Conducting Research at the UNCCH Libraries CORE COLLOQUIUM Class: RUES 210, Fall 2003

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Conducting Research at the UNC-CH LibrariesCORE
COLLOQUIUM Class RUES 210, Fall 2003

• Nadia Zilper
• Head of Global Resources Area Studies
  Department
• Curator. Slavic East European Collections and
  the Andre Savine Collection
• nadia_at_email.unc.edu
• http//www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/international/slavi
  c/index.html

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Agenda

• Part I. Three Universes of Information
• Tools for finding monographs and periodicals
• Tools for finding articles
• Full text databases
• Part II. Library Resources
• Bibliographic
• Subject headings
• Electronic
• Bibliographic
• Full text databases
• Part III. Web Resources
• Evaluation of web resources
• Search engines
• Reference tools mega sites
• Useful web sites
• Part IV. Practice session

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Agenda

• Part I. Three Universes of Information
• Controlled universes of information
• Semi-controlled universes of information
• Uncontrolled universes of information
• Library tools for finding information about
  monographs and serials
• Searching on-line catalogs by the Library of
  Congress subject headings
• Monographs and serials
• Films
• Music recordings
• Library tools for finding articles

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Part I. Three Universes of Information
Controlled Universe of Information
WorldCat over 39 mil. Records held in thousands
of libraries around the world
Online Library Catalog http//www.lib.unc.edu
materials available locally
Online In Process/On Order/Bindery File Materials
on order or not yet cataloged available locally
Card Catalog
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Part I. Types of Research MaterialsThree
Universes of Information
Semi-controlled Universe of Information
Bibliographic Databases
Electronic Databases Purchased by Libraries
Full Text Databases
Mixed. Full Text Bibliographic Databases
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Part I. Types of Research MaterialsThree
Universes of Information
Uncontrolled Universe of Information
Web Sites
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Agenda

• Part II. Library Resources
• Library tools for finding bibliographic
  information about monographs and serials
• Searching on-line catalogs by the Library of
  Congress subject headings
• Monographs and serials
• Films
• Music recordings
• Materials in electronic format
• Library databases
• Bibliographic
• Full text

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials in
Non-Roman Script in Western Bibliographic
Databases. Transliteration

• Library of Congress Transliteration System
• Western Libraries create bibliographic records
  for materials in non-roman scripts using the
  Latin alphabet. They convert non-roman letters
  to Latin letters using the Library of Congress
  Transliteration Tables.
• Access
• http//www.indiana.edu/libslav/slavcatman/sltrans
  .html
• Or
• http//www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/international/slavi
  c/index.html
• Reference Transliteration

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials
in Non-Roman Script. Name Authority

• Corporate Names
• Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza
• Or
• Communist Party of The Soviet Union
• Or
• Vsesoiuznaia kommunisticheskaia partiia
  (bolshevikov)
• f the Soviet Union ? OR
• Personal Names
• Ulitskaya, Lyudmila
• Or
• Ulitskaia, Liudmila?
• Dostoevskii, Fedor
• Or
• Dostoyevsky Fyodor?
• Cross-references in UNC online catalog

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials by
Library of Congress Subject Headings in Online
Catalog

• Formula for General Subjects
• Topic--Place--Form subdivision
• Women--Russia--Bibliography
• Womens studies--Russia (Federation)--Biography
• Women--Soviet Union--Bibliography
• Subject Headings for History
• Place--History--Period--Form subdivision
• Russia--History--1689-1801--Periodicals
• Russia--History--20th century--Sources
• Soviet Union--History--17th century--Biography

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials by
Library of Congress Subject Headings in Online
Catalog

• Subject Headings for Literature
• Topic--Period--Form subdivision
• Russian Literature--20th century--Periodicals
• Russian prose literature --19th century--History
  and criticism
• Women authors, Russian--20th century zhenskaia
  proza
• Topic-- Form subdivision--Form subdivision
• Russian language -- Study and teaching --
  American Students. 
• Russian language -- Verb. 
• Detective and mystery stories, Russian
• Country life--Soviet Union--Fiction
  Derevenskaia proza
• Russian prose literature--Women authorsHistory
  and criticism zhenskaia proza

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials by
Library of Congress Subject Headings in Online
Catalog

• Journals, magazines, newspapers
• Add word Periodicals after TopicForm
  subdivision or Geographic name
• Soviet UnionPeriodicals
• Russia(Federation)Periodicals
• Russian languagePeriodicals
• Detective and mystery stories, RussianPeriodicals
  
• Electronic format
• There is no qualifier for electronic materials in
  Basic search.
• Search in Advanced search as keyword anywhere
  by
• Russian newspapers
• AND
• Computer file
• Electronic Journals
• On Library Web site under Articles More go to
  E-JOURNALS in the drop-down window select a
  subject.

