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- Bodleian Social Science Library Finding Primary & Secondary
Resources Online SIAS Louise Clarke Bodleian Social Science
Librarian
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- What are primary and secondary sources? Grey literature What
online research tools are available for searching and accessing
primary and secondary sources? Demonstrations of Proquest and Web
of Knowledge including search strategies Overview of tools for
full-text resources including news, theses, e-journals, e-books,
reports and reference Overview of bibliographic resources including
abstracting and indexing services and catalogues Overview of
sources for data and statistics Bodleian Social Science
Library
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- Primary SourceSuffragette posters and pamphlets Secondary
SourceBook about female emancipation in Britain Tertiary
SourceDictionary of feminism Bodleian Social Science Library
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- In general a primary source is a work not based on or derived
from another source (e.g. contemporary records, data, conference
papers, photographs, working papers, etc.) Secondary sources
include the use / analysis / interpretation of primary (and other)
sources Consider the relationship between the researcher and the
source in the context of the research topic Definitions of primary
and secondary sources vary by discipline Bodleian Social Science
Library LOMBARD, E. 2010. Primary and Secondary Sources. The
Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36, 3, pp. 250-253.
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Grey literature refers to
material not easily found through conventional publishing channels
Produced by government agencies, NGOs, IGOs, academic departments
and research groups Includes working papers, policy documents,
occasional papers, briefings, conference papers, newsletters, etc.
Produced in print and electronic formats Ephemeral nature has
implications for dissemination, identification and access it is out
there but may be hard to find Primary sources include grey
literature
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- Subject-specific websites and portals, e.g. ELDIS Academic
institutions Governmental and Inter-Governmental Organisations NGO
and campaigning sites Other access points e.g. SCOPUS, ZETOC, Open
SIGLE Sources for grey literature Bodleian Social Science
Library
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- International Inter-governmental Organization webpage finder
inc. UN and its subsidiaries:
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/IGOs.htm#UNSUBS
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/IGOs.htm#UNSUBS PolicyFILE: research
organizations, think tanks, university programmes and NGOs listed:
http://www.policyfile.com/organizations/organizations.do
http://www.policyfile.com/organizations/organizations.do Forced
Migration Online (FMO): Lists NGOs and IGOs, (search by country or
subject):
http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/organizations
http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/organizations
CIAO: lists many university research institutes
http://www.ciaonet.org/main/wps.html
http://www.ciaonet.org/main/wps.html Bodleian Social Science
Library Lists of IGOs, NGOs and Institutes
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest IBSS - Strengths
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
http://search.proquest.com Disciplines: anthropology, cultural
studies, demography, economics, education, political science,
religious studies, sociology, etc. Broad coverage of international
material Records indexed geographically as well as thematically
http://search.proquest.com
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest IBSS Search Syntax
ageing NEAR/4 population OR declin* NEAR/4 (fertility OR birth) AND
(family OR social) AND polic* AND Japan
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest Dissertations and
Theses The worlds most comprehensive collection of social science
theses From 1997 onwards over a million full-text theses are
available to download Dissertations from July 1980 onwards include
a 350 word abstract Earlier dissertations offer citation
information (dating back to 1637)
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Web of Knowledge Citation
Searching http://www.webofknowledge.com/WOS Identify current
research based on earlier research Analyze the impact of a
publication on other research in the field or across subject
boundaries
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- Bodleian Social Science Library News (Multi-regional) Nexis UK
- BBC Monitoring International Reports (under Countries Tab)
Factiva World News Connection Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Emerging Markets Information Service
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- Bodleian Social Science Library News (Comparison of content
example) NexisFactiva MexicoEl Norte (Spanish; 2004-) Reforma
(Spanish; 2004-) Mural (Spanish; 2004-) Palabra (Spanish; 2004-) El
Norte (Spanish; 2004-) Reforma (Spanish; 2004-) El Universal
(Spanish; 2002-) MoldovaMoldavskie Vedomosti (Russian; 2006-)
Nezavisimaya Moldova (Russian; 2006-) NamibiaThe Namibian
(English;1997-) NepalKathmandu Post (English; 2008-) Nepali Times
(English; 2006-) Kathmandu Post (English; 2008-) Nepali Times
(English; 2006-) NetherlandsDe Telegraaf (Dutch; 1999-) De
Volksrant (Dutch; 1995-) NRC Handelsblad (Dutch; 1990-) Trouw
(Dutch; 1992-) De Telegraaf (Dutch; 2008-)
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- Bodleian Social Science Library News (Regional) Nikkei
Telecom21 (Japanese news and finance) Russian Central newspapers
Pravda (1912-2009) China Core Newspapers Database WiseSearch
(China) Ethnic Newswatch (Mainly US, ethnic publications) Times of
India Historical Archive (on trial)
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- Newspaper archives Proquest (New York Times, Guardian,
Observer, Washington Post) Separate Digital Archives available for
the Times, FT and Economist Times of India archive currently
available on trial Bodleian Social Science Library
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- Theses and dissertations Dissertations and theses: Proquest
Index to Theses Ethos ORA SOLO Conference proceedings & working
papers ZETOC (conference proceedings from the British Library)
Working papers generally available on institutional websites or
subject based repositories such as REPEC (economics discussion and
working papers)
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Full-text e-journals JSTOR
Full-text of over 1000 journals Collections for African, Asian,
Latin American, Middle East, and Slavic studies. Moving wall. Brill
e-journals Journals in African, Asian, and Middle East
studies.
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Full-text e-journals Area
journal collections China Academic Journals (CNKI) China Online
Journals (Wanfang) Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services JAIRO:
Japanese Institutional Repositories Online Central and Eastern
European Online Library
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- E-books Packages, e.g. Oxford Scholarship Online and United
Nations University Press Series, e.g. Handbooks in Economics
(Elsevier) Individual titles listed in SOLO, e.g. from Netlibrary
Google Books Bodleian Social Science Library
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- Reports & Reference Oxford Analytica (Regional analysis)
Country Reports (via Business Source Complete) World Development
Reports, World Bank Japan Knowledge Korea Knowledge Portal
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures International
Encyclopaedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Proquest abstracting and
indexing services - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
(ASSIA) -The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
(IBSS) - Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) - Sociological
Abstracts -Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
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- Area bibliographies ABSEES (American Slavic, Eastern European
studies, and Eurasian studies) EBSEES (European Bibliography of
Slavic and East European Studies) Bibliography of Asian Studies
(East, Southeast, and South Asia ) Index Islamicus E-Korean Studies
Bodleian Library Allegro Chinese & Japanese Catalogues Bodleian
Social Science Library
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- Catalogues SOLO British Library Catalogue COPAC (UK) WorldCat
(Global)
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Data & Statistics
(multi-regional) ESDS International World Bank UN IMF OECD iLibrary
Including all OECD databases and series Emerging Markets
Information Service
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Data & Statistics
(regional) Indiastat China Data Online Latin American Public
Opinion Project (LAPOP) Latinobarmetro (via ESDS) Historical
Statistics of the United States Inter-University Consortium for
Political and Social Research archive (US) Russian State/CIS
Statistical Publications
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- Bodleian Social Science Library SOLO
http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk OxLIP+
http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk OU E-Journals Libguides
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
SSOhttp://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Access to online resources
provided by the Bodleian Libraries
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- Bodleian Social Science Library Thank-you for your
attention!