Indigenous Art and Community Arts Organizations
STRATEGIES FOR COLLEGE RESEARCH
Step 1: Open a research log!
Careful records are the foundation of any college research project.
Word file.
Blog post.
Pen and paper.
Step 2: Assess your topic online.
Google - to get your bearings on organized presence online.
Wikipedia - opportunity to add your research to web community.
Step 3: Evergreen Library - to get scholarly information acceptable for college research.
KEY TERMS:
Deep web - the good stuff you pay for.
Database - information broker buying from publishers and selling to libraries.
Article - a research paper or chapter draft written and published by a scholar.
Peer review - process to establish fairness and accuracy in academic publishing.
Paid subscriptions.
Physical collections.
Evergreen catalog - books we have here
Summit consortium - borrowing coop with other college libraries in OR and WA
Online databases and services - do a title search
JSTOR - historic and recent scholarly coverage of the arts
Proquest Direct - wide newspaper coverage, some scholarly for arts
Ebscohost - ethnography, sociology, some arts
Other possibilities - library Subject Categories page
Step 4: Close your research log.
Save and organize your notes.
Back them up.
Print them and look them over.
Email them to yourself - my.evergreen.edu.
Build a paper file to go with your electronics.
Contact info
Jules Unsel, unselj@evergreen.edu
Ref desk, Mondays, 5-9; Thursdays, 1-5