Copps Scholars

1. Consider word variations and synonyms
   • think about how others might refer to your ideas
   • e.g, green: conservation, environment-friendly, ecologically sound, eco-friendly, ozone-friendly, non-polluting, sustainable, recyclable.

2. Employ search limiters (available limiters depend on the database)
   • peer reviewed, article type, date
3. Identify key publications and authors
   • note citations, and cited references, repeated author names
4. Document and track everything you do in the steps above

See page 31 of this dissertation to see what this can look like:

Wong, Bonny Yee-Man. "What Role does the Built Environment Play in Determining School Travel in Ontario?" University of Toronto (Canada), 2016.

Current and Archival news sources

Notes:

• Current News sources
  • cover approximately 1990 - current
  • stripped of any visual or tabular information
  • some articles missing due to copyright
• News Archives
  • pdf issues, entire content from volume 1 - (2 to 4) year ago (a rolling wall)
  • differences in searchability; OCR scans are not perfect
• Local digitized newspapers
  • varying degrees of quality

PDFs and permalinks

• Some databases have pdfs built in, others you may need to create pdfs from print function
• Try to always look for the permalink in addition to citation information

Omni

Limit to "Books and ebooks"; results are limited to what Laurier and the other 18 Omni schools own.

One of the ways you could search is for text in the publisher field. For Canadian academic publishers, though, a shortcut would be to use this:

Omni

Limit to "Articles"; results are limited to what Laurier owns (NOT the other 18 Omni schools for articles). To search for articles regardless of who owns the item, consider using a subject-specific databases. For 24-25 Copps scholars, some helpful ones might include

House of Commons debates

• 1867 - 1996
• 1997 - current

Dissertations and Theses can be a helpful source of bibliographic information.  

Grey literature is not easy to find, which is why it's "grey." 

Government agencies, research institutes, organizations, companies or associations will often have a link to "research" or "publications" on their website.  If the body produces a large quantity of publications, then they might even have a "database" or "institutional repository" available for searching. 

Use Google, but use the Advanced search form

• e.g, (police OR policing) "human trafficking" site:gc.ca

• Example of annotated bibliography
• Citation Styles