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ERSC 2P09 Major Research
Project SeminarHappy
Pearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,
Carleton University
Dan, Ian & Colleen

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Agenda…
 Earth Sciences Library Research Guide for ERSC 2P09
 How to search for books, e-books, journal articles and reports,
e.g. SuperSearch, Academic Search Complete, Environmental
Studies, Scholars Portal, Web of Science, Google Scholar.
 How to search for news, e.g. Lexis-Nexis, Canadian Newsstand,
CBCA, CPI.Q, Google News archive and individual journals!!!!
 How to locate climatic, vegetation, biome, ecosystem threats,
resources, etc.
 How to create an annotated bibliography
 How to use map and cartographic information
 Time to search and discover

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Topic and keywords…
 Topic: Alberta oil sands, select from list, identify your own!
 Location: Tar Sands: Lat./Long., map, oil sands, Alberta tar sands, Fort McMurray,
Athabasca, Peace rivers, etc.
 Ecological stressors, problems, issues: dirty oil, groundwater fluctuations,
avulsion, basin desiccation, upstream land disturbances, changing biotic composition, drier
ecosystem, wildlife migration, water pollution and spills, cultural and socioeconomic changes,
dams, ponding, etc.
 Climatic impact: global warming, greenhouse gases, bioclimatology, climate change,
caribou, tundra, Kyoto, climatology, etc.
 Pictures, charts, figures, illustrations, maps: Atlas of Canada, Scholars
GeoPortal, Google, materials from web, journal articles and news media, etc.

4. Alberta Tar Sands
Source: Frankie James blog, http://www.frankejames.com 2012
Source: Ecological Indicators, 15(1):43 2012
Source: Canadian Geographic , 128(3):78 2008

5. Search the Scholars Portal database for
figures, charts and illustrations.

6. Attempt an Easy Search and if needed
switch to the Advanced Search engine to
refine your search strategy and improve
your results

7. Use the Natural Language search option
to search for different terms e.g. global
warming, greenhouse, climate change,
Kyoto, climatology…

8. Use the Terms & Connectors search
option to search by keywords and limit
by Source and added terms e.g. HLEAD
(headline/title and lead paragraph)…

9. Refine search by “climatology” and
other keywords sorting results by
relevance and currency.

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Agenda…
 Earth Sciences Library Research Guide for ERSC 2P09
 How to search for books, e-books, journal articles and reports,
e.g. SuperSearch, Academic Search Complete, Environmental
Studies, Scholars Portal, Web of Science, Google Scholar.
 How to search for news, e.g. Lexis-Nexis, Canadian Newsstand,
CBCA, CPI.Q, Google News archive and individual journals!!!!
 How to locate climatic, vegetation, biome, ecosystem threats,
resources, etc.
 How to create an annotated bibliography
 How to use map and cartographic information
 Time to search and discover

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ERSC 2P09 Major Research
Project SeminarHappy
Pearl Jacobson, Science Librarian,
Carleton University
Dan, Ian & Colleen