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WISER Humanities: E- Resources for Research in Theology

WISER Humanities: E- Resources for Research in Theology. Friday, 27 February Hilla Wait & Kate Alderson Smith. Structure of today’s session. Effective searching Overview of e-resources in theology Resource discovery tools Full-text resources Theses, current research and awareness

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WISER Humanities: E- Resources for Research in Theology

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  1. WISER Humanities: E-Resources for Research in Theology Friday, 27 February Hilla Wait & Kate Alderson Smith

  2. Structure of today’s session • Effective searching • Overview of e-resources in theology • Resource discovery tools • Full-text resources • Theses, current research and awareness • Time to explore with assistance available

  3. Where to start? • Decide what you are searching for before you start • Know your resources • Identify some keywords • Work out search strategies • Advanced • Boolean • Proximity • Symbols for wildcards and truncation • Make sure you have a system for storing the references you identify –e-mail, or Refworks • Construct the search to fit the query and the resource

  4. Tackling an unfamiliar database • Check the coverage of a database to see if it includes what you want • You can use cross-searching for some collections of databases • Use the help screens provided • check the conventions (e.g. do they use &, +, or “and”)

  5. Critical appraisal • Evaluating search results and sources • Academic credentials • Peer review • Use of source material • Accuracy of references • Currency • Bias • Relevancy • Citation count

  6. Finding aids in Oxford • SOLO • New resource discovery interface for p- and e-texts • First but not last stop • OLIS • Catalogue of books / journals • Oxford e-journals • e-journal subscriptions • OxLIP+ • Gateway to subscription databases • Subject guidance

  7. SOLO

  8. OxLIP+ Theology menu

  9. Finding books • Local • SOLO – e & p-texts • OLIS – for holdings and functions • Manual catalogues – Pusey House • Local catalogues – Heritage (Wycliffe) • Manuscript catalogue in Duke Humfrey’s • Global – access via OxLIP+ • WorldCat (45+ million items) • COPAC (Catalogue of UK Research libraries) • European Library • BL Catalogue

  10. Electronic Resources in Theology • Subject-specific bibliographical databases: • Few irrelevant results • Focus for the search • Full-text databases: • Primary sources • Secondary works • Reference works

  11. Bibliographic Databases : ATLA • Core e-title for Theology • Biblical Studies, world religions, Church history religious perspectives on social issues • 400,000 article citations from 1,400 journals • 200,000 chapter citations from edited works • 375,000 book reviews • ATLAS Links to 70 full-text journals

  12. Bibliographic Databases : ATLA • Navigating • Search options • Basic search • Search Limits • Advanced search • Index search • Exporting records

  13. Other Bibliographic Databases • New and Old Testament Abstracts • Philosopher's Index • FRANCIS • Multidisciplinary, strong in Religion and good for European articles • Index Islamicus • All aspects of Islam • International Medieval Bibliography • OCLC Article First • General

  14. Finding Biblical resources • BibleWorks • best resource for exegesis • Anchor Bible Dictionary • Oxford Bible Companion • BibleGateway • NT Gateway

  15. Finding full-text primary sources • Ancient/Medieval • Dead Sea Scrolls • Patrologia Latina • Acta Sanctorum • Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts • Corpus Christianorum series • Augustine: Opera Omnia • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae • Medieval sources On-Line • Perseus • Past Masters • Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham

  16. Finding full-text primary sources • Early Modern/Modern • Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts • Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation • Early English Books Online • Eighteenth Century Collections Online • Past Masters • Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, Newman

  17. Past Masters • Expand package → author→title • Using the Table of Contents • Changing the display • Navigating the text • Searching by simple search • Power search • Cross database searching • Results Map • Proximity search

  18. E-Books - Secondary texts for theology • Oxford Scholarship On-Line • Taylor & Francis E-books • Cambridge Companions On-Line • Cambridge Histories on-Line • Blackwell Reference On-Line

  19. Oxford Scholarship On-Line • Complete list • Search for a title or author • Abstract and TOC • Navigating • Searching by keyword • Quick Search • Sorting your search results • Advanced Search

  20. Taylor & Francis/Routledge • Getting started • Navigating • Copying and printing • Marking up text • Searching • Using the Research Notebook

  21. Reference Sources • Oxford Reference Online • Standard Abbreviations for Theological Journals & Commentaries • Encyclopedia of Religion • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy • International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages • Anchor Bible Dictionary • Oxford Bible Commentary • Encyclopedia of Isalm • Encyclopedia of the Qu’ran

  22. Finding theses • Index to Theses – UK and Ireland • Dissertations and Theses International • WorldCat (via OCLC First Search) • Theological Research Exchange Network • www.tren.com/e-docs/index.cfm • Phddata www.phddata.org

  23. Locating current research • Mailing lists • http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk • Conference proceedings • OCLC Proceedings • Theses and Dissertations • Current awareness services • Zetoc, My TD-Net • Intute: Arts and Humanities gateway • Internet Detective http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ • Google scholar • ORA (Oxford Research Archive) • Religion Online

  24. And Finally • Questions • Practical session • Evaluation forms

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