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Title: Information Needs for Humanities Researchers


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Information Needs for Humanities Researchers
  • Prof. Sean Ryder
  • 25 June 2009

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Research activity in the humanities
  • Analysis of ideas, theories, arguments
  • Comparison and synthesis of information
  • Critical analysis of texts
  • Editing of literary and historical works
  • Translation
  • Creation of electronic resources

3
Characteristics of humanities research
  • Wide reading around and into a subject
  • Browsing
  • Long life of research
  • Lone scholar tradition of publishing
  • Monograph remains gold standard
  • Complex system of citation not just citation
    index but footnotes, references
  • Knowledge connected to material form importance
    of metadata
  • Worries about credibility and permanence of
    electronic resources

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Information sources
  • Books, both as primary material and as evidence
    of previous research
  • Journals
  • Catalogues
  • Databases
  • Archives books, manuscripts as physical objects
  • Audio-visual resources
  • Interlibrary loans
  • Forms print, electronic, microform, online
  • Issues legitimacy, accessibility

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Researching 19thC Ireland
  • Critical editing of James Clarence Mangan and
    Thomas Moore
  • Access to original texts manuscripts,
    newspapers, early editions
  • Monograph on 19thC nationalism and culture
  • Original (primary) sources newspapers,
    pamphlets, books, broadsides
  • Secondary sources historiography, literary
    criticism
  • Catalogues/indexes of primary and secondary
    material print and electronic
  • Creation of electronic output articles,
    hypermedia archive/edition
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