1. Building a bibliography Mura Ghosh Senate House Library

2. What to include Tools for literature searching Search strategies Top tips

3. What to include Books and articles Grey literature – conference proceedings, papers, reports, pamphlets Dissertations Non-print materials – archival, music, visual records, films Open access – articles, pdf, websites, digital + Any works consulted even if not cited! - Dictionaries and encyclopaedias unless…

4. Work-in-progress initial literature survey -> review & identify gaps -> in-depth literature reviews -> bibliography iterative / comprehensive / systematic Organise by: source – filmography, archival, visual records/material artifacts topic – social theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism theme chronological, location of material

5. Tools for literature searching Scan bibliographies of books and articles / cited reference searching Library catalogues & databases Online / open access / digital repositories Supervisor / research networks

6. Citation searching – Web of science Eg. Hirsch, M. “Mothers and daughters.” Signs 7:1, 1981, pp. 200-222. Complementary to other methods of subject searching, and can sometimes give better results Best to use a high quality reference and highly pertinent to your research topic NOT the same as searching for articles by an author Cited often not necessarily a measure of the quality of the cited reference!

7. Literature search – library catalogues SHL & SAS libraries – books and journals Other libraries – books and journals / sometimes articles & book chapters Copac – books and journals WorldCat – everything http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search~S1/

8. “Mothers and daughters” Conceptual mapping – concepts, keywords, thesauri, subject headings Keywords – root, singular/plural, alternative spellings/uses in other languages, synonyms, exclusions, broader/narrower/related terms wildcard – mother* truncation – m?m BT/NT/RT – parenthood, femininity, fathers, maternal Mind map?

10. Literature search – databases Book chapters, journal articles, grey literature, dissertations Multi-database search – EBSCOhost? Individual database search – MLA; ProQuest dissertations / Ethos; PAO/JSTOR; newspapers etc. Subject specific or interdisciplinary; access points; thesaurus; in- depth; keep track/alerts Journal abbreviations, journal catalogues http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/record=b2921379~S1 http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search~24/d?SEARCH=periodicals

11. http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/databases-and- eresources/ http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/databases-and- eresources/

12. Literature search – Academic Search Complete Boolean – AND / OR / NOT Limiters – by date, geographical scope, peer reviewed, language Keyword vs subject searching Full text Search history / alerts Export etc Online tutorials, eg http://support.ebsco.com/tutorials/http://support.ebsco.com/tutorials/

13. Literature search – online Open access & digital repositories SAS-Space OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/http://www.opendoar.org/ ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/http://roar.eprints.org/ OAIster http://oaister.worldcat.org/http://oaister.worldcat.org/ Google scholar?

14. Top tips Conceptual mapping Keep a record of your searches/ strategies/ reasons for inclusion Annotate, annotate, annotate! Be consistent with the style chosen (MHRA?) Be meticulous about noting references Bibliographic software – EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero

15. PORT http://port.modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/tutorials/bibliography