Social Ecology SE190                                                Julia Gelfand (PSB, PPD, EHSP)      Brian Williams (CLS)

Undergraduate Honors Seminar                                  Science Library 228                           Langson Library 107

Fall 2007                                                                     jgelfand@uci.edu                               brianrw@uci.edu

                                                                                    949-824-4971                                     (949) 824-0473

 

The Honors Seminar allows you to engage in a research project under the supervision of a faculty advisor.  You are expected to present your research project and write it up as a "thesis" or major paper. 

 

Things to do:

  1. Plan your project with your advisor
  2. Know that you have extended loan privileges like graduate students do (10 weeks)
  3. Prepare an outline
  4. Meet with Liaison Librarian if needed
  5. Conduct a literature search
  6. Cite information consistently - consult Quick Reference Citation Styles, noting that there is a new revision for APA Style Manual, 5th ed for electronic resources that went into effect in August 2007
  7. Consider ways to present information - powerpoint, handouts, poster session, to make it visually as well as content rich, etc
  8. Update information towards the end

 

Conducting a literature search - begin with UCI Libraries Homepage at http://www.lib.uci.edu

  1. Finding Books
    1. ANTPAC
    2. MELVYL - use MELVYL REQUEST for ILL from other campuses
    3. WorldCat
    4. Amazon
  2. Finding Journal Articles -
    1. Using Subject Guides - there are 4 for Social Ecology - one for each department and one for the former Environmental Health, Sciences and Policy Department; For CLS content, please review http://del.icio.us/brianrwuci/social_ecology

 

    1. General Databases - Find Online Resources will direct you to online resources that can be restricted to databases and the UC eLinks icon will determine if, where and how the fulltext content is found

                                                    i.     Expanded Academic ASAP

                                                  ii.     Web of Science - Citation Indexes - probably can restrict to the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) that goes back to 1956

c.  Newspaper Sources - dependent on regional coverage and time period

1.     Lexis Nexis Academic - NEWS

2.     America's Newspapers

3.     Historical papers

4.     Subject Guide for Newspapers

d.  Specialized databases - different platforms, dates of coverage, content that is included and varied amounts of full-text coverage - all have UC eLinks to holdings and full-text content if available.  * denotes that these databases are on the same platform and can be searched concurrently eliminating the duplication of coverage.

5.     ERIC * Education

6.     Criminal Justice Abstracts* etc

7.     Lexis Nexis Academic Universe - Legal

8.     Westlaw Campus - legal information

9.     PsycINFO* - indexes journal articles, books, book chapters & dissertations done in psychology

10.  Child Development & Adolescent Studies

11.  Sociological Abstracts*

12.  PAIS International*- Public Affairs (there is a separate database for the earlier PAIS Archive)

13.  Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

14.  Risk Abstracts

15.  PubMed - for health related and clinical medicine coverage

16.  EconLit

17.  Google Scholar

                 e.  Government Information - increasingly available online assistance and direction is provided via

                                    the Government Information Subject Pages (International, U.S.

                                    Federal, State of California, Local Orange County & municipalities)

 

  1. Preparing the presentation -  For assistance in preparing presentations you may find the

      following resources helpful in preparing a Powerpoint presentation that can capture your ideas

      with some visual elements including images, graphs, photographs, etc.  For some background in

      creating an appropriate presentation, consider the needs of your audience and play to that group.            

      You may find the following resources and tutorials helpful:

 

Mastering Powerpoint 2000 - Science Library Bar  T385 .M8863 1999 

 

And tutorials at:

http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/library/HHCL_New_Web/Teach_Learn_tutor_ppoint.htm

 

http://www.cew.wisc.edu/accessibility/tutorials/pptscratch-text.htm

 

4.  For additional information:

·       Consult with Liaison Librarians, Julia or Brian

·       Use Ask a Librarian services for reference or consultation services

·       Be aware of the Engineering Reprographic Center (2d or Main Level of the Engineering Tower) - recommended source to make posters - fee-based