History 290:

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History 290 Finding and Managing Information
by Denis Lacroix Romance Languages and Film
Studies Librarian
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A Revolution of Information and Ideas
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Session Outline

• Formulating research questions
• Finding guides and library services
• Finding resources using the library catalogue
• Finding Articles in Periodicals using Databases
• Managing information using RefWorks

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The Research Question
Francis
Humanities Abstracts
Historical Abstracts
What is the contribution of women to the French
Revolutionary society?
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The Research Process

• Recognise an information need
• Define the problem
• limit, label, hypothesize
• Choose a search system
• books, electronic and print indexes, Web
  resources
• Formulate a query depending on the search system
• semantic mapping and action mapping
• Execute the search
• Examine, assess/evaluate, and save the results
• Extract information
• Reflect, write, reiterate, stop
• History Resource Center Student Research Guide

Saving might involve using RefWorks
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Finding Basic Research Tools
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Useful Reference Resources

• Dictionnaire des personnages de la Révolution
  DC 145 C262 1988 Ref.
• La Révolution française dictionnaire
  biographique DC 145 M26112 1989 Ref.
• A critical dictionary of the French Revolution
  -- DC 147 F983 E5 1989 Ref.
• Historical dictionary of the French Revolution
  DC 147 H67 1985 v.1-2 Ref.
• Historical dictionary of the Napoleonic era --
  DC 147 N34 2002 Ref.
• Companion to the French Revolution -- DC 147
  P342 1988 Ref.
• Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution
  française 1789-1799 -- DC 148 T917 Ref.
• Bibliographie de la Révolution française DC
  148 Z9 F465 1989 v.1-2 Ref.
• The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History
  Online
• E.g. Try searching the following Subject
  Revolution, 1789-1799
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Biography Resource Center
• History Reference Online?
• History Resource Center World ?
• Encyclopaedia Universalis
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Lets Practise

• Using History Reference Online find a reference
  resource on Napoleon and try locating an article
  on Beauharnais, Marie Rose Joséphine de.

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Books vs. Periodical Articles

• Books are a good place to start for
• an author or subject that is well-known and not
  too recent
• Check book bibliographies for references to
  other books and articles
• Use the NEOS Libraries Catalogue to find books

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Primary Sources

• What is a primary source?
• A record of a first-hand observation of an event,
  a report of scientific research, or an original
  work of fiction or art. Examples
• Personal narratives, diaries, reminiscences,
  memoirs, autobiographies, correspondence
• Speeches, addresses, essays
• Short stories, poetry, drama, fairy tales, sheet
  music, works of art, photographs, maps, etc.
• Manuscripts of the above
• Government documents, newspaper articles, audio
  and video recordings of news, interviews, etc.
• Journal articles can also be primary sources, as
  long as the author observed the event first hand.
  In the sciences, journal articles are often
  primary sources
• http//www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/primarysourc
  es/index.cfm

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Finding Books

• By author
• By title
• By subject

Use  Starting With  with exact titles.

• Request or place a hold on a book

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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic using Advanced
  Search
• Divide topic into key concepts, e.g. Women AND
  Revolution
• Think of variant or similar terms for concepts
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or
• Use truncation symbols to increase results
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• Finding Reference titles in advanced search

One key concept per box or field!
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This search will find primary sources
Increase your results by using variant terms
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This search will find primary sources
Limit your results by adding concepts!
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Sample Catalogue Record
If possible, add relevant catalogue subject terms
to your own search.
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Using Subject Headings

• Subject Headings search in the Catalogue
• Diderot, Denis
• Revolution, 1789-1799
• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
• France and Politics and government and 1774-1793
  
• 18th century or Enlightenment
• Sources or personal narratives or correspondence
  or speeches or autobiograph
• Culture or cultural or Political culture
• Conspiracies or violence
• Public Opinion
• Social Classes or Social Aspects or Social
  conditions
• Historiography or historicism or intellectual
  life
• Influence or causes

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Lets Practise

• Find the titles in the NEOS catalogue for
• Food shortages or consumption during the French
  Revolution

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Books vs. Periodical Articles

• Periodical articles are a good place to start if
• an authors reputation is recent or local
• you are looking for a detailed analysis(e.g. on
  the intellectual historian Robert Darnton)

To find articles, Use periodical databases
Databases are searchable by title, or
Databases are also searchable by subject.
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Finding Articles in Periodicals

• The library catalogue cannot be used to find
  articles on your research topic. Instead, you
  need to search databases.
• Databases are all different
• some contain full-text articles,
• some list only citations and abstracts,
• some are interdisciplinary
• others are subject specific
• Use database Help features for searching
  assistance

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Scholarly and Popular Journals
Scholarly versus popular journals
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Databases for History 421

• General Databases Academic Search Complete, Arts
  and Humanities Citation Index, BHI British
  Humanities Index, Expanded Academic ASAP,
  Francis, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities
  International Complete, Humanities Social
  Sciences Retrospective, IBZ, MLA International
  Bibliography, Periodicals Index Online, Readers
  Guide Full Text, Sociological Abstracts.
• Historical Databases Historical Abstracts,
  Annales historiques de la Révolution française.
• French Databases Francis, Repère, Érudit.
• Biographical Databases Biography and Genealogy
  Master Index, Biography Resource Center, Oxford
  Dictionary of National Biography

