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WISER Humanities: E-Resources for Research in Theology Friday, 27 February Hilla Wait & Kate Alderson Smith
Structure of today’s session Effective searching l Overview of e-resources in theology l ¡ ¡ ¡ l Resource discovery tools Full-text resources Theses, current research and awareness Time to explore with assistance available
Where to start? l Decide what you are searching for before you start Know your resources l Identify some keywords l Work out search strategies l ¡ ¡ Advanced Boolean Proximity Symbols for wildcards and truncation l Make sure you have a system for storing the references you identify –e-mail, or Refworks l Construct the search to fit the query and the resource
Tackling an unfamiliar database Check the coverage of a database to see if it includes what you want l You can use cross-searching for some collections of databases l Use the help screens provided l check the conventions (e. g. do they use &, +, or “and”) l
Critical appraisal l Evaluating ¡ Academic search results and sources credentials ¡ Peer review ¡ Use of source material ¡ Accuracy of references ¡ Currency ¡ Bias ¡ Relevancy ¡ Citation count
Finding aids in Oxford l SOLO ¡ ¡ l OLIS ¡ l Catalogue of books / journals Oxford e-journals ¡ l New resource discovery interface for p- and e-texts First but not last stop e-journal subscriptions Ox. LIP+ ¡ ¡ Gateway to subscription databases Subject guidance
SOLO OLIS Institutional Repository (ORA) E-journals Ox. LIP+ Special collections: catalogues
Ox. LIP+ Theology menu
Finding books l Local ¡ ¡ ¡ l SOLO – e & p-texts OLIS – for holdings and functions Manual catalogues – Pusey House Local catalogues – Heritage (Wycliffe) Manuscript catalogue in Duke Humfrey’s Global – access via Ox. LIP+ ¡ ¡ World. Cat (45+ million items) COPAC (Catalogue of UK Research libraries) European Library BL Catalogue
Electronic Resources in Theology l Subject-specific bibliographical databases: ¡ Few irrelevant results ¡ Focus for the search l Full-text databases: ¡ Primary sources ¡ Secondary works l Reference works
Bibliographic Databases : ATLA l Core e-title for Theology l Biblical Studies, world religions, Church history religious perspectives on social issues 400, 000 article citations from 1, 400 journals 200, 000 chapter citations from edited works 375, 000 book reviews ATLAS Links to 70 full-text journals l l
Bibliographic Databases : ATLA l Navigating l Search options • Basic search • Search Limits • Advanced search • Index search l Exporting records
Other Bibliographic Databases New and Old Testament Abstracts l Philosopher's Index l FRANCIS l ¡ l Multidisciplinary, strong in Religion and good for European articles Index Islamicus ¡ All aspects of Islam International Medieval Bibliography l OCLC Article First l ¡ General
Finding Biblical resources l l l Bible. Works ¡ best resource for exegesis Anchor Bible Dictionary Oxford Bible Companion Bible. Gateway NT Gateway
Finding full-text primary sources l Ancient/Medieval ¡ ¡ Dead Sea Scrolls Patrologia Latina Acta Sanctorum Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts l ¡ ¡ ¡ Corpus Christianorum series Augustine: Opera Omnia Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Medieval sources On-Line Perseus Past Masters l Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham
Finding full-text primary sources ¡ Early Modern/Modern Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts l Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation l Early English Books Online l Eighteenth Century Collections Online l Past Masters l • Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Newman
Past Masters l l l l l Expand package → author→title Using the Table of Contents Changing the display Navigating the text Searching by simple search Power search Cross database searching Results Map Proximity search
E-Books - Secondary texts for theology l l l Oxford Scholarship On-Line Taylor & Francis E-books Cambridge Companions On. Line Cambridge Histories on-Line Blackwell Reference On. Line
Oxford Scholarship On-Line l l l l Complete list Search for a title or author Abstract and TOC Navigating Searching by keyword Quick Search Sorting your search results Advanced Search
Taylor & Francis/Routledge l l l Getting started Navigating Copying and printing Marking up text Searching Using the Research Notebook
Reference Sources l l l l l Oxford Reference Online Standard Abbreviations for Theological Journals & Commentaries Encyclopedia of Religion Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages Anchor Bible Dictionary Oxford Bible Commentary Encyclopedia of Isalm Encyclopedia of the Qu’ran
Finding theses l l l Index to Theses – UK and Ireland Dissertations and Theses International World. Cat (via OCLC First Search) Theological Research Exchange Network ¡ www. tren. com/e-docs/index. cfm Phddata www. phddata. org
Locating current research Mailing lists ¡ http: //www. jiscmail. ac. uk l Conference proceedings ¡ OCLC Proceedings ¡ Theses and Dissertations l Current awareness services ¡ Zetoc, My TD-Net l Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway ¡ Internet Detective l http: //www. vts. intute. ac. uk/detective/ Google scholar l ORA (Oxford Research Archive) l Religion Online l
And Finally l Questions l Practical session l Evaluation forms