Library Workshop
SSDB 275 - Winter 2026
Google: �concordia library sexuality
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Table of Contents for our slides
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Susie Breier (she/her/elle)�Sexuality Studies Librarian
AskSusie Office Hours �on Zoom �
Wednesdays 4:30-6:30 pm
AskUs desk Fridays 3-5 pm
or by appointment
Email: susie.breier@concordia.ca
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FIND ME:
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�SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR INSTITUTE�LEARNING CENTRE & LENDING LIBRARY
ER building, 2155 Guy Street, 6th floor
Monday-Thursday: 10 am - 7 pm
Fridays: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m
contact: isabelle.lamoureux@concordia.ca
TODAY
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BUT FIRST:
THE LIBRARY & YOU
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EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Visit our library events page to check out our workshops and thematic events, such as:
Therapy Dogs
Qualcoder for Qualitative Research
Researching Indigenous topics
Working with Archival Sources
Zotero Basics & Advanced
Fiber Arts
Sandbox Club
EXHIBITIONS:
Montreal social justice activism in print +
Celebrating DIY Archives from Queer & BIPOC MTL
Media event for a bisexual Guinean asylum seeker. Photographer: Philippe Teixeira St-Cyr. Concordia Special Collections and Archives. Stefan Christoff collection (C047), C047-02-06. 2019.
arcmtl.org graphic with title: Owning our Histories. Yellow background, three peeple holding up tall over their heads an oversized open book with a garden of flowers and butterflies "growing" out of it
GETTING HELP IN THE LIBRARY
FOR ANY QUESTION UNDER THE SUN
Google: ask concordia library
2) Contact your subject librarian
FOR MORE IN-DEPTH CONSULTATIONS
Icons on this slide are from the noun project
Every Tuesday 12-3
(near Ask Us desk)
Webster Library
Writing Assistance
YOUR METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT
& THE LIBRARY
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as part of your Methodology Analysis, you must:
-the research question(s)
-the method(s) that the author (s) used to conduct the research
-the research outcomes/results (what kind of conclusions the paper makes)
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Table of Contents for our slides
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Finding scholarly research article(s)
related to sexuality topics
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Finding scholarly articles on your topic
Where would YOU search?
Tell your NEIGHBOUR
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WHAT ABOUT SOFIA??
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SOFIA: GREAT FOR ACCESSING STUFF
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SOFIA: NOT YOUR ONLY CHOICE !
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you have many other options to search for academic research articles…..
SEARCHING for ACADEMIC ARTICLES:
�use databases listed on your �subject guide
Google:
sexuality concordia library
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Find articles: DATABASES
NOTE: EBSCO databases can be searched combined together. Just click on the database name and you’ll see more to select.
Find articles: Google Scholar
** tip: SET UP Google Scholar to access Concordia online resources
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�To learn more about entering keywords in library databases and google scholar, see the SEARCH STRATEGIES section at the end of these slides
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go directly to recommended scholarly journals and browse
for EXAMPLE:
Searching for academic research articles: another way
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Browsing scholarly journals - links from Sofia
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YOUR TURN:
Find research articles focused on a sexuality topic
Find at least 3 possible articles for your assignment using either:
such as:
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You’ll find all of these on your Concordia Library Sexuality
Studies Subject Guide
REMINDER:
as part of your Methodology Analysis, you must:
-the research question(s)
-the method(s) that the author (s) used to conduct the research
-the research outcomes/results (what kind of conclusions the paper makes)
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EVALUATING WHAT YOU FOUND
what are you looking at anyway?
Evaluating sources ��Is it scholarly/peer-reviewed or not?
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Is it scholarly or not? FIND 3 THINGS!
Auteri, S. (2015). How Sexuality Educators and Parents Can Be Collaborators Rather Than Adversaries. Contemporary Sexuality, 9–14.
Teo, S., & Morawska, A. (2021). Communicating with Children about Sexuality: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Brief Parenting Discussion Group. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 30(6), 1487–1500.
