ANTH 282: QUALITATIVE METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

  EXAM II, SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

Please conduct the following searches in Milne Library’s new SCOPUS database. When you have completed all of the exercises, see a Reference Librarian to check your work and sign off at the bottom of this page.

1) Perform a basic search in SCOPUS on the Zapotec Children Study.

How many SCOPUS results does this search retrieve (as opposed to web or other results)? _______

Looking at the subject areas attributed to these results, how many articles are related to the Social Sciences, including Psychology? _______

Which author has written the most on the Zapotec Children Study? _____________________________

Looking at the titles within the results, please pick out synonyms, geographic locations, and key terms related to the Zapotec Children Study. Rearrange these terms with AND and OR to create a new search strategy that will yield greater results, without specifically using “Zapotec Children Study” as your search term.

HINT: There a few different focuses that you could tackle as far as topics within the Zapotec Study.

Search terms 1: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

AND

Search terms 2: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

AND

Search terms 3: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

HINT: Use parentheses to “create” three search lines since you are only given two in SCOPUS.

On one line - (term OR term OR term) AND (term OR term OR term) AND (term OR term OR term)

How many SCOPUS results does this search retrieve (as opposed to web or other results)? _______

In the right-hand column, at the end of each citation, you can see how many times the particular articles have been cited by other authors. This column can be rearranged so that the article that has been cited most will appear at the very top of the list. Re-sort your results in this manner and provide a citation (in American Anthropologist or Antiquity style) for the article appearing at the top.

By clicking on the number of citations for this top article, you will come up with a new list of related articles. Choose one from this new list that seems interesting and relevant to your original search (where you used your own search terms and geographic locations, plus AND and OR). Write out a full citation for that article here:

2) Using many of the skills above, create you own search strategy for a specific topic related to Native Americans and alcohol.

Search terms 1: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

AND

Search terms 2: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

AND

Search terms 3: _____________________ OR _____________________ OR _____________________

How many SCOPUS results does this search retrieve (as opposed to web or other results)? _______

Limit this search to only Social Science-related materials published within the past 10 years. If you did not retrieve many results to begin with, get creative and start digging around for topics that may yield better results.

Which author has written the most on your chosen topic? _____________________________________

Perform an author search on this person. How many total publications does SCOPUS show this author having? _______

From the list of general subjects (Medicine, Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, etc.), in which area has this author published most frequently? _________________________________________________

Provide the title for the article by this author that has been cited the most often: ____________________

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Can you access this article in full-text format through one of Milne Library’s databases? YES NO

If so, through which database(s)? ___________________________________________

Please take this completed worksheet to a Reference Librarian and have them look over your work. Ask him/her to check the box below, verifying that you have successfully navigated SCOPUS, and sign.

 

Librarian’s Signature

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