit or email
 Librarians on duty 8-4:30, 6-9 Mon –
Thurs, 8-4:30 Friday and 10-3:30 on
Sundays
 Reference@onu.edu

4.  Knowledgeable degreed librarians on duty
over 60 hours per week
 Friendly faces ready to help 101.5 hours per
week
 Access to the resources you need both on
and off campus
 Resources available in a timely manner

5. http://www-new.onu.edu/academics/heterick_memorial_library/staff

6. What we expect you to know
WorldCAT
1.6 billion
items
OhioLINK
Ca. 20,000,000
items
POLAR
Ca. 400,000
items

7.  250+Databases
 550+ print periodical subscriptions
 Ca. 10,000 online journals
 Juvenile collection
 Audiovisuals – physical and streaming

8. A philosophical
problem and a
thought
experiment
 How to construct a research strategy
 How to use library resources to do
research

12. See “Critically analyzing web resources” at the
Google Scholar tab at the TREX research guide.

13. Google and Wikipedia aren’t evil, just use them for
the correct purpose in your research. Such as
finding philosophical problems associated with
your discipline.

14. Research Tools ∞ Internet
Note: If Google Scholar
working off
ONU buys
campus user Full-text
sees only database Google asks
to link to
citation to content
articles not OhioLINK
full text. See Permits
Google to Run Google
Research
link to full-text Scholar
Guide for Search
info on how
to set up off ONU user sees
campus licensed full-text
articles
access.

15. Research Tools ∞ Internet
 Does the information located satisfy
the research need?
 Is the information factual and
unbiased?
 See handout “Critically Analyzing
Information Sources” under the
“Handouts” tab at the Research Guide.

16.  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.

18. • Newspapers
• Lexis Nexis Academic
Major World publications
Blogs
TV shows
• Click on “Finding Information”

19.  Heterick
•Taggert Law Memorial
Library
Library
•Library for  Undergraduate
Law school, Library,
accessible to all accessible to all

20. Could be an
electronic
book, click on
link to open
Could be at the
law library. Be
sure to take your
ID.
Could be
upstairs on the
3rd floor.

21. Find a Book OhioLINK
 Materials owned by all Ohio colleges,
universities, several public libraries
 Ca. 10 million items
 Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests. Available from Heterick home
page
 Most requests arrive in 3-5 working days
 No charge
 Limited to 100 items at a time
 May renew up to 6 times if no holds

23. EVA
Eva Maglott
00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use all
digits in your
student ID
number.

24.  Often tools for locating journal and
newspaper articles
 Most are subject-specific – some
multi-disciplinary
 Many give access to full text of
articles
 Heterick has 250+

25.  Academic Search Complete
 Masterfile Premier
 JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive
 Oxford Scholarship
 Search by Subject/Discipline for subject specific
databases
 Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
 SocINDEX with Full Text
 Medline
 Religion and Philosophy Collection

26.  Over thousands of journals
indexed, most are full text
 Divided by subject area
offered at ONU
 Begin with a general
database, Academic Search
Complete

28.  Academic Search Complete

29. You may choose
to limit by date
by sliding the
date bar.

30. You can choose to
narrow by an
additional subject,
geographic location
or type of
publication.

31. Click on the pdf
or hmtl link to
bring up the full
text of the article.

32. No html or pdf link?
Always click on the
“FIND IT” button to
find out where else
you can find the
article!

33. Could be available full
text from another
database so click on the
link

34. May not be accessible by
you and so you’ll need
to use the InterLibrary
Loan process to ask the
librarians to get it for
you

35.  Use when you need a book or article
not available online, not owned by
ONU or available via OhioLINK
 No charge/ limit on requests
 Most requests take 5-7 days to fill
 Use ILL form on library web pages.

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38.  Reference Librarians on
duty
 8a-4:30p Mon-Fri
 6p-9p Mon-Thur
 10a-3:30p Sundays
 Reference@onu.edu
Traci Welch Moritz, MLS
Public Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library
t-moritz@onu.edu
419-772-2473
419-772-2185