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  1. Library Workshop for HIST 369Vince GrazianoHistory LibrarianVince.Graziano@Concordia.caMarch 5, 2019

  2. Workshop Outline • Finding background information and selected primary sources • Oxford Islamic Studies Online • Finding books • CLUES, the Library catalogue • Finding articles • Historical Abstracts: world history • Academic Search Complete • Gender Studies Database • LGBT Life • ATLA Religion Database • Finding primary sources in the Library catalogue

  3. Electronic Journals • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Project MUSE (Recent issues) • JSTOR (Older issues) • Oxford Journals (recent and archive) • Taylor & Francis (Routledge) • Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) • British Periodicals I and II (1681-1920) • American Periodicals (1741-1940) • Periodicals Archive Online (1802-2000) • Many other electronic journal collections

  4. Electronic Books • Collections with substantial humanities content: • Literature Online (LION) • Early English Books Online (EEBO) – 1473-1700 • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) • Early Canadiana Online (until c. 1925) • Oxford Scholarship Online (recent) • Cambridge University Press e-books (1995-2007) • Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses) • SpringerLink (2010-) • ACLS Humanities E-books • Canadian Publishers Collection • EBSCO E-books • Many other electronic books

  5. Search Operators • AND gender ANDIslam • OR Islam OR Muslim • “ ” “Middle East” • * nation* • ( ) (“Middle East” ORIslam* OR Muslim*) AND (women ORgender*)

  6. Subject Searching • Thesaurus • List of terms used in a database • Subject Headings in CLUES • Created by the Library of Congress • Subjects include: • People • Events • Places • Topical subject headings

  7. To Find the Full Text • Use • Search CLUES • Perform a Journal Title search • Check other Montreal libraries • Use your BCI card • Request an Interlibrary Loan (COLOMBO) • Online form • Allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery of books • Allow 2 to 4 days for delivery of articles by email

  8. RefWorks • RefWorks is a Web-based tool that: • Facilitates organization of references • Is accessible from any Internet connection • Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies • Access RefWorks through the Log into… menu on the Library website • Help • Tutorials on Library website

  9. Help is Available • At the Ask Us Desk • Library website • History Subject Guide • Ask a Librarian • E-mail form • Chat with a Librarian • Ask Vince: • 514-848-2424, ext. 7689 • vince.graziano@concordia.ca • Office hours: by appointment

  10. CLUES EXERCISE • Choose a broad topic consistent with course themes for the group • Each student in the group selects a narrower topic within the theme • Use ADVANCED SEARCH, if necessary • Modify search to Webster Print Books, if necessary • Each student chooses TWO books and retrieves ONE of them in the Library and brings it back to class • Choose ONE reporter per group who shall present the broad theme, some narrower themes, and a couple of books to the class

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