HIST R1B: Development: An Imperial History

Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:21:54 -0700

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that show evidence of significant inquiry using the library, its resources, and collections and learning about the research and information-gathering process itself.

Doe, Main Stacks, Moffitt Library Floorplans

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:10:12 -0700

Looking for a location or call number in Doe, Main Stacks or Moffitt? Try the floorplans, or ask for assistance!

Off-campus Access to Library Resources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:51:25 -0700

Before you can access Library resources from off campus make sure you have configured your computer with proxy server settings.

After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID or Library PIN when you click on the link to a licensed resource.

Staying Informed

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:51:57 -0700

The UC Berkeley History Collection News blog will keep you informed of new digital collections, trials of resources, workshops, events related to History collections, and other news of interest to researchers in History. Options for accessing the blog include:

Visiting the blog (I post a few times a week)
Subscribing to the RSS feed for the blog
Following me on Twitter at @ucbhistorylib where I tweet links to the blog posts

Campus Library Map

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:42:45 -0800

Click on the image below to see a larger interactive version of the campus library map.

You can also view/download a PDF map of library locations. For library contact information and building addresses, visit our directory.

Google Books

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:35:16 -0700

Google Books contains millions of scanned books, from libraries and publishers worldwide. You can search the entire text of the books, view previews or "snippets" from books that are still in copyright, and read the full text of out-of-copyright (pre-1923) books. Want to read the entire text of an in-copyright book? Use Google Books' Find in a Library link to locate the book in a UC Berkeley library, or search OskiCat to see if UC Berkeley owns the book.

Why use Google Books?

Library catalogs (like OskiCat) don't search inside books; using a library catalog, you can search only information about the book (title, author, Library of Congress subject headings, etc.). Google Books will let you search inside books, which can be very useful for hard-to-find information. Try it now:

Getting Material from NRLF

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:08 -0800

A large part of the library's collection is stored off campus in an environmentally secure building called the Northern Regional Library Facility [NRLF].

Submit online requests via the REQUEST button in OskiCat to borrow material shelved at NRLF. To receive electronic or paper copies of book chapters or journal articles, submit an online request via the "Request an article from NRLF (photocopy or web delivery)" link that appears in eligible titles in OskiCat. Staff at public service desks of any campus library can assist you with further questions.

Searching Library Catalogs

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:44 -0700

Use OskiCat to locate materials related to your topic, including books, government publications, and audio and video recordings, in the libraries of UC Berkeley. OskiCat will show you the location and availability of the items that we own.

Using OskiCat (but not Melvyl) you can also renew your books online, look up course reserve materials by course number or instructor name, and place holds on items that other library users have already checked out.

Use Melvyl to locate materials related to your topic located at other campuses in the UC system, or worldwide. You can use the Request button to request an item from another library, if we don't own it.

Using Melvyl (but not OskiCat) you can find articles as well as books, easily format a citation for copying into a bibliography, and see images of book covers, when available. Melvyl will also show you the location and availablity of items that we own.

Melvyl has changed as of January 2012, and now includes many more articles. Detailed Melvyl help.

OskiCat Searching Tips

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:08:24 -0700

Search for author's name using the author search: Auster, Paul
Search for topics using a keyword search: labyrinth and borges
Use an asterisk as a wildcard: author* finds authority, authorship, etc.
Limit results by language (Modify search)
You can browse topics using the Subject links. To find secondary literature on a particular author, look for "criticism and interpretation" subject links such as these:
- Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Where's the PDF?

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:49:20 -0700

Many article databases contain information about articles (citations or abstracts), not the entire text of the article. Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use in order to locate and read the full text of the article. The UC-eLinks button appears in nearly all the databases available from the UCB Library website.

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.)

General Article Databases

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:17:25 -0700

Now that you know the types of articles you need, you can choose a database, also known as a periodical index, to find them. Databases are collections of thousands of articles organized by subject. The Libraries have hundreds of databases covering every academic discipline. Some are multi-disciplinary, covering a broad range of subjects and including popular and scholarly sources, and others are subject-specific, and include scholarly and specialized articles. A complete list is available at Find Articles.

The following multi-disciplinary databases are good places to start your research:

18th & 19th Century Journals

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:05:10 -0700

British History

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:40:02 -0700

Primary Sources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:48:17 -0700

Africa Through Western Eyes.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1999.
MICROFILM 78773 guide parts 1-2
MICROFILM 78773 guide Parts 3-5

Original manuscripts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library

China Through Western Eyes.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, [1996].
MICROFILM.77751
Guide on reel 1: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942
Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part I:
Part II:
Part III: The Papers of J.A. Thomas, 1905-1923,
from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University;
Series 1: Woman, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914
Part 2, Women and The Orient
Part 3, Woman and The Orient Guide
Series 4: African Missions
Parts 23-24

