english session 1: finding quality information for your course
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Finding quality information for your courselibguides.rhul.ac.uk/English22 October 2014Kim Coles @RHUL_Library
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Types of Information
Books Newspapers
Academic journals
Websites
Databases
Encyclopaedia
Dictionary
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Primary, secondary, or tertiary sources?
A primary source is first-hand information. It could be a novel, poem, interview in a newspaper, letter in an archive…
A secondary source is an analysis or commentary on existing information. It could be a review in a newspaper, criticism in an academic journal, a book on an author/novel/poem…A tertiary source is a summary or collection of primary and/or secondary sources. It could be a dictionary, encyclopaedia, bibliography…
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
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Types of Information – and where to find them
Books- Library – use LibrarySearch ‘Books, Music and Films’ search to
check- Databases such as EEBO, LION, etc.
Newspapers- Library – use LibrarySearch or the Nexis database to find
specific articles- General web – search for newspaper titles (limited access!)Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, other reference material- Use the English Subject guide to find a full list under ‘Reference e-resources’
Databases- Library – use the English subject guide to find a full list
Academic journals- Library – use LibrarySearch ‘All’ or ‘Journals by Title’ search to
check- Databases such as JSTOR, ProjectMUSE, MLA International
Bibliography, LION, etc
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Key Library Resources
Use LibrarySearch for items on your reading list: http://librarysearch.rhul.ac.uk
Use your Subject Guides for databases, including reference material: http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/English
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Your reading list
On your laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc… please go to
socrative.com
1. Go to Student Login
2. Type RHULLibrary into this box, and Join Room.
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Finding primary sources - Literature Online
Try http://libraryblog.rhul.ac.uk/2014/09/25/literature-online-lion/
Access Literature Online via the English Subject Guide
To find a specific work
• Use the Quick Search bar – type the title in quotation marks to search for a phrase, use the ‘Narrow results’ options to limit by type of text
• Use the Texts option to browse or search
To find phrases/quotations in a particular work
• Use the Texts options to search
• Include Keywords in the Keywords search box, and as much other information as necessary e.g. author, title…
Using the Look Up options helps to narrow your search quickly.
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Finding William Carlos Williams ‘Spring and All’ recommended on your reading list
What do the quotation marks do?
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Finding William Carlos Williams ‘Spring and All’ recommended on your reading list
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Finding William Carlos Williams ‘Spring and All’ recommended on your reading list
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How to find the Search/Browse Texts option
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What does the protagonist of Northanger Abbey have to say about history?
Why is this better?
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What does the protagonist of Northanger Abbey have to say about history?
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What does a particular author have to say on a topic?
Click on the Biography icon next to an author’s name for information, a list of texts, and the option to search all full texts by this author
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Finding primary sources – Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Access EEBO from the English Subject Guide
Early English Books Online provides copies of works published between 1475 – 1700
To find a specific work
• Use the Search option
• Select Author and Title details ‘from a list’
• View text, scanned images, bibliographic information…
To search within a work
• Include the keywords you are interested in in the Keyword(s) search
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Why ‘select from a list’?
Variations in spelling will make accurate searching difficult
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Finding Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’ recommended on your reading list
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Icons
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Icons
Record: bibliographic information from the British Library on the physical item
Document images: a scanned, downloadable, copy of the physical item to browse
Illustrations: view any illustrations in the document
Full text: a plaintext copy of the document with links to document images
Thumbnails: thumbnail versions of all of the document images, which link directly to the relevant pages
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How many times is Leander mentioned in Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’?
Use the arrows in the text to skip between ‘hits’/instances of the word
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Don’t forget! Primary sources are available online, but also in the Library!
The English Literature collection is spread across all floors of Founder’s Library
Ground Floor East
Literary Criticism and American Literature
Old English, Middle English, and Shakespeare
17th Century English Literature to present day
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For next session – evaluating information
Please work through the presentation at
http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/EnglishYearOneAnd complete the exercise on the same page.
You will find a link to this page under ‘Training’ on the English Subject Guide: libguides.rhul.ac.uk/English
Any questions about accessing the presentation, email Kim at k.coles@royalholloway.ac.uk
See you on Wednesday 12th November at 12pm in the Windsor Auditorium
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Questions?
Kim Coles
Information Consultant
2-07 Bedford LibraryRoyal Holloway University of London
k.coles@rhul.ac.uk
01784 404107
libguides.rhul.ac.uk/English
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