Finding Information

Resources 5 steps to find

what you need

for the Field

Work Module

Ned Potter

History of Art

Academic Liaison Librarian

STEP 1:

BOOKS

STEP 2: BOOK CHAPTERS

STEP 3: JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.

Milner-White, E.

‘The resurrection of a

fourteenth-century

window’, The Burlington

Magazine, 94, 589 (1952),

108-112.

STEP 3: JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.

(If necessary, refine your results to just journals.)

STEP 3: JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.

(If necessary, refine your results to just journals.)

A quick demo

Got it?

Got it?

Reference:

Aberth, J. ‘The sculpted heads and

figures in the Chapter House of York

Minster.’, Journal of the British

Archaeological Association, 142 (1989),

37-45.

What is the first word on the

second page..?

STEP 4: Reading around a topic. Where do you go for background information?

STEP 4: Reading around a topic. Where do you go for background information?

…won’t find everything!

http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

Google

searches here…

http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

The DEEP web

http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

The DEEP web

• Intranets (internal internet sites)

• Academic databases • Unlinked sites which haven’t

told Google they exist, or have asked to remain unlisted

• Basically, anything that needs a password

But it will find a LOT. If you’re getting too many results back, try adding more words to your search terms, or repeating the key words.

Avoid the filter bubble

http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/06/15/youre-in-a-bubble/

Sign out of Google when you search…

Or use

DuckDuckGo.com for filter-free academic searching…

Wikipedia and Social Media (e.g Facebook, Twitter etc) have something in common – they’re both difficult to cite in an academic essay, but they both link to really good resources you can legitimately cite…

STEP 4: Reading around a topic. So Google is useful, Wikipedia is useful, but they’re

both flawed – if you need background info you

can cite, and you want really authoritative writing,

where do you go?

STEP 4: Reading around a topic. So Google is useful, Wikipedia is useful, but they’re

both flawed – if you need background info you

can cite, and you want really authoritative writing,

where do you go?

Bye bye:

Hello:

Go to sections five and six of the booklet and follow them

through, searching for whatever you’re interested in

STEP 5: FINDING ARTICLES ON A TOPIC. The most important step?

SubjectGuides will

save your life!

Online bibliographic databases

References to articles, books, chapters in

books – not full text

Sometimes links to full text elsewhere

Indexes large number of journals

Online bibliographic databases

References to articles, books, chapters in

books – not full text

Sometimes links to full text elsewhere

Indexes large number of journals

Contains reference to articles: title, author, which journal it’s in. But NOT the full text of the journal. Tells you what has been published on your topic, but doesn’t contain the full text. Bib databases include details of lots more journals than an archive includes; an art database will index a huge amount. So there are advantages and disadvantages to each. When doing your research, need to use both types.

Online journal archives

Complete copies of journals online

Searches across full text of journal

Some contain volumes back to 1800s

Online journal archives

Complete copies of journals online

Searches across full text of journal

Some contain volumes back to 1800s

Like a giant, electronic bookshelf full of journals. Contains complete copies of journals, so you’re searching across full-text of every article in the journal. JSTOR good for humanities; contains 168 art journals.

An exercise to bring it all together: compiling a bibliography

Find at least 3 books and 3

journal articles/book chapters on

the stained glass and the

Chapter House in York Minster.

An exercise to bring it all together: compiling a bibliography

Find at least 3 books and 3

journal articles/book chapters on

the stained glass and the

Chapter House in York Minster.

Search the library catalogue (Section 2 of the booklet)

Use the search tips from Sections 3 and 4 of the booklet

Access the SubjectGuides (Section 5) and search JSTOR,

Project MUSE and the Bibliography of the History of Art

(Section 7 of the booklet)

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