The document outlines a five-step process for finding information resources relevant to the field of art history, emphasizing the importance of using books, journals, and bibliographic databases. It provides guidance on refining search queries, avoiding filter bubbles, and utilizing various online resources effectively, including academic databases and full-text journal archives. Additionally, it suggests exercises for compiling bibliographies and outlines where to find subject-specific resources.

1. Finding Information
Resources 5 steps to find
what you need
for the Field
Work Module
Ned Potter
History of Art
Academic Liaison Librarian

2. STEP 1:
BOOKS

3. STEP 2: BOOK CHAPTERS

4. STEP 3:
JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.
Milner-White, E.
‘The resurrection of a
fourteenth-century
window’, The Burlington
Magazine, 94, 589 (1952),
108-112.

5. STEP 3:
JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.
(If necessary, refine your results to just journals.)

6. STEP 3:
JOURNALS – search for the title of the journal, not the article.
(If necessary, refine your results to just journals.)
A quick demo

7. Got it?

8. Got it?
Reference:
Aberth, J. ‘The sculpted heads and
figures in the Chapter House of York
Minster.’, Journal of the British
Archaeological Association, 142 (1989),
37-45.
What is the first word on the
second page..?

9. STEP 4: Reading around a topic.
Where do you go for background information?

10. STEP 4: Reading around a topic.
Where do you go for background information?

11. …won’t find everything!

12. http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

13. Google
searches here…
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

14. The DEEP web
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

15. • Intranets (internal internet
sites)
• Academic databases
• Unlinked sites which haven’t
told Google they exist, or
have asked to remain
unlisted
• Basically, anything that
needs a password
The DEEP web
http://wallpapers5.com/wallpaper/Tip-of-the-Iceberg/

16. But it will find a LOT. If you’re
getting too many results back, try
adding more words to your search
terms, or repeating the key words.

17. Avoid the filter bubble
http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/06/15/youre-in-a-bubble/
Sign out of Google when you search…

18. Or use
DuckDuckGo.com
for filter-free academic
searching…

19. Wikipedia and Social Media (e.g Facebook,
Twitter etc) have something in common –
they’re both difficult to cite in an academic
essay, but they both link to really good
resources you can legitimately cite…

20. STEP 4: Reading around a topic.
So Google is useful, Wikipedia is useful, but they’re
both flawed – if you need background info you
can cite, and you want really authoritative writing,
where do you go?

21. STEP 4: Reading around a topic.
So Google is useful, Wikipedia is useful, but they’re
both flawed – if you need background info you
can cite, and you want really authoritative writing,
where do you go?
Bye bye:
Hello:
Go to sections five and six of the booklet and follow them
through, searching for whatever you’re interested in

22. STEP 5: FINDING ARTICLES ON A TOPIC.
The most important step?

23. SubjectGuides
will
save your life!

24. Online bibliographic databases
References to articles, books, chapters in
books – not full text
Sometimes links to full text elsewhere
Indexes large number of journals

25. Online bibliographic databases
References to articles, books, chapters in
books – not full text
Sometimes links to full text elsewhere
Indexes large number of journals
Contains reference to articles: title, author, which journal
it’s in. But NOT the full text of the journal. Tells you what
has been published on your topic, but doesn’t contain the
full text. Bib databases include details of lots more
journals than an archive includes; an art database will
index a huge amount. So there are advantages and
disadvantages to each. When doing your research, need to
use both types.

26. Online journal archives
Complete copies of journals online
Searches across full text of journal
Some contain volumes back to 1800s

27. Online journal archives
Complete copies of journals online
Searches across full text of journal
Some contain volumes back to 1800s
Like a giant, electronic bookshelf full of
journals. Contains complete copies of journals,
so you’re searching across full-text of every
article in the journal. JSTOR good for
humanities; contains 168 art journals.

28. An exercise to bring it all together: compiling a bibliography
Find at least 3 books and 3
journal articles/book chapters on
the stained glass and the
Chapter House in York Minster.

29. An exercise to bring it all together: compiling a bibliography
Find at least 3 books and 3
journal articles/book chapters on
the stained glass and the
Chapter House in York Minster.
Search the library catalogue (Section 2 of the booklet)
Use the search tips from Sections 3 and 4 of the booklet
Access the SubjectGuides (Section 5) and search JSTOR,
Project MUSE and the Bibliography of the History of Art
(Section 7 of the booklet)

30. Thank you for listening!
See you in week 5 for the Images workshop.
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