1. MATC & the Park Library
Fall 2012
Stephanie Willen Brown
Librarian, Park Library
swbrown@unc.edu
919.843.8300
#YouLearnedALotAlready
#APA #FindingGoodKeywords #LibrariansSaveTime

2. Questions About Exercise?
• Register to get books delivered at home
• Chat Stephanie
• Find article in CMMC & email citation to
Stephanie
http://findicons.com/icon/219716/question?id=384421

3. You & the Library
• Inside the box
– Books from UNC Library delivered to your
home
– Search engines for class research
– Advice on where to search for what
• Outside the box
– Advice on managing, reformatting citations
•S
– Chat with us! IM: JOMCParkLib or click

4. Where to Search?
• UNC Catalog for books
• Library Search Engines  “Databases”
• “EBSCO” suite
– Academic Search Premier
– PsycINFO
– Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Save & reformat results with RefWorks

5. Finding Books
• Search by keyword
• Identify books you want
• Request item
• Borrow for 30-90 days
• Renew online!

6. Finding Articles: EBSCO

7. Look Outside the Box

8. Resources for 716 & Other Classes
http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/matc/716

9. Good Search Terms
Social media & the Olympics
social media OR olympics OR
social network* london2012 OR
OR twitter OR basketball OR
facebook OR AND gymnastics OR
instagram OR lochte OR
youtube OR phelps OR NBC
blog* OR swim*

10. Translated to CMMC-ese
• (social media or social network* or twitter or
facebook or instagram or youtube or blog*)
and (olympicsor london2012 or basketball or
gymnastics or lochteor phelpsor NBC or
swim*)
• Notes:
– Caps are irrelevant
– Use () to indicate what to “OR” together
– * is wildcard, so swim* searches for
• swim
• swims
• swimmers
• swimming

11. Citation Style: Differences?
• APA(Research Methods; New Media and Society):
Ning, W., Zhongshi, G., &Fei, S. (2011).
Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of
Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity.
Communication Research, 38(3), 422-445.
• Turabian(Database & Web Research):
Ning, Wang, GuoZhongshi, and ShenFei. 2011.
“Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of
Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity.”
Communication Research 38, no. 3: 422-445.
Communication & Mass Media Complete, EBSCOhost
(accessed July 30, 2012).

12. Citation Style: Some Differences
• APA(Research Methods; New Media and Society):
Ning, W., Zhongshi, G., &Fei, S.(2011).
Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of
Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion Diversity.
Communication Research, 38(3), 422-445.
• Turabian(Database & Web Research):
Ning, Wang, GuoZhongshi, and ShenFei. 2011.
“Message, Perception, and the Beijing Olympics: Impact of
Differential Media Exposure on Perceived Opinion
Diversity.”Communication Research 38, no. 3: 422-445.
Communication & Mass Media
Complete, EBSCOhost(accessed July 30, 2012).

13. Wait, What?!
• No one can remember all that!
• Use a citation manager or EBSCO’s “cite” option
http://findicons.com/icon/219716/question?id=384421

14. Options for Managing Citations
• Export citations in MLA, APA, etc. formats
from EBSCO & other library search engines.
• RefWorks: Online, anywhere. Works with
any browser. Somewhat clunky.
• Zotero: FireFox plugin. Robust. Must be
installed.
• UNC’s Citation Builder Handy for
reformatting one citation.
All links on http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/matc1

15. Citing in EBSCO

16. Maybe … Buy the Manual
• American Psychological
Association. (2010).
Publication manual of the
American Psychological
Association. (6th ed.).
Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.

17. Tips from Prior MATC Students
• Home delivery of books is terrific
• Use Interlibrary Loan to get articles that aren’t
online!
• Course pages very useful
– Links work for all classes
• Ask Stephanie for help with search terms
– Chat
– Twitter
– Email
– Phone
http://findicons.com/icon/84701/user_group?id=404271#

18. Early Semester: Training via Elluminate
• Stephanie will schedule 2-3 synchronous
training sessions
• Sign up for one (or more)
• Learn more about
– Searching in EBSCO
– Generating good search terms
– Anything else for Research Methods
• Schedule via Doodle; message via Sakai
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/construction-icons-by-proycontec/screen-settings-icon.html

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