HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pubmed, Jstor, List Of Fables Characters
Library Workshop - Assignment #2
• How to do research on the history of medicine workshop:
o McIntyre building
o Navigate the library system
o Strategies for effective searching
o Database for this class
o History of medicine - Osler, Schulich, Redpath basement, Curry gym
• Can request items
• Mcgill.ca/courselibraries
• The therapeutic perspective
• Stuff in closed folders
• Electronic materials
• Have to be from McGill to access this
• Can get a loan also
• Having trouble - talk to a librarian
• Subject guides for the history of medicine
• Guides for classes
• Gateway to materials available for you
• Wordcat, classic catalogue
• Electronic books - wordcat
• No e-resources on classic catalogue
• Olser **
• Start with your question - get more answers
• Revise your search
• Princeton university press - creditable
• Find something more recent…
• 1920 - might be just as good but see what historians think about it later - might
not be different
• More than 1 word - put the search words in quotation marks
• Searching for sources - multi-step search
1. Break down your search terms into a few main concepts
• (EX) university, Arabic science, medieval Europe
• Can start thinking about synonyms
2. Generate synonyms and related terms for main concepts (background
subject knowledge, articles, books)
• Peer reviewed - looked @ by websites
• Not all on these databases might be scholarly/peer reviewed
• Look @ authors credentials
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
