Gary Handman ghandman@library.berkeley 643-8566

1. Doing Research Online: A Crash Course Where do you plug this damn thing in? Gary Handman ghandman@library.berkeley.edu 643-8566

2. The point of all this... • Describe organization and content of library information universe • Introduce selected online sources for finding booksjournal articles, news, media • Discuss how to develop search strategies • Discuss how to select article & news databases (and determine what’s in them) • Introduce a group of basic moves and features common to many online catalogs and indexes. • Practice using these features in selected databases.

3. The Information Universe What Does It Contain?

4. The Information Universe • Books • Journals (Magazines) & Newspapers • Government docs • Maps & other geophysical data • Media (video, sound recording, etc.) • Photographs & other graphics • Computer files (e.g. CD-ROMS, data files, web resources) • Dissertations & theses • Manuscripts • Other special collections The guy next to me is soooo hot!

5. The Information Universe The guy next to me is soooo hot! …But how do you find this stuff?

6. TheInformationUniverse Library Catalog(s) Journal/Newspaper Indexes (article databases)

7. N O T E W E L L • Pathfinder: UCB Library holdings only • MELVYL (CDL cat): All 9 UC Campuses Library Catalog(s) • An inventory of what the library owns • Search by Author, Title, Subject • Whole books and print and electronic journals, NOT what’s inside of those publications

8. The Information Universe Books or journals in Stax • Full-Text Online • ebooks • ejournals [but NOT full-text articles] Online Catalogs --Pathfinder --MELVYL (CDL cat)

9. The Information Universe: Books Call # Get da Book in da Stax Look it Up in Pathfinder or MELVYL by Author, Title, or Subject: From ethnic conflict to stillborn reform : the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia / <2005> Author: Horowitz, Shale Asher. Published: College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.Location(s): MAIN: JN6531 .H64 2005

10. The Information Universe: Books But Be Aware!: Subject Access to Books Can be Tricky! From ethnic conflict to stillborn reform : the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia / <2005> Author: Horowitz, Shale Asher. Published: College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.Location(s): MAIN: JN6531 .H64 2005 Subject Headings Ethnic conflict -- Former Soviet republics -- Case studies.Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.Democratization -- Former Soviet republics.Ethnic conflict -- Former Yugoslav republics.Post-communism -- Former Yugoslav republics.Democratization -- Former Yugoslav republics.Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.Former Yugoslav republics -- Politics and government.Former Yugoslav republics -- Economic conditions.

11. The Information Universe: Finding Articles • Online Article & News Databases (Indexes/Abstracts) • Allow subject/author searching in a group of journals in a particular discipline or topical area. • Produced by different commercial publishers; often look/act differently from one another. • Regularly updated (yearly, etc.) • Many come in both print & online • Online versions are licensed and limited to the users of a particular institution. • Not accessible via general web (with a few exceptions) I know! I’ll do my paper on Marilyn Manson!

12. Choosing an Article Database (Index) Indexes/Abstracts come in various “flavors” --from narrow discipline focus to general/pop lit --from citation only to abstracts to full-text --links to library holding – no links (you need to look up the journal holdings in another catalog) --Some journals are indexed in multiple databases --The same journal may be full-text in one db and citation only in another

13. Articles/News (how do you find this stuff?) Jumping Off point for Finding Article & News Databases http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ Find Information / Articles / Article Databases by Subject or News Article Databases

14. US News LexisNexis Academic Included are over 6,000 individual titles of international, national and local newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts; and business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters. OnlineNewspapers.comLinks to the online editions of over 10,000 newspapers -- international in scope. American Journalism Review News LinkLinks to more than 3,400 U.S. newspapers and 2,000 foreign newspapers. U.S. and Canadian newspapers are cross-indexed by category, state and province.

15. Outside the US OnlineNewspapers.comLinks to the online editions of over 10,000 newspapers -- international in scope. ABYZ News Links A portal to online news sources from around the world. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)Free news source (with archives) covering Russia, Transcaucases, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. World News Connection1996 – present Translated transcriptions and summaries of radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals and non-classified technical reports, representing nearly every country in the world via the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). LexisNexis Academic Included are over 6,000 individual titles of international, national and local newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts; and business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters.

16. Lexis/Nexis News Transcripts

17. Articles/News (how do you find this stuff?) Jumping Off point for Finding Article & News Databases Find Information / Articles / Article Databases by Subject or Often best to begin with general articles dbs

18. full text! links to UCB holdings

19. Media! Media Resources Center http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC Vanderbilt TV Index http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ (items in archive can be rented for review on videotape for a fee)

20. The Information Universe (Now) Online is Cool • But Remember: Not everything is online!!!!!: • Article Databases: Generally only go back 10-20 yrs online (some exceptions – e.g. Historical Newspapers) • Not every publication is indexed • Fairly small (but rapidly growing) subset of the books and journal universe is currently available in full-text

21. Remember Also: • Not every topic has lots written about it, either in books or journal lit. • --Research on very current topics • --Research on radically specific topics • --Research on topics off the beaten academic track or off the pop culture radar • UCB has tremendous (but not infinite) resources: ILL for some things, but for others…

22. The Information Universe (Now) • What to do if nothing is turning up: • Tweak your topic: Broaden it / select a different angle • Rethink your search strategy (new keywords, new concepts, etc.) • Bail out completely and choose another topic

23. A few cautionary words about research on the Net Google Rocks! The Net LibraryLand

24. How to Begin? Before you click: THINK Formulate your search in terms of keyword and key phrases: Reflection of the fear of uncontrolled science and technology and nuclear annihilation in the science fiction and horror films of the 1950’s

25. How to Begin? Before you click: THINK • Formulate your search in terms of: • KEY WORD Searches: • --Look for words anywhere in record: title, subject, abstract and full-text (if available) • PHRASES: • --Looks for words in the exact order entered

26. Common Search Features: • Basic and Advanced Search Screens • Trunction: “wild card” that allows you to scoop up broader results:*# or ? Depending on db • --e.g.: Advertis* will give you: • advertise, • advertising, • advertisers, • advertisements • Search by keyword or by phrase • Search specific fields (e.g., SUBJECT, TITLE) • Use of AND, OR, NOT • <Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson> • < Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen> • < Bob Dylan not Bruce Springsteen >

27. Common Search Features: --Save list of good stuff --Mail Articles/Citations to yourself

28. Connecting from off-campus PROXY Server!

29. Before we plunge...questions???

30. One news article • One journal article • One TV transcript • One video GROUP I: War crimes against women in Bosnia GROUP II: US war crimes (current) in the Middle East Group III: Rwandan genocide: legal (criminal) prosecution