Finding Information for

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Finding Information for MLCS 400 History of
Translation by Denis Lacroix French and Spanish
Librarian
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Session Outline

• The Research question and topical concepts
• Finding Subject Guides and Reference resources
• Finding Books by author, subject, title
• Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching
• Finding online and print Articles in Periodicals
• Databases and ILL
• Print Indexes

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The Research Question
Humanities Abstracts
AHCI
Historical Abstracts
Women Translators of the 18th century? Translating
humour ?Translating motion pictures ?
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Finding Subject Guides

• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences
• Click on Languages Literatures or Linguistics
  or History (General)
• Choose a guide in the right-hand column under
  QuickStart Guides

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Useful Reference Resources

• Index translationum Online and PN 886 Z9 I38
  Ruth. Ref and Ref Aux.
• Termium
• Literature Resource Center
• Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies -
  P 306 E57 Ruth. Ref.
• Dictionary of translation studies - P 306 S58
  1997 Ruth. Ref.
• Bibliography of translation studies - P 306 Z9
  B53 2000 Ruth Ref
• International bibliography of translation P 306
  Z9 H77 1973 Ruth. Ref.
• Into English writing and translating into
  English as a second language a practical guide
  to recurrent difficulties - PE 1498 D84 2000 Ruth
  North 5 flr.
• Translating from English into Russian reference
  grammar for students of Russian - PG 2498 R33
  1998 Ruth. Ref.
• Encyclopedia of literary translation into English
  PN 241 E53 Ruth. Ref.
• Twentieth-century Italian literature in English
  translation an annotated bibliography,
  1929-1997 - PQ 4250 E5 Z9 H43 1998 Ruth. Ref.
• The Oxford guide to literature in English
  translation PR 131 O94 2000 Ruth. Ref.

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Finding Books

• By author
• Waisman, Sergio Gabriel
• By title
• Borges and translation the irreverence of the
  periphery
• Request or place a book on hold
• About an author as subject
• Containing or Starting with Châtelet, Emilie
  du

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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic
• Think of variant or similar terms and click
  Advanced Search
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or
• Subject women or feminism
• AND
• Subject translating
• Use truncation symbols ?
• Subject translat AND
• Any Field humo?r
• Finding Reference titles in advanced search

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Using Subject Headings

• MLCS 400 Topical Subject Headings
• Bede, the Venerable, Saint Bible Biography
  Creole Feminism German language History
  Interpreters Linguistics Methodology Motion
  pictures Professional ethics Translating and
  interpreting Translating into French
  Translators Women, etc.
• Geographical Subject Headings
• Latin America, South America, Caribbean area,
  France, Russia, Italy, Germany, etc.
• Historical Subject Headings
• 18th century, 20th century, 345 - 410, Marina ca
  1505 - ca 1530, To 1500, etc.
• Replace with appropriate language

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Electronic and Print Indexes

• Use electronic databases or print indexes to
  find periodical articles.
• Use databases to find articles published since
  1980 and print indexes for older material.
• Databases are all different
• some contain full-text articles
• some list only citations and abstracts
• others have a mixture of both

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Locating Databases and Finding Articles

• Under Browse by Subject or Subject in the menu,
  click on your research area.
• You will find a list of recommended databases on
  the left and, on the right, QuickStart guides to
  help get you started on your research project.
• E.g. Click on Humanities and Social Sciences
  History (General)

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Electronic Databases

• General Humanities MLA, Humanities Abstracts,
  Web of Science, IBZ, American Humanities
  Index, PCI full-text, PAIS, Literature Resource
  Center.
• History Historical Abstracts, America History
  Life, International Medieval Bibliography,
  LAnnée philologique
• Sociological Resources Sociological Abstracts
• Womens Studies Gender Studies Database.
• World-wide or Rare Resources (books articles)
  Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), OCLC
  WorldCat.
• Theses Proquest Dissertations Theses (full
  text), Index to Theses. Limitable by Book
  Review

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Linguistics and Translation

• Language and Communication LLBA, Communication
  Mass Media Complete
• Translation Termium, Le Grand Dictionnaire
  terminologique (GDT), Eurodicautom, Oxford
  Reference Online Premium
• Bibliography of Translations Index Translationum

Limitable by Book Review
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Language Specific Databases

• French Repère, Choix, DAVID, Termium, GDT
• Spanish Latin American Studies HAPI, HLAS,
  Latin Americanist Research Resources Project,
  Clase
• Italian Italinemo
• German Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach und
  Literaturwissenschaft, IBZ
• Slavic Studies ABSEES, EBSEES, Russian National
  Bibliography, IBZ, Literature Resource Center
• East Asian Languages and Literatures

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Humanities Abstracts

• Type in the search terms one concept per box
• Subject translat Add Subject motion
  picture or film or cinema
• Click on Search
• Find article using , the
  full text link or the Library Catalogue
• e.g. (2 and 5)
• Add records to your folder and send them by
  e-mail

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Exporting Files to RefWorks
When saving or e-mailing, click on Bibliographic
Manager to Export items to RefWorks
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1. Place imported records into new folder
2. Click on Bibliography
3. Select Output Style, File Type, and Reference
Location before Creating Bibliography
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Sample RefWorks Bibliography
Always check your bibliography for errors.
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Learning RefWorks

• Click on Citation Guides under Find on the
  Librarys main Web page.
• Click on RefWorks
• RefWorks for New Users
• RefWorks Tutorial

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Arts Humanities Citation Index

• Click on the General Search button
• Type search terms in Topic search box, e.g.
  translat AND (motion picture or film or
  cinema) AND German
• Restrict by language or document type if
  necessary
• Search
• Click Get It button to
  locate the article

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Look up specific decades or centuries
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Inter-Library Loans (ILL)

• If the document that you are looking for is not
  in our Library Catalogue,
• fill out an ILL electronic form
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/in
  dex.cfm
• indicate, if possible, where your document is
  located in the world.
• using OCLC WorldCat locate your document in
  libraries world-wide by clicking on Libraries
  Worldwide.
• Check the status of your ILL after 2 weeks
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/st
  atus/index.cfm

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Print Indexes

• IBZ International bibliography of periodical
  literature What (1896-1991) also available
  onlineWhere Rutherford North Reference and Ref.
  Aux. AI 9 I61
• C.R.I.S. the combined retrospective index set
  to journals in history, 1838-1974 Where
  Rutherford N flr1 Indexes E 171 C12 1977 v.1-v.11
• Public Affairs Information Service Annual
  Cumulated Bulletin 1915-1971 and Cumulative
  Subject Index to the PAIS Annual Bulletins
  1915-1974 (also available online) Where
  Rutherford N flr1 Indexes H1 Z9 B932
• MLA International BibliographyWhat (1921
  to 1962) also available online Where Rutherford
  N flr1 Indexes PB 1 M58

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Book Review Indexes

• Book Review IndexWhere Rutherford North Floor
  1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 B73 What (Since 1965-)
  Provides author and title indexes, but no
  excerpts of the reviews.
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Humanities Journals, 1802-1974Where Rutherford
  North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C7 1982
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 Where Ruth. North
  Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035  A1 C72 1979

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Reference Services

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  athttp//www.library.ualberta.ca/uploads/HSS/MLC
  S/MLCS400.ppt
• Contact Librarians through Chat reference,
  E-mail reference, telephone reference, or
  in-person at the reference desk.
• Good luck in your searches!