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PALOMAR LIBRARY: SEARCHING DATABASES Image: William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies. London: William and Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City
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Image: William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies. London: William and Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City Libraries.18 October 2016
Before you start searching for sources it is important to know what you are searching for: 1. Figure out your research topic. Here is an example of a simple one: The mother in William Shakespeare’s plays 2. Create your research question: There is an obvious absence of mothers in William Shakespeare’s plays. The few plays where mothers are present, represent mothers to be ’bad mothers’. What does the role of the mother in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Hamlet, reveal about Shakespeare’s England and the view of motherhood? 3. Identify the main concepts or keywords: Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth, Motherhood, Mother, Role of Women, Early Modern England 4. Create a list of the variations of your keywords. This will help you find more sources: Shakespeare’s England = Renaissance England, Elizabethan England, 16th and 17th Century England, Sixteenth century England, Seventeenth Century England 5. T est your topic to see if you find too little or too many sources. If you need to, narrow your topic further.
books, music, videos, articles and audio recordings. When you search the catalog you will be searching all the materials, physical or digital, the library has access to.
through the various databases. When searching the databases, you can search databases which focus on certain subjects like History or Science, and some that focus on a variety of subjects.
This login information is the same as your eservices.
LIBRARY WEBSITE SEARCHING THE LIBRARY CATALOG
Find library materials such as books, music, videos, articles and audio recordings via the Library Catalog.
https://www2.palomar.edu/pages/library/
LIBRARY WEBSITE LIBRARY DATABASES
Click “Databases” on the right homepage column.
If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to sign in. This login information is the same as your eservices.
Here you will find all the databases you can access. You can sort databases by: Subject Type Providers You an also search for keywords/subjects like: Literature, History, Gender or more specific topics such as American History or Russian Literature
This is a full-text online reference service.
This contains full-text articles up to the latest three to five years from thousands of core academic and scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, environmental sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of literary authors from every period and discipline. Its resources cover more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with additional in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Here are some databases that would be good for the research topic of motherhood in William Shakespeare’s plays.
box.
making sure “Full-Text” is chosen from the right drop- down menu
down menu. This will make your search even more specific
Access Type
variety of fields such as type, date range, language, subject, etc.
Some helpful information: To edit the search without having to restart, click modify search To search new terms within these results, type in new terms in the search box and check the box: Search within results You can narrow your sources by choosing a specific content type: article, book, review, etc. You can also sort the results by: relevance, newest, or oldest.
Initial appraisal
name cited in other sources or bibliographies you have found?
current information while others (humanities) do not.
volume or issue is it?
After you search the database and find some sources you think will work, it is important to evaluate your sources to make sure they are appropriate and useful for your paper.
Evaluating your source You can look at the abstract, the introduction, the conclusion, and the sources this article cites to get a better feel for what the paper is about.
work, make sure the abstract meets your expectations.
scholarly conversation he/she is placing themselves in.
to evaluate the paper.
After you look at the basic information, it is time to look a little deeper at the article.
✓ How to start your research by thinking about your question and keywords ✓ How to use the Palomar Library website to find information and sources ✓ Where to find the Library Catalog on the Palomar Library website ✓ How to find and search the Library Databases on the Palomar Library website ✓ How to search a database (JSTOR) ✓ How to evaluate your sources quickly and effectively by looking at the author, the type of
source, the date, along with the abstract, introduction, and conclusion
Your Sources
References William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies [online image]. London: William and Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City Libraries.