CED LibAnswers: Owens Library

Follow the Breadcrumb Trail:

When you're starting your research, look through the bibliographies of relevant sources that you find for related books and articles. You can start your research through Multi-Search at libs.uga.edu, which searches ~100 of our ~800 databases at once. This provides you with free access to millions of journal articles and books in full-text.

You can also try the Google Scholar engine on the libs.uga.edu website, which grants you additional access as a UGA affiliate. Use the "Cited by" feature in Google Scholar, which allows you to see other publications that reference the article at hand. Here's a tutorial on how to do that.

Here are some other useful resources:

• CED Research Notebook: An electronic version of the free handout (available in print at Owens) providing an overview to research at the CED

• Kate L. Turabian's Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers - A great reintroduction to writing an academic research paper

Library Research Guides

• Introduction to Literature Reviews:  
  How to initiate and process an in-depth search of the scholarly literature

  • An overview of Boolean keyword searching

• Landscape Architecture LibGuide: Includes many databases relevant to your discipline, some of which don't appear in Google Scholar or Multi-Search

  • Find more interdisciplinary databases by subject, including Anthropology, History, GIS Data, Plant Biology, and Ecology

Citation Management: 

As a scholar, you'll encounter hundreds of articles, books, and other resources that might come in handy down the line. To save your citations for later and generate bibliographies in a variety of styles, consult the following:

• Chicago Style - Short Tip Sheet, helpful for cross-checking your citations

• Full Chicago Manual of Style, available in full-text online

• RefWorks - Citation Manager, a powerful software and in-browser tool that saves your citations and creates bibliographies in any style

• Library Guide - Using RefWorks 

How-To Guides

• A full list of tutorials for doing research at the UGA Libraries

Research Consultation

If you would like to have an in-depth research consultation with the CED Librarian, Lydian Brambila, you may schedule an appointment through LibCal.