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials
by Library of Congress Subject Headings in Online
Catalog

• Subject headings for films
• Motion pictures, Russian
• Feature films
• Foreign films
• Science fiction films
• Documentary filmsRussia
• Documentary filmsRussia (Federation)
• Feature films -- Russia (Federation) -- Video
  recordings. (LC)
• Search FilmFinder on UNC Library Web site

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Part II. Library Resources Searching Materials
by Library of Congress Subject Headings in Online
Catalog

• Subject headings for music
• MusicRussia
• Popular musicSoviet Union1981-1990History and
  criticism
• Popular musicRussia (Federation)1991-2000Histor
  y and criticism
• Folk songs, Russian
• Byliny
• Chastushki
• Songs, Russian
• Songs, RussianSoviet Union
• Songs, RussianRussia-Texts
• Songs, RussianRussia (Federation)
• Vocal musicRussia
• Sound recordings
• The best way to search the UNC on-line catalog is
  by keywords and qualifiers Music Recording and
  Russian language

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Bibliographic D-bases English Language
D-Bases ACCESSLibrary Web site
http//www.lib.unc.edu/ Articles More
Article Databases More

• ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic
  East European Studies) contains bibliographic
  citations for journal articles, books, book
  chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and
  selected government publications
• Searching strategies
• Search by keyword
• In the record click on subject headings this
  d-base uses Library of Congress subject headings
• MLA International Bibliography Via Silverplatter
• The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the
  Modern Language Association of America, lists
  over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of
  literature, language, linguistics,
• and folklore that are covered regularly in the
  MLA International Bibliography
• Searching strategies
• Use the same strategies as in searching ABSEES

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Full-Text English-Language Databases
with Slavic Subject Content

• Use Article Linker
• Provides access to full text articles hosted by
  other databases
• Article Linker functionality was added to all
  EBSCO bibliographic databases (NCLIVE and
  non-NCLIVE)
• Academic Search Elite Via EBSCOHost - NCLive -
  Contains Full Text. This multidiscplinary
  database features full-text for over 1,000
  journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts
  and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals,
  and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New
  York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. It
  also includes coverage of over 1,700
  peer-reviewed journals
• Historical Abstracts covers the history of the
  world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
  United States and Canada). It contains annotated
  references to information on topics from the
  Renaissance to Tiananmen Square over half a
  million entries in all.
• Transitions Online (TOL) is a source for
  in-depth analysis on all 28 countries of Central
  and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former
  Soviet Union

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Bibliographic D-bases English Language
D-Bases ACCESSLibrary Web site
http//www.lib.unc.edu/ Articles More
Article Databases More

• Expanded Academic ASAP Via InfoTrac - NCLive. The
  database integrates core titles in every major
  academic concentration, including astronomy,
  religion, law, history, psychology, humanities,
  current events, sociology, communications and the
  general sciences area-specific and
  issue-specific journals academic journals with
  application in the professions and publications
  with national news coverage and commentary.
  Contains Full Text
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is
  the most complete source for theory and research
  in international affairs. Contains Full Text
• NCLive -EBSCOHost As part of the NCLive service,
  EBSCOHost provides access to a variety of
  databases covering a wide range of subjects.
  Contains Full Text

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Part II. Library ResourcesE-Books,
English-Language Databases

• NetLibrary
• NetLibrary contains the full text of over 22,000
  English-language books from U.S. publishers.
  These e-books cover all subjects, and most were
  published in the 1990s. This collection also
  includes older literary classics in the public
  domain.
• Contains books in English on the subject of
  Slavic studies.
• ACCESS from the main Library page
  http//www.lib.unc.edu/ Articles More
  Article Databases More N

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Full-Text D-bases Russian-Language
Databases Russification of your computer

• Resources for Windows
• ParaWin made by Smart Link Corporation. Includes
  many fonts and keyboard drivers for all Slavic
  and other languages, runs in the background with
  Windows. http//www.smartlink.com Cost about
  150
• Cyrillic (Russian) instructions for Windows and
  Internet. Includes Russian keyboard drivers,
  Russian fonts, Cyrillic HTML, Multilingual HTML,
  useful links for building web sites using
  Cyrillic . http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage
  s/PaulGor/index.htm

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Full-Text D-bases Russian-Language
Databases Russification of your computer (cont.)

