HIST 101 : South Asia and the British Empire

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.

HathiTrust

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:57:49 -0700

HathiTrust (Hathi is pronounced hah-tee) is a partnership of libraries that works towards the goal of developing a shared digital access, preservation, and storage solution for the materials held in the member libraries. The contents of HathiTrust are similar to that of GoogleBooks, but the collecting focus is on scholarly materials and the resource includes content and features (such as indexing and manipulation of results) not available in Google Books.

Downloading PDFs

To limit to “full view” (public domain materials) in your search, check the “full view only” box.
From the “full view” of any item, click on Download whole book (PDF).
Click login.
Choose the University of California, Berkeley from the drop down list and click login.
Enter your CalNet ID and passphrase.
Click Download whole book (PDF).
PDF will load and you will choose to either open it or save it.

Tips for searching HathiTrust:

Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction"
Wildcards: Use * or ? to search for alternate forms of a word. Use * to stand for several characters, and ? for a single character: e.g., optim* will find optimal, optimize or optimum; wom?n will find woman and women.
Boolean Searching: Use AND and OR between words to combine them with Boolean logic: e.g., (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery will find items about heart surgery or cardiac surgery.

Tips for doing a full-text search:

Phrase Searching: Use quotes to search an exact phrase: e.g., "occult fiction."
Multiple Term Searching: When your search terms are not quoted phrases, avoid common words (such as: 'a', 'and', 'of', 'the', etc.) to speed up your search.
Boolean Searching: Use AND and OR between words to combine them with Boolean logic: e.g., heart OR cardiac will find items containing the word heart or the word cardiac; heart AND cardiac will find items containing both words. Use a minus (-) to remove words from the result e.g., heart -cardiac will find items containing the word heart that do not include the word cardiac.

Creating Collections

On the Collections page, click on login.
Choose the University of California, Berkeley from the drop down list and click on login.
Enter your CalNet ID and passphrase.
Click on Create a New Collection and name your collection (the description is optional).
Indicate whether it is a "Private" or "Public" collection.
Click on Add.

In the future if you want to edit, change the private/public setting, or delete the collection, your collections will always be listed in the "My Collections" tab whenever you are logged in to HathiTrust.

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.

Find Dissertations

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:01:07 -0700

Find Dissertations by searching Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Full Text, which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley can be found in OskiCat, using the feature allowing you to limit to dissertations/theses:

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Melvyl.

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:

Google Scholar

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:38:54 -0700

Google Scholar provides easy access to a lot of full text content paid for by The Library, as well as other scholarly or professional content available freely on the Web. Their Help pages describe more fully what is included in this resource.

With a Google account you can exploit special features in Google Scholar.

Set up a Google Scholar Alert to be automatically notified when new articles are added to Google on topics of interest. Do your search in Google Scholar. Look in the green toolbar for the envelope icon, and click it. New items will be sent to your email account as they are found by Google.

Make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to. Open Scholar. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner, and choose 'scholar preferences'. In the new window, scroll down to 'Library Links', type the word Berkeley. Choose University of California, Berkeley-- UC eLinks, and Open Worldcat Search.

Ever wanted to trace an article’s impact? Google now permits searching within citing articles. Do a Google Scholar search. Click on the "Cited by" link under a citation and select the "Search within articles citing..." checkbox.

British History

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

18th & 19th Century Journals

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:37:25 -0800

Primary Sources: Newspapers

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:31:59 -0700

Searching OskiCat for Primary Sources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:40:16 -0700

Certain words and phrases (part of the Library of Congress Subject Headings classification system) will find primary sources in library catalogs. You can use these in OskiCat or Melvyl:

-correspondence
-sources
-diaries
-personal narratives
-interviews
-speeches
-documents
-archives
-early works to 1800
-newspapers

Examples:

history victorian britain sources
women 19th century personal narratives

Primary Sources

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:22:00 -0800

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

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

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

Chicago Manual of Style

jdorner@library.berkeley.edu (Jennifer Dorner) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:08:21 -0700

The Chicago Manual of Style includes two slightly different documentation systems: (1) notes and bibliography (NB) and (2) author-date. The notes and bibliography style is preferred by many in literature, history, and the arts.

In the NB system, you mark within your paper where you have cited something by adding a number, which refers to a detailed reference either at the bottom of the page (footnote) or at the end of the paper (endnote). These notes indicate the specific place in your source you are referencing.

The bibliography includes complete information for each item, with the items arranged in alphabetical order by author's last name.

Purdue's Writing Lab provides an example of a paper formatted using Chicago NB style.

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.