COLIN HOMISKIResearch LibrarianMusic, Art, Film/Media, Philosophy & Theology

●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-user product BECAUSE of authentication and subscription! (Problem with Google Scholar as well!)

●“Deep Web“ (i.e. searching for a plane or train ticket to Paris at 20.00 tonight, or manuscripts of Dante)

●Not as “smart” as Google (although this is improving with 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 Subject Headings)

Aesthetics (philosophy, psychology and criticism) V8

Architecture VA-VD Calligraphy VS Ceramics VH-VI Engraving VP Graphic and decorative art VO History of Art V3 Mosaics VN Painting VK-VM Photography VR Reproduction processes, prints VQ Sculpture and the plastic arts VE-VG Textiles VU

Encyclopaedia/Dictionary databases (Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, Grove Art, Artstor)

Bibliographic/Indexes databases which contain all of the types of material written about a particular topic such as journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, reviews, etc. (Periodicals Index Online, International Medieval Bibliography or Bibliography of the History of Art)

Full-text databases which have the full article in PDF/HTML (or books) to view/download (JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, JISC Historical Texts (which includes EEBO, ECCO), Early European Books, Times Digital, ProquestNewspapers]

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. International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) indexes popular newspapers/journals AND has full text.