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The Oxford guide to library research / (Record no. 161992)

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LC control number 2005006087
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Item number .M23 2005
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Edition number 22
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Personal name Mann, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1948-
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Oxford guide to library research /
Statement of responsibility, etc Thomas Mann.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 3rd ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 293 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title Preface --
-- What research libraries can offer that the Internet cannot (both resources and search techniques) --
-- Trade-offs of what, who, and where restrictions on free access --
-- Hierarchy of levels of learning --
-- Data, information, opinion, knowledge, understanding --
-- Wisdom separate --
-- Implications of format differences --
-- Nine methods of subject searching --
-- Patterns in inefficient searches --
Miscellaneous information 1.
Title Initial overviews : encyclopedias --
-- Characteristics of encyclopedias --
-- Specialized vs. general encyclopedias --
-- Examples --
-- How to find articles in specialized encyclopedias --
-- Cross-disciplinary searching --
-- How to identify additional specialized encyclopedias --
-- Peculiar strengths of general sets --
Miscellaneous information 2.
Title Subject headings and the library catalog --
-- Problems in determining the right subject headings --
-- Uniform heading --
-- Scope-match specificity and its modifications --
-- Specific entry --
-- Four ways to find the right subject headings --
-- Cross-references --
-- Alphabetically adjacent terms --
-- Subject tracings --
-- Browse displays of subdivisions --
-- Recognition vs. prior specification --
-- Use of three menu listings --
-- Precoordination and postcoordination --
-- Particularly useful subdivisions --
-- Miscellaneous tips on subject headings --
-- Narrowing a topic --
-- Proper names --
-- Finding foreign language books --
-- Pattern headings --
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Miscellaneous information 3.
Title General browsing, focused browsing, and use of classified bookstacks --
-- Alternative methods of shelving book collections --
Miscellaneous information The
Title problems with shelving by accession number, by height, or in remote warehouses --
-- Serendipity and recognition --
-- General browsing vs. focused browsing --
-- Full-text searching and depth of access --
-- Lighthouse libraries example --
-- Searching for a single word --
-- Valery and Dreyfus example --
-- Inadequacy of Google Print as a replacement for classified bookstacks --
Miscellaneous information The
Title complementary relationship of the library catalog and the classified bookstacks --
Miscellaneous information The
Title catalog as the index to the classification scheme --
-- Trade-offs and remedies --
-- Exploiting the internal structure of the cataloging system --
Miscellaneous information The
Title problems that result when the system is ignored --
-- Browsing in other contexts --
-- Importance of full texts of books arranged in subject groupings --
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Miscellaneous information 4.
Title Subject headings and indexes to journal articles --
-- Descriptors --
-- Separate thesauri --
-- Descriptor fields in online records --
-- Eureka databases --
-- Browse search feature --
-- FirstSearch databases and WilsonWeb counterparts --
-- Related subjects search feature --
-- Contrast of Eureka and FirstSearch softwares --
-- EBSCO host research databases --
-- Search features --
-- Dialog and DataStar databases --
-- ProQuest databases --
-- Miscellaneous databases with controlled descriptors --
-- Cross-disciplinary searching --
-- Finding where journals are indexed and which journals are available electronically --
-- Identifying the best journals --
-- Problems with abbreviations of journal titles --
Miscellaneous information The
Title change in cataloging rules for serials --
Miscellaneous information 5.
Title Keyword searches --
-- Problems with controlled searches --
-- Advantages of controlled vocabularies --
-- Problems with keyword searches --
-- Advantages of keywords --
-- Index-Abstract-level keyword databases and printed sources --
-- Full-text databases --
-- Convenience vs. quality of access --
-- ProQuest databases --
-- EBSCO host research databases -
-- InfoTrac databases --
-- JSTOR --
-- Project Muse --
-- LexisNexis --
-- Web sites on the open Internet --
-- Search engines --
-- Subject directories --
-- Invisible web sites --
-- Google Print project --
-- Summary --
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Miscellaneous information 6.
