Course Number: AF101CSubject: Religion and Culture understanding the concepts identifying citations popular vs peer-reviewed (also referred to as scholarly or academic) Video Tutorials Choose keywords, and search tips Formulate a research question in order to focus your ideas about the topic. how to create an effective research question (video) Write down the different concepts used in this question, e.g., religion, religious, faith, worship, Christian, Hindu, etc. TIP: Find additional clues for terms in the titles and abstracts of books and articles video on how to choose effective keywords (video) Use "quotation marks" to combine terms into a phrase e.g., "cultural icon" Use an asterisk* to search for variations of a word e.g., Canad* Familiarize yourself with your topic Read the introductions to books, including your course readings. Use Google or Wikipedia to determine initial scope of you topic consult the references and bibliography look for other bibliographies, such as the Oxford Bibliographies Acquire background information from one of our online reference sources e.g., Oxford Reference Consult one of the Oxford Very Short Introductions Find books A keyword search in Omni is the broadest type of search when looking for books. Type in the keywords that broadly describe your topic or try using some of the following keywords below if you need inspiration. The search results will display both print and electronic books, and initially, a whole bunch of articles. Consider narrowing your results just to books at this point. use the facets on the left-hand side to narrow results For additional books, click the title of a book that looks pertinent, and then the subject link(s) for that book Are the books on your topic checked out? You can always use an e-book You can also order a book or a photocopy of an article from another library at no cost to you Find ebooks Laurier's ebooks are just as scholarly as our print books While all our ebooks are catalogued in Omni, you can search across the full text of ebooks searching the collections. Start with Proquest Ebook Central. Find articles A good place to start is Omni. Limit to “Articles” under Resource Type on the left-hand side TIP: This search can sometimes cast the net TOO wide, similar to Google Scholar TIP: Look for citation style info along the way There are also specialized databases for every subject. Some that might be helpful for this class include ATLA Religion Database e.g., search for celebrity, culture (religion is implied) RILM Abstracts of Music e.g., search for religious themes, or culture (music is implied) Other Research Materials Click on the "Research Materials" tab at the top of this page to look beyond books and articles. In particular, look at: Images New articles Music Videos Create the bibliography Chicago MLA