• Resources for Windows and Macintosh
• SovInformBureau Russify Everything. Includes
  instr. for Macintosh. http//www.siber.com/sib/rus
  sify/
• Slavic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers at ATSEEL web
  site. Includes Central European section.
  http//aatseel.org/keyboards.html
• Use keys to toggle between
  Russian and English keyboards on all Library
  computers

ALTSHIFT
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Part II. Library Resources UNC Slavic East
European Resources and Duke Library Web Site

• Slavic East European Collections at UNC
  Chapel Hill Libraries http//www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/c
  rs/international/slavic/
• Collection Descriptions
• Reference
• Guides
• Government Information Resources at UNC-CH
  Libraries
• Research Guide to Soviet History
• Guides at UNC-Chapel Hill Library
• History Suggested Resources for Beginning
  Historical Research (not specific to Slavic
  studies)
• Slavic Languages Literatures Selective
  Bibliography
• From the Library main page go to Assistance
  Research Guides Research Subject Guides
• Guides at Duke Library
• Russian Literature Resource Guide
  http//www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/lit.htm
• Guide to Reference Materials for Slavic Studies
• http//www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/guide.htm

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Part II. Library Resources Searching in
Electronic Full Text D-bases Russian Language
Databases

• Universal Database of Russian CIS
  newspapers, newswires government and legal
  publications Social Sciences d-base, and
  military publications. Contains Full Text
• Search in both English and Russian
• Kodeks Legal Database - Contains Full Text
  Kodeks Database is a major source for Russian
  legislation comprising hundreds of thousands of
  documents going back to 1991. Click the "IP
  access" button to access this database
• Russian/CIS Statistical Publications - Contains
  Full Text This database contains electronic
  versions of publications from the major Russian
  statistics agency Goskomstat Rossii and its
  regional statistics agencies, Statkomitet SNG,
  and statistical agencies of the former Soviet
  Union (statistical yearbooks, monthly analytical
  reports, regional statistical information, and
  annual statistical abstracts).

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Part II. Library Resources Overview of
Searching Strategies For Library Materials

• General Approach
• Think about sources you already know
• Learn vocabulary that is pertinent to your
  topic.This will help you to identify keywords and
  search terms
• Learn the names of organizations used during the
  time period that you are studying
• Establish all names used by the person you are
  studying
• Assess the search engine and figure out how it
  works
• Record all searches, Use ENDNOTE
• Or
• Always have a blank floppy disk handy so you can
  download information that you find
• For Library Controlled Information Resources
• Establish proper bibliographic data for the
  searched items
• Establish Library of Congress form of personal
  names. Record it
• Establish proper title
• Find and write down Library of Congress subject
  headings useful for your research or use ENDNOTE

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Part II. Library Resources Overview of
Searching Strategies For Library Materials

• For Electronic Databases
• First try to search using the Library Congress
  forms of the personal and corporate names and/or
  subject headings
• If this does not produce desirable results use
  variations of the names, keywords and search
  terms
• Use various searching strategies while searching
  in E-databases
• Record your searchers, use ENDNOTE
• EndNote is a bibliographic management and
  formatting program that can be used to
• Create and maintain your own searchable database
  of references
• Centralize and organize your research information
  
• Insert citations into word processing documents
• Format references and bibliographies in a variety
  of styles
• Access From the Library main page
  http//www.lib.unc.edu/ Assistance Classes,
  Tours Tutorials Get Help Using Endnote

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Part III. Web ResourcesAgenda

• Search strategies for using the Web
• Search engines
• Evaluation of web resources
• Web based learning tools
• Dictionaries
• Western portal for Slavic studies
• Russian Web resources

