1. Success @ HML =
Success @ ONU
Traci Welch Moritz
Public Services Librarian/Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library

2. WELCOME to the LIBRARY

3. What you can expect from
HML
 Knowledgeable degreed librarians on duty over
60 hours per week
 Friendly faces ready to help 101.5 hours per
week
 Access to the resources you need both on and
off campus
 Resources available in a timely manner

4. What we expect you to
know
WorldCAT
1.6+ billion items
OhioLINK
Ca. 48,000,000
items
POLAR
Ca. 400,000
items

5. + even more!
 250+ Databases
 570+ print periodical
subscriptions
 Thousands of online journals
 Juvenile collection
 Audiovisuals – physical and
streaming

6. Research Ethics
 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, Also Student Code of Conduct
 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.
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7. Research Ethics
 In other words, to plagiarize is to to
copy someone else’s work without
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giving him/her credit.
 Plagiarism is not always intentional. You can
do it by accident, but it is still against the law. If
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you ever have a question about whether
something is plagiarized, please ask!
1. How not to plagiarize your report -- Shannon Hosier Mersand
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8. Research Ethics
How may I avoid plagiarizing? 2
 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
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9. Research Ethics
What is a citation?
 A citation is how you indicate where your information came from.
 There are four citation styles that are in frequent use at the
college level. They are:
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association)
• CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
• Turabian (Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses,
and Dissertations, 6th ed., 1996 )
 Each style has a way to do in-text citations, a way to do a
bibliography, and a way to do footnotes and endnotes.
 Always confirm with each instructor the style required.
 You need to learn how to do citations, etc., but there is a citation
software management tool available to all ONU students, faculty
and staff…
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10. Research Ethics
 RefWorks
•MUST create free account on
campus
•Free FOREVER!!!
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11. Research Tools
 Catalogs – for locating books,
maps, musical scores, govt.
documents, etc.
 Databases – usually for locating
periodical and newspaper
articles, but may cover other
materials as well

12. CATALOGS
 POLAR -- Accessing items
located at HML (physical and
electronic) as well as Law
Library
 OhioLINK -- Next Step if you
can’t find what you want in the
HML collection
 ILL -- option of last resort

13. Libraries at ONU
•Taggert Law  Heterick Memorial
Library Library
•Library for Law
 Undergraduate
school, accessible Library, accessible
to all to all

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

15. POLAR
www.onu.edu/library

16. Find a Book -- POLAR
 Click on the Search POLAR link at the
home page of the library

17. Find a Book -- POLAR

18. Find a Book -- POLAR
1. Keyword Search
•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

19. Find a Book -- POLAR
Click on Basic (keyword) Tab

20. Find a Book -- POLAR

21. Find a Book -- POLAR
E-books

22. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
 Materials owned by all Ohio colleges,
universities, several public libraries
 Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests
 Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
 No charge
 Only 25 requests at a time
 May keep up to 84 days

23. Find a Book -- OhioLINK

24. Find a book -- OhioLINK

25. Find a book -- OhioLINK
First and Last name
exactly as it appears on
university ID + barcode is
all 11 digits of your ID

26. Find a Book -- OhioLINK

27. Course Reserves

28. Find an Article
Databases
 Often tools for locating journal and
newspaper articles
 Most are subject-specific, some multi-
disciplinary
 Many give access to full text of articles
 Heterick has 200+
 Available from Heterick home page

29. DATABASES
BIG THREE
 Academic Search Complete
 Lexis-Nexis
 JSTOR
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30. General or Subject specific

31. Find an Article
Scholarly Peer
Reviewed
Primary Source
Document

32. Find an Article
Some articles available full-text html or pdf

33. Find an Article
 What if it’s not available PDF or HTML?
 Always hit the “find it” icon and see what happens
next.

34. Find an Article
• It may have to be requested
ILL

35. Find an Article
• It may be available Full text from
OhioLINK or another database

36. Find an Article
 And could be available in print

37. Find an Article
 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

38. JSTOR

39. Newspaper databases
 Lexis-Nexis

40. Lexis-Nexis

41. What about the Internet?
P:drive, Library Instruction folder, FYE folder, Handouts folder, “Critically
analyzing information sources”

42. What about the Internet?
Google Scholar
Note: See
“Google ONU buys
scholar” Full-text
Google asks
database
tab at to link to
research content
guide for OhioLINK
Permits
info on Google to Run Google
how to set link to full-text Scholar
this up for Search
off-
campus ONU user sees
licensed full-text
access. articles

43. Evaluating Web Resources
 Timeliness of the
 Currency information.
 Depth and importance of
 Relevance/Coverage the information.
 Source of the information.
 Authority
 Reliability of the information
 Accuracy
 Possible bias present in the
 Purpose/Objectivity information.

44. Help/Instruction

45. Public terminal on
third floor

46. QUESTIONS?
 Ask at the Reference Desk
 Phone the Reference Desk –
2185
 Contact us by E-mail
reference@onu.edu
 T-moritz@onu.edu