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WISER: HistoryFinding journal articles
Valerie Lawrence, History Faculty LibraryKate Petherbridge, Upper CameraJane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library
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
Why can’t I use OLIS to find journal articles?
Librarians catalogue journal titles - but not individual journal articles.
Why not use OLIS???
Search in OLIS under journal title not article author/title.
Sources of information
• TDNet• Bibliographical databases• Bibliographical reference works
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)
What is a bibliographical database?
Tell you what was published, not what is in Oxford!
1. Use Tour button to locate full-text.
2. Search OLIS to locate printed Full-text.
Selecting the best resource
OxLIP Subject guide History
Bibliographic databases General By topic By area
Information searching skillsA 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.
Information searching skillsA few tools
• Boolean operators• Indexes• Limits• Sorting
Boolean operators
AND + narrow search
e.g. apple and crumble
apple + crumble
Boolean operators
OR broaden search e.g. apple or crumble
Boolean operators
NOT refine search
e.g. apple not pie
Information searching skillsA few tools
• Limits• Date• Language• etc.
• Sorting• Title• Author• Date• etc.
Demonstrations
• Historical Abstracts / America: History & Life
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
• International Medieval Bibliography
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
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
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
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
Stay up-to-date electronically
• Set up e-mail alerts
Historical Abstracts, ZETOC Alert, Oxford Journals
Online, etc.
• Re-run saved searches
Arts & Humanities Citation Index, etc.
Questions & hands-on
Finding help
Library staff in HFL, Upper Camera, Upper Reading Room and VHL
HFL, [email protected], 2-77262
Ask a Librarianhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/readerserv/ask/
History Librarian, [email protected], 2-77263
Useful web addresses
OULS E-resources
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources
OULS Information Skills courses
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/information_skills
OULS Libraries’ directory
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/libraries/byname/
HFL webpage
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/history/