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SLIS 5600/4600: Introduction to Information Access and Retrieval

 

Hello, my name is Rayne Vieger, and I am a Graduate Library Assistant at Discovery Park Library. I would like to introduce you to your class page for SLIS 5600/4600: Introduction to Information Access and Retrieval. This page has been designed to help you with your course and continued research throughout your academic career. Our goal is to provide you with a solid starting point for your research.

Research

• UNT's Library Catalog  - Subject is a very good method for searching.  Searching by journal title is another effective method.  Click here for a video tutorial on how to use the catalog.

• Electronic Resources and recommended Library and Information Sciences databases - Access thousands of journal articles from your web browser.

•  eBooks on Ebscohost - Provides electronic access to over 50,000 books and can be located under Electronic Resources.  

 

• Presentation on How to Conduct Research  - This presentation will give you an introduction on how to use the UNT Libraries and Electronic Resources, as well as other useful research tips.

•  10 Search Tips for LIS Graduate Students - Here are some search tips on how to find information.

•  How to use Boolean Operators - Boolean operators are the connectors between search terms that can help narrow or widen your search.

• Quick Reference - Your professor has provided you with many excellent reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and fact books, but here are a few more.

• Library and Information Science Subject Guide - A subject guide is a reference tool created for a specific discipline that will provide information resources pertaining to its subject.

• Research Handouts - Tools to help advance your research skills.

Writing and Citing

• Writing and citation style manual - Library and Information Sciences uses APA 6th edition as its writing style.  You can also find a number of other online sources about APA and other citation styles here by using UNT's Scholary and Professional style manuals.

• Purdue OWL APA Style Guide - The Owl at Purdue maintains an excellent site for help in formatting your paper, in-text citations, and reference lists according to American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition standards.

An APA 6th Edition Workshop to bring you the     fundamentals of writing and citing using APA 6th Edition.

 

An online reference manager. RefWorks stores and organizes your references and creates in-text citations and bibliographies in the writing style of your choice. It is an extremely useful tool for almost any library class, but will be especially useful for the LIS End of Program Examination (LIS EOP), so be sure to familiarize yourself with it before the exam! Learn it today with our RefWorks online workshop.

Please also explore the two documents below, which provide both basic and advanced instruction:

•      RefWorks 2.0 Quick Start Guide
•      RefWorks 2.0 Advanced Features

 

UNT - Online Library Workshops

The UNT - Online Library Workshops page is a special "class" in Blackboard dedicated to hosting instructional workshops. Here you can access scheduled live workshops as well as find archived workshops on RefWorks, APA Citation, and various tools helpful in conducting research.  There are plenty of handouts and other helpful materials available there too.  To access UNT - Online Library Workshops, fill out this form.  You will then be "enrolled" in this Blackboard class and will be able to access it from among your list of Blackboard classes.

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