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Quantitative Analysis
Anthropology/Sociology
ANSO 212
How to Find:
Books | Book Chapters |
Review Articles |
Journal Articles |
Websites |
Citing Sources
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Finding Books
Using Catalogs to Find Books:
1.) Ariadne
- Search by Keyword
- Find and Use Subject Headings
- Browse the shelves by Call Number
2.) MeLCat
(includes Western's libraries)
- Search by Keyword
- Find and Use Subject Headings
- About MeLCat
3.) WestCat -
Western Michigan's catalog
How does Searching work? See this
interactive explanation!
Using Subject Headings
- Search by Keyword and look for Subject Headings in individual records
- Do a new Keyword Search using words from the Subject Headings
Examples of Subject Headings:
See also:
Library of Congress Classification...
Western Michigan's Waldo Library -
Hours and
How to get to Western
Book Chapters
To find chapters within books, do a keyword search in Ariadne on your topic,
whether your topic is an idea, a period of history, or a person.
A keyword search will search multiple fields of the record for a book,
such as title, author, contents, etc.
The field called Contents is where chapter titles are listed.
Example: social justice
In Ariadne, you can use a keyword search to find your topic
specifically in the contents note field,
where chapter titles are listed. To search the note field,
your search would look like this:
Example: n:leadership style
Some indexes allow you to search specifically for book chapters.
Finding Review Articles
Annual Review of Anthropology
K has Print: 1972-current (missing 1985), call number
GN1 .A623
K has
Online Full Text Access 1972 - present
Annual Review of Sociology
K has Print: 1976-current, call number
HM1 .A56x
K has
Online Full Text Access 1975 - present
Annual Review of Psychology
K has: Print, 1950-current, call number BF30 .A56
K has
Online Full Text Access 1950 - present
Finding Journal Articles
Scholarly Journals (American Sociological Review)
- Authors are scholars or researchers in their fields.
- Authors cite their sources in footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.
- Individual issues have little or no advertising.
- Articles must go through a peer-review process.
- Articles usually report original scholarly research.
- Most illustrations are charts, figures, or graphs.
- Authors use the specialized language or jargon of the discipline.
Popular Magazines (Time, Newsweek)
- Authors are free lance writers or magazine staff members.
- Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in notes or bibliographies.
- Individual issues contain many advertisements.
- There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed by editors or publishers.
- Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
- Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated audience.
- Language is written for the general adult audience (no specialized jargon).
Is it Scholarly? Look it up in Ulrich's Online!
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Online
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Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly Publication" to be considered scholarly!
Journal Indexes
Indexes tell you *who published what*,
and provide citation information, including author, article title, journal title,
publication date, volume number, and page number of the article.
Citations do not include the full text of the article.
See How to Find Journal Articles.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus < about >
Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983-present) < about >
Social Sciences Abstracts < about >
Social Sciences Citation Index <
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PsycINFO <
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Do you have access to a journal?
1.) Ariadne (print)
- Title search on Title of the Journal
to locate print journal
2.)
Online Journals at K
- Title search on Title of the Journal
to locate article in a Full Text Database
3.) WestCat -
Western Michigan's catalog
Don't forget to use
bibliographies
found in reference books, annotated bibliographies, books, and journal articles!
Full-Text Databases
New York Times (1985 to present) < about >
JSTOR
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Full text database of scholarly journals in many disciplines.
Most recent three to five years of issues are not included.
Project Muse
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about
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Full text of Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly journals.
Full Text Databases that include a mix of Scholarly and Popular sources:
Academic OneFile
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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General Reference Center Gold
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Proquest <
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Fulltext database with scholarly and popular sources. You can select
to search only peer-reviewed journals.
OmniFile
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Websites
To find Web sites, use search engines and web indexes. See Finding Web Sites and Web Indexes and Directories.
Your Food Environment Atlas < about >
The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors: Food choices, Health and well-beign, and Community characteristics
Local Harvest
Use the website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area.
Farm to College
This site presents information about farm-to-college programs in the U.S. and Canada collected by the Community Food Security Coalition.
Community Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times.
Fair Food Matters
Fair Food Matters was founded in Kalamazoo in 2001 because the people of the community deserve information that helps them make good choices about how they feed themselves.
Meatless Mondays
Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Center for a Livable Future
CLF provides scientific expertise to the national campaign that seeks to reduce the amount of saturated fat consumed by Americans.
Choices, the magazine of food, farm, and resource issues
Choices is an online peer-reviewed magazine published by the AAEA for readers interested in the policy and management of agriculture, the food industry, natural resources, rural communities, and the environment.
Institutional Research at Kalamazoo College
Statistics Websites
Michigan Statistics and U.S. Government Resources
Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:
1. Accuracy
How reliable is the information? Are there editors and fact checkers?
2. Authority
What are the author's qualifications? Is the publisher reputable?
3. Objectivity
Is the author trying to sway opinion? Is the information free from bias?
4. Currency
Is the publication date indicated? Is the source up to date?
5. Coverage
Does the site cover the topic comprehensively, or are there information gaps?
Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:
Citing Your Sources
For examples of several citation styles used in scholarly literature, please see:
How to Cite Sources
The American Anthropological Association
has based its citation style on the Chicago style.
For
more on the American Anthropological Association style, see http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm
ALWAYS check the style manual!! DO NOT rely on other guides!
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