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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

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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)

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●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)

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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

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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.

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