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Philosophy and Practice of History: Library Orientation

Learn to navigate the library resources for historical research, including finding background information, books, articles, and book reviews. Explore reference books, writing and research guides, and primary sources.

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Philosophy and Practice of History: Library Orientation

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  1. LIBRARY Philosophy and Practice of History:Library Orientation September 11, 2019 Vince Graziano History Librarian vince.graziano@Concordia.ca

  2. Workshop Outline • Finding background information • Printed encyclopedias • Oxford Reference Online Premium • Cambridge Histories Online • Finding books • CLUES, Library Catalogue • Finding articles • America: History & Life • Canada and United States history • Historical Abstracts • World history from 1450 • Finding book reviews

  3. Reference Books • Print encyclopedias • Historiography and Historians • Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing • Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing • Online encyclopedias, companions, dictionaries: • Oxford Reference Online Premium • Cambridge Histories Online • Bibliographies • Study of History: A Bibliographical Guide

  4. Writing and Research Guides • The Craft of Research • Learning to Do Historical Research • Online guide by William Cronon • Pocket Guide to Writing in History • Many editions • The Modern Researcher (Barzun and Graff) • The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students • The History Student Writers' Manual

  5. Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing

  6. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

  7. Study of History: A Bibliographical Guide

  8. America: History & Life • Description: • Covers all aspects of USA and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. • Indexes books, journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations • 1964 onward. Some coverage from 1954-1962

  9. Historical Abstracts • Description: • Citations with abstracts to articles in some 2,000 journals and citations to books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history. • Covers world history since 1450 except for the USA and Canada. • 1955-onward

  10. Book Reviews • Print sources • Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 • Online sources • America: History & Life: 1964-onward • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 • JSTOR: most recent 3-5 years not included

  11. 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) • ProQuest Central • British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920) • American Periodicals (1741-1940) • Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000) • Many other electronic journal collections

  12. Electronic Books • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700 • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) • Canadiana Online • Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing) • Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007) • Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses) • Palgrave Macmillan (2010-) • ACLS Humanities E-books • Canadian Publishers Collection • EBSCO E-books • Many other electronic books

  13. Primary Sources • Many primary sources are reprinted in books and listed in the library catalogue • Databases for primary sources • Listed on the History Subject Guide • Also listed on the Databases by Subject page • Choose History • Choose History Historical Newspapers • Choose History Primary Sources

  14. Search Operators • AND Marxist AND historians • OR women OR feminist • “ ” “oral history” • * Marx* • ( ) (historians OR historiography) AND postcolonial* AND Africa

  15. Subject Searching • Thesaurus • 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

  16. To Find the Full Text • Use • Search CLUES • 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

  17. RefWorks • Discontinued as of May 31, 2020 • 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 Quick Links menu on the Library website • Help • Tutorials on Library website

  18. Zotero • Needs to be downloaded • Zotero offers a much better user experience with more functionality • Easily migrate your references from RefWorks to Zotero • Workshops • Migration workshops • Zotero workshops • Workshop schedule • Schedule includes general library workshops

  19. 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

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