Title Citation searches --
-- Finding where a known source has been footnoted by a subsequent journal article --
-- ISI indexes --
-- Web of Science --
-- Cross-disciplinary coverage --
-- Cycling sources --
-- "Reviews" of journal articles --
-- Additional features of ISI indexes --
-- Citation searching in other databases --
Miscellaneous information 7.
Title Related record searches --
-- Finding articles that have footnotes in common with a starting-point article --
-- Examples --
-- Differences between CD-ROM versions and Web of Science --
Miscellaneous information 8.
Title Higher-level overviews : review articles --
-- "Literature review" or "state of the art" assessments --
-- Differences from book reviews and encyclopedia articles --
-- Web of Science "review" limit capability --
-- Other sources of literature reviews --
Miscellaneous information 9.
Title Published bibliographies --
-- Differences from computer printouts of sources --
-- Doing Boolean combinations without a computer --
-- Two problems in identifying published bibliographies --
-- Bibliographies not shelved with regular books --
-- Subdivision "- Bibliography" can be missed in library catalog --
-- Finding bibliographies via the library catalog --
-- Finding bibliographies in Z class shelving area --
-- Other sources for finding bibliographies --
-- Guides to the literature --
-- Bibliographies not superseded by computer sources --
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Miscellaneous information 10.
Title Boolean combinations and search limitations --
-- Boolean combinations --
-- Component word searching within controlled subject strings --
-- Word truncation --
-- Proximity searches --
-- Limitations of sets --
-- Limiting by time periods --
-- Limiting by geographic area codes --
-- Limiting by document types --
-- Combining keywords and citation searches --
-- Boolean combinations without computers --
-- Precoordinated headings and browse displays --
-- Published subject bibliographies --
-- Focused shelf-browsing --
-- How to identify which databases exist --
Miscellaneous information 11.
Title Locating material in other libraries --
-- Determining library locations of desired items --
-- WorldCat, RLG Union Catalog, National Union Catalog of Pre-1956 Imprints --
-- Other union lists and databases --
-- Web sites for identifying out-of-print books for sale --
-- Determining which libraries have special collections on your subject --
-- Interlibrary loan and document delivery --
Miscellaneous information 12.
Title People sources --
-- Journalists and academics --
-- Inhibiting assumptions --
-- "Find it on your own" --
-- Advantages of people sources --
-- Listservs and discussion groups online --
-- Techniques for students --
-- Sources for identifying experts --
-- Associations and directories --
-- How to talk to reference librarians --
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Miscellaneous information 13.
Title Hidden treasures --
-- Resources not shelved or cataloged with conventional research materials --
-- Microform sets and counterpart Web sites --
-- Web collections --
-- Government documents --
-- Particular importance of Congressional hearings --
-- Archives, manuscripts, and public records --
Miscellaneous information 14.
Title Special subjects and formats --
-- Biography --
-- Book reviews --
-- Business and economics --
-- Copyright status information --
-- Genealogy and local history --
-- Illustrations, pictures, and photographs --
-- Literary criticism --
-- Maps --
-- Newspapers --
-- Out-of-print and secondhand books --
-- Primary sources --
-- Standards and specifications --
-- Statistics --
-- Tabular data --
-- Tests (psychological and educational) --
-- Translations --
Miscellaneous information 15.
Title Reference sources : searching by types of literature --
-- Reference questions vs. research questions --
-- Review of search techniques for research questions --
-- Type of literature searches --
-- Internet sources for fact searches --
-- Coverage of the various types of literature --
-- Understanding the formal properties of retrieval systems --
Miscellaneous information The
Title discipline of library and information science --
-- Sources for identifying types of literature in any subject area --
-- Concluding thoughts --
-- Appendix : Wisdom --
-- Index.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Library research
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Recherche documentaire
Geographic subdivision États-Unis.
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