new college of the humanities philosophy induction september 2016

8/11/2019 New College of the Humanities Philosophy Induction September 2016

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COLIN HOMISKI

Research Librarian: Philosophy, Music, Art, Film and Media Studies



Library Membership Card provides: Access to Your Account (see what books

you have checked out, renew them andplace reservations)

Can check out 10 books at a time Most SHL books 4 week loan periods

(some 2 week loan) NCH Collection: some 1 day, 3 day, 7 day,

or REF only books Provides access to some e-resources

off-site Serves as your Everyone Print Card

which includes photocopying, scanning(last 4 digits on back) Access the Wi-Fi system. Do NOT

browse and ‘connect to wi-fi.’ You willneed to set up a connection first.



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Google is a tremendous search engine - It is very smart -can interpret "natural language" (i.e. plurals, misspellings,foreign words)

●BUT it can not always get the researcher to the end-userproduct BECAUSE of authentication and subscription!(Problem with Google Scholar as well!)

●“Deep Web“ (i.e. searching for a plane or train ticket toParis at 20.00 tonight)



●Not as “smart” as Google (although this is improvingwith various library software upgrades)●Start with KEYWORD search (Use NOUNS, not verbs,adjectives, pronouns or prepositions!)●Basic principles:

●Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)●Truncation: uses stem of a word such as THEAT* retrieves theater,theatre, theaters, theatres etc.) This is also called using a WILDCARD:sometimes it is ‘?’ or ‘!’ or ‘*’●Controlled vocabulary (index, thesaurus, Library of Congress SubjectHeadings)



1st the Numerical Prefix (66) then: AA-AAB: General histories of philosophy AAD-AAY: Ancient philosophy AB: Medieval philosophy AC: 16th-18th century philosophy AD: 19th -21st century philosophy, general works divided

by country AE: 19th-21st century philosophy, individual philosophers AF: General philosophy, introductions

AG: Systematic philosophy AH: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind AI: Philosophy of human nature AJ: Ethics AL: Logic



Full-text databases which have the full article in PDF/HTML to view/download(JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, Ingenta, Times Digital, ProquestNewspapers)

Bibliographic/Indexes databases which contain all of the types of materialwritten about a particular topic such as journal articles, books, conference

proceedings, theses, reviews, etc. (Periodicals Index Online, Philosophers Index,PhilPapers)

Encyclopaedia/Dictionary databases (Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary ofNational Biography, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

Citation Indexes which detail the ‘importance’ or ‘impact’ of particular article(Web of Knowledge – Social Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation

Index)

▪ *Databases blur these distinctions - Both Academic Search Complete and JSTOR have citation information on ‘more recent’ articles but not the full text(yet) because of moving wall . Ingenta Journals have a mixture of full textarticles and citations because of subscription/access.



http://www.blyberg.net



WEB



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WEB 1.0● Everything

connected

globally●Centrally

Managed

● Need to knowHTML

●Slow to change●Unidirectional

●Authoritarian

●Think of your use

of Bookmarks on

your computer



● CURRENCY - When was it written? Can you determine thedate? Can you identify the last time it was updated?

● RELIABILITY - How accurate and relevant is it to yourresearch? Can citations and references be verified usingother means?

● AUTHORITY - Is the author a known expert in his/herfield? What is the subject of their expertise? Can youverify them independently? Has the resource been peer-reviewed?

● PURPOSE - Can you tell if there is any bias in the

presentation of the data? Is there objectivity? (e.g. thinkif a tobacco or pharmaceutical company was funding thedata study or Rupert Murdoch’s papers or the Guardian,or the Independent )



www.delicious.com

www.zotero.org



• For academics by academics• Available in all browsers-best in

Firefox Mozilla or Safari• Allows you to save copies of

webpages, create citation lists,apply your own tagging metadata• Allows you to write on your copy of

webpages (with sticky post-its)• Allows you to search through all of

your PDFs!• Exports the citations back into

Word in any citation style (APA,Harvard, Chicago style)

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