1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION
An in depth examination of selected databases
in the humanities and
social sciences is offered. Emphasis
is on scope, content, and structure.
Students test and evaluate usefulness of
databases in the social sciences and
humanities.
2. COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
A. Goals
Students who successfully complete this course
will gain an understanding and
working knowledge the standard library databases
in the humanities and social
sciences exploring them through Dialog, WilsonWeb
and First Search. A broad
range of electronic sources will be considered
including digital collections of
manuscripts, rare books, archives, prints
and photographs and film. Students
will learn to use research methods and techniques
in these fields through
hands-on experience.
B. Objectives
Students who successfully complete this course
will gain an understanding of
humanities and social science resources in
the context of libraries and
information centers as follows:
1. Be conversant with the key issues concerning
scholarly communication and
research.
2. To understand and be able use databases
effectively to assist users.
3. Be able to access a broad range of Web
resources and to use them effectively
for library reference.
4. Be able to evaluate Web sites for content,
authority, accuracy,
representation, and usefulness as reference
resources.
5. To become familiar with the information
communities representing the
humanities and social sciences such as database
produces, professional
organizations, associations, scholarly journals
and societies.
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3. METHODS OF EVALUATION AND GRADING
The instructor's evaluation of the students' work
will be calculated as
follows:
Attendance, participation
10%
Weekly search assignments
15% first one due 9/10
Digital Libraries
15% due 10/8
Humanities Subject Resource Guide
25% due 10/22
Scholarly Communication Online, Issue
15% due 12/3
Social Sciences Subject Resource Guide
25% due 12/17
Presentations (one for each Guide)
15%
TOTAL:
100%
Students are expected to be well prepared for class.
Search assignments should
be completed for the class on the date specified
in the syllabus.
All project assignments should be completed and handed in
on the due date. The
instructor should be contacted if any assignment
will be late. Any assignment
handed in after the final meeting of the
course will be subject to deduction of
one grade point.
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4. OFFICE HOURS
Tues: 2:00-3:30 PM 14th
St.
Sat.: 12:00-1:00 PM 14th St.
3:30-4:00 PM
5. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
9/2 Introduction to
the Humanities; review online searching techniques.
View CD-ROM on the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Compare online and paper sources.
National Libraries:
Bibliothèque
nationale de France - Page d'accueil
Library of Congress Home Page (LC
catalog and copyright catalog)
The New York Public Library
British Library
Net - Internet resources
British
Library - British Library Public Catalogue-
British Library Net - Internet
access from the British Library
Research and Documentation
Online Philosopher's Index,
The
Intelex { Poiesis : Introduction
}
HUMANITIES
SEARCH ASSIGNMENTS: There is a database
search assignment due based
on databases studied for each class.
Each student selects his/her
humanities topic for searching.
Search results are handed
in for credit and graded as pass-fail.
Questions concerning database
searching are addressed in class.
Bring your search questions
to class. Search assignments not
returned unless those that
do not achieve a passing grade.
READ articles 1 and
2 from reading list.
9/9 First Search databases (Focus
on Worldcat).http://www.oclc.org
9/16 WilsonWeb databases http://hwwilsonweb.com/login
Pratt Library online sources in Art & Architecture
9/23 Dialog databases - "begin
humanit" to view list of humanities databases.
DialogWeb Home
Scholarly
Publishing Initiatives.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_scholar.html
Collecting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries,
John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology
in the HumanitiesUniversity of VirginiaUniversity
of Minnesota,October 5, 2001.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/%7Ejmu2m/UMN.01/index.html
The Scholars
Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and
Venting
by
Myer Kutz • Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan02/kutz.htm
The Crisis in Scholarly Communication: an Economic Analysis
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf
9/30 Resources on the Internet:
1.
National Library Catalogs; Union Catalogs
NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscripts
Collections)
NUCMC Home Page http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
U.S.
