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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:
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 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
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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
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Either order
Try name variations, e.g., initials
 Author/Subject
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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
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
 SuDoc arranges by agency (not as useful for browsing)
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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
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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