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W orkshops in I nformation S kills and E lectronic Resources Electronic Resources for Humanities Johanneke Sytsema Subject consultant Linguistics johanneke.sytsema@taylib.ox.ac.uk Kate Alderson-Smith Subject consultant Theology kate.alderson-smith@ouls.ox.ac.uk
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Structure of the session What are electronic resources? How to find E-resources in Oxford OxLip OCLC First Search –E-mail or export titles –Humbul Resources for Theology
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OxLip: (Oxford Libraries’ Information Platform) Full text articles or abstracts Biblographic resources (titles only) Online dictionaries Catalogues – copac, worldcat TDNet: Electronic journals Internet gateways: Humbul E-resources at Oxford?
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More E-Resources Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) –Covers all subject areas Zetoc (British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents) –Interdisciplinary, can be used as a current awareness service
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Electronic Resources- Start Click on Electronic Resources
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Finding OxLip Click on OxLip
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Modern Languages Click on Modern Languages for Modern Language databases
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Modern Language Databases Modern Languages Association Bibliography
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OCLC First Search
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OCLC First Search General Databases WorldCat - Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. ArticleFirst - Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals. ContentsFirst - Now incorporated in ArticleFirst. E-Books - electronic books, all subjects ECO - OCLC Electronic Collections Online FastDoc - Index of articles with text online or by email. NetFirst - OCLC database of Internet resource. UnionList - OCLC Union Lists of Serials.
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OCLC First Search Specialized Databases ArtAbstracts - Leading publications in the world of the arts. ATLA - Religion Database; full text articles and citation database BiographyInd - Guide to wide range of biographical material. BookRevDigst - Reviews of fiction and nonfiction books. ClasePeriodica -Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities ERIC - Journal articles and reports in education. GPO - U.S. government publications. MEDLINE - Abstracted articles from medical journals. MLA - Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore. PapersFirst - An index of papers presented at conferences. Proceedings - An index of conference publications. RILM - Abstracts of music literature. WorldAlamanac - Several World Almanacs.
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Searching for a book(1) databases can be searched in OCLC First Search, just click through until you’re there! Select a database e.g. –MLA (articles) –WorldCat (books) –Book Review (reviews) Select Database
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Searching for a book (2) Select Author Select Title
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Results Titles available in Oxford Link through to OLIS
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Availability Titles NOT available in Oxford Always check OLIS first, it may be available even if it doesn’t show up in MLA! ‘Libraries worldwide’ shows which library has the title Order through Inter Library Loan Libraries worldwide
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Looking for an article… Select MLA Enter search term
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Limiting results (1) 1,890 hits Keyword Beowulf
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Limiting results (2) 134 hits By year By document type (journal article)
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Limiting results (3) Beowulf AND Finn AND 13 hits
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Limiting results (4) AND NOT 10 hits
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Widening results with OR …OR hengest 18 results
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Find related topics Advanced options… Click on title
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More …. More by this author…. …on this subject
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More by this author..(2) 5 results
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More on this subject… Select subject(s) Use AND 243 hits
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Save advanced options search (1) Save search
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E-mail results E-mail marked titles Mark titles Mark allMark all Mark all titles
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Export to EndNote or RefWorks Export marked titles Select EndNote or RefWorks
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Eureka (1) Anthropological Literature Bibliography of the History of Art Chicano Database CURL Union Catalogue Deutsche Bibliothek Database English Short Title Catalogue FRANCIS (International humanities & social sciences) Handbook of Latin American Studies Hispanic American Periodicals Index History of Science, Technology and Medicine Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Inside Information "Plus" National Library of Australia Catalogue RLG Union Catalogue Bibliographic Files RLG Union Catalogue Authority Files Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies SCIPIO - Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs World Law Index Part 1: Hispanic Legislation
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Eureka – Francis (2)
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Eureka – Francis (3) 79 hits limit
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Limit results After limiting your set, you can sort by year to get the most recent literature first sort by author or title year
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Export titles Export to Bibliographic Software
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Looking for an article….. Know journal title and issue number? OxLip – TDNet, download the article TDNet contains subscription journals Electronic journals Via TDNet
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TDNet (1) Enter journal title
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TDNet (2) Title and holdings Date of holdings: JSTOR UK/1886-1961 From Publisher: 1993-
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Select: From Publisher Select volume Select issue
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Access article in HTML Access article in PDF
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Full text and primary resources Humanities e-publishing model incorporates both access to current information (journals) but also to primary sources and reference works Many of the resources published are focused on providing access to a large corpus of works – normally characterised by specific periods / language
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Full text and primary resources Ancient / Medieval period –Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [TLG] – Ancient and Medieval Greek texts. From 8 th century BC to 1453 –Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts [CLCLT] – Latin texts from 240 BC to Vatican II. Strongest in classical period, patristic fathers, and medieval latin literature. Also contains Reformation and Counter-Reformation texts. –Patrologia Latina – E-version of Migne’s 217 volume work covering the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. –Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina [BTL] – Latin texts from the Republic to the end of the Roman Empire.
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Full text and primary resources Bible in English – 21 versions of the Bible BibleWorks – over 65 versions of the Bible, including the Vulgate, KJV, NRSV, Geneva etc. Past Masters – English full-text of important authors, includes Aquinas, Augustine, Berkley, Burnley, Calvin, Coleridge, Descartes, Hegel, Hume, Luther, Nietzche etc. etc. British History Online – core printed primary and secondary sources for medieval and modern history LION – Literature Online – provides access to an extensive range of English literature covering poetry, prose and plays. Also has additional links and information i.e. bibliographies and links to web sites etc.
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Full text and primary resources Look at two important resources of relevance to a range of subjects in the Humanities –Early English Books Online [EEBO]– covering books published in English from 1475 -1700 –Eighteenth Century Collections Online [ECCO] – 150,000 books in English published between 1701 -1800
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Full text and primary resources Search boxes
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Full text and primary resources
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Search box Categories
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Full text and primary resources Reading view Navigation buttons
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Full-text on the web There is a huge amount of full-text material available online To locate this material use focused gateways like HUMBUL rather than rely on Google HUMBUL also provides links to range of other resources - recommended
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Full-text on the web
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Full text on the web
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Summary Books and Journal titles: Use OLIS to check availability at Oxford Use OxLip databases if not available in Oxford Journal articles: Use OxLip databases for wider title and subject searches Use TDNet to check electronic availability at Oxford Full text, reference and bibliographical sources online: Use subject lists on OxLIP to locate relevant resources HUMBUL for freely available online resources
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