Copyright Office, Searching Copyright Registrations and Documents
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/rb.html
Using the Library
of Congress: Collections & Services for Researchers,
Libraries, and the
Public http://www.loc.gov/library/
2. Web sites for Humanities Research - A Sampler.
VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
HOME PAGE
EDSITEment - The Best of the
Humanities on the Web
Humanities Scholarship
Newsarchives
Search - newspaper archives search - cusi search form
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/cusipage/newsarch.html
NewsDirectory:
Searchable Newspaper Archives
http://www.ecola.com/archive/press/
The Internet Movie Database
(IMDb). http://www.imdb.com
Women's
Studies Database http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/index.html
The
On-Line Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Popular
Song Database
http://www.lib.washington.edu/asp/databases/music/PopSongBrowse.asp
SongFile Home
http://songfile.snap.com
Rare Map
Collection http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
Historical Maps Online - http://www.ku.edu/cwis/units/kulib/docs/test.html
UT Library
Online - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - Historical
Map Web Site
Roots - New
York State Links - http://bfn.org/~roots/newyork.htm
Electronic Historical
Publications - Home Page
http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School-
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Rutgers
University Libraries: Subject Research Guides: History - American
and British: History - American and British http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
Humanities
- French studies
H-Net, Humanities
& Social Sciences Online
RLG DigiNews
RLG DigiNews:
Volume 3, Number 6, December 15, 1999
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-6.html
RESEARCH METHODS HANDBOOK
BUBL LINK / 5:15
Internet Resources: Research methods
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10/7 Digital Libraries in the Humanities.
Student
presentations and discussion of digital libary issues.
UMI Databases (Dissertation Abstracts)
Online
research – strategies and methods.
Web Databases
for Humanities Research News
CNN.com
BBC News | FRONT PAGE | front
page http://news.bbc.co.uk/
History
History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
Subject
Research Guides: History - American and British: History -
American and British (Rutgers University Libraries)
Best History
Websites
Humbul Humanities
Hub
Humanities Text
Initiative
Humanities Interactive
Flash
Humanities Sources
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology-Online http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online!
For more than forty years, the American Musicological Society
has sponsored the publication of listings of dissertations in
the field of musicology, and over the years Doctoral Dissertations
in Musicology grew from a small pamphlet to a substantial book of
more than 500 pages, augmented by periodic supplements. The office
of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology moved to the Indiana University
School of Music in 1996, and Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
(DDM-Online), an electronic version of Doctoral Dissertations in
Musicology,
marks the next phase in the life of this
publication.
Ejournal
SiteGuide : A MetaSource http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour/
A selected and annotated set of links to
sites for ejournals, with links to individual titles and/or
to other collections of links. In no instance does this SiteGuide
point directly to individual electronic periodicals.
Scholarly
Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
This directory provid
es links to established Web-based scholarly journals
that offer access to English language article files without requiring
user registration or fees.
Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/
Carrie Donated Works: http://www.ku.edu/carrie/archives/index.html
With the extension of US copyright to a maximum
of ninety years, the only books that can be made freely available
on-line are those published before 1923, those for which no application
was made for the extension of copyright beyond twenty-eight years,
and those freely donated by the copyright holders.
Carrie has established a repository for donated
works and invites copyright holders who wish their works to
continue to be made available to a wider public to provide Carrie
with a copy of their work, preferably in digital form, and explicit
permission to make that work electronically accessible without
charge to the public"
History
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/History/#sites
"Internet Resources for Historians."
Full Text
Humanities Resources on the Internet: A Selection
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/humetext.htm
Making
of America
Materials accessible here are Cornell
University's contributions to Making of America
(MOA), a digital library of primary sources
in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction. The
collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history,
science and technology.
This site provides access to 267 monographs
and over 100,000 journal articles with
19th century imprints. The project represents
a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic
access to historical texts.
MEL: Humanities Texts
and Journals Online http://mel.org/humanities/humscoll.html
The Michigan Electronic Library (MEL) "Humanities
Collection" contains Internet resources
to support the information needs and interests
of librarians and citizens of the state of Michigan.
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Film Databases
The
Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com
http://www.mediasalles.it/
European Cinema On-line Database
- Main Page, European movie database,
European cinema database, Euro Kids Network,
Focus on Europe, European film industry,
production companies, distributors, world
sales agents, theatres, exhibition companies,
short films, animation films, documentaries,
European children films, film cinema pictures,
synopsis, Media Programme Untitled Document
European Cinema On-line Database -
Council
on East Asian Libraries - http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/ceal/
China Subject Guide - http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/china/
Chinese Cinema - http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~shaoyis/
Film.com: Movie Reviews,
News, Trailers, Interviews, Showtimes and more.
http://www.film.com
Berkeley
Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/main.html
Dance Page
http://www.library.ubc.ca/finearts/DANCE.html
Dance Web Resources
MED: HOME PAGE
"The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED)
is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose
of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present,
MED consists of a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"),
images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values
("svalues") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists
(MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994). Also present is the beginning
of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts."
Medical Humanities
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
H-Net, Humanities &
Social Sciences OnLine http://h-net2.msu.edu/
"H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization
of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous
educational potential of the Internet and
the World Wide Web. The computing heart of
H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane
Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State
University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come
from all over the globe."
American
Studies Web http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
Georgetown University, Reference and
Research
Women's Studies
Database http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
"The University of Maryland women's
studies database, begun in September 1992, serves those people
interested in the women's studies profession and in general
women's issues."
