Library services in a time of COVID
- library opening, electronic content, librarian assistance.
eBooks related to the course outcomes
- Canadian and Indigenous Identity
- Christian Theology
- Global Christianity
- Globalization
- Religious belief and faith
Preparing for your summative project
- Picking a topic
- Developing a research question
- Improving your thesis statement
- Using search words effectively
- bullying, cyberbullying, cyberharrassment, mobbing, harassment, cyberstalking, internet trolling, etc.
- Better searching using truncation
- use the asterick (e.g., harrass*)
Familiarize yourself with your topic
- Read the introductions to books, including your course readings.
- Go beyond Wikipedia: search a reference collection of handbooks and encyclopedias:
- Sage Knowledge
- Full-text encyclopedias for all the social sciences (NOTE limit to "content available to me")
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Selection of reference works in the sciences and social sciences
- Sage Knowledge
- Search Omni for titles with appropriate words such as "encyclopedia" or "handbook"
Find academic books
- Finding books in Omni
- Search Omni to identify books at Laurier (COVID: requests to other libraries not possible)
- limit to "Available Online"
- limit to "Books and eBooks"
Search across our ebooks
- While all our ebooks are catalogued in Omni, you can search across the full text of ebooks searching the collections.
- Academic Ebooks (EBSCO)
- Ebook Central (Proquest)
Find scholarly articles
- Finding articles on a topic
- Search Omni to identify articles at Laurier
- limit to "Available Online"
- limit to "Peer Reviewed"
- limit to "Articles"
- There are also specialized databases for every subject. Some that might be helpful for this class include
- ATLA Religion Database
- (cyberbullying, beatitudes, creation, sin, sacraments, Psalms, salvation)
- RILM Abstracts of Music
- (Global Music)
- EconLit
- (fair trade, sweatshops)
- ATLA Religion Database