Library Workshop for HIST 369 Vince Graziano History Librarian Vince Library Workshop for HIST 369 Vince Graziano History Librarian Vince.Graziano@Concordia.ca March 5, 2019

Workshop Outline Finding background information and selected primary sources Oxford Islamic Studies Online Finding books CLUES, the Library catalogue Finding articles Historical Abstracts: world history Academic Search Complete Gender Studies Database LGBT Life ATLA Religion Database Finding primary sources in the Library catalogue

Electronic Journals Collections with substantial humanities content: Project MUSE (Recent issues) JSTOR (Older issues) Oxford Journals (recent and archive) Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920) American Periodicals (1741-1940) Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000) Many other electronic journal collections

Electronic Books Collections with substantial humanities content: Literature Online (LION) Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700 Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925) Oxford Scholarship Online (recent) Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007) Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses) SpringerLink (2010-) ACLS Humanities E-books Canadian Publishers Collection EBSCO E-books Many other electronic books

Search Operators AND gender AND Islam OR Islam OR Muslim “ ” “Middle East” * nation* ( ) (“Middle East” OR Islam* OR Muslim*) AND (women OR gender*)

Subject Searching Thesaurus Subject Headings in CLUES List of terms used in a database Subject Headings in CLUES Created by the Library of Congress Subjects include: People Events Places Topical subject headings

To Find the Full Text Use Search CLUES Check other Montreal libraries Perform a Journal Title search Check other Montreal libraries Use your BCI card Request an Interlibrary Loan (COLOMBO) Online form Allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery of books Allow 2 to 4 days for delivery of articles by email

RefWorks RefWorks is a Web-based tool that: Facilitates organization of references Is accessible from any Internet connection Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies Access RefWorks through the Log into… menu on the Library website Help Tutorials on Library website

Help is Available At the Ask Us Desk Library website History Subject Guide Ask a Librarian E-mail form Chat with a Librarian Ask Vince: 514-848-2424, ext. 7689 vince.graziano@concordia.ca Office hours: by appointment

CLUES EXERCISE Choose a broad topic consistent with course themes for the group Each student in the group selects a narrower topic within the theme Use ADVANCED SEARCH, if necessary Modify search to Webster Print Books, if necessary Each student chooses TWO books and retrieves ONE of them in the Library and brings it back to class Choose ONE reporter per group who shall present the broad theme, some narrower themes, and a couple of books to the class