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ANSWERS��WILL GO HERE
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Is it scholarly or not? FIND 3 THINGS!
Auteri, S. (2015). How Sexuality Educators and Parents Can Be Collaborators Rather Than Adversaries. Contemporary Sexuality, 9–14.
Teo, S., & Morawska, A. (2021). Communicating with Children about Sexuality: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Brief Parenting Discussion Group. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 30(6), 1487–1500.
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This article is from a non-scholarly newsletter/magazine published by the American Association of Sex Educators & Therapists. The article is conversational rather than academic and does not describe any kind of study that the authors conducted, nor use any scholarly methodological frameworks. It is closer to a news/editorial article. There are no references.
This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: Research article published in Journal of Child & Family Studies, a peer-reviewed journal hosted on the SpringerNature platform, with informative journal homepage and “about this journal” sections . The article has distinct sections such as abstract, methods, results, discussion, and it describes in detail the authors’ own study and study design
Long bibliography of references.
ENSURING YOUR SOURCES ARE ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY
Elements of a typical SCHOLARLY RESEARCH ARTICLE
Article title
Author/s
Abstract
Aim of study/
research question
Introduction/
Literature Review
Methods
Journal name
Results/Findings
Bibliography
Journal name
Discussion / Analysis
Conclusion
Is it a RESEARCH article or not?
typical elements
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REMINDER:
as part of your Methodology Analysis, you must:
-the research question(s)
-the method(s) that the author (s) used to conduct the research
-the research outcomes/results (what kind of conclusions the paper makes)
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research article:
MY EXAMPLE
(feminist media studies, adjacent to sexuality studies)
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Journal: �European Journal of Cultural Studies
article: �#MeToo, popular feminism and the news : A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
from the ABSTRACT �(provides good summary, some context)
....This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press ... We show that the #MeToo coverage has followed and reinforced familiar patterns with respect to news coverage of both sexual violence and feminism, namely, support of feminism alongside a concurrent de-politicization, an individualizing tendency through a focus on celebrity and the cultural industries, and the centring of the experiences of celebrity female subjects who are predominately White and wealthy.
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
WHICH SECTION(S) WILL HAVE:
research question(s) - method(s) - outcomes?
The article is organized in four parts.
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
ANSWER
WHICH SECTION(S) WILL HAVE:
research question(s) - method(s) - outcomes?
The article is organized in four parts.
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
CAN YOU FIND THE:
research question(s) - method(s)?
Informed by the literature on the rise of popular feminism and the coverage of feminism and sexual violence in the news, our study examines how #MeToo has gained visibility and whether such visibility was sustained over the first 6-month period following Alyssa Milano’s tweet. Has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? Does the coverage show patterns identified by previous research, namely, the individualization of women’s experience of sexual violence and the de-politicization of feminism?�
To address these questions, we conducted a content analysis of the campaign’s coverage in the UK press. While, to date, analysis of #MeToo’s coverage has been scarce and largely based on small-scale qualitative data (see Conor et al., 2018; Gill and Orgad, 2018; Hemmings, 2018; Tambe, 2018), our study offers a more comprehensive understanding of the patterns of this coverage, its prevalence and characteristics over time.
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
ANSWER
CAN YOU FIND THE:
research question(s) - method(s)?
Informed by the literature on the rise of popular feminism and the coverage of feminism and sexual violence in the news, our study examines how #MeToo has gained visibility and whether such visibility was sustained over the first 6-month period following Alyssa Milano’s tweet. Has #MeToo been framed in supportive terms? Does the coverage show patterns identified by previous research, namely, the individualization of women’s experience of sexual violence and the de-politicization of feminism?�
To address these questions, we conducted a content analysis of the campaign’s coverage in the UK press. While, to date, analysis of #MeToo’s coverage has been scarce and largely based on small-scale qualitative data (see Conor et al., 2018; Gill and Orgad, 2018; Hemmings, 2018; Tambe, 2018), our study offers a more comprehensive understanding of the patterns of this coverage, its prevalence and characteristics over time.
