Research Guides: GLI Capstone: Home

Important Campus Resources

Human Subjects Review
The UM IRB reviews projects in accordance with the Federal definitions of research and human subjects. For detailed clarification and examples, please refer to the FAQ. Investigators should err on the side of caution and consult with the IRB to establish the status of their projects.

Is Your Project Human Subjects FAQ

Blackstone LaunchPad
The Blackstone LaunchPad at the University of Montana helps students, alumni, faculty, and staff turn their ideas, skill and passions into real world businesses and non-profit organizations.
Missoula International Expertise Database
This searchable list provides information on individuals in the Missoula area with expertise on international issues, including academic research, authors, in-country working experience, language skills, national and foreign policy, extensive teaching or study, and speaking and advocacy on international themes.
Office of Research and Creative Scholarship
Campus office that can help answer questions about intellectual property, copyright and making sure that your GLI group members are all aware of important real-world implications of your projects.
Qualtrics Survey Tool
Tool that allows users to design, administer and evaluate surveys. UM students have special access!

Tools for Effective Collaboration

Doodle
Scheduling tool that allows multiple users to indicate availability.
Google Docs
Word-like program that allows multiple and simultaneous editing. Supports Refworks!
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus
UM students have free access to the full Microsoft Office 365 suite, which includes Access, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. PC and Mac versions are available.
Slack
A messaging app for teams. Organize team conversations in open channels. Make a channel for a project, a topic, a team, or anything—everyone has a transparent view of all that’s going on.
Trello
Project management tool that assists with planning, organizing and managing group work.
UM Box
Secure storage space that allows group users to store, edit and save drafts. Supports many different file types.
When2Meet
Group scheduling tool--online and free!

Team contracts can help a team set common expectations and ground rules. Some examples are included below.

Researching your Project

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
This thorough guide, used with permission from Cornell University, discusses how to create an annotated bibliography.
Example Annotated Bibliographies
This guide, from the OWL at Purdue, contains helpful examples in case you would like to see sample annotations.

RefWorks
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Web-based bibliographic research management, writing, and collaboration tool. Designed for researchers to gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to generate formatted citations and bibliographies.

Users may continue to access the Legacy version of RefWorks from here. As the Legacy version is tentatively scheduled to be retired at some future date, we recommend new users register for the new RefWorks and current Legacy users begin planning to migrate to the new interface. Click to learn more.

Legacy users may select the Move to the newest version of RefWorks from ProQuest link in the legacy platform should they wish to create an account on the new RefWorks and copy data to the new version at the same time.

The Literature Review Process

GLI Research Handout

Library Databases

Depending on your topic, different library resources will be useful. A list of some of the best library databases is below; please email Megan Stark for more subject-specific ideas!

Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
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Full text titles from around the world (1960-present), including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It incorporates specialized, editorially-curated abstracting and indexing resources as well as the AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases and content previously available in ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
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Index to education-related scholarly and professional journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, books, and government publications, from 1966-present. Project of the U.S. Department of Education.
JSTOR
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Full text archive of over 2,600 scholarly journals and 5,000 open source books covering all subject areas. Embargo for current journal issues of 2-5 years. NOTE: The library's holdings do not include primary source collections or fee-based books.
PsycINFO
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Index to professional and scholarly journals, chapters, books, reports, theses, and dissertations published internationally in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work, from 1967-present. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
PubMed
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Indexes MEDLINE, a database of scholarly journal articles in the life sciences with a focus on biomedicine, and additional life science journals and online books. Fields include behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. **Note: PubMed is live with a new interface as of mid-May 2020. Go to this link to learn more about the new web experience.
ScienceDirect
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Full text of 2,500 scholarly journals and over 3,000 book series volumes and reference works, published by Elsevier in the fields of health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and the social sciences & humanities. Library licenses most ScienceDirect journals offered, including archival content dating back to volume 1 for many titles. Other than volumes published as part of book series, the library has minimal licensed books.

For More Information

The GLI website has additional information! Please also contact Jeanne Loftus, 406-243-5679.

Franke GLI Funding

Funding Proposal Form
The Franke GLI has a small budget to support expenses related to capstone projects. Interested teams must submit this form by December 10 for consideration.

GLI and UMCUR

Franke GLI Capstone UMCUR Presentations
Abstracts from all the Franke GLI UMCUR presentations, which summarize each project.
UM Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)
GLI Capstone projects are presented during a special session of UMCUR.
UMCUR Abstract Submission
Each team must submit an abstract (300-word max) online by March 15, 2021.

GLI Capstone and DHC Honors Projects

Students in both the Franke GLI and DHC can use their GLI Capstone project to fulfill their DHC Capstone requirement. The DHC website provides guidance on their proposal and reflection requirements and you can contact them with questions.

Where Good Ideas Come From

Your Librarian

Megan Stark

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Contact:

Undergraduate Services and Outreach Librarian
Associate Professor
MLIB 324
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59812
406/243-2864

Subjects:Communication Studies, Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures, Writing

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

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