Literature search for the

humanities

Helene N. Andreassen & Mariann Løkse

University Library, UiT

May 5, 2015

Part of the seminar series Take control of your PhD journey: From (p)reflection to publishing

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Searching for literature: where to start?

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ORIA

Log in with your UiT username/password.

Renew your loans and requestbooks/articles from other libraries.

Search for keywords, «phrases», names or «full titles»

Use * to truncate your searches.

Oria: exercises

Please feel free to exchange our suggested search terms with others if you like.

1. Find books by Gretel Ehrlich.

2. Find articles about postcolonialism and Marxism. Then limit to articles from peer-reviewed journals.

3. Can you find books about Knut Hamsun in English?

4. Find dissertations about expeditions and the Arctic.

5. Find a film about the aurora borealis (“northern lights”).

6. Search for the book: How To Get A PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors by Estelle Phillips. Is it a printed book or an electronic version? How do you get access to the book?

7. If a book is on loan, how do you make a reservation?

8. Log in to your account. Find out how you can renew your loans.

9. Find the latest issue of Journal of borderland studies. Open the full text of one of the articles in that issue.

10. Find five peer reviewed articles about a subject you are interested in.

Interdisciplinary databases: Scopus example

• The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature

• Coverage

– all research fields

– 20 000 peer-reviewed journals

– 85 000 books

• Tools to track, analyze and visualize research

– Journal ranking

– Citation impact

– Author information

elsevier.com

library.uthscsa.edu

Scopus.com

Searching in Scopus

Digital game design

Ethical aspects

Narrowing your search

• Keywords

– Game design

• Digital game design

– Ethic* (truncation)

• Subject area

– Social sciences

• Language

– English

• Time range

– 2010-2015

Searching in Scopus

Travel literature

Canada

Broaden your search

• Keywords

– “Travel literature”

– Canada• America*, US?

• Subject area

– Arts & Humanities• Social Sciences &

Humanities?

• Language

– English• German?

Scopus: exercises

1. Morpho-syntactic negation in Finno-Ugric languages

– Search terms “negation” and “synta*” (the last one truncated)

– Within results, search “Finno-Ugric”

2. Immanuel Kant and free will

– Search “Kant” and (“free will” OR “freedom of will”)

– Within results, limit to journal articles

– Limit to Arts & Humanities

– Sort on Cited by to find the most-cited article.

3. Publications by a given author within different subject areas

– In Author search, search for Noam Chomsky (MIT)

– Select Analyze author output

– Select Documents, by subject area

– View document list of publications within Arts & Humanities

Looking for the PhD work of others?

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT Global)

• The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses

– US, UK, Ireland

– Millions of searchable citations (1861 )

– 1 million in full-text (pdf), primarily 1997

– 2 millions available for purchase in print

– 70 000 (in full-text) added each year, partnership with 700 leading institutions worldwide

• Coverage

– Business and Economics, Medical Sciences, Science, Technology, Agriculture, Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities

Humanities: 24%

• Not indexed in Oria

wvsu.edu.ph

proquest.com

Searching in PQ Dissertations & Theses

Searching a given thesis:

Immanuel Kant's Lehre von der

Freiheit

Salits, Peter (1894)

Universität zu Jena

• Basic search

– Author name OR

– (parts of) title

Searching in PQ Dissertations & Theses

1. Basic search: Hamsun

– Modify to in Abstract

– Limit to full text

– Save search

2. Advanced search: Ibsen

– in Abstract

– Limit to full text

– Save search

3. Combine saved searches

– My research, searches

4. Get notified: Set up RSS feed

Searching a given topic (full-text):

Knut Hamsun

and/or

Henrik Ibsen

Proquest

- a platform with UiT access to more than 30 databases

View by subject: History (7)

• Advanced search

• Arctic AND indigen*

PQ Dissertations & Theses: exercises

1. Remembering theme, university and recency

– Do a basic search on “Aurelius Augustine”

– Make it an advanced search by adding “Yale university” in university/institution and thereafter sort by recency (newest on top)

2. Searching a topic

– Do an advanced search on “language acquisition” AND “negation”

– Limit to full-text entries

– Add search term “second language” and specify appearance of primary search term “negation” to be in Abstract

– Save the search and create an RSS feed

3. Searching dissertations in a field published at a given university

– In advanced search, search for dissertations in philosophy (Subject heading) published at Sorbonne (Paris)

– In Publication date (menu to the right), drag the time cursor to year 2000 and update

– If no full-texts available of the remaining items, what do you do?

MLA International Bibliography

• Subject coverage

• Modern literatures

• Literary theory and criticism

• Linguistics

• Teaching of language

• Film, television and theater

• Rhetoric and composition

• History of the book

• Folklore

• How to search:

• Truncation: *

• Operators AND, OR, NOT

• Search for “a phrase”

MLA (Modern Language Association): exercises

Click Find databases on the top right side of the Oria search page. Search for MLA. Click on the link. It will open in a new window. (Right-click and choose ‘open link in new tab’,)

Please feel free to exchange our suggested search terms with others if you like.

1. Find articles about Finno Ugric and linguistics. Refine your search to include only peer-reviewed articles. Find and open the full text of the following article: “On gradualness of grammaticalization of desinential case exponents in Finno-Ugric languages”. E-mail the article to yourself or a friend.

2. Find out if the University Library of Tromsø has the article “How I See What You're Saying: The Role of Gestures in Native and Foreign Language Listening Comprehension”. Which journal is the article in?

3. Can you find any articles about “cultural memory”? Limit the results to the last ten years.

4. Choose advanced search. Find out if Professor Merete Anderssen has written any articles available through the MLA database. (Hint: Invert the author name, i.e. Anderssen, Merete)

5. Find articles about ekphrasis and poetics. Export some of the articles to EndNote. (If you don’t use EndNote, find out how it’s done, or export to another reference tool or RTF (Word))

6. Find 5 peer reviewed articles about a subject you are interested in.

7. If language and literature is not your topic, go to all databases on the top left side and see if the database list contains anything of interest to you.

UiT and its many types of available resources

Field Full-text Abstract Bibliography Encyclopedia

Language Scopus, Proquest LinguisticsAbstracts Online

MLA, Brill Linguistic Bibliography

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics

Library Sciences Library and Information Science Abstracts

Literature Literature ResourceCenter, Literature Online, Cambridge Companions to Literature, Scopus, Proquest

MLA The OxfordEncyclopedia of British Literature,

Philosophy JSTOR Philosopher’s Index Oxford Reference -Philosophy

Cultural studies JSTOR, Idunn Sociologicalabstracts (Proquest)

NORART, Indigenous studies Portal

Oxford Reference –Social Sciences

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