Finding Information for

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Finding Information for Latin American Studies
412 by Denis Lacroix French and Spanish
Librarian
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Session Outline

• The Research question and topical concepts
• Finding Subject Guides and Reference resources
• Finding Books by author, subject, title
• Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching
• Finding online and print Articles in Periodicals
• Databases and ILL
• Print Indexes

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The Research Question
HAPI
MLA
Art Index
Concrete Brazilian Poetry ? Neoconcretism in
Brazilian Art ?
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Finding Subject Guides

• Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home
  page
• Click on Humanities and Social Sciences
• Under Area Studies
• Click on Latin American Studies
• On the right-hand side, click on
• Information Sources on Latin America, and
• this presentation

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Useful Reference Resources

• The global etiquette guide to Mexico and Latin
  America everything you need to know for
  business and travel success - BJ 1838 F673 2002
  Bus Ref
• Brazil - F 2508 Z9 D53 1997 Ruth. Ref.
• Dictionary of Brazilian Literature - PQ 9506
  D554 1988 Ruth. Ref
• Afro-Braziliana a Working Bibliography - F 2659
  N4 Z9P84 1978 Ruth 3rd
• Dicionário do folclore brasileiro - GR 133 B6
  C33 1962 v.1-v.2 Ruth. 4th
• Tropical truth a story of music and revolution
  in Brazil - ML 3487 B7 V4513 2003 Ruth. Reserve
• 10 Brazilian artists. 10 artistes brésiliens - N
  6655 O59 1975 Ruth. 4th
• The modernist movement in Brazil - PQ 9571 N72
  Ruth. 5th
• Poesía concreta brasileña las vanguardias en la
  encrucijada modernista PQ 9581 C64 A58 2003
  Ruth. 5th
• South American cinema a critical filmography,
  1915-1994 - PN 1993.5 S63 S68 1996 Ruth. Ref.
• Literature Resource Center

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Finding Books

• By author
• Perrone, Charles
• By title
• Seven facesBrazilian poetry since modernism
• Request or place a book on hold
• About an author as subject
• Containing or Starting with Niemeyer Oscar
• Lispector Clarice and criticism

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Using Subject Headings

• LA ST 412 Topical Subject Headings
• african influences architecture art
  avant-garde blacks brazilian drama bossa nova
  folk art folk danc folk music folklore
  indian art modernism motion pictures music
  regionalism nationalism economic conditions
  politics and government universalism
  globalization jazz popular culture popular
  music social change race relations race
  identity social justice sustainable
  development environmental responsibility
  popular music concrete poetry brazilian poetry
  literature, experimental theater tropicalia
• Geographical Subject Headings
• Latin America, South America, Brazil

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Advanced Searching

• Finding books about a topic
• Think of variant or similar terms and click
  Advanced Search
• Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or
• Subject Brazil AND
• Subject poetry or art
• Use truncation symbols ?
• Any Field concret or neoconcret
• Any Field wom?n
• Finding Reference titles in advanced search

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Electronic and Print Indexes

• Use electronic databases or print indexes to
  find periodical articles.
• Use databases to find articles published since
  1980 and print indexes for older material.
• Databases are all different
• some contain full-text articles
• some list only citations and abstracts
• others have a mixture of both

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Locating Databases and Finding Articles

• Under Browse by Subject or Subject in the menu,
  click on your research area.
• You will find a list of recommended databases on
  the left and, on the right, QuickStart guides to
  help get you started on your research project.
• E.g. Click on Humanities and Social Sciences
  Area Studies Latin American Studies

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Electronic Databases

• Latin American Resources HAPI, HLAS, Clase.
• General Humanities MLA, Humanities Abstracts,
  Web of Science, IBZ, American Humanities
  Index, PCI full-text, PAIS, Literature Resource
  Center.
• Films Film Indexes Online, Art Index,
  Communication Mass Media Complete
• Newspapers Paper of Record, Factiva,
  Info-Latinoamerica
• Womens Studies Womens Studies International.
• World-wide or Rare Resources (books articles)
  Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), OCLC.
• Theses DAI, Index to Theses. Limitable by
  Book Review

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Other Databases

• Country info. World Almanacs, CountryWatch
• Statistics Latin American Databank, Oxford
  Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD),
  Statistical Universe

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

• Click on Search
• Subject Brazil Add Keyword concrete art
• Save citations to bibliography and send by
  e-mail or print
• Search for periodical or book in Library
  catalogue
• Search for Latin American Music Review, 231
  (Spring-Summer 2002), 60-78.
• Search periodical title in Library Catalogue
• Choose Starting With and Periodical Title
• Periodical is available in print and online.