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Part III. Web ResourcesSearch Strategies For
Using the Web

• Using the Web Tutorials on the UNC-Chapel Hill
  Library web site.
• Access From the main Library page
  www.lib.unc.edu
• Assistance
• Classes,Tours Tutorials
• Introduction to Library Research
• More Tutorials
• Evaluating Information
• Evaluating Websites

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Part III. Web ResourcesLanguage Specific Search
Engines

• Use country and language-specific search engines
  for better results
• Search Engines Worldwide
• http//www.twics.com/takakuwa/search/search.html
  
• Russian search engines
• Rambler http//www.rambler.ru
• Yandex http//www.yandex.ru
• Aport http//www.aport.ru/engines use different
  criteria
• Learn more about Search Engines at
• http//www.searchengines.com/search_engines_101.ht
  ml

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Part III. Web ResourcesSelection Evaluation of
Web Sites

• Credibility
• Who is the author? (look for a word about)
• Is there contact information?
• Bias - see the Library Web site
  http//www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/evaluateweb/evalua
  ting/bias.html
• Accuracy
• What are the criteria for text selection?
• Is the source of text or audiovisual material
  cited?
• What text encoding standards were applied?
• Currency and maintenance
• When was the last update made? If not available
• In Netscape, click on "View," and then "Page
  Info."
• In Internet Explorer, click on "File," then
  "Properties." At the bottom is a "Modified" date.
• Look for other clues in the text
• Do the links work?

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Part III. Web Resources Selection Evaluation
of Web Sites (cont.)

• Relevance - see the Library Web site
• Web site organization and design
• Is organization of the web site logical?
• Is navigation easy?
• Can you easily get to desirable information (with
  approx. 3 clicks)?
• Is there an archive of journal/newspaper issues?
• Is there a search mechanism available?
  With/without help?
• More at Thinking Critically about World Wide Web
  Resources by Esther Grassian, UCLA College
  Library
• http//www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/hel
  p/critical/index.htm

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Part III. Web Resources Web-Based Learning Tools

• Dictionaries
• English-Russian/Russian-English
• Dima Chirkin http//area51.berkeley.edu/dima/stuf
  f/rus/
• Russian Dictionaries
• Russkie Slovari at Russian Academy of Sciences.
  V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute site
  http//www.slovari.ru/
• Dictionaries on the site Zovu.Ru (Zolotye Vrata
  Urala)
• Bestolkovyi Slovar prostorussokogo iazyka.
  Dictionary of Russian slang http//www.zovu.ru/bes
  /Best668.htm
• Skorogovorki http//www.zovu.ru/humor/skoro.htm
• Slovar smyslov russkogo iazyka
  http//www.slovo.zovu.ru/1.htm
• Vavilon elktronnaia biblioteka. Slovar
  Brokgauza I Efrona Orfographicheskii slovar,
  Telefonnye kody Slovar mirovoi mudrosti
  Slovar inostrannykh slov http//babylon.nd.ru/

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Part III. Web Resources Reference Web Sites
Created by Librarians

• Guides
• Guide to Slavonic Internet Resources British
  Library Slavonic and East European Collections
• http//www.bl.uk/collections/easteuropean/slavonic
  internet.html
• Slavic East European Library at the U. of
  Illinois. Internet Resources http//door.library.
  uiuc.edu./spx/resources/guide.htm
• REENIC at the U. of Texas. Collection of links to
  Web sites about East Central Europe, Russia and
  the countries of the former Soviet Union, with
  substantial selections of links for each country
• http//reenic.utexas.edu/reenic.html

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Part III. Web ResourcesMajor Western Portal for
Slavic East European Studies

• REES Web - Russian East European Virtual
  Library
• http//www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

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Part III. Web ResourcesRussian History Web Sites

• ZoVu - Zolotye Vrata Urala. Rossiiskii kulturnyi
  portal. Contains history texts
  http//www.zovu.ru/home.asp
• ??????? WWW ?? ??????? ?????? at Bucknell
  University
• http//www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/index
  .html
• Weblist www.weblist.ru http//www.weblist.ru/ru
  ssian/Social_science/History/
•  
• Library of Maksim Moshkov http//lib.ru/HISTORY/

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Part III. Web ResourcesRussian Web Sites for
Economics, etc.