Church Missionary Society Archive.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1996.
MICROFILM 77848
Guide: MICROFILM.77848.guide: Section II: Missions to Women
*Part 1: Society for Promoting Female Education (FES) in China, India and the East, 1834-1899.
*Part 2: India's Women and China's Daughters, 1880-1939 and
Looking East at India's Women and China's Daughters, 1940 - 1957.
*Part 3: Homes of the East 1910-1948 (including Torchbearer, 1914)
Daybreak 1889, 1893-94 and 1906-1909, and
The Indian Female Evangelist, 1872-1880.
Series 1: Woman, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914
Part 2, Women and The Orient
Part 3, Woman and The Orient Guide

Creation of Modern Iraq: British India Office Files, 1914-1921.
London: IDC Publishers, 2003.
MICROFILM 30346
Guide MICROFILM.30346.guide

East Meets West: Original Records of Western Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats to 1852.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1998.
MICROFILM 78185
MICROFILM 78185.guide: Part I: Log book of William Adams (1564-1620) and other rare printed materials from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Empire Writes Back: British Library: Part I: Indian Views of Britain, 1810-1915.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 2003.

Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries & Diplomats, 1853-1941.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 2000.
MICROFILM 77770
Guide: MICROFILM 77770.guide: Part I: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part II: Journals and Essays; William Elliot Griffis Collection, Rutgers University Library
Part III: Griffis Correspondence; William Elliot Griffis Collection, Rutgers University Library

Middle East: A Documentary Resource.
Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm, 2003
MICROFILM 78768
MICROFILM 78768 guide

Series one: Arab-Israeli relations, 1917-1970
From the files of the Public Records Office, London

Popular Newspapers During World War I.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1996.
MICROFILM 77922
MICROFILM 77922.guide: The Sunday Express, The Daily Express, The Daily Mirror, News of the World, The People.
Part 1: 1914-1915
Part 2: 1916-1917
Part 3: 1918-1919

Popular Newspapers During World War II.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1992.
MICROFILM.77754
MICROFILM.77754.guide: The Daily Express, The Daily Mirror, The News of the World, The People, and The Sunday Express.
Part I: 1939
Part II: 1940
Part III: 1941
Part IV: 1942-1943

Citation Help

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:47:51 -0700

"Ethics, copyright laws, and courtesy to readers require authors to identify the sources of direct quotations and of any facts or opinions not generally known or easily checked."--

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press), p. 594

Why cite sources?
Whenever you quote or base your ideas on another person's work, you must document the source you used. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit.

Citations allow readers to locate and further explore the sources you consulted, show the depth and scope of your research, and give credit to authors for their ideas. Citations provide evidence for your arguments and add credibility to your work by demonstrating that you have sought out and considered a variety of resources. In written academic work, citing sources is standard practice and shows that you are responding to this person, agreeing with that person, and adding something of your own. Think of documenting your sources as providing a trail for your reader to follow to see the research you performed and discover what led you to your original contribution.

Citation Management Tools

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:29:05 -0800

Citation management tools help you manage your research, collect and cite sources, organize and store your PDFs, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, but all are easier than doing it by hand!

Zotero: A free plug-in for the Firefox browser: keeps copies of what you find on the web, permits tagging, notation, full text searching of your library of resources, works with Word, and has a free web backup service. Zotero is also available as a stand-alone application that syncs with Chrome and Safari, or as a bookmarklet for mobile browsers.
- Zotero help from the UCB Libraries
- Zotero help from zotero.org
RefWorks - web-based and free for UC Berkeley users. It allows you to create your own database by importing references and using them for footnotes and bibliographies, then works with Word to help you format references and a bibliography for your paper. Use theRefWorks New User Form to sign up.
- RefWorks help from the UCB Libraries
- RefWorks help from RefWorks
EndNote: Desktop software for managing your references and formatting bibliographies. You can purchase EndNote from the Cal Student Store.

Tip: After creating a bibliography with a citation management tool, it's always good to double check the formatting; sometimes the software doesn't get it quite right.

Research Advisory Service

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:21:53 -0700

Research Advisory Service for Cal Undergraduates

Book a 30-minute appointment with a librarian who will help refine and focus research inquiries, identify useful online and print sources, and develop search strategies for humanities and social sciences topics (examples of research topics).

This service is for Cal undergraduates only. Graduate students and faculty should contact the library liaison to their department or program for specialized reference consultations.

A few questions to finish

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:37:01 -0700

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

Ask a Librarian 24/7 Chat

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:14:08 -0800

Scheduling a consultation

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:06:00 -0800

Some reference questions can't be easily answered over e-mail and I am happy to talk with you in person or over the phone if your question is more complex or if you'd like a more in-depth consultation. Trying to schedule appointments via email is time-consuming. Here are some alternatives:

1. Call me at 510-768-7059

2. Use bCal to find my calendar (dorner@berkeley.edu) and locate a free slot between 9-5, Mon-Fri. You can propose an appointment in bCal or contact me by email asking me to reserve that slot for you.

3. If you don't use bCal yet and you have a gmail address, you can send that to me and I'll grant you access to my calendar.