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MLA International Bibliography

• Search for SU Subject (Brazil) and Default
  Fields concret or neoconcret or visual or
  emergent or semiotic or kinetic or nonsens and
  Default Fields poetry or poem
• Click on Search
• Find article using the Get-It icon, the linked
  full text link and the Library Catalogue
• e.g. (3, 4, 12, 17)
• Add records to your folder and send them by
  e-mail

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Exporting Files to RefWorks
Click on Bibliographic Manager when e-mailing or
saving
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Click on Bibliography
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Select Output Style, File Type, and Reference
Location before Creating Bibliography
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Place imported records into new folder
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RefWorks Bibliography
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Learning RefWorks

• Click on Citation Guides under Find on the
  Librarys main Web page.
• Click on RefWorks
• RefWorks for New Users
• RefWorks Tutorial

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PCI Full-text

• Type in search terms in Keyword or Article Title
  Keyword, e.g. brazil
• Select limiting options e.g. language,
  subjects, scope
• Search
• Click Get It button or
  icon
• or check Library Catalogue for holdings
• choose Periodical Title from menu
• click on the Starting with radio button
• search for the title of the journal
• e.g. record 16 Art in America 743 (1986Mar.)
  

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Inter-Library Loans (ILL)

• If the document that you are looking for is not
  in our Library Catalogue,
• fill out an ILL electronic form
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/in
  dex.cfm
• indicate, if possible, where your document is
  located in the world.
• using OCLC WorldCat locate your document in
  libraries world-wide by clicking on Libraries
  Worldwide.
• Check the status of your ILL after 2 weeks
  http//www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/st
  atus/index.cfm

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Print Indexes

• Index to Latin American Periodical
  LiteratureWhat (1929-1970)Where Rutherford
  North Floor 1 Ref. F 1401 I38 folio
• Public Affairs Information Service Annual
  Cumulated Bulletin 1915-1971 and Cumulative
  Subject Index to the PAIS Annual Bulletins
  1915-1974Where Rutherford N flr1 Indexes H1 Z9
  B932
• MLA International BibliographyWhat (1921
  to 1962)Where Rutherford N flr1 Indexes PB 1 M58

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Print Indexes the Sequel

• Film literature index What Index to motion
  picture periodicals (1973-)Where PN 1993 F45
  v.30 2002 Reference
• The International Film Index What film titles,
  directors filmography and indexes
  (1895-1990)Where PN 1998 I614 1991 Reference
• International Index to Film PeriodicalsWhat
  Index of motion picture periodicalsWhere PN
  1993 A1 I62 1972-1982 Ref Aux.

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Book Review Indexes

• Book Review IndexWhere Rutherford North Floor
  1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 B73 What (Since 1965-)
  Provides author and title indexes, but no
  excerpts of the reviews.
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Humanities Journals, 1802-1974Where Rutherford
  North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C7 1982
• Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in
  Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 Where Ruth. North
  Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035  A1 C72 1979

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Websites

• Latin American Network Information Center
  http//www.lanic.utexas.edu/http//www1.lanic.ute
  xas.edu/la/brazil/
• Latin America Subject Resources
  http//www-personal.si.umich.edu/rlwls/andsouth.
  htmlbraz
• Brazilian Body and Soul Exhibit highlights
  http//www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibit
  ions/brazil/highlights.html

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Reference Services

• This slide show is downloadable
  athttp//www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/latinam
  ericanstudies/index.cfm
• Contact Librarians through Chat reference,
  E-mail reference, telephone reference, or
  in-person at the reference desk.
• Good luck in your searches!