Gender Issues in Sport: Finding Scholarly Information

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Gender Issues in SportFinding Scholarly
Information
Katharine Ball Librarian Leddy
Library kball_at_uwindsor.ca Tel. [phone] x3852
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Overview of session

• Leddy Library Home Page Some Basics
• Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
• Using The Same Search Strategy To Find Books and
  Other Types of Information

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Leddy Library home page the basics
Web Address http//www.uwindsor.ca/library
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Finding scholarly journal articles
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How to Tell if a Journal is Scholarlyvs. a
magazine, trade publication or newspaper

• Quality Information
• Use your best judgement longer, in-depth
  articles, abstracts, bibliographies, report
  research findings, peer-reviewed, etc.
• With some bibliographic databases, you can limit
  your search to scholarly or peer-reviewed
  journals
• Check the journals web site and read the
  editorial information
• Look up the journal in Ulrichs International
  Periodical Directory (a database about journals)

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Example of a Scholarly Journal Article
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There are different ways to find journal articles

• you could go through the journals issue by issue,
  volume by volume
• you could use the bibliographies at the end of
  textbooks, encyclopedias, or at the end of a
  great article your professor has given you
• you could just search the web
• but probably the best way, at least to begin
  with, is to look them up in bibliographic
  databases (a.k.a. journal indexes)

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What are bibliographic databases?

• Searchable collections of records describing
  individual journal articles
• A database record contains information such as

Feminist and Gender Research in Sport and Leisure
Management Understanding the Social-Cultural
Nexus of Gender-Power Relations.By Aitchison,
Cara Carmichael. Journal of Sport Management,
Oct2005, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p422, 20p (AN
18447837) PDF Full Text  (194K)    Subject
TermsSPORTS SOCIAL sciences Research
STRUCTURALISM POSTSTRUCTURALISM FEMINISM sports
GENDER studies AbstractThis article aims toward
developing a critical theory that can further
advance feminist research in sport management. I
seek to offer a critical analysis of gender
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Where can I access the databases?
Remember to activate your student/library card at
the Library off-campus you will have to sign on
to the databases with your last name and barcode
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Some Databases ForGender Issues in Sport
Management

• Sport Discus
• Scholars Portal (searches many databases at
  once)
• Contemporary Womens Issues
• CBCA Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Business Source Premier
• Digital Dissertations
• Kinesiology Publications

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Journals and the Library Catalogue

• Very important reminder
• The Library Catalogue tells us which journals we
  subscribe to. It will tell us the location on
  the shelves for the print journals, and how to go
  about accessing the online journals.
• NOTE the Library Catalogue ONLY gives us title
  level information. It does not tell us what
  articles are in the journal.
• For this, we have to use Bibliographic Databases
  (a.k.a. Journal Indexes)

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Developing an Effective Search Strategy
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Developing an Effective Search Strategy
STEPS

• Identify major concepts from your research topic
• For each concept think of synonyms,
  related/alternative keywords, broader/narrower
  terms, variant spellings
• Combine and group your keywords using Boolean
  logic (AND, OR) and other strategies

George Boole 1815-1864
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STEP 1.

• Identify major concepts from your research topic

Example Discuss some of the issues surrounding
eating disorders in university athletes.
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Find synonyms and alternative keywords/spellings
for each major concept
STEP 2.
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Combining And Grouping Your Keywords
STEP 3.
Examples
Technique
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Combining And Grouping Your Keywords
STEP 3.
Examples
Technique
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Putting together search phrases
Example
1. 2. 3.
(eating disorder) AND (universit OR colleg)
AND (athlet OR sport)
Like the order of operations in an equation,
the database deals with the contents of the
brackets first.
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Enter your search terms in the database
e.g. Scholars Portal Advanced Search
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And Get Your Search Results!
E.g. Scholars Portal
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With the some of the databases, the full-text of
the articles is available directly online
Click here to retrieve the full-text or
full-image of the journal article
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Other times, youll see a Get It button
This means that the full-text of the article is
not available directly through this
database. The Get It button will try to link
you to other sources of full-text for the article
either online - or to the Library catalogue for
print/microfilm holdings If the Library does not
have the journal or book you are looking for, you
can order it through Interlibrary Loans (see the
link Order Books Articles Not in Leddy on
the Librarys home page)
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Using the Same Search Strategy To Find Books in
the Library Catalogue
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Finding books in the Library Catalogue

• Note the truncation symbol is a ?
• Note you must use quotation marks around your
  phrases
• Books tend to cover broader topics than journal
  articles
• - so keep your search strategy broader

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Finding information on the WebGoogle

• assumes AND between key words
• capitalize AND and OR
• no truncation
• use quotation marks for phrases

e.g. eating disorder AND (college athlete OR
university athlete)

• Try some of the options under Advanced Search to
  help focus your search
• Try Google Print and Google Scholar
• REMEMBER on the web, you are the editor you are
  responsible for judging the quality of the
  information you use!

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Citing Your Sources

• Citation Guides
• Using QuickBib in Scholars Portal

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Finding Information ForGender Issues in Sport

• Remember
• no matter where or how you look for your
  information, select the type of information that
  is appropriate for your assignment/project
• soif you are writing a research paper, most of
  your information should probably be coming from
  scholarly sources!
• do your research well ahead of time technology
  is great - only when it works! so you may run
  into problems if you start your research at the
  last minute.

Good Luck!