Geography & Environmental Studies Subject Guide: GENV 1201 -- The Human Environment

This week you take a deeper dive into Novanet and its various search filters. Your Scavenger Hunt instructions are very clear, so if you follow them carefully, you shouldn't run into problems.

That said, here are extra tips:

Tip 1: Look at Pages 2 and 3 of your search results. Lots of good books don't make it to Page 1!

Tip 2: If you click into an Open Access e-book and you cannot find full-text access, move onto another book. Send Laura a link to the initial book you had a problem with and she'll investigate.

Tip 3 -- Citation:

Links to ebooks in Novanet take you to various online platforms/hosts of ebooks. The Library's main ebook providers are Ebsco and ProQuest. Each has a citation generator but double check the results.

Ebooks are books, so your APA citation will follow a book format. See book/ebook formatting examples on the APA website.

The basic format is:

AuthorLastName, FirstInitials. (Year). Book title in italics and lower case. Publisher. DOI or URL.

Since this is an ebook, your citation will need a URL or DOI (digital object identifier). You can usually find a DOI or a "persistent link," "permalink" or "stable URL" on the landing page of the ebook. Different ebook providers put it in different places. If you can't find it, try to click the "share" button for an ebook. It will usually give you a stable URL to copy.

Here are the locations of persistent links for an Ebsco ebook (L) and a ProQuest ebook (R) found through Novanet:

WHERE CAN I FIND A PRINT COPY OF The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien?

• Look up your journal title in the Novanet catalogue to get its call number.
• The Library has five floors. Print journals are on the Ground Floor, which has red carpet.
• Look for signs on the ends of the shelving to see which area contains your call number.
  • Note: There are low shelves and tall, regular shelves containing journals on the Ground Floor. You want the regular, tall shelves.

WHAT IS A "BOUND JOURNAL"?

• Academic journals like The Canadian Geographer (now named Canadian Geographies) are published at regular intervals throughout the year. Each year typically contains a volume with several issues.

HOW DO I CITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE I FOUND IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS?

• See the APA website for examples of how to format a journal citation: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references#1
• Every journal citation will contain the following information, in the following order:
  • author name or names
  • date of publication
  • title of article
  • title of journal
  • volume 
  • issue, if available (sometimes called "number" on the journal)
  • page numbers of the article within the journal issue
  • URL or doi, if available

• If you use a citation generator, ALWAYS double-check it against proper APA format through the APA Manual of Style website or another APA guide located here: https://libraryguides.mta.ca/research_help/citation_guides/apa
   
• Note the hanging indent in all lines beneath the first line of an APA citation. Try shortcut CNTRL-T in Microsoft Word. In Google Docs, go to the Format menu > align & indent > indentation options > hanging.

• Never looked for a book in the library? No problem. Type your book title into the Novanet catalogue. Try using the drop-down menu to search by title. Note: If Novanet finds a print and e-book copy, use the print for this assignment.
   
• Novanet will tell you the book's call number, which is its location in the library book stacks. See How to Read Call Numbers.
  Look at the first two letters of your call number. Signs on the stairwell doors tell you which floor contains which letters.

• Library books are organized by subject area using the Library of Congress subject classification system. This poster (also posted near Access Services and above the water station on the Library main floor) shows you which Library of Congress letters correspond to which subjects. E.g., N is Visual Arts; HX is Socialism, Communism, Anarchism. These classification letters help form the book's call number.

• Need help finding your call number in the stacks? Ask at Access Services or in the Reference Office -- staff and librarians are happy to help!
   
• Need help making an APA citation for your book? Try Novanet's citation generator, but double-check any citation generator's result with APA. See https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/book-references