Electronic resources :humanities, Engish and

American studies

DEENK2007

Koltay Klárakkoltay@lib.unideb.hu

An overview of what we are going to talk about

1.How to locate printed documents available in Hungary:– Books– Periodicals– Interlibrary loan services

2. Electronic resources:– Journal databases: bibliographic information of journal

articles plus fulltext articles in some cases– Fulltext literary works– Google Scholar and Google Books to search for relevant

literature

3. How to search for citations 4. Debrecen project for archiving electronic resources

1. What is available in Hungary?Books

• Corporate catalogues– MOKKA– ODR and interlibrary loans– Közelkat project http://www.eduport.hu/kozelkat/ – HUNOPAC to access the catalogue of individual

libraries http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/opac.htm

– MOKKA-R – datebase of old books http://www.eruditio.hu/mokka-r/

Foreign periodicals – NPA database within the catalogue of the National Széchényi Library

MOKKA (The Hungarian National Shared Catalogue) http://

www.mokka.hu• Member libraries:

– National Széchényi Library

– University libraries

– The Library of the Academy of Sciences

• Bibliographic and location information

Two copies of a book on Doctorow in Debrecen and in the Library of the Academy of Sciences

ODR (National Document Delivery System) http://odr.lib.unideb.hu/

•a database with location information•to initiate interlibrary loan transactions•open to searches by the general public•loans are administered with the help of the ILL departments of libraries

An easy way to contact the ILL department of the library

•Registered patrons of the university library are invited to forward their ILL requests to the librarians online•The status of the requests can also be checked online

NPA database registers the foreign periodicals in Hungarian libraries

http://www.oszk.hu

NPA search for journal title „American journal of history”

2. Electronic resources2.1.Journal databases: bibliographic information of

journal articles plus fulltext articles in some cases– Ebsco journal and newspaper databases– JSTOR – Web of Science– Elsevier Journals– MLA database– CERL, Handpress books database

2.2.Hand Press Books database2.3.Fulltext repositories of literary works

– Literature online, Gutenberg project, MEK, DIA2.4.Google Scholar and Google Books to search

for relevant literature

How to find the available databases?http://www.lib.unideb.hu/

The library homepage leads us to special opening pages of the databases where they can be accessed without login names and passwords.

Databases accessible within the campus of the university

Databases belonging to the EISZ program – free personal registration is needed

Databases networked locally

Internet databases with unlimited access

How to access databases1. Most databases can be accessed at any

terminals within the university (IP control; no password needed)

2. If you would like to use them at home, please, follow the instructions at:

http://www.lib.unideb.hu/hun/proxy_beall.php (the login name is the barcode of your library

card; the password is the same you would use to check your circulation status in the WEB catalogue)

If you have any problems contact: Ext. 619-30

2.1. EBSCO journals and newspapers

Academic Search Premier

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles

Searches in article titles

Subject searches in Ebsco databases

Click on term to see related subject terms

Click on „Add” to copy the selected phrase into thesearch field

Browsing journal titles

•Bibliographic description of the journal•List of available volume and issues•Possibility of a keyword search within the publication

•Content of a selected issue

•Items added to the folder can be printed, or sent by email

Various citation formats are available for printing and exporting.

EBSCO Newspaper source

• Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 25 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

• Its search interface is similar to that of Academic Search Elite.

Further information on the database

JSTORwww.jstor.org

• 24 disciolines• 260 english language periodicals • A retrospective fulltext database that covers the

whole lifetime of the journals from their very first issue except to the few latest years.

• DEENK subscribes to the following packages:

– Arts and sciences I. – Arts and sciences II. – Ecology and Botany – Language and literature

Keyword searches in the JSTOR database

Result list with short citation of the articles

List of possible further actions

Displayed article with the search terms highlighted

Further information on the database

WEB of ScienceAccess point: EISZ homepage

www.eisz.hu EISZ is a Ministry of Education program to

provide electronic databases for institutions of higher education.

Users are required to register personally before they first use the databases; after registration user names and passwords are sent by e-mail within a few minutes.

WEB of ScienceAn interdisciplinary bibliograpic database and citation serviceThree sections:• Arts & Humanities Citation Index :

1140 fully and 7000 selectively indexed journals in 25 subject categories

• Science Citation Index Expanded & SciSearch : 5800 indexed journals in 160 subject categories.

• Social Sciences Citation Index & Social SciSearch : 1700 fully and 5700 selectively indexed journals in journal 55

subject categories

Timespan: from 1975 to present

First steps:

1. Selection of search option

2. Selection of databases and timespan

WEB of science – formulating a search

WEB of science – search results

The database shows how an article is situated within the network of co-operative scientific effort.

Elsevier journals – fulltext databaseAccess point: EISZ program

• Strongest in life sciences but it has a social sciences and humamities section of 350 periocals.

• Time span: – fulltext between 1995 and present– Bibliographic information

• Articles in press

Elsevier – a search and results

Set of results

Formulation of the search

A part of a detailed result display with further references

MLA + Literature Resource Center

• Bibliographic database

• Indexes Hungarian resources as well

• Subject search of offered as default

MLA – result screens

Journals in Literature online

Approximately 200 fulltext journals in the subject area of criticism and reference

Hand Press Book database: books printed between 1455-1830 in European libraries

CERL = Consortium of European Research Libraries

Hand Press Book database- Bibliographic description of books- Digital resources- Location information

CERL Thesaurus

You need the help of a librarian to use the database as it is password protected.

Hand Press Book

CERL Thesaurus

Can be used without a password

2.2. Literature onlineText of literary works; Poets on screen

Literature online – searches in the text of the literary works.

Project Gutenberg

• free electronic books • has its own catalogue• Audio books collection• Digitized sheet music

collection

Project Gutenberg – searches in the text of the literary works.

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Hungarian literary texts DIA = Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia

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Hungarian literary textsMEK = Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár

MEK – searches in the texts

2.3. Google Book Search

• A huge pool of electronic fulltext of books from publishers, library digitazaton projects, contributing authors

• Fulltext searches based on the text of the books detailed information on the books

• Fulltext views are provided depending on the books copyright status.

Google Scholar

• Searchs diverse sources

• Finds papers, abstracts and citations

• Locates the complete paper through your library or on the web

• Gives information about key papers in any area of research

• Finds web resources [of various quality]

3. Databases for citation searches

• Ebsco Academic search premier

• Jstor using Google Scholar

• Web of science – citated author searches

• Elsevier journals

Citations in EBSCO

Citation searches in JSTOR

Citation searches in the Web of Science database

Cited reference search

Search term: Hankiss E

Articles citing the a author in question

4. DEA = Debrecen Digital archive

DEA

• A framework of a digital archive for various electronic contents created in the university

• Collections for faculties and departments to store their own documents. – They manage their own collections. – They define

• their own way of usage• the access policy to their material

• The access to the material in the archive collections can be provided from the home pages of the departments.

DEAA few ideas what can be stored here:

• Theses

• Scientific papers in personal collections

• Course material, course packets

• Electronic journals published by the department