Johanneke Sytsema Subject consultant Linguistics johanneke.sytsema@taylib.ox.ac.uk

1. Workshopsin Information Skillsand Electronic ResourcesElectronic Resources for Humanities Johanneke Sytsema Subject consultant Linguistics johanneke.sytsema@taylib.ox.ac.uk Kate Alderson-Smith Subject consultant Theology kate.alderson-smith@ouls.ox.ac.uk

2. Structure of the session • What are electronic resources? • How to find E-resources in Oxford • OxLip OCLC First Search • E-mail or export titles • Humbul • Resources for Theology

3. E-resources at Oxford? OxLip: (Oxford Libraries’ Information Platform) • Full text articles or abstracts • Biblographic resources (titles only) • Online dictionaries • Catalogues – copac, worldcat TDNet: • Electronic journals Internet gateways: • Humbul

4. More E-Resources • Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) • Covers all subject areas • Zetoc (British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents) • Interdisciplinary, can be used as a current awareness service

5. Electronic Resources- Start Click on Electronic Resources

6. Finding OxLip Click on OxLip

7. Modern Languages Click on Modern Languages for Modern Language databases

8. Modern Language Databases Modern Languages Association Bibliography

9. OCLC First Search

10. OCLC First SearchGeneral Databases • WorldCat - Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. • ArticleFirst - Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals. • ContentsFirst - Now incorporated in ArticleFirst. • E-Books - electronic books, all subjects • ECO - OCLC Electronic Collections Online • FastDoc - Index of articles with text online or by email. • NetFirst - OCLC database of Internet resource. • UnionList - OCLC Union Lists of Serials.

11. OCLC First Search Specialized Databases • ArtAbstracts - Leading publications in the world of the arts. • ATLA - Religion Database; full text articles and citation database • BiographyInd - Guide to wide range of biographical material. • BookRevDigst - Reviews of fiction and nonfiction books. • ClasePeriodica -Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities • ERIC - Journal articles and reports in education. • GPO - U.S. government publications. • MEDLINE - Abstracted articles from medical journals. • MLA - Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore. • PapersFirst - An index of papers presented at conferences. • Proceedings - An index of conference publications. • RILM - Abstracts of music literature. • WorldAlamanac - Several World Almanacs.

12. databases can be searched in OCLC First Search, just click through until you’re there! Select a database e.g. MLA (articles) WorldCat (books) Book Review (reviews) Searching for a book(1) Select Database

13. Searching for a book (2) Select Author Select Title

14. Results Titles available in Oxford Link through to OLIS

15. Titles NOT available in Oxford Always check OLIS first, it may be available even if it doesn’t show up in MLA! ‘Libraries worldwide’ shows which library has the title Order through Inter Library Loan Availability Libraries worldwide

16. Looking for an article… Enter search term Select MLA

17. Limiting results (1) Keyword Beowulf 1,890 hits

18. Limiting results (2) 134 hits By year By document type (journal article)

19. Limiting results (3) 13 hits AND Beowulf AND Finn

20. Limiting results (4) 10 hits AND NOT

21. Widening results with OR 18 results …OR hengest

22. Find related topics Advanced options… Click on title

23. More …. More by this author…. …on this subject

24. More by this author..(2) 5 results

25. More on this subject… 243 hits Select subject(s) Use AND

26. Save advanced options search (1) Save search

27. E-mail results Mark titles E-mail marked titles Mark all titles Mark all

28. Export to EndNote or RefWorks Export marked titles Select EndNote or RefWorks

29. Eureka (1) • Anthropological Literature • Bibliography of the History of Art • Chicano Database • CURL Union Catalogue • Deutsche Bibliothek Database • English Short Title Catalogue • FRANCIS (International humanities & social sciences) • Handbook of Latin American Studies • Hispanic American Periodicals Index • History of Science, Technology and Medicine • Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals • Inside Information "Plus" • National Library of Australia Catalogue • RLG  Union Catalogue Bibliographic Files • RLG  Union Catalogue Authority Files • Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies • SCIPIO - Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs • World Law Index Part 1: Hispanic Legislation

30. Eureka – Francis (2)

31. Eureka – Francis (3) 79 hits limit

32. After limiting your set, you can sort by year to get the most recent literature first sort by author or title Limit results year

33. Export titles Export to Bibliographic Software

34. Know journal title and issue number? OxLip – TDNet, download the article TDNet contains subscription journals Looking for an article….. Electronic journals Via TDNet

35. TDNet (1) Enter journal title

36. TDNet (2) From Publisher: 1993- Title and holdings Date of holdings: JSTOR UK/1886-1961

37. Select volume Select issue Select: From Publisher

38. Access article in HTML Access article in PDF

39. Full text and primary resources • Humanities e-publishing model incorporates both access to current information (journals) but also to primary sources and reference works • Many of the resources published are focused on providing access to a large corpus of works – normally characterised by specific periods / language

40. Full text and primary resources • Ancient / Medieval period • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [TLG] – Ancient and Medieval Greek texts. From 8th century BC to 1453 • Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts [CLCLT] – Latin texts from 240 BC to Vatican II. Strongest in classical period, patristic fathers, and medieval latin literature. Also contains Reformation and Counter-Reformation texts. • Patrologia Latina – E-version of Migne’s 217 volume work covering the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. • Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina [BTL] – Latin texts from the Republic to the end of the Roman Empire.

41. Full text and primary resources • Bible in English – 21 versions of the Bible • BibleWorks – over 65 versions of the Bible, including the Vulgate, KJV, NRSV, Geneva etc. • Past Masters – English full-text of important authors, includes Aquinas, Augustine, Berkley, Burnley, Calvin, Coleridge, Descartes, Hegel, Hume, Luther, Nietzche etc. etc. • British History Online – core printed primary and secondary sources for medieval and modern history • LION – Literature Online – provides access to an extensive range of English literature covering poetry, prose and plays. Also has additional links and information i.e. bibliographies and links to web sites etc.

42. Full text and primary resources • Look at two important resources of relevance to a range of subjects in the Humanities • Early English Books Online [EEBO]– covering books published in English from 1475 -1700 • Eighteenth Century Collections Online [ECCO] – 150,000 books in English published between 1701 -1800

43. Full text and primary resources Search boxes

44. Full text and primary resources

45. Full text and primary resources Search box Categories

46. Full text and primary resources Reading view Navigation buttons

47. Full-text on the web • There is a huge amount of full-text material available online • To locate this material use focused gateways like HUMBUL rather than rely on Google • HUMBUL also provides links to range of other resources - recommended

48. Full-text on the web

49. Full text on the web

50. Summary Books and Journal titles: • Use OLIS to check availability at Oxford • Use OxLip databases if not available in Oxford Journal articles: • Use OxLip databases for wider title and subject searches • Use TDNet to check electronic availability at Oxford Full text, reference and bibliographical sources online: • Use subject lists on OxLIP to locate relevant resources • HUMBUL for freely available online resources