Bodleian Social Science Library

1. Bodleian Social Science Library Finding Primary & Secondary Resources Online – SIASLouise ClarkeBodleian Social Science Librarian

2. Bodleian Social Science Library • What are primary and secondary sources? • Grey literature • What online research tools are available for searching and accessing primary and secondary sources? • Demonstrations of Proquest and Web of Knowledge including search strategies • Overview of tools for full-text resources including news, theses, e-journals, e-books, reports and reference • Overview of bibliographic resources including abstracting and indexing services and catalogues • Overview of sources for data and statistics

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4. Bodleian Social Science Library • In general a primary source is a work not based on or derived from another source (e.g. contemporary records, data, conference papers, photographs, working papers, etc.) • Secondary sources include the use / analysis / interpretation of primary (and other) sources • Consider the relationship between the researcher and the source in the context of the research topic • Definitions of primary and secondary sources vary by discipline LOMBARD, E. 2010. Primary and Secondary Sources. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36, 3, pp. 250-253.

5. Bodleian Social Science Library Primary sources include grey literature • Grey literature refers to material not easily found through conventional publishing channels • Produced by government agencies, NGO’s, IGOs, academic departments and research groups • Includes working papers, policy documents, occasional papers, briefings, conference papers, newsletters, etc. • Produced in print and electronic formats • Ephemeral nature has implications for dissemination, identification and access – it is out there but may be hard to find

6. Bodleian Social Science Library Sources for grey literature • Subject-specific websites and portals, e.g. ELDIS • Academic institutions • Governmental and Inter-Governmental Organisations • NGO and campaigning sites • Other access points e.g. SCOPUS, ZETOC, Open SIGLE

7. Bodleian Social Science Library Lists of IGO’s, NGO’s and Institutes • International Inter-governmental Organization webpage finder inc. UN and its subsidiaries: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/IGOs.htm#UNSUBS • PolicyFILE: research organizations, think tanks, university programmes and NGOs listed: http://www.policyfile.com/organizations/organizations.do • Forced Migration Online (FMO): Lists NGOs and IGOs, (search by country or subject): http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/organizations • CIAO: lists many university research institutes http://www.ciaonet.org/main/wps.html

8. Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest – IBSS - Strengths International Bibliography of the Social Scienceshttp://search.proquest.com• Disciplines: anthropology, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, political science, religious studies, sociology, etc.• Broad coverage of international material• Records indexed geographically as well as thematically

9. Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest – IBSS – Search Syntax ageing NEAR/4 population OR declin* NEAR/4 (fertility OR birth) AND (family OR social) AND polic*AND Japan

10. Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest – Dissertations and Theses • The world’s most comprehensive collection of social science theses• From 1997 onwards over a million full-text theses are available to download • Dissertations from July 1980 onwards include a 350 word abstract• Earlier dissertations offer citation information (dating back to 1637)

11. Bodleian Social Science Library Web of Knowledge Citation Searching http://www.webofknowledge.com/WOS • Identify current research based on earlier research• Analyze the impact of a publication on other research in the field or across subject boundaries

12. Bodleian Social Science Library • News (Multi-regional) • Nexis UK • - BBC Monitoring International Reports (under Countries Tab) • Factiva • World News Connection • Foreign Broadcast Information Service • Emerging Markets Information Service

13. Bodleian Social Science Library • News (Comparison of content example)

14. Bodleian Social Science Library • News (Regional) • Nikkei Telecom21(Japanese news and finance) • Russian Central newspapers • Pravda (1912-2009) • China Core Newspapers Database • WiseSearch (China) • Ethnic Newswatch (Mainly US, ethnic publications) • Times of India Historical Archive (on trial)

15. Bodleian Social Science Library Newspaper archives • Proquest (New York Times, Guardian, Observer, Washington Post) • Separate Digital Archives available for the Times, FT and Economist • Times of India archive currently available on trial

16. Bodleian Social Science Library • Theses and dissertations • Dissertations and theses: Proquest • Index to Theses • Ethos • ORA • SOLO • Conference proceedings & working papers • ZETOC (conference proceedings from the British Library) • Working papers generally available on institutional websites or subject based repositories such as REPEC (economics discussion and working papers)

17. Bodleian Social Science Library • Full-text e-journals • JSTOR • Full-text of over 1000 journals • Collections for African, Asian, Latin American, Middle East, and Slavic studies. • Moving wall. • Brill e-journals • Journals in African, Asian, and Middle East studies.

18. Bodleian Social Science Library • Full-text e-journals • Area journal collections • China Academic Journals (CNKI) • China Online Journals (Wanfang) • Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services • JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online • Central and Eastern European Online Library

19. Bodleian Social Science Library E-books • Packages, e.g. Oxford Scholarship Online and United Nations University Press • Series, e.g. Handbooks in Economics (Elsevier) • Individual titles listed in SOLO, e.g. from Netlibrary • Google Books

20. Bodleian Social Science Library • Reports & Reference • Oxford Analytica (Regional analysis) • Country Reports(via Business Source Complete) • World Development Reports, World Bank • Japan Knowledge • Korea Knowledge Portal • Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures • International Encyclopaedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

21. Bodleian Social Science Library • Proquest – abstracting and indexing services • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) • The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) • Sociological Abstracts • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)

22. Bodleian Social Science Library • Area bibliographies • ABSEES (American Slavic, Eastern European studies, and Eurasian studies) • EBSEES (European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) • Bibliography of Asian Studies (East, Southeast, and South Asia ) • Index Islamicus • E-Korean Studies • Bodleian Library Allegro Chinese & Japanese Catalogues

23. Bodleian Social Science Library • Catalogues • SOLO • British Library Catalogue • COPAC (UK) • WorldCat (Global)

24. Bodleian Social Science Library • Data & Statistics (multi-regional) • ESDS International • World Bank • UN • IMF • OECD iLibrary • Including all OECD databases and series • Emerging Markets Information Service

25. Bodleian Social Science Library • Data & Statistics (regional) • Indiastat • China Data Online • Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) • Latinobarómetro (via ESDS) • Historical Statistics of the United States • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research archive (US) • Russian State/CIS Statistical Publications

26. Bodleian Social Science Library Access to online resources provided by the Bodleian Libraries • SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk• OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk• OU E-Journals• Libguides http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/• SSO

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