SOCI 2150Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proquest, Google Scholar, General Social Survey
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The literature review: is a comprehensive account of what has been written, or is known about your topic, is an on-going process; it is always incomplete and frequently uneven. Sources supporting the literature review: academic literature (found in peer-reviewed academic journals) see bata library, Un-refereed material ( grey literature ): refers to all information that is produced in government, academic, business and industry settings that is not controlled by commercial publishing, and is not peer-reviewed. Specific search engines: google scholar, scholars portal, ebsco, proquest. Strategic use of search engine guidelines: google/google scholar is a major search engine, use advanced search mechanisms, make strategic use of information/library search specialists at your library! Link qualitative and quantitative searches: dedicated sites can be used to search repositories of information. Statistics canada data- bases and the general social survey are examples of very different data bases maintained for use by those screened for access.
