Kyle Feenstra
Coordinator for Learning & Instruction Support at University of Manitoba Libraries
Kyle Feenstra
Education Librarian
Elizabeth Dafoe Library
The Information Landscape
Academic
Articles
Scholarly
Journals
Academic Databases
Library
Catalogue
Google
Scholar
Academic
Articles
Pay Wall
Searching
the Library
vs.
Searching
the Internet
Websites & non-academic articles
What are scholarly journals?
Identifying scholarly articles
What do we mean by "peer review"?
Identifying Peer Reviewed Journals
Library Catalogue Search
Database Search
Subject Terms show us how published information within a domain of knowledge has been categorized in library or database.
Subjects are useful for identifying related materials.
Keywords appear in the record and text of a document. Keywords represent the language used in a domain of knowledge.
Keyword search results are based on frequency of word use in a document.
Using Subject Terms to find Books & Articles
Library catalogues use "controlled vocabularies" to organized materials by subject area. For monographs we call these subject terms.
Using Subject Terms to find Books & Articles
Databases also use controlled vocabularies often arranged in the form of a thesaurus. ERIC has one of the most widely used thesauri for research in Education.
Finding Subject Terms
Use the subject heading search to find the appropriate subject terms for books.
Use the ERIC Thesaurus (in the advanced search) to find the appropriate subject terms for articles.
Keeping Track of Articles (Two Options)
APA Style Guides
UM Library copies of recommended APA Guides
Additional Services
Document Delivery
Mail a Book
(Off Campus Students)
Contact Distance Education to have a book mailed to an off campus location.
By Kyle Feenstra
July 11, 2017
Coordinator for Learning & Instruction Support at University of Manitoba Libraries