This page will include some basic tips and concepts to keep in mind when selecting and researching a topic
This page will include any assignment-specific tips, in communication/collaboration with Sociology professor when a course guide does not exist. This may include challenging to research or use of unique materials to ease your search process.
Dr. Helen Potts| SOCI 3110 -
Sociology of Mental Health, Mental Illness and Mental Health Care
Students will be requesting the following books through the Discover Catalog service (first come, first serve).
Please check your canvas course for Dr. Pott's titles of books
Requesting items in remote storage:
"Books can be requested through Discover for pickup at various library services desks throughout campus or for faculty delivery. After selecting a book through Discover, simply click on the “Request for pickup” link to submit a hold request. Login and select the pickup location. Some materials will have restrictions on where the items can be picked up....Requests are processed within 48 hours if the items are available. You will be notified by email when the items are available for pick up and the items will be held at the requested service desk for 7 days from the time of notification. " UNT Libraries Online Holds Website.
Other tips: ou need to fill out the Request pickup form by logging on with your EUID/Password, then selecting an location (i.e. Sycamore or Willis Library) for check out. The print Juvenile collection is at Sycamore Library and the help desk has a heads up about this assignment.
Quick research tips and selecting your paper topic:
Keep in mind even great topics may be too broad and too narrow
Do not get discouraged - research is a process.
Unless you are doing field research you have to rely on already existing published research available to you, and not all items are available online. So again, you might have an awesome topic, but you are ahead of the enough existing research to complete your undergraduate research paper assignment.
Give yourself time for the research process, because you may need to change up your search terms based on the databases keyword preferences (Subject headings) or do multiple searches.
You can search for peer reviewed full text articles through UNT Libraries through:
Subject Specific Databases (one or more at a time - Like SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
OR Databases aggregator (like EBSCO or ProQuest - check boxes of times
Online Articles (which searches multiple sources. Might be great for unique topics or super quick search across disciplines /majors for supplementing research
Sociology Librarian recommended you also, or instead, start with the subject specific databases because you may get too many results and miss out on the quickest way to search discipline specific content
