Bodleian Social Science Library

Graduate Search Clinic - 4

Resources for researching migration issuesSarah Rhodes, Forced Migration, African and Commonwealth Subject Consultant

Unlocking key information

Identifying and accessing relevant resources using the Bodleian Libraries LibGuides to:

Discover key migration centres, portals, databases and websites

Find key access points for different types of information: Journals: titles, articles and citations Grey literature (eg Working papers, reports, conf. papers) E-books and reference works Theses and dissertations News and analysis Data resources and statistics

Researching migration issues: the challenges

Migration studies is multi-disciplinary and straddles many disciplines such as economics, politics, geography, anthropology, development, human rights etc

There are different types of migration eg forced, economic, irregular, rural/urban etc

Research cuts across academia and policy/practice Output comes in a range of formats

So - where do we start?

LibGuides

http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/refugee-studies

http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/migration-studies

http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

MigrationOxford

MigrationOxford www.migration.ox.ac.uk

Introduces migration research, teaching programmes, people, events and publications undertaken in Oxford by:

Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

International Migration Institute (IMI)

Journal titles: SOLO or e-journals?

http://ejournals.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Journal articles and citations

Access full-text articles via e-Journals or the direct journal links on the LibGuides

Retrieve articles through abstracting and citation databases via OxLIP+

Key journal databases and search engines for forced migration & migration studies include:

Journal citations

Citation searchingSearches bibliographies (the list of articles

which an author has referred to in their work)

Provides a useful way of finding new research based on an older paper

Related recordsLinks to articles which have similar

bibliographies to your key paper

Tables of Contents (TOCs)

TOC services provide access to the most recent tables of contents in journals.

ZETOC gives access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of current journals and conference proceedings from 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. Access via OxLip+

ticTOCs - scholarly journal TOC service for over 14,500 titles from over 730 publishers (www.tictocs.ac.uk)

Working papers and reports

Authors often release working papers and reports to share ideas about a topic or to elicit feedback before submitting to a peer reviewed conference or academic journal.

They are a useful source for both academic and policy research in progress.

Working papers are typically hosted on websites, belonging either to the author or the author's affiliated institution.

Sources for ‘grey literature’

Key sources for migration working papers, conference papers and policy briefs include:

MigrationOxford FMO IDS Eldis CIAO PolicyFILE IOM UNBISnet.

See the LibGuides for other useful links.

E-books and reference works

Key access points for retrieving migration e-books include:

Searching SOLO will also retrieve e-book titles held in Oxford. Do a search and refine the results to ‘online resources’. Click on ‘View Online’ for full-text version.

Please note that there are restrictions on how much content you may download eg NetLibrary has a 60 page limit.

Theses and dissertations in Oxford

Many Oxford University theses (including most Social Science D.Phil. Theses) are held in the stacks and can only be requested to Duke Humfrey’s Library for consultation.

ORA also contains a browsable list of Oxford theses which can be accessed online.

Students following D.Phil., M.Litt. and M.Sc. (by Research) programmes and registered from 1st October 2007, are required to deposit a hardbound and a digital copy of their thesis with the Oxford University Libraries.

Students on other postgraduate programmes, i.e. M.Phil., are invited to submit a copy of their thesis to ORA, but are not required to do so

Theses and dissertations UK Theses – Index to Theses, available via OxLIP+, has records

British and Irish theses records since 1716. A copy of most are kept at the British Library on microfilm.

EThOS, the British Library’s Electronic Theses Online Service. Many theses have now been digitised and are available at http://ethos.bl.uk free of charge. Others can be digitised on request for a one-off fee.

Proquest - Dissertations and Theses, the American equivalent of Index to Theses, accessible via OxLIP+. This now provides full-text PDFs to over a million theses.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations www.theses.org, contains a number of free-to-access international theses

News and analysis News reports and analysis can offer invaluable

currency to your research. Key places to start include: Guardian Global Development which places migration in the

development context; IRIN within the humanitarian news arena; FBIS Daily Report records US political and historical open source

intelligence; Nexis UK accesses over 20,000 news sources including newspapers,

news wires, magazines, and websites;

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is the world’s leading open access service for International Relations.

Data resources and statistics

Reliable data and statistics are often difficult to find particularly for such a cross-disciplinary subject as migration.

Through the LibGuides you can access key sources such as the OECDiLibrary, the mpi Data Hub, UNHCR Statistical Online, and UNdata which offer relevant migration data and statistics.

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