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De Benedictis, Sara, Shani Orgad, and Catherine Rottenberg. 2019. “#MeToo, Popular Feminism and the News : A Content Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (5–6): 718–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419856831.
YOUR TURN:
get started with your Methodology Analysis
Using the articles you found, get started on trying to:�
-the research question(s)
-the method(s) that the author (s) used to conduct the research
-the research outcomes/results (what kind of conclusions the paper makes)
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FORMAT: �IN-TEXT CITATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
CITATION GENERATORS
CITATION STYLE GUIDES
Many more style guides with extra details & examples
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
IN-TEXT CITATIONS: DIRECT QUOTES
Hakkinen and Akrami (2014) found that “individuals are receptive to climate change communications, regardless of ideological position” (p. 65).
APA
Hakkinen and Akrami (2014) found that “individuals are receptive to climate change communications, regardless of ideological position” (65).
Chicago
author-date
IN-TEXT CITATIONS: PARAPHRASING
FOR THE SSDB 275 ASSIGNMENT
People from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen & Akrami, 2014, p. 65).
APA
People from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen and Akrami 65)
MLA
People from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen and Akrami 2014, 65)
Chicago
author-date
BIBLIOGRAPHY EXAMPLE:�APA JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES
References
Doherty, T. J., & Clayton, S. (2011). The psychological impacts of global climate change. American Psychologist, 66(4), 265-276.
Hakkinen, K., & Akrami, N. (2014). Ideology and climate change denial. Personality and Individual Differences, 70, 62-65.�
McCright, A. M., & Dunlap, R. E. (2011). Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States. Global environmental change, 21(4), 1163-1172.
BIBLIOGRAPHY EXAMPLE:�CHICAGO AUTHOR-DATE JOURNAL ARTICLE REFERENCES
Reference List
Doherty, Thomas. J., and Susan Clayton. 2011. “The psychological impacts of global climate change.” American Psychologist 66, no. 4: 265-276.
Hakkinen, Kristi, and Nazar Akrami. 2014. “Ideology and climate change denial.” Personality and Individual Differences 70: 62-65.�
McCright, Aston M., and Riley E. Dunlap. 2011. “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States.” Global environmental change 21, no.4: 1163-1172.
BOOK CHAPTERS: APA & CHICAGO
Guillen, R. (2017). Growing Justice in the Fields: Farmworker Autonomy and Food Sovereignty. In D. G. Peña, L. Calvo, P. McFarland, & G. R. Valle (Eds.), Mexican-origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives (pp.235-250). Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
APA
Guillen, Rosalinda. “Growing Justice in the Fields: Farmworker Autonomy and Food Sovereignty.” In Mexican-origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, edited by Devon Gerardo Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R Valle, 235-250. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2017.
CHICAGO
REMINDER:��CITATION STYLE GUIDES
Many more style guides with extra details & examples
REMINDER: CITATION GENERATORS
CITATION MANAGERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY:�YOUR TURN
Create a properly formatted citation for the article (and course reading?) you will use - try out different automatic citation generators AND find a style guide with which to compare and revise.
Write a sample paragraph with in-text citation to the article (and/or course reading) you are using.
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BONUS MATERIAL:
search strategies: how to play with keywords in library databases
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Search Strategies in Library Databases: sample search
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("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") �
AND
�(racis* OR discrimination OR bias or profil*)
�AND
�(defund OR aboli* OR reform)
see this handout
Search Strategies in Google Scholar sample search
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("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") (racism OR discrimination OR bias OR profiling) (defunding OR abolition OR reform)
Comparison�Library Databases vs Google Scholar
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("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") �
AND
�(racis* OR discrimination OR bias OR profil*)
�AND
�(defund OR aboli* OR reform)
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") (racism OR discrimination OR bias or profiling) (defunding OR abolition OR reform)
Search strategies: Boolean operators and more
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GOOGLE SCHOLAR
LIBRARY DATABASES (EBSCO etc)