Literature and Language
Online Dictionaries,
Glossaries and Encyclopedias
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html
An annotated listing of dictionaries, glossaries
and encyclopedias that have some sort of version
online or, if you will, a glossary of glossaries.
O'Conner's
American Literature Online http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/hawkint/amlit.html
About.com
: http://virtual.park.uga.edu/wblake/ The William Blake
Archive.
Luminarium
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Sixteenth Century
Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/rentext.htm
A superb mutimedia presentation of English
Literature based on the
Norton Anthology and created and edited
by a team of distinguished scholars.
English Literature:
Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
Anthology of Middle English
Literature (1350-1485)
ARTFL Project
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
"Project for American and French Research
on the Treasury of the
French Language, University of Chicago -
ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut
National de la Langue Française (INaLF)
of the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the
Humanities and Social Sciences of the University
of Chicago."
ACRL hosts the following European focused Web material:
Western European Specialists
Section http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/
WessClassics http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/wessclassics/
"Classics Studies Web
is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Classics
Studies. The geographical coverage includes the Mediterranean
(particularly Greece and Rome) during the
Classical and Hellenistic periods. The resources
organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process.
If needed, annotations have been provided augmenting the research
value of these resources to scholars. Includes Guides/Subject
Indices, Electronic Databases Bibliographies, Directories/Associations
Electronic Journals, Electronic Texts."
European
Literature - Electronic Texts
Electronic Text Collections
in Western European Literature
"This page lists Internet sources for literary
texts in the western European languages other than English.
Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections
of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.
Collections are listed more or less in order of size; individual
authors are listed alphabetically."
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SOCIAL
SCIENCES: Select a few varied topics for searching.
Search
results are due based on each of the following classes.
10/14 Dialog databases in the
Social Sciences
Web Databases
- free
10/21 Government
documents.
Government information
on the Web: Databases
TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Scholarly Communication
and Technology Assignment.
Research in the
Social Sciences Website - use for Project II.
The Voice of the Shuttle is back!
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
A great new sources for arts & humanities!
Humbul Humanities
Hub
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/
Englis
Renaissance Electronic Service
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/main.htm
10/28 NO CLASS
11/4 Student Presentations
of Humanities Project.
Humanities Research Project due.
11/11 WilsonWeb - Social
Science databases
First Search
- Social Science databases
11/18 Primary sources online (databases
& Web)
Newspapers, statistics, reports, conferences,
polls, Documents, hearings.
Online Research,
Strategies and Methods - the humanities scholar online.
Finding It
Online: Web Search Strategies http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/main.html
Planning Your Search Strategy http://www.tay.ac.uk/tafis/course-work/plan_search_strategy.html
Finding
Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Strategies for Searching Databases - Main Menu/Contents
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resmeth/strategies/strategies.htm
SCHOLARLY
ELECTRONIC DATABASES SEARCH STRATEGIES
Curtin University
Library and Information Service Home Page http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/
Module
3a - Search Strategy http://faculty.washington.edu/jwholmes/tutorial/module3a.htm
Search Strategies
for Search Engines http://www.webliminal.com/search/search-web05.html
SocioSite http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/index.html
"The SocioSite is designed to get access
to information and resources which are relevant for
sociologists and other social scientists.
It has been designed from a global point of view -
it gives access to the world wide scene of
social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive
listing of all sociology resources on the Internet. The enormity
and constantly changing nature of the Internet makes it impossible
to develop a definitive and comprehensive listing.
That's why the SocioSite will always be 'under construction'."
Search
Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
11/25 -
Scholarly Communication and Technology.
TECHNICAL
AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES.
Students present and discuss work in a class
forum.
Scholarly Communication Online – issues and trends.
Class forum – 2 page paper and articles due.
12/2
CLASS WORKSHOP - Humanities & Soc.Sci. Librarianship.
12/9 Student Presentation of
Social Sciences Project
12/16 Student Presentation
of Social Sciences Project
Last class - final day to turn in project.
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6. ASSIGNMENTS 1-5
Due dates and description for assignments
1-5.
1. Search Assignments:
topic searches for all databases studied in class.
These are practice searches so that you may
improve your knowledge of and
skill in using humainites and social science
databases. For each database studied
in class, complete 2 practice searches using
a topic of choice.
Hand in a search sheet containing the following
elements:
Name of database and service provider
Topic - what subject area are you researching?
Query - what is the search question/query;
what information are your searching for?
Search terms - key words - descriptors -
subject headings.
Search statement - the statement that retrieves
your final results.
2-3 titles that you select as the most relevant;
give a complete citation.
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