• ???????????????-?????????????? ?????? AUP.Ru
• ?????? ? ?????? ???????????? ?????????? (Russia
  in Figures regional guide) Practical Science
  Database http//www.sci.aha.ru/ scroll down

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Part III. Web ResourcesWeb Sites for Studies of
Feminism

• Russian Feminism Resources
• http//www.geocities.com/elleon_tver/russfem.html
• Women in Other Post-Communist States
• http//www.geocities.com/katiewiik/2001diss.html
• Go to http//www.geocities.com. Search women
  in post-communist states

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Conclusions

• Understand in what universe of information
  searching is conducted
• Develop searching strategy accordingly
• Use relevant vocabulary, language and appropriate
  forms of personal, geographic and corporate names
  for each universe of information
• Approach findings critically
• Use electronic materials in research
• Record your searches in electronic format
• Use EndNote to record and manipulate your
  research

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Part IV. Practice Searching in Library Catalogs

• Go to World Cat http//www.lib.unc.edu Articles
  MoreArticle Databases More W WorldCat
• Do Advanced search for
• Environmental in Subject
• And
• Policy in Subject
• And
• Siberia in Subject
• Limit language to ENGLISH
• Select Problems of environment protection in
  Siberia , click on title
• Click on Subject headingsEnvironmental policy --
  Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. 
• Siberia (Russia) -- Economic policy. 
• Go to UNC online catalog http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Books MoreUNC-Chapel Hill Catalog
• Search Environmental policy as a subject heading
• Search Siberia (Russsia) as a subject heading

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Part IV. Practice Searching in Library Catalogs

• Go to the WorldCat
• Search Nursultan Nazarbayev The First President
  of Kazakstan. Almaty Didar Co., 1997
• Go to the Library site http//www.lib.unc.edu
• Search the same title
• Go to the Library site http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Books MoreOther Library CatalogsIn Process/On
  Order/Bindery File, Login as Library
• Search the same title

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Part IV. Practice Using Bibliographic Databases
as a Starting Point

• Go to the Library site http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Articles MoreArticles, Databases
  MoreAABSEES
• Search Russian Women in ALL FIELDS
• Select Mamonova, Tatyana. Russian Women's
  Studies Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture.
  Look for the subject headings
• Search Soviet Women in ALL FIELDS
• Select Reflections Soviet Women by Gray,
  Francine du Plessix. Look for the subject
  headings
• Search Russian men
• Search Soviet men

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Part IV. PracticeUsing Indexes Databases in
ResearchAcademic Search Elite Full-Text D-base

• Go to the Library page http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Articles MoreArticle Databases
  MoreAAcademic Search Elite
• Search SAMIZDAT
• Select Biking the samizdat. Look for subject
  headings
• Select What is the history of samizdat? Look
  for subject headings
• Select A decade after Sakharov, where are
  dissidents? Look for subject headings

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Part IV. PracticeUsing Indexes Databases in
Research Searching JSTOR

• Go to the Library page http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Articles MoreArticle Databases More JJSTOR
• Search Soviet Union and Women. Mark Slavic
  Studies
• Search Soviet Union and demographics. Mark
  Slavic Studies
• Search Soviet Union and population. Mark
  Slavic Studies

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Part IV. PracticeUsing Indexes Databases in
Research Searching Universal Databases of

• Go to the Library page http//www.lib.unc.edu
  Articles MoreArticle Databases More
  UUniversal Database
• Search Army AND Women.
• Mark Central Newspapers
• CIS Baltic PeriodicalsMilitary Security
  Periodicals Russian/NIS Newswires
• Search Army /6 Women. Mark the same D-bases

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Part IV. PracticeUsing Internet for Research.
Web Sites

• Evaluate the following web sites
• A-Z online ???????????? ????? http//www.ivanovo.
  ac.ru/win1251/az/lit/index.htm
• Library of Maksim Moshkov - Lib.ru
  http//lib.ru/

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The End

• Nadia Zilper
• Head of Global Resources and Area Studies
  Department
• Curator. Slavic East European Collections and
  the Andre Savine Collection
• Davis Library CB 3918
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail nadia_at_email.unc.edu
• URLhttp//www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/international/s
  lavic/index.html