1. ENGL 1421
Intensive Composition 2
Professor Traci Welch Moritz
Public Services Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2. Introduction
• Welcome
• Traci Welch Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu
• Feel free to visit or email
• Librarians on duty 8-4, 6-9 Mon –
Thurs, 8-4 Friday and 10-3:30 on
Sundays
• IM and Chat Reference available
certain times

3. How am I suppose to remember all this stuff?
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4. Libraries at ONU
• Heterick
•Taggert Law Memorial Library
Library
•Library for Law
school, • Undergraduate
accessible to all Library,
accessible to all

5. ONU ID is Library card
EVA
Eva Maglott
00021559801
Eva Maglott
Please use all
digits in your
student ID
number.

6. What we’ll do today
• What is field research?
• How to do research
• How to use library
resources to do research
• What resources to use
when doing research

7. Field Research
• Field research can be considered either as a
broad approach to qualitative research or a
method of gathering qualitative data. The
essential idea is that the researcher goes “into
the field” to observe the phenomenon in it’s
natural state or in situ. As such, it is probably
most related to the method of participant
observation. The field researcher typically takes
extensive field notes which are subsequently
coded and analyzed in a variety of ways
(Trochimn, B 1999)

8. Field Research
• What is qualitative research?
• Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed
in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in
the social sciences, but also in market research and
further contexts.[1] Qualitative researchers aim to gather
an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the
reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative
method investigates the why and how of decision
making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but
focused samples are more often needed, rather than
large samples.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research

9. Field Research
• Observation
– Participant
– Direct
• Interview
• Survey
– Print
– Person
– Mail/Email
– Phone

10. Field Research
• More info on qualitative research
• http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/qual.
php
• http://www.qsrinternational.com/what-is-
qualitative-research.aspx
• http://wilderdom.com/research/QualitativeVersu
sQuantitativeResearch.html
• http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc/pract_re
s.html

11. Field Research
• Finding information about how to do field
research
• Catalogs
• Databases
• Other types of reliable resources

12. Writing an analytical research paper
Ask a question
DO: DO NOT:
• Exploring the topic • Take a stance
• Research the topic • Be persuasive
• Explain the topic • Worry about your
• Critically evaluate definitive research
• Use primary and question too soon
secondary
resources

13. How to do research
•State your topic as a question
•Identify main concepts or keywords
•Test the topic -- Look for keywords and
synonyms and related terms for the
information sought
Subject headings in catalogs
Built-in thesauri in many databases
Reference sources
Textbooks, lecture notes, readings
Internet
Librarians, Instructors

14. What do I do next?
Use library resources to continue your
background research.

15. 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

16. POLAR

17. Find a book -- POLAR

18. Find a Book -- POLAR
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
Checked out
at HML, try
at OhioLINK
Checked out at HML
but available at law
library so head over
there
Available as e-book,
click the link and
follow the directions

20. Find a Book -- POLAR
E-books

21. Find a Book -- POLAR

22. Public terminal on
third floor

23. 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

24. Find a Book -- OhioLINK

25. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
1. Make sure
copies are
available at
other libraries
2. Click on request
button

26. Find a book -- OhioLINK
3. Select Ohio
Northern
4. Enter your first and
last name and all 11
digits exactly as they
appear on your ID
5. Be sure to select
Heterick as your pick up
location and then click
submit.
6. An email will be
sent when the item is
ready for pickup

27. Find a book -- SearchOhio
• Access to several Ohio public libraries
• Access via OhioLINK
• An option when item wanted is not
available at ONU or through OhioLINK

28. My Library Account
Allows you to see what you have
checked out and requested. Allows you
to renew online (if possible). Allows you
to see charges on your account.

29. My Library Account
Enter first and last name
and all 11 digits on
university ID

30. My Library Account
• For more information visit the Library
Information page

31. Library App
• http://journals.onu.edu/home_page/libinfo/mobile
.cfm

32. Bibliographic Citation Software
Use “RefWorks”
tab in the ENGL
Research guide
for more
information

33. What do I do next?
Consider using critically evaluated websites

34. RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET
FIND INTERNET RESOURCES
Comprehensive
search engines:
•Alta Vista Subject portals:
•Ask.com •Librarians' Index to the
•Excite Internet
•Scholar.Google •WWW Virtual Library
•Hotbot
•Lycos
•Wisenut Multi-engine
searching:
MetaCrawler
Vivisimo

35. RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET
Google and Wikipedia aren’t evil, just use
them for the correct purpose in your
research.

36. RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET
Note: If
working off Google Scholar
campus user
sees ONU buys
only citation Full-text
database Google asks
to to link to
articles not content
full text. See
OhioLINK
the Permits
Research Google to Run Google
Guide for link to full-text Scholar
help in Search
setting up
Google ONU user sees
Scholar for licensed full-text
off-campus articles
access.

37. RESEARCH TOOLS∞INTERNET
• Does the information located satisfy
the research need?
• Is the information factual and
unbiased?
• See handout “Critically Analyzing
Information Sources” at the “Web”
tab on the ENGL 1421 Research
Guide.

38. What do I do next?
Use databases to find articles based on
your search strategy

39. • 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 212

40. Find an Article
Click on “Databases”

41. Find an Article

42. Find an Article
SUBJECT SPECIFIC
BIG THREE
• Academic Search
Complete
• Lexis-Nexis
• Opposing
Viewpoints
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43. Find an Article
• Periodical means the
same as Magazine
Usually magazines are
more “popular”
• Journals
Scholarly or Professional
Peer reviewed

44. General Database
Scholarly journals,
peer reviewed articles

45. General Database
Scholarly journals,
peer reviewed articles

46. Find an Article

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

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

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

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

51. Find an Article
• And could be available in print

52. Lexis-Nexis

53. Lexis-Nexis

54. Lexis-Nexis
Consider
using the
“Advanced
search”
option

55. Opposing Viewpoints

56. Opposing Viewpoints

57. Subject Specific Database

58. HOW TO DO RESEARCH
Cite what you find using standard formats
There are 3 citation styles that
are in frequent used at ONU.
They are:
•MLA (Modern Language
Association)
•APA (American Psychological
Association)
•CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
STEP
7

59. Off campus access
Web Management
Be sure to click on the “Off
campus access tab” to begin

60. HELP
Traci Welch Moritz, MLS
Public Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library
Reference
t-moritz@onu.edu
Librarians on 419-772-2473
duty 419-772-2185
8a-4p Mon-Fri
6p-9p Mon-Thur
10a-3:30p