Course Number: RE407Subject: Religion and Culture Research help contact Greg Sennema to set up an appointment: gsennema@wlu.ca Library instruction student survey (anonymous feedback) Scholarly sources Tutorial: How can I tell if my source is scholarly? Tutorial: How do find scholarly books In general, when looking for scholarly sources, you will be consulting and citing three formats: journal articles Steen, Sheldon. “The Blair Martyr Project: The Passion of Perpetua and Found Footage Horror.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 183–95. doi:10.3138/jrpc.2017-0064. books Daniels, Timothy P. Living Sharia Law and Practice in Malaysia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. book chapters Bernice, Carol. "How Queer is Celibacy?: a Queer Nun's Story." in Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, edited by Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Mark Larrimore, and Michael F. Pettinger, 48-52. New York: New York University, 2015. Tutorial: Finding an article when you only know the title Database searching tips Regardless of what you are searching for, or which tools you use, keep in mind the following tips (although be aware that not all databases support each of these options) Tutorial: Developing a research question Consider word variations and synonyms think about how others might refer to your ideas e.g, death rituals --> death OR dying OR funeral OR mortuary Tutorial: Using search words effectively Search Tactics What is the tactic? What does the tactic do? Examples Boolean AND Use AND to ensure that all terms appear in every search result. heterodox AND gnostic Boolean OR Use OR to ensure that at least one term appears in every search result. Tutorial: Better searching using AND, OR, NOT indigenous OR aboriginal Phrase searching Use “quotation marks” to find more than one term in a row. “islamic law” Truncation Use an asterisk* at the end of a term to include multiple endings. (sometimes $) Tutorial: Better searching using truncation religio* religion, religions, religious, religiosity, religousness Wildcard Use a question mark ? within a term to search for variations of a single character. decoloni?e decolonize, decolonise Proximity Use NEAR/n to search for terms within n words of each other (sometimes ADJ/n) only useful in full text databases "music therapy" NEAR/5 child* OR adolescent* Employ search limiters (available limiters depend on the database) peer reviewed, article type, date Identify key publications and authors note citations, and cited references, repeated author names Document and track everything you do in the steps above __________________________________________________________________ Research example Davis, D. E. (2019). Strong Black Women, Depression, and the Pentecostal Church (Page 23) Tutorial: Doing a literature review Books Tutorial: Finding books in OmniTutorial: Requesting books from other libraries in Omni start with Omni limit to "Books and eBooks", e.g, "islamic law" sharia malaysia use call number (e.g. to find location of Laurier's print items) sign in to request from other Omni libraries use Scan on Demand for chapters or articles note about ebooks While Omni contains a catalogue record (author, title, etc.) of our eBooks, an Omni search does not search the full text of each book. Instead, you need to visit and search the various sites where our eBooks are stored. Some examples include: eBook Academic Collection Proquest Ebook Central see also Internet Archive: Books Google Books Articles Tutorial: Finding scholarly articles on a topic start with Omni limit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed journals" while you will likely find some relevant material on your topic, article content in Omni is not chosen or curated based on subject, but dumped in, i.e., it may not have everything on a particular topic, or your result list might be too large to parse. Researchers rely on curated collections of content according to discipline. Some of the helpful databases for the topics in this course include: Atla Religion Database Communication & Mass Media Complete Film & Television Literature Index Historical Databases iPortal: indigenous studies portal research tool Sociology Collection The library has over 400 different databases that you could consider. Ask me, I might have come across some relevant resources. e.g, Queer(y)ing Labels: Dialogues of Identity Theses and Dissertations What does it look like to do utilize all these databases? See these examples of what Masters and PhD students have done before you, including methodologies and sources. Tieszen, Pamela K. "A Phenomenological Study of Women Administrators' Experiences in Mennonite High Schools." University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), 2017. (see page 11) ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Grey Literature Grey literature is information produced outside traditional scholarly publications. It includes reports, policy briefs and reports, major research papers, white papers, working papers, government documents, speeches, etc. There is no single database that covers grey literature well, so Google is helpful in cases like this. Consider the following tips when searching Google, often using these in combination: limit to domain site:ca, site:edu limit to document type filetype:pdf, filetype:pptx think how a document might phrase something, enclose that in quotes heterodox "sufi islam" filetype:pdf site:edu