HIST 7B : Good Housekeeping - Brown

Starting Points

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:02:30 -0700

1. Read an introduction to the campus libraries for undergraduates.

2. Set up your computer for off campus access to library databases.

3. Need a map of the campus libraries? Doe and Moffitt floor plans are here.

4. Each library has its own hours and they may change on holidays and between semesters - click on the calendar for each library to view a month at a time.

5. Information about citing your sources and links to guides for frequently used citation styles here.

Doe, Main Stacks, Moffitt Library Floorplans

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — 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!

Beyond the Web

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:57:22 -0700

"It's all free on the Internet, right? Why should I go through the library's website to find sources for my paper?"

The Web is a great source for free, publicly available information. However, the Library pays for thousands of electronic books, journals, and other information resources that are available only to the campus community. Through the Library website, you can access hundreds of different licensed databases containing journal articles, electronic books, maps, images, government and legal information, current and historical newspapers, digitized primary sources, and more.

You access these resources through the Internet, using a browser like Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer -- but these databases are not part of the free, public Web. Resources like Lexis-Nexis, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, and ARTstor are "invisible" to Google. You will not see results from most library databases in the results of a Google search.

Want to find out more? Get started exploring the Library's electronic resources, or find out how to get access to licensed resources from off-campus.

Printing and Scanning in the Libraries

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:45:48 -0700

All libraries on campus are equipped with "bookscan stations," which allow you to scan documents and save them to a USB drive, or to scan documents and then send them to a printer.

In order to scan documents, you must have the following:

A Cal 1 Card, with money loaded onto it (go here to make a deposit to your Cal 1 Card account). This is not the same as meal plan points! Your Cal 1 Card debit account is a separate fund on your card.
A USB drive (you cannot email a scanned document from a bookscan station; you must save your document to a USB drive)
Scanning and saving to a USB drive is 5 cents a page for students.
Scanning documents and sending them to the printer is 10 cents a page for students. Color printing is 60 cents a page.

In order to send documents to the printer from any of the public computers in the libraries, you must have the following:

A Cal 1 Card, with money loaded onto it (see above)
A document that's on the Web or attached to your email (the public computers in the libraries will not open files from a USB or other drive)
Printing is 10 cents a page for students (black and white). Color printing is 60 cents a page.

Have more questions? There's more info here.

Getting Material from NRLF

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:48:56 -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.

Finding Good Housekeeping magazine

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:49:19 -0800

The most convenient way for you to access back issues of Good Housekeeping magazine is online: Cornell University's Home Economics Archive has scanned copies of Good Housekeeping from 1885-1950.

The Cal libraries have back issues of Good Housekeeping from v. 8 (1889) through v. 81 (1925) in storage at NRLF, but some volumes and issues are missing. See "Getting Material from NRLF" (below) to find out how to get these items delivered to campus.

Berkeley Public Library also has back issues of Good Housekeeping, from 1912-2009. These are located in storage in the Central Library (the main branch, Kittredge and Shattuck). Issues from 2011 to the present are in the 3rd floor Magazines and News room, also in the Central Library.

Good Housekeeping online from 1885-1950
Good Housekeeping at the UC Berkeley Libraries
Good Housekeeping at Berkeley Public Library
How to get a library card at Berkeley Public Library (free)

Searching Good Housekeeping magazine

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:14:23 -0800

In addition to browsing the back issues online or in print, you may want to search Good Housekeeping for specific keywords. You can do this in two different ways:

From the Cornell site for Good Housekeeping, click Search. Change "Search in" to Full Text. Enter your search words in the "Find" box. In the "Limit to" box, enter good housekeeping and change "article author" to Title. This will restrict your search ONLY to articles that were published in Good Housekeeping.

You can also search the Reader's Guide Retrospective - this is an indexing database that covers many popular American magazines between 1890-1982. (You will need to have off-campus access set up in order to use this database from off-campus - see Quick Links.) In order to restrict your search only to Good Housekeeping, enter good housekeeping and choose SO Journal Name from the drop-down menu.

Please note: Reader's Guide indexing for this title is not very complete, and you're only searching words in the article's title and indexing terms - you're not searching the whole text of the articles. You'll probably get more results using the search function on the Cornell site.

Library Workshop: Research 101

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:08:25 -0700

Unsure how to start a paper or research project? Think maybe you could stand to brush up on search strategies?

If this sounds familiar, Library Workshop: Research 101 has you covered. This interactive tutorial explores six stages of the research process. You can view it from start to finish, or focus on specific sections as needed:

1: Begin Your Research

Starting strategies, from choosing a topic to finding the right keywords.

