ENGLISH N1B: Victorian Sensation

Doe Reading Room

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:27:10 -0700

UCB Libraries

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:23:04 -0700

The library website is your gateway to research at UC Berkeley.

Library hours and maps
Types of resources
Over ten million volumes
Several dozen libraries

A few questions to start

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:09:05 -0700

Fill out this quick survey to get started.

A few questions to finish

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:21:40 -0700

Fill out this quick survey to finish up the class. thanks!

This guide has been archived

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:17:10 -0800

This course guide was created during a previous semester, and is no longer being actively maintained. Here is a list of current course guides.

Searching Library Catalogs

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:58:28 -0700

Use OskiCat to locate materials on the shelves of the UC Berkeley libraries and also to:

renew books online
find course reserves and to
place holds on items that are checked out.

Use Melvyl to locate materials at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide, and also to

request materials from another library if we don't own it
find articles from some article databases
easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography

Library catalog history

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:21:34 -0700

Photo of card catalog from OSU Archives on Flickr.

Photo of card catalog index card by dfulmer on Flickr.

Oskicat Tips

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:15:16 -0700

Search for author's name using the author search, e.g., Albenda, Pauline
Search for topics using a keyword search, e.g., china secondary education
Limit results by language (Modify search)
You can browse topics using the Subject links.
Use My Oskicat to view your library account and renew books
Use the Request button to:
- page books in NRLF and
- recall books that are checked out
Be persistent!

Starting points

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:34:40 -0700

There are thousands of books focused on Victorian literature and George Eliot in the libraries. The following Library of Congress Subject Headings should point you to some good lists for browsing broad topics related to this course:

Literary Databases

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:02 -0700

Proxy server

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:38:24 -0800

To use library databases from off campus you have to set up the proxy server: this changes your browser settings.

Different browsers [Firefox, Chrome, Safari...] have different instructions- they are all here.
You can set it up on multiple devices
You log in with your CalNet ID
There's an alternative: the VPN

Where's the PDF?

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:58:29 -0700

Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button: in order to locate and read the full text of the article.

UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.

For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)

You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar. For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 2 min.)

Be Critical

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:37:46 -0700

Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell)

Doing good research requires different skills than searching. Searching online encourages ways of thinking that can create false expectations and poor research results. Here are a few tips:

Slow down.
Look at the advanced search page
Iterative searching
- Learn from the search results
- Too many results? Too few?
- Look at citations from good sources
Try
- Various keywords
- Various subjects
- Multiple databases (information silos!)

Searching for scholarly sources

choose the right database
limit results to "peer-reviewed" sources

Research process

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:10:37 -0700

What's it look like?

Cite your sources

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:38:11 -0700

Citing Your Sources - a brief online guide to the main citation styles and a brief discussion on what constitutes plagiarism.
Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (UCB-only access) Charles Lipson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006.
Many print editions throughout the libraries.

Chat and email reference

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:44:36 -0700

Go to the research help page to have librarians answer your questions online:

24/7 Chat Reference
Email Reference
Phone Reference
Library Liaisons (for in-depth, upper-level research)

A few questions to finish

chennesy@library.berkeley.edu (Cody Hennesy) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:11:00 -0700

Fill out this quick survey to finish up the class. thanks!

ENGLISH N1B: Victorian Sensation

Doe Reading Room

UCB Libraries

A few questions to start

A few questions to finish

This guide has been archived

Searching Library Catalogs

Library catalog history

Oskicat Tips

Starting points

Literary Databases

Proxy server

Where's the PDF?

Other article finding tools

Be Critical

Research process

Cite your sources

Chat and email reference

A few questions to finish