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WISER: History Finding journal articles

Learn why not to use OLIS for journal articles, sources of information, bibliographical databases, and information searching skills. Discover relevant databases and search strategies for history research.

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WISER: History Finding journal articles

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  1. WISER: History Finding journal articles Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian

  2. Aims • Why not use OLIS? • Sources of information • What is a bibliographical database? • Selecting the most relevant source • Basic information searching skills • Demonstrations • Questions • Hands-on • Finding help

  3. Why can’t I use OLIS to find journal articles? • Librarians catalogue journal titles • - but not individual journal articles.

  4. Why not use OLIS??? • Search in OLIS under journal title • not article author/title.

  5. Sources of information • TDNet • Bibliographical databases • Bibliographical reference works

  6. What is a bibliographical database? • Database holding bibliographical data • Index publications on a particular topic • e.g. Historical Abstracts • e.g. Philosopher’s Index • e.g. British Humanities Index • Often referred to as A & I databases • (Abstracting & Indexing databases)

  7. What is a bibliographical database? • Tell you what was published, not what is in Oxford! • 1. Use Tour button to locate eFull-text. • 2. Search OLIS to locate printed Full-text.

  8. Selecting the best resource • OxLIP Subject guide • History • Bibliographic databases • General • By topic • By area

  9. Information searching skills A few principles The success of a search largely depends on the choice of the database. The larger the database, the greater the chances of getting irrelevant information. We want to find everything that is relevant. There is usually more than one way to get results, but some are better than others.

  10. Information searching skills • A few tools • Boolean operators • Indexes • Limits • Sorting

  11. Boolean operators AND + narrow search e.g. apple and crumble apple + crumble

  12. Boolean operators OR broaden search e.g. apple or crumble

  13. Boolean operators NOT refine search e.g. apple not pie

  14. Demonstrations • Historical Abstracts / America: History & Life • Royal Historical Society Bibliography • International Medieval Bibliography

  15. Historical Abstracts • Global coverage, excl. US & Canada • 1450- present • Journal articles, books, dissertations, essay collections, • some book reviews • Publications from 1955- • Update monthly • Limit by historical period • Foreign language titles are translated into English and • are searchable • CLIO Alerts • Off-campus: Athens & VPN

  16. America: History & Life • US & Canada • Prehistory- present • Journal articles, books, dissertations, essay collections, • some book reviews • Publications from 1964- • Updated monthly • Limit by historical period • Foreign language titles are translated into English and • are searchable • CLIO Alerts • Off-campus: Athens & VPN

  17. Royal Historical Society Bibliography • British Isles, British Empire & Commonwealth, special focus • also on London and Ireland • 55BC – present • Journal articles, books, book articles, some collections of • essays, some book reviews, dissertations only for London • history, excl. more primary sources • Publications from 1901- • Updated 3 times a year • Limit by historical period & place • Off-campus: free on web

  18. International Medieval Bibliography • Euro-focus, but also covers Africa, Middle East etc. • 1st cent. – early modern period • Journals articles, articles from conference proceedings, • Festschriften, exhibition catalogues, etc. • Publications from 1967- • Updated quarterly • Limit by historical period & place • Off-campus: VPN

  19. Questions & hands-on

  20. Finding help Library staff in HFL, Upper Camera and Upper Reading Room HFL, library@history.ox.ac.uk, 2-77262 Ask a Librarian http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/readerserv/ask/ History Librarian, isabel.holowaty@ouls.ox.ac.uk, 2-77263

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