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Title: Conversations with History library research


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Conversations with History library research
  • Presented by Richard Pears
  • October 2009

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Learning outcomes
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  • After this session you will be able to
  • identify the range of secondary and published
    sources available
  • select the most appropriate sources for your
    research subject
  • search efficiently using catalogues and
    bibliographical databases

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Conversations themes
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  • Inventing the Middle Ages
  • Power and Peoples
  • History and the Media The Myth of Elizabeth
  • The Built Environment in Renaissance England
  • Did Women have a Renaissance? Gendering early
    modern history
  • History and Guilt
  • A Usable Past? The Reinterpretation of US History
    in and since the 1960s

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What information do you need?
  • Define research area People, period, place
  • Focus i.e. politics, society, religion,
    economics, etc
  • Information facts, theories, historiography,
    data, images, artefacts, etc.

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Break down the subject into searchable areas
Sample topic War and national identity in late
medieval Scotland
themes
time period
place
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Where will you find information?

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Some sources of information
Books Internet pages Journals Statistics Da
tabases Newspapers Theses Government
publications Manuscripts Contacts staff,
organisations Images / film
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Start here! http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/history/
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Books - catalogues
  • Use the Library Catalogue http//library.dur.ac.u
    k/
  • All material held in Durham University Libraries
  • Author, title, keyword, subject searching
  • Reserve, recall, renew items in Library
  • Includes DVDs, theses, e-books
  • Obtain items from store
  • Export citations for your bibliography

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E-books
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  • ACLS Humanities e-books
  • Patrologia Latina
  • Internet, e.g. Google Books - http//books.google.
    com/advanced_book_search

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Locating other sources
  • Use the references and bibliographies cited in
    other books
  • Look for other works by cited authors
  • Look for published collections, e.g. Surtees
    Society, Camden Miscellany, Calendar of State
    Papers
  • Includes e-sources State Papers Online, Medieval
    Sources Online, ACLS Humanities e-books

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Using bibliographic databases
  • Search engines indexing thousands of journals,
    theses, working papers
  • Often include book reviews
  • Sometimes link to full text
  • Download references to relevant sources, then
    search for these in the Library catalogue
  • See list at http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources
    /online/subjects/?sHistory

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Using journal databases - JSTOR
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Using Historical Abstracts
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Other sources COPAC
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Other sources Google Books
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Other sources Google Scholar
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Images
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Online exercise
Use the online resources available from the
Librarys History web pages to locate information
on your subject. Go to http//www.dur.ac.uk/libra
ry/history/
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Getting help
Library web pages http//www.dur.ac.uk/library/h
istory/ Contact us richard.pears_at_durham.ac.uk
Speak to your tutors
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