The Research Process

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:05:36 -0800

Choose a topic. It's OK if it's vague, or too broad; you can get more specific later.

Do a brain dump: Note down what you already know about your topic, including:

Names of people, organizations, companies, time period you are interested in, places of interest (countries, regions, cities, etc.)

Fill in the gaps in your knowlege: get background information from encyclopedias (online or in print) or other secondary sources. Wikipedia can be good here.

Select the best search tools to find information on your topic. Look under the Finding Articles tab of this guide for article database suggestions, or click here to see all the article databases available for your subject. Or use a catalog like Oskicat or Melvyl to search for books and other resources.

Use nouns from your brain dump as search terms.

Evaluate what you find. Change search terms to get closer to what you really want.

Refine your topic - Using the information you have gathered, determine if your research topic should be narrower or broader. You may need to search basic resources again using your new, focused topics and keywords.

For more ideas, take a look this short tutorial on beginning your research!

Google Books

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — 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:

OskiCat and Melvyl

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:21:17 -0800

To find books, DVDs, maps, sound recordings, manuscripts, and much more - everything except articles - use a library catalog. At Cal, we have two catalogs: OskiCat and Melvyl.

OskiCat = most UC Berkeley libraries
MELVYL = all UC campus libraries, including all UC Berkeley libraries

What's the difference? More details here.

For each item you find in OskiCat or Melvyl, make sure you know which campus library it's located in, what its call number is, and whether or not it's checked out, library use only, etc.

Call numbers are on the spine of the book; l earn how to read them so you can find what you need on the shelves.

Finding Magazine and Journal Articles

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:19:11 -0800

The Cal libraries have access to thousands of scholarly journals and hundreds of popular magazines, both electronically in and in printed format.

Not sure of the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine? Journals contain articles written by experts (university professors, professional researchers) for other experts in the same field of study. Journal articles are usually very specialized and can be more difficult to read, if you are not already knowledgeable in the subject area. Magazines contain articles written by journalists or freelance writers, intended for the general public. Always check with your instructor to see if magazine articles are acceptable to use as sources for your paper!

Some good general resources for electronic magazine and journal articles are Academic Search Complete and JSTOR.

Academic Search Complete contains information about thousands of articles in magazines AND journals; limit your search to Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Journals to see only scholarly journal articles. Click "Linked Full Text" or "PDF Full Text" to read the whole article. All subject areas are included in Academic Search Complete.

JSTOR is an interdiscplinary (all subject areas) article database that includes only scholarly articles, from thousands of different scholarly journals.

History Article Databases

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:20:39 -0800

These databases index mostly peer-reviewed journals in the field of history. To see the full text of articles, use the UC-eLinks button.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:48:53 -0800

Want to find scanned articles from major U.S. newspapers, going back to the mid-19th century? You can do this through an easy-to-use online database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers. This database includes articles from the Chicago Defender (1905-1975), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1987), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), the New York Times (1851-2007), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and the Washington Post (1877-1994).

Trying to use Historical Newspapers from off-campus? Be sure to set up off-campus access. Use of this resource is restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.

Formatting Citations

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:00:21 -0800

Citing Your Sources - a brief online guide to the main citation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago-Turabian) and a brief discussion on what constitutes plagiarism.
The Chicago Manual of Style (electronic book, UCB-only access)
15th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003. Searchable, online version of the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition).
Many print editions available throughout the UCB Libraries.
Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (electronic book, UCB-only access) Charles Lipson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006.
Many print editions throughout the libraries.
Columbia Guide to Online Style (UCB-only access)
Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. 2nd ed. NY: Columbia Univ. Press. 2006.
Many print editions throughout the UCB libraries.
The 7th edition of A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers (the Turabian style manual) is available in print format at many libraries on campus. Library locations and call numbers

Citation Management Tools

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:24:54 -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 the RefWorks 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.

All Questions Welcomed!

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:00:52 -0700

"There are no dumb questions!"

That's the philosophy of reference librarians, who are here to save you time and trouble. If you get stuck, you can talk to a reference librarian at any campus library.

Ask a Librarian 24/7 Chat

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:13:32 -0800

You can type your question directly into this chat window to chat with a librarian. Your question may be answered by a reference librarian from Berkeley, from another UC campus, or another academic library elsewhere in the US. We share information about our libraries to make sure you get good answers.

If the librarian can't answer you well enough, your question will be referred to a Berkeley librarian for follow-up.

Have fun chatting!

Research Advisory Service

hthams@library.berkeley.edu (Heather Thams) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:36:28 -0800

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.

Schedule, view, edit or cancel your appointment online (CalNetID required)

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.