The Oxford guide to library research /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year) |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Starting Points beyond Wikipedia
- Advantages of Specialized Encyclopedias
- Sample Lists of Encyclopedias
- Identifying Standard Works, Providing Primary Sources, and Providing Overview Lists of Articles
- How to Find Articles in Specialized Encyclopedias
- Examples of Searches
- Peculiar Strengths of General Sets
- What Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) Contain
- Problems in Determining the Right Subject Headings
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Uniform Heading: Standardization of Search Terms
- Displaying Unanticipated Aspects and Relationships: Browse Menus
- Differences from Tags
- Linkages to Classification Numbers
- Subject Headings in the OPAC as Index to the Classification Scheme
- Recognition Access (Provided by Conceptual Categorization Rather Than Relevance Ranking)
- Scope-Match Specificity and Its Modifications
- Solving the Problem of Excessive Granularity
- Problems with Copy Cataloging
- Specific Entry
- Preventing Overload in Coverage
- Predictability in Selection of Terms
- Loss of Relationship Networks in Faceted Catalogs
- Five Ways to Find the Right Subject Headings
- Digresssion: Precoordination and Postcoordination
- Miscellaneous Tips on Subject Headings
- Alternative Methods of Shelving Book Collections
- Problems with Shelving Books by Accession Number or Height
- Enhanced Recognition Capability and Full-Text Depth of Access
- Focused Browsing Access vs. OPAC Access: Depth vs. Range
- Focused Browsing Access vs. Keyword Access in Full-Text Websites and Databases: Recognition vs. Prior Specification
- Sending Books Offsite "Because They Are in Google Books"
- Browsing in Other Contexts
- Descriptors and Thesauri
- Importance of "Full" Displays
- LCSH vs. Descriptors
- Major Subscription Databases That Use Descriptors
- EBSCOhost Databases
- ProQuest Databases
- Gale Cengage Databases
- FirstSearch Databases
- Miscellaneous Databases with Controlled Descriptors
- How to Identify Databases in All Subject Areas
- Cross-Disciplinary Searching and Federated Searching
- Problems with Variant Search Terms
- Finding Which Journals Exist, Which Are Electronically Available, and Where They Are Indexed
- Identifying the Best Journals
- Problems with Abbreviations of Journal Titles
- 1981 Change in Cataloging Rules for Serials
- Disadvantages of Controlled Vocabulary Searches
- "Researchers Accustomed to Google Don't Use Subject Headings"
- Problems with Keyword Searches
- Major Advantages of Keyword Searching
- Major Keyword Databases
- Printed Sources for Keyword Access to Older Journals
- Keyword Searching on the Internet
- Full-Text Book and Journal Sites on the Open Internet
- Other Approaches to the Internet
- Nature of Citation Searching: Circumventing Vocabulary Problems
- Mirror Image of Footnote Chasing
- Web of Science and Its Component Databases
- Two Different Ways to Do Citation Searching
- Digression: The Cross-Disciplinary Coverage of Web of Science
- Cycling Sources and "Reviews" of Journal Articles
- Other Features of Web of Science
- Scopus and Other Citation Search Databases
- Citation Searching on the Internet
- Finding Articles with Shared Footnote References
- Circumventing Vocabulary Problems
- Different Ways to Progress from an Initial Starting-Point Article
- Nature of Review Articles
- Specific Databases and Other Sources for Finding Review Articles
- Advantages of Subject Bibliographies
- Boolean Combinations
- Solving Vocabulary Problems
- Structured Arrangements of the Literature on a Topic
- Importance of Indexes within Bibliographies
- Trade-Offs
- Problems Causing Bibliographies to Be Overlooked
- Finding Bibliographies
- Readers' Advisory Sources
- Word Truncation and Wildcard Symbols
- Boolean Combinations
- Combinations Using Component Words within Controlled Subject Strings
- Proximity Searches
- Limitations of Sets
- Limiting by Time Periods
- Limiting by Geographic Area Codes
- Limiting by Document Types
- Combining Keywords with Citation or Related Record Searches
- Refresher: Combinations without Computers
- Worldcat and the Pre-1956 National Union Catalog
- European Multi-Catalog Sites
- Full-Text Websites Created from Multiple Library Holdings
- Other Databases and Union Lists
- SearchingVariant Spellings
- Finding Copies of Books for Sale
- Determining Which Libraries Have Special Collections onYour Subject
- Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
- Inhibiting Assumptions
- Value of Contacting People Directly
- Tips on Using People Sources
- Sources outside the Open Internet for Identifying Knowledgeable People
- Talking to Reference Librarians
- Resources Not Covered by Conventional Databases or Catalogs and Not Shelved with Regular Books
- Special Collections Online: Subscription Databases
- Special Collections Online: Free Websites
- Microform Special Collections
- Government Documents
- Archives, Manuscripts, and Public Records
- Biography
- Book Reviews
- Business Sources
- Copyright Status Information
- Country Studies
- Genealogy and Local History
- Illustrations, Pictures, and Photographs
- Literary Criticism
- Maps
- Newspapers
- Primary Sources
- Quotations
- Standards and Specifications
- Statistics
- Tabular Data
- Tests (Psychological and Educational)
- Translations
- Recap of Ways to Approach Research Questions
- Problems Experienced by Most Researchers
- Type-of-Literature Searching
- Variant Conceptual Models
- Specific Types of Literature
- Structuring Questions by Predictable Formal Properties of Retrieval Systems
- Study of Information
- Specific Sources for Identifying Types of Literature in Any Subject Area.