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Finding and using academic information sources for your PhD research

Finding and using academic information sources for your PhD research. Emma Coonan, University Library David Lowe, University Library Jane Devine Mejia Modern & Medieval Languages Library. Research & other library collections. MML Library: primarily undergraduate/ MPhil collections

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Finding and using academic information sources for your PhD research

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  1. Finding and using academic information sources for your PhD research Emma Coonan, University Library David Lowe, University Library Jane Devine Mejia Modern & Medieval Languages Library

  2. Research & other library collections • MML Library: • primarily undergraduate/MPhil collections • Multiple copies of required readings, dictionaries, standard texts • DVD collection • Access to Cambridge library catalogues, e-resources, e-books • Wifi • Helpful staff • No inter-library loan – UL only

  3. Beit Library (3rd floor MML Library) • German research collection, founded through a donation from Sir Otto Beit in 1913 • collection of books from that period • current material such as monographic series • history of the German language • literature of the classical period (notably Goethe) • 19th century literature • philosophy, history, and a major collection of reference works • 4-week loan

  4. E-Resources for MML researchvia Libraries Gateway • Linguistics: Language & Linguistics Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) • JSTOR Film Studiescollection of books, journals • French: Classiques Garnier Numérique

  5. More resources • Hispanic: • PRISMA Publicaciones y RevistasSociales y Humanísticas • reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for study of Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Features Spanish, Portuguese, and English language content. • German: DigiZeitschriften • Access to 200 core German academic journals from 19 subject areas with 500,000 articles • Slavonic: Russian State Library digital collection

  6. New resources & image sources • Digitaliahttp://www.digitaliapublishing.com Hispanic e-collections: books, journals • ARTstor 1.6 million images licensed for educational use

  7. Review of goals for this session • Finding and using academic information sources for your research • Review and discussion

  8. Questions?

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