1. ENGL 1221
Dr. O’Connell
Traci Welch Moritz
Public Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library

2. Introduction
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Welcome
Professor 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
IM and Chat Reference available certain
times

3. How am I suppose to
remember all this stuff?
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4. Libraries at ONU
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•Taggert Law Heterick
Library Memorial Library
•Library for Law
school, Undergraduate
accessible to all Library, accessi
ble to all

5. ONU card = Library ID
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Remember to
always use all
11 digits!

6. What we’ll do today
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How to do research
How to use library
resources to do research
What resources to use
when doing research

7. How to do Research
Seven Steps of the Research Process
Amended with permission by the Librarians at the Olin and Uris Libraries of Cornell University
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STEP 1: IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP YOUR TOPIC
STEP 2: FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
STEP 3: FIND INTERNET RESOURCES (if
appropriate for the assignment)
STEP 4: USE DATABASES TO FIND PERIODICAL
ARTICLES
STEP 5: EVALUATE WHAT YOU FIND
STEP 6: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
STEP 7: CITE WHAT YOU FIND

8. Start at the beginning
IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP YOUR TOPIC
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•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
STEP Internet
Librarians, Instructors
1

9. Researching
FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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STEP
2

10. 
•Highly structured information environment
Way individual records are arranged
Subject headings
Catalog software optimized for above
Deal with material in many formats
•Implies heavy human involvement
•Emphasis on precision
•Preparation relatively labor-intensive
•Implies a learning curve to use successfully

11. Find a Book -- POLAR
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12. Books - Shortcuts
Hold on, I’ve

got an idea!

13. Books - Shortcuts
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 More to come in a
minute

14. Background Research -- Books
Click on the POLAR tab or Seach POLAR
link

15. Find a Book -- POLAR
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16. Find a Book -- POLAR
•Looks in several locations
(usually subject, article title,
abstracts or contents)
•Does not require an exact
match
•Generates comparatively large
number of hits (not precise)
•Good if you are not familiar with
terminology

17. Find a Book -- POLAR
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18. Find a Book -- POLAR
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If a book is
available, go get
it. Otherwise
request via your
other two options;
OhioLINK or
SearchOhio.

19. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
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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 2-3 working days
No charge
Limited to 100 items at a time
MAY RENEW UP TO 4 TIMES

20. 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 keep up to 84 days

21. SearchOhio
 Access to several Ohio public libraries
 Access via OhioLINK
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 An option when item wanted is not available at ONU or
through OhioLINK

22. Find a Book -- POLAR
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 A small but growing part of the collection are
Ebooks
 Click to
link to content

23. What about Google?
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Does the information located
satisfy the research need?
Is the information factual and
unbiased?
See handout “Critically Analyzing
Information Sources” the Writing
STEP Seminar Research Guide
3

24. What about Google?
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Google and Wikipedia aren’t intrinsically
evil, just use them for the correct purpose
in your research.

25. Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Note: If
working ONU buys
off Full-text
database Google asks
campus to link to
please see content
the OhioLINK
Permits
“google Google to Run Google
scholar” link to full-text Scholar
tab at the Search
Research
Guide for ONU user sees
licensed full-text
Writing articles
Seminar

26. CRAAP test
 Timeliness of the
Currency 
information.
 Depth and importance of the
Relevance/Coverage information.
 Source of the information.
Authority
 Reliability of the information
Accuracy
 Possible bias present in the
Purpose/Objectivity information.

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

28. 
Academic Search Complete
Lexis-Nexis
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal
Archive
Search by Subject/Discipline for
subject specific databases

29. Over 20,000 journals indexed,
most are full text
Divided by subject area offered
at ONU
Begin with a general database,
Academic Search Premier

30. Periodical means the
same as Magazine
Usually magazines are
more “popular”
Journals
Scholarly or Professional
Peer reviewed

32. 
Academic Search
Complete

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36. 
Keyword
Subject

37. 
What if it’s not available PDF or
HTML?
Always hit the “find it” icon and
see what happens next.

38.  in EJC, the OhioLINK
 Could be available
electronic database.

39. 
And could be available in print

41. 
Reserve means the periodical/journal is held at
the front desk.
Current means the issue is new and is available
on the open shelves beside the computer lab.
All others are upstairs and arranged
alphabetically by title.
Bound means it’s out of the building
Arrived means it’s on the open shelves
Expected means it’s not here yet

42. Evaluating resources
Annotated Bibliography
 to see what is
Allows you
out there
Helps you narrow your
topic and discard any
irrelevant materials
Aids in developing the
thesis
STEP Makes you a better scholar
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43. Pulling it all together
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 Managing the resources found:
 Printing
 Saving
 Exporting

44. Pulling it all together
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STEP STEP
6 6

45. Cite what you find using
standard formats
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There are 3 citation styles that are in
frequent used at ONU. They are:
•MLA (Modern Language Association)
•APA (American Psychological
Association)
•CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
STEP
7

46. Research Ethics
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ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY

47. Research Ethics
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Copyright - intended to promote
the arts and the sciences. It does this
by providing authors of original
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic,
and certain other intellectual works
the ability to control how their work
is used by others.

48. Research Ethics
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Plagiarism - “...the wrongful
appropriation or purloining, and
publication as one’s own, the ideas or
the expression of the ideas (literary,
artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of an
other.” – see Heterick Help Page
and Student Code of Conduct

49. Research Ethics
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In other words, to plagiarize is to
copy someone else’s work without
giving him/her credit.
Plagiarism is not always intentional. You can do
1
it by accident, but it is still against the law. If
you ever have a question about whether
something is plagiarized, please ask!
1. How not to plagiarize your report -- Shannon Hosier Mersand

50. Research Ethics
2
How may I avoid plagiarizing?
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 Identify any information that would not be considered
common knowledge
 Unless in direct quotes, make sure you paraphrase what the
original author said
 Use a quote if you can’t think of a way to paraphrase the
information
 always, Always, ALWAYS cite the source of any
information in your paper which is not considered common
knowledge. If you are unsure if something is common
knowledge, cite it!
2 How not to plagiarize your report -- Shannon Hosier Mersand

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