Your Current Research Skills? How would you rate your current
research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement Poor What
causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration? What are your
favorite sources for historical research?
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Where do you go to find... Scholarly articles? Articles written
during the time studied? Books? Primary sources?
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Our plan Review Research Guide for this course. Explore various
finding aids. Review search techniques Learn to identify primary
sources. Become familiar with special services. Interlibrary Loan
Ask a librarian
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Where to get help Learning Commons Help Desk In person
Telephone Email Chat Text By Appointment Contact me directly:
[email protected]@uncw.edu
Database Exploration Library Homepage Article Search Historical
Abstracts Jstor Public Affairs Information Service Google Scholar
WorldCat SCOPE CONSIDERATIONS Publication type, e.g., articles,
books Number of publications/records Dates covered: Publication
Historical period Subjects covered Other parameters
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Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related
Not excludes (use carefully) Search example Manifest destiny OR
Imperialism AND Pacific OR Asia OR Philippines AND United
States
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More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Imperialis* =
Imperialism, Imperialist, Imperialists Words anywhere or phrase?
American imperialism vs. American imperialism Field-specific
searches Geopolitics in Source
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Find the full text! Keliher, Macabe. "Anglo-American Rivalry
and the Origins of U.S. China Policy." Diplomatic History 31, no. 2
(April 2007): 227-257. Does the library have it? What format or
location? What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
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Find the full text! Hones, Sheila and Yasuo Endo. History,
Distance and Text: Narratives of the 18531854 Perry Expedition to
Japan. Journal of Historical Geography 32, no. 3 (July 2006):
563-578. Does the library have it? What format or location? What
online access? (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
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Find the full text! Lincoln, A. Theodore Roosevelt and the
First Russian- American Crisis. Southern California Quarterly 45,
no. 4 (December 1963): 323-336. Does the library have it? What
format or location? What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
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Find the full text! Burnham, Michelle. Trade, Time and the
Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing. Early American
Literature 46, no. 3 (November 2011): 425-447. Does the library
have it? What format or location? What online access (vendor, e.g.,
Jstor)?
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Find the full text! Guan, Ang Cheng. United States-Indonesia
Relations: The 1965 Coup and After. War & Society 21, no. 1
(May 2003: 119-136. Does the library have it? What format or
location? What online access (vendor, e.g., Jstor)?
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Finding Books Library Catalog local & UNCP/FSU Ebooks from
Ebsco and ABC-Clio, etc. WorldCat 9,000 libraries / @1.2 billion
items Google Books ( @ 12 million / @ 7 million full-text) Google
Books Project Gutenberg (@ 33,000 books) Project Gutenberg Some
databases lead to books Cited directly Book reviews
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Randall Online Catalog: Keyword vs. Subject Searching Whats the
difference? What is a useful Subject Heading for Manifest destiny?
Start with a keyword search, then look for subjects in the records
retrieved.
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Keyword/Subject features Keyword Finds words anywhere in
record. Look at records to see subject headings. Search lots of
terms, word variations Subject Headings Controlled vocabulary May
not be natural language but may find more Hierarchical arrangement
helps narrow topic Searches only the subject field
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Suggested Subject Headings Check headings in records you find
by keyword or other searches Use the Library of Congress
Classification Web database. In the catalog, search by any segment
of a heading rotated display, e.g., Foreign relations Same terms
are used in WorldCat
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Searching Personal Names Keyword searches Either order Try name
variations, e.g., initials Author/Subject Last name first, e.g.
Lodge, Henry Cabot Asian names are a challenge, e.g. Mao
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Online Catalog Features Subjects for related items Call numbers
for related items (usually) Library of Congress outline
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html SuDoc arranges by
agency (not as useful for browsing) Cover, summary, reviews
Location maps Expanding search to UNCCLC Add to Bag/Add to My Lists
Text Message
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Finding Books LC Call Nos. Alpha-numeric Single letters before
double First number is a whole number Everything after the decimal
point is a decimal value.
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WorldCat 9,000+ libraries Finds items for ILL requests Rare
items not lent Rare items may be reprinted & available Websites
included often w/ free access!
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Interlibrary Loan Create an account/create a new account
Username UNCW domain name Password UNCW password
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Secondary - Primary For the next session Find a relevant
secondary source (book or article) with a bibliography. Review the
bibliography to find a primary source. Copy the page with the
primary source citation. Highlight citation for primary source.
Complete exercise form; attach copy; bring to class.
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Next Class Primary Sources What they are How to find them
Primary Sources Dairies, journals, other writings of players
Eyewitness/Observer accounts Memoirs, autobiographies (written
later) Official documents Laws, treaties, reports, orders,
transcripts of proceedings, addresses, etc. Images Movies, Novels,
etc.? (Depends on context of research)
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Primary or Secondary? Scholarly article on the U.S. annexation
of the Philippines. Text of the 1898 Joint Resolution to provide
for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S. An encyclopedia of
American foreign relations. Collection of U.S. soldiers letters
from Korea published in a book. New York Times article about
Theodore Roosevelts Nobel Peace Prize. Biography of Madame Chiang
Kai-shek. Anthology of voyage narratives. Chronology of Asian
history and culture.
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Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Standard Subheadings for
Primary Sources Correspondence Diaries Interviews Personal
narratives* Sources See guide for others
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Randall Online Catalog & WorldCat Keyword Search Hawaii and
sources Search specific headings or persons Commodore Perry as
author (Perry, Matthew Calbraith) Look for items not tagged as
primary source Primary documents may be included in secondary
sources Eyewitness authors may not be tagged as sources
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Periodicals and Newspapers New York Times Archive Readers Guide
Retrospective Palmers Index to the Times (London)
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Official Documents HeinOnline Congressional Record Lexis Nexis
Academic - Legal Court Opinions Lexis-Nexis Congressional Hearings
(Not all full text) Foreign Relations of the U.S. (FRUS)
Presidential Papers
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BibliographiesFollow the trail Book-length (Reference
Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types
Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical
Footnotes/Endnotes What did you find?
