with Kerry Webb, Deputy Librarian,

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WISER Humanities Full-text electronic journals

• with Kerry Webb, Deputy Librarian,
• English Faculty Library
• and
• Eric Howard,
• OULS User Education Assistant Coordinator
• Contact details kerry.webb_at_efl.ox.ac.uk
• usered_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk

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Why use journals?

• a valuable research resource
• book publication is a long process
• published in parts which come out several times a
  year
• contain articles on specific topics, including
  the most recent research in your subject area

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Aims of the Session

• To introduce you to the main electronic journal
  resources available to you for the Humanities
• To demonstrate how to navigate through some of
  these
• To answer any questions you may have and give you
  the opportunity to try these resources for
  yourself

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TD Net

• Why use TDNet?
• Lists in one place every electronic journal
  subscribed to by the University (over 40,000
  titles to date)
• Lists valuable information about coverage
• Allows you to choose your preferred format /
  supplier when available
• Provides access to journals even when the library
  is closed
• http//tdnet.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

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TD Net the quick link option
Follow the link to OxLIP and select the
Electronic Journals and E-books option
Type in the name of your journal in the search box
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Journal specific information
Indicates that we have both text and electronic
holdings of this journal
Shows list of online publishers
Shows online coverage
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Browsing for journal titles
Select the first letter of the journal title
Browse the alphabetical list by selecting the
appropriate letter and grouping from the Jump to
page pop up box
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Journal indexes for the Humanities

• What is a journal index?
• A database which contains information about
  individual articles in journals, and often
  indexes book chapters from edited collections as
  well as book reviews in journals
• Indexes are fully searchable by author, title,
  journal title and, more importantly, by subject
  area
• Indexes are valuable research tools when combined
  with TDNet
• Some indexes allow you to export citations to
  bibliographic software
• You can email, print or download your search
  results
• They are not repositories for full text journal
  articles, but can provide links to the articles
  indexed

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Index for English MLA Bibliography

• Provides searchable indexed records from over
  4,000 journals covering literature, linguistics,
  language and folklore
• Coverage from 1963 to the present
• Links directly into the OLIS catalogue
• A guide is available from the English Faculty
  Library website
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/english/library_guides
• Other useful indexes for English
• Web of Knowledge Arts Humanities Index
• Linguistics Abstracts Online

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Index for Theology ATLA Religion

• Includes index citations to journal articles,
  essays in multi-author works, and book reviews
  from three ATLA print indexes Religion Index One
  (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to
  Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
• Focuses on Biblical studies, world religions,
  Church history, and religious perspectives on
  social issues
• Contains article citations from 650 journals,
  essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works,
  and book review citations
• Has direct links to over 70 journals in full text
• Indexes back to 1949, with selected records going
  back to 1818
• Other useful indexes for Theology
• Philosophers Index
• International Medieval Bibliography

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Indexes for Philosophy Philosophers Index

• Provides indexing and abstracts from books and
  journals of philosophy and related fields
• Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social
  philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology,
  and metaphysic logic
• Also includes material on the philosophy of law,
  religion, science, history, education, and
  language
• Coverage from 1940 to the present
• Links directly to TDNet where a link is present
• Other useful indexes for Philosophy
• PsychInfo for Philosophy of Mind
• Web of Knowledge or OCLC for the Philosophy of
  Science

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Indexes for History Historical Abstracts

• Provides searchable indexed records from over
  1,700 journals covering world history from 1450
  to the present
• Index coverage from 1954 to the present
• Links directly to articles on TDNet, if we have a
  subscription
• Also includes a targeted selection of social
  science and humanities journals, of special
  interest to researchers and students of history
• Can search the combined databases Historical
  Abstracts and America History and Life covering
  the United States and Canada
• Other useful indexes for History
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
• International Medieval Bibliography

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To summarise

• TDNet is the fastest way to access electronic
  journal resources if you know the title you are
  looking for
• Journal indexes are valuable research tools for
  searching for journal articles and book chapters
  on specific research topics
• It is important to remember that e-journals might
  not have the same coverage as our print
  collections, and some recent issues will have a
  delayed electronic release date
• You will need an ATHENS password to access some
  of these resources from outside the University
  network. For further details go to
  http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
• To access electronic resources from home, VPN
  software is your best option. For details go to
  http//www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/vpn/oucs-servi
  ce/
• A quick guide to accessing electronic resources
  from outside the Oxford network can be downloaded
  from http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_a
  ccess

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Humanities Subject Librarians

• Kate Alderson-Smith, Theology Librarian
• Charlotte Goodall, Classics Librarian
• Isabel Holowaty, History Librarian
• Jill Hughes, German, Yiddish Librarian
• Vanya Murray, French and Film Studies Librarian
• Johanneke Sytsema, Linguistics Librarian
• Sue Usher, English Librarian
• Hilla Wait, Philosophy Librarian

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Full-text electronic journals

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