Museum Studies

Getting Started

Library Homepage: www.usfca.edu/library

Pre-Search Tasks:

Topics and Keywords

• Your topic might morph and change as you conduct your research and gather information: this is part of the process.

• Brainstorm keywords and synonyms, write them down, keep track of them, and add to them if necessary as you go along.

• Example: Museums/Architecture or design or Construction/sustainability or environmentally conscious.

• Consider using a research log to keep track of your keywords and search strategies.

Keeping track of references/sources

• Consider using Refworks, or another online reference manager to create a personal database of your references/sources.

  • Online reference managers can also help you automatically generate citations, as well as entire bibliographies and works cited lists. 

  • Check Refworks citations against citation manuals. Refworks citations are not always perfect and might need to be edited or cleaned-up. This page of the library website has more information about Refworks and citation styles and manuals: https://library.usfca.edu/citing-sources.

  • To create a Refworks account: click the RefWorks link below or go to: https://refworks.proquest.com/. Then click CREATE ACCOUNT at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions.