Now available: Internet Research Skills, the book

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Now available Internet Research Skills, the book

• O Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) Internet Research
  Skills. London Sage.

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Governments, archives, statistics, news, lists
and multimedia Internet Research Skills Niall
O Dochartaigh, Dept. of Political Science and
Sociology
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Governments

• Database searches not the quickest method
• Official guides to official documentation on
  current issues
• Press releases
• Critics of government policy
• News stories
• Searching government via the search engines

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Search tip searching for government information
by domain

• Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSNSearch
• Add sitegov to your query to ensure you only
  search US government sites
• Add sitemil to restrict it to US military sites

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• sitegov.uk
• sitefco.gov.uk
• Note that not all government documents are to be
  found in the official domains.
• Foreign Government Resources on the Web
• (www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html)

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The Irish government
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The British government

• Directgov (www.direct.gov.uk)
• Individual government departments
• Official and Government Resources
  (www.britishlibrary.net/official.html)
• The Keele University guide to British Government
  and Politics on the Internet (www.keele.ac.uk/dept
  s/por/ukbase.htm)

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UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk)

• Commons Hansard
• Select committee report
• sitepublications.parliament.uk

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Archives

• Government activity
• Organisations and private individuals

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Guides to online archives

• Ready, net go! (www.tulane.edu/lmiller/ArchivesRe
  sources.html)
• Repositories of primary sources
  (www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Reposito
  ries.html)
• EAN (European Archival Network)
  (www.european-archival.net)
• The National Archives (US) (archives.gov)

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The National Archives (UK) (www.nationalarchives.g
ov.uk)

• Over 8 million document references
• Research guides

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Search strategy Searching an Archive

• Start with key publications in your subject area
• A search in the British National Archives
• Aim to identify key collections of records on
  British policy in Iraq during the 1920s and 1930s
  when Britain administered Iraq as a League of
  Nations mandate

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• Research guides
• Keyword search four guides that mention Iraq
• Guide to sources on the League of Nations
• A sub-section in this guide is devoted entirely
  to the mandates

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• Enter any of these codes in the Go to Reference
  box and you will get a description of the files
  included under this reference number
• May also point to related records

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• Search the catalogue by keyword (go to search
  the archives and choose search the catalogue)
• A general search on
• Iraq AND mandate (limited to the period from 1918
  to 1950) returns 20 results
• Several of them are from CO 730, which is
  described as correspondence on Iraq from the
  1920s and 1930s
• CO 730 includes 178 volumes in total, a massive
  store of documentation.

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• Once you have identified the relevant record
  series you can limit your searches in the
  catalogue according to the Department or Series
  code
• Thus a search on Kurds limited to CO 730 brings
  back eight files on Kurds in Iraq during the
  mandate period

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• You can then take a reference number like this
  and use it to identify books and articles that
  draw on these archives
• Produces more information about the contents of
  these specific files
• And points you to books that use the archives and
  are likely to provide pointers to other relevant
  files on the Iraq mandate.

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Google Scholar "CO 730" Archives Iraq mandate
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Google book search
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• Amazon.co.uk

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No results in Amazon.com
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Digital archives

• Full text searches (limited)
• OAISTER
• Google Scholar
• Find them through a good subject guide

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Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976
(anulib.anu.edu.au/subjects/ap/digilib/chi/cr/chin
a.html)
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The Cornell University Library Witchcraft
collection (historical.library.cornell.edu/witchcr
aft/)
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Conflict Archive on the Internet CAIN
(cain.ulst.ac.uk)
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Statistics

• Statistics in books and articles
• Statistical reports
• Manipulating the data online
• Raw data know what youre looking for
• Collecting data

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Guides to statistical sources

• WebStat (www.linkkitalo.fi/webstaten)
• Offstats (www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stat
  s/offstats)
• Statistical resources on the Web
  (www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/documents.center/stats.
  html)

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• UK Statistics National Statistics
  (www.statistics.gov.uk)
• European Union statistics
• Eurostat
• (www.eu.int/comm/eurostat/), the European Unions
  Statistical Information Service
• Eurobarometer, (europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/
  standard_en.htm)

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Data Archives

• ICPSR The Inter-university Consortium for
  Political and Social Research (www.icpsr.umich.edu
  )
• CESSDA Council for European Social Science Data
  Archives (www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/)
• The UK Data Archive (www.data-archive.ac.uk)
• Tutorial available

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Discussion lists

• H-Grad (www.h-net.msu.edu/grad/)
• JISCmail (www.jiscmail.ac.uk)

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Email lists

• Check subject guides
• Check the Web sites of key professional
  associations
• Check H-Net or JISCmail
• H-Net (www.h-net.org)
• JISCMAIL (www.jiscmail.ac.uk/)

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News

• Yahoo News (news.yahoo.com)
• Google News (news.google.com)
• MSN Newsbot (newsbot.msnbc.msn.com)
• Google news archive?
• Lexis-Nexis
• News Library (www.newslibrary.com)
• ProQuest News Magazines (not at NUI, GALWAY)
• 1,400 newspapers and magazines

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Images

• Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSNSearch
• Photo sharing Web sites
• Flickr (www.flickr.com)
• Webshots (www.webshots.com)
• PBase (pbase.com)
• Results are organised into clusters
• Use individual photographs to guide you to
  relevant collections

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Maps

• Adding map to your query
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  (www.lib.utexas.edu/maps)
• The Map Room A Weblog About Maps
  (www.mcwetboy.net/maproom).

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• Google maps (maps.google.com)
• Yahoo maps (maps.yahoo.com)
• Mashups (get URL)
• Google Maps Mania (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com).

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Video

• Internet Archives Movie Archive
  (www.archive.org/details/movies)
• ResearchChannel, (www.researchchannel.org) a
  Social Sciences Video and Webcast Library
• Google Video (video.google.com/)
• Yahoo Video search (video.search.yahoo.com)

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• Singing Fish (search.singingfish.com)
• YouTube (www.youtube.com)
• IFILM (www.ifilm.com)
• Vimeo (www.vimeo.com)

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