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Dr. William McCarthy
Ms. Sue Cody
[email protected]
Your Current Research Skills?
How would you rate your current research skills?
Strong
Satisfactory
Needs improvement
Poor
What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration?
What are your favorite sources for historical research?
Where do you go to find. . .
Scholarly articles?
Articles written during the time
studied?
Books?
Primary sources?
Our plan
Review Research Guide for this course.
Explore various finding aids.
Review search techniques
Learn to identify primary sources.
Become familiar with special services.
Interlibrary Loan
Ask a librarian
Where to get help
Learning Commons Help Desk
In person
Telephone
Email
Chat
Text
By Appointment
Contact me directly: [email protected]
Finding Articles
Home page Article Search (Integrated search)
Databases A-Z
Individual databases
Databases by Subject
Quick Search (Integrated search)
Individual databases
Bibliographies & Notes
Database Exploration
Library Homepage Article
Search
Historical Abstracts
Jstor
Public Affairs Information
Service
SCOPE CONSIDERATIONS
Publication type, e.g.,
articles, books
Number of
publications/records
Dates covered:
Google Scholar
WorldCat
Publication
Historical period
Subjects covered
Other parameters
Search tips
And, Or, Not
And narrows
Or adds synonyms/related
Not excludes (use carefully)
Search example
Manifest destiny OR Imperialism
AND
Pacific OR Asia OR Philippines
AND
United States
More Search Tips
Truncate for word variations
Imperialis* = Imperialism, Imperialist, Imperialists
Words anywhere or phrase?
American imperialism vs. “American imperialism”
Field-specific searches
Geopolitics in Source
Find the full text!
Keliher, Macabe. "Anglo-American Rivalry and
the Origins of U.S. China Policy." Diplomatic
History 31, no. 2 (April 2007): 227-257.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
Find the full text!
Hones, Sheila and Yasuo Endo. “History, Distance and
Text: Narratives of the 1853–1854 Perry Expedition to
Japan.” Journal of Historical Geography 32, no. 3 (July
2006): 563-578.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access? (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
Find the full text!
Lincoln, A. “Theodore Roosevelt and the First RussianAmerican Crisis.” Southern California Quarterly 45, no. 4
(December 1963): 323-336.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
Find the full text!
Burnham, Michelle. “Trade, Time and the Calculus of
Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing.” Early American
Literature 46, no. 3 (November 2011): 425-447.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
Find the full text!
Guan, Ang Cheng. “United States-Indonesia Relations:
The 1965 Coup and After.” War & Society 21, no. 1 (May
2003: 119-136.
Does the library have it?
What format or location?
What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
Finding Books
Library Catalog
local & UNCP/FSU
Ebooks from Ebsco and ABC-Clio, etc.
WorldCat
9,000 libraries / @1.2 billion items
Google Books (@ 12 million / @ 7 million full-text)
Project Gutenberg (@ 33,000 books)
Some databases lead to books
Cited directly
Book reviews
Randall Online Catalog:
Keyword vs. Subject Searching
What’s the difference?
What is a useful Subject Heading for
Manifest destiny?
Start with a keyword search, then
look for subjects in the records
retrieved.
Keyword/Subject features
Keyword
Subject Headings
Finds words anywhere
Controlled vocabulary
in record.
Look at records to see
subject headings.
Search lots of terms,
word variations
May not be “natural
language” but may
find more
Hierarchical
arrangement helps
narrow topic
Searches only the
subject field
Suggested Subject Headings
Check headings in records you find by keyword or other
searches
Use the Library of Congress Classification Web database.
In the catalog, search by any segment of a heading –
rotated display, e.g., Foreign relations
Same terms are used in WorldCat
Searching Personal Names
Keyword searches
Either order
Try name variations, e.g., initials
Author/Subject
Last name first, e.g.
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Asian names are a challenge, e.g.
Mao
Online Catalog Features
Subjects for related items
Call numbers for related items (usually)
Library of Congress outline
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
SuDoc arranges by agency (not as useful for browsing)
Cover, summary, reviews
Location maps
Expanding search to UNCCLC
Add to Bag/Add to My Lists
Text Message
Finding Books – LC Call Nos.
Alpha-numeric
Single letters before double
First number is a whole number
Everything after the decimal point is a decimal value.
WorldCat
9,000+ libraries
Finds items for ILL requests
Rare items not lent
Rare items may be reprinted & available
Websites included – often w/ free access!
Interlibrary Loan
Create an account/create a new account
Username – UNCW domain name
Password – UNCW password
Secondary - Primary
For the next session
Find a relevant secondary source (book or article) with a
bibliography.
Review the bibliography to find a primary source.
Copy the page with the primary source citation.
Highlight citation for primary source.
Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.
Next Class
Primary Sources
What they are
How to find them
What will you do when you have questions?
[email protected]
http://library.uncw.edu
Dr. William McCarthy
Ms. Sue Cody
[email protected]
Primary Sources
Dairies, journals, other writings of “players”
Eyewitness/Observer accounts
Memoirs, autobiographies (written later)
Official documents
Laws, treaties, reports, orders, transcripts of proceedings,
addresses, etc.
Images
Movies, Novels, etc.? (Depends on context of research)
Primary or Secondary?
Scholarly article on the U.S. annexation of the Philippines.
Text of the 1898 Joint Resolution to provide for annexing
the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S.
An encyclopedia of American foreign relations.
Collection of U.S. soldiers letters from Korea published in a
book.
New York Times article about Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel
Peace Prize.
Biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Anthology of voyage narratives.
Chronology of Asian history and culture.
Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat
Standard Subheadings for Primary Sources
Correspondence
Diaries
Interviews
Personal narratives*
Sources
See guide for others
Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat
Keyword Search
Hawaii and sources
Search specific headings or persons
Commodore Perry as author (Perry, Matthew Calbraith)
Look for items not tagged as primary source
Primary documents may be included in secondary
sources
Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources
Periodicals and Newspapers
New York Times Archive
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Palmer’s Index to the Times (London)
Official Documents
HeinOnline
Congressional Record
Lexis Nexis Academic - Legal
Court Opinions
Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Hearings (Not all full text)
Foreign Relations of the U.S. (FRUS)
Presidential Papers
Bibliographies—Follow the trail
Book-length (Reference Collection)
Secondary sources (books and journal articles)
Types
Classified (easiest to find primary sources)
Alphabetical
Footnotes/Endnotes
What did you find?
What will you do when you have questions?
[email protected]
http://library.uncwil.edu/askref.html