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Finding Book Reviews

• Online Book Reviews
• Book Review Digest Plus
• Book Index with Reviews
• Book Review Index Online Plus
• In Print for older articles
• Combined retrospective index to book reviews in
  humanities journals, 1802-1974 Z 1035 A1 C7
  Indexes
• Combined retrospective index to book reviews in
  scholarly journals, 1886-1974 Z 1035 A1 C72
  1979 v.1-15 Indexes
• An Index to book reviews in the humanities Z
  1035 A1 I3 Indexes
• National Library Service cumulative book review
  index, 1905-1974
• Z 1035 A1 N28 1975 v.1-6 Indexes

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Sample Primary Sources

• The Making of the Modern World and Making of
  Modern Law Trials 1600-1926
• Electronic Enlightenment
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Eighteenth Century Journals II Newspapers
  Periodicals 1699-1812
• History Resource Center World
• The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
  
• E.g. Try adding the following Subject from the
  list France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1815
  Sources
• Historical Newspapers Online (includes Palmers
  Index to The Times)
• In the First Person An Index to Letters,
  Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
• Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica-
  Bibliothèque numérique
• Réimpression de l'ancien Moniteur Online or DC
  140 M74 Ruth. N.
• Journal des débats et décrets (1789-1944) DC 1
  J86 BARD
• Les hymnes et chansons de la révolution -- DC
  140.9 P62 folio Ruth N.
• Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 (microform
  resource) -- E 173 E12
• Early English Newspapers (Microform obtained
  through Interlibrary loan)
• Mercure de France AP 20 M5419 1785-1791 Spec.
  Coll.

More French Revolution newspapers
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Bibliographies and Indexes

• C.R.I.S. the combined retrospective index set
  to journals in history, 1838-1974 E 171 C12
  1977 v.1-11 Indexes
• The Subject index to periodicals AI 3 S94
  1915-1961 (microfilm reels)
• Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de France --
  DC 35 Z9 B52 Ref.
• A bibliography of French revolutionary pamphlets
  on microfiche DC 140 Z9 T47 1974
• French revolutionary pamphlets, 1787-1799 DC
  141 Z9 H74 1973
• Plume de Marat pour une bibliographie générale
  -- DC 146 M3 Z9 G64
• Bibliographie de la Révolution française,
  1940-1988 -- DC 148 Z9 F465
• Bibliographie des études canadiennes savantes sur
  la Révolution française et son influence,
  1889-1987 DC 148 Z9 B582 1987
• The era of the French Revolution a bibliography
  of the history of western civilization, 1789-1799
  DC 148 Z9 C14 1985
• La société des Jacobins DC 178 A92 v.1-6
• Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la
  révolution française DC 194 A2 T72 v.1-5
• Répertoire général des sources manuscrites de
  l'histoire de Paris pendant la révolution
  française DC 194 A2 T9 folio v.1-11

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Historical Abstracts

• Searching examples
• Select a Field France or French AND Select a
  Field Revolution Select a Field Wom?n or
  Femini
• To view full-text, click on HTML, PDF, or
• To save, mail, or print citations
• Click on Add to folder,
• Click on yellow Folder,
• Click on print, e-mail or save options.
• Send citations to RefWorks

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Add the term rights to limit results
Improve your search
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Citation help
Save to RefWorks
Search using GetIt or NEOS
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Library Guide to Citation Styles
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Lets Practise

• Use the Historical Abstracts database and search
  for articles on
• Women, Family, and the French Revolution.
• Refine your search and limit it to only Peer
  Reviewed articles.

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Finding Periodicals in the Library

• Search the NEOS Libraries Catalogue
• Limit by Periodical Title in the drop-down menu
• Click on Starting With
• Click on the Search button
• Or
• Use the Getit Citation Linkerhttp//www.library.
  ualberta.ca/getit/citation/index.cfm
• Input all the article information into the boxes

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GetIt Citation Linker
Journal is available in print and online
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• Journal Titles
• Located in Rutherford North or South
• Interfiled with books by call number
• Available online
• Six percent kept in Rutherford Sth 2nd floor
  (Reading Rm.)
• shelved around the perimeter
• organized alphabetically by title

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Lets Practise

• Find the following article using the library
  catalogue or the GetIt Citation Linker
• PUBLIC AFFECTIONS AND FAMILIAL POLITICS BURKE,
  EDGEWORTH, AND THE 'COMMON NATURALIZATION' OF
  GREAT BRITAIN. Corbett, Mary Jean. ELH 1994
  61(4) 877-897 21p. Historical Period 1790-1812
  (AN H001528506.01)

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Inter-Library Loans

• When a periodical or a book is not located at the
  University of Alberta Libraries, request the
  items through ILL.
• Click on the link Request an Inter-Library loan
  on the right-hand side of the main library web
  page.
• Click on Request Material from another library
• Input your Library barcode number and pin.
• Fill in the form with as much information as you
  have.
• Check availability of document worldwide using
  the OCLC WorldCat database
• Allow 2 weeks for ILL requests

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Proquest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
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How to Export from Other Databases
Check Tip Sheets if you are unsure about
exporting from a specific database

• Mark the records you wish to export
• View marked records
• Export records from the database to RefWorks
• Click on the RefWorks link in the tool bar, OR
• Click on Save and/or Export

Example from Web of Science
Check as many fields as you need.
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Exporting from NEOS
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Add a new reference manually, without having to
import one.
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RefGrab-It
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Preview your references in any style.
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Always check your bibliography for any errors.
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The error was corrected using the references
Edit function.
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Lets Practice

• Use Historical Abstracts to find a peer-reviewed
  article on cooking during the French revolution.
• Find Davis, Jennifer J. dissertation on French
  Culinary Trades.
• Send the bibliographical information about
  Jennifer Davis dissertation to RefWorks using
  either Historical Abstracts or another database
  of your choice.

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Reference Services
http//www.library.ualberta.ca/askus/
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