Drama & Theatre Ma

UCC Library Information Literacy - MA Drama & Theatre

1. Library website & catalogue (recap.)

2. Journals and e-journals:

- what they are, what they’re for

- how to source a journal article

3. Resource discovery using electronic databases: full-text and bibliographic, searching techniques (e.g. Boolean)

4. Off-campus access to e-resources

Topics (1)

5. How to use the web more effectively e.g. advanced searching, Google Scholar, alternative search engines, gateways, Web 2.0

6. Evaluating web and other resources for quality

Topics (2)

New Library Web Site

New Features:

Journal Portal

Databases A-Z

Article Finder

Subject Portals

How do I?

Study & Research Help

Subject Portal

Starting point for relevant library & web material

- databases

- journals - websites

See ‘ Drama & Theatre ’ subject portal

Journals

Periodicals, published continuously

Academic journals: Contain new research, cutting-edge

Often ‘peer-reviewed’/‘refereed’ – academic/scholarly

Available in print and/or electronic (30,000+ e-journals in UCC)

Open access V subscription

Popular Magazines: (articles written by journalists)

- Newspapers

- Substantive news e.g. ‘The Economist’, ‘National Geographic’, ‘New Scientist’, ‘Irish Theatre Magazine’

- Journal of opinion e.g. ‘Magill’, ‘Phoenix’

- Magazines e.g. ‘Vogue’, ‘Readers Digest’, ‘Hello’ etc.

Trade Journals (specific industry, enable practitioners share market and product information within an industry) e.g. ‘Macworld’, ‘Restaurant Business’, ‘Chemical Week’. ‘Beverage World’

Other Periodicals

Finding a Journal Article

Example:

Kwei-Armah, K. (2007) “ ‘Know Whence You Came’: Dramatic Art and Black British Identity”. New Theatre Quarterly, 23(3):253-263.

[ To find article: Check Journal Portal on the ‘Search the Library’ page.]

What if the Journal is not in UCC?

Google the article title or the author and you may be lucky.

Inter-library loan

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=44

Visit other libraries:

‘ ALCID’ card or SCONUL card required

check with customer services in Boole Library

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=340

Practice

Find the following article online:

Salata, K. (2008) “Toward the Non-(Re)presentational Actor: From Grotowski to Richards”. TDR: The Drama Review, 52(2):107-125.

Is it also available in hard copy in the Library?

Password: Qfloor1

What are Databases? 1.

Collections of logically related data , designed to meet information needs of one or more users e.g. files on your computer, company database of customers or products, library catalogue

A bibliographic or research database is a database of bibliographic information i.e. usually an electronic index to periodical articles, containing citations, abstracts. Sometimes information about books, conference proceedings, theses etc. also included.

What are Databases? 2 .

Sometimes the full text of the articles is included, or links to the full text.

Some are indexing and abstracting only: i.e. metadata – not necessarily a link to the full text.

Some are general e.g. Web of Science, others are more subject-specific e.g. ABI-Inform, Medline.

Must be used when conducting literature searches .

Other examples: ARTstor for images, Music Online for streaming music

How are Databases Organised?

Consist of records: one record for each article, book etc.

A field is the basic unit of entry in a record

For a journal article fields might include:

- Title, Author, Keywords, Source, Publication Year, Abstract etc.

For each record (e.g. article) added to the database, these fields must be included, and data is entered in that format.

Searches of the databases can be narrowed to one or more fields:

e.g. Author, Title, Author + Keyword, Keyword + Publication Year etc.

Search Skills college OR university poverty AND crime Boolean Operators: AND, OR

Search Skills cats NOT dogs Boolean Operator: NOT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSZps3NH-M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vube-ZcJFk4 Youtube videos:

Search Skills

censorship AND theatre

censorship AND (theatre OR theater OR drama OR play OR stage)

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(theatre OR theater OR drama OR play) AND (“stage design” OR “scenic design” OR “scene design” OR “set design” OR “stage setting” OR “costume design” OR “mis en scene”)

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Theat*

modernis* ________________________________________________________

cubism NOT Picasso

Theat* NOT hospital

“ street theatre” NOT parade

How to Find Relevant Databases

Subject Portal: Drama & Theatre

Databases A-Z: (See ‘Search the Library’)

Drop-down menu ‘Browse databases by Subject area’.

Use ‘Drama & Theatre’ list as a starting point . Depending on your topic, you may also need to search other lists e.g. - Humanities

Full –Text Resources

Start with:

JSTOR

Wilson Omnifile (not all full-text)

Project Muse

LION (Literature Online) (not all full-text)

Academic Search Premier (not all full-text)

Try also:

Swetswise, Cambridge journals, Springerlink, Oxford journals, Sage journals, Taylor & Francis journals, Ingenta

[All on the Databases A-Z ]

Bibliographic Databases/Indexes

(Usually not full-text)

Examples:

- OCLC incl. Worldcat, Articlefirst

- MLA International Bibliography

- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Knowledge)

- British Humanities Index

Also worth a look:

Film Index International, Oxford Music Online (full-text), Sociological Abstracts, ASSIA (Social Sciences Collection), SOCindex , RILM (Music)

Further Resources 1.

Online Reference Resources:

(as an alternative to Wikipedia)

See: Reference Resources under ‘Search the Library’

Images:

ARTstor and others: See Images page

Online Newspapers:

Irish Newspaper Archive , Irish Times Digital Archive

Music: Music Online , Oxford Music Online

(See Music Subject Portal )

Further Resources 2.

E-books:

ACLS Humanities E-book (HEB), EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

Thesis Databases:

Index to Theses (UK/IRL), Proquest Dissertations and Theses (North America), Worldcatdissertations . Also: How do I find a thesis?

Conferences Proceedings:

Conference Proceedings (WOS), Proceedings (OCLC), ZETOC , Papersfirst (OCLC)

Off-Campus Access

Use ‘ My Library Record ’

(like when renewing or requesting books)

Name + student number + six digit password (alpha-numeric)

N.B. You should access e-resources through the Library web pages so that the ‘My Library Record’ screen will appear

Students contact Information desk on Q if they have a problem e.g. forgot their password

Searching the Web more Effectively 1 .

Web: 160 million websites, 8.05 billion pages (approx.)

Anyone can publish

Google: uses ‘ Pagerank ’

( Spider programmes locate sites based on word occurrence, proximity, location on page, links to the page, traffic etc. about 200 ‘ingredients’)

Problem: finding relevant scholarly material

Use: Google advanced search

Use ‘Google Scholar’ and ‘Google Books’

Try other search engines, e.g. Exalead , Ask.com , Yahoo , Bing

Metasearch: e.g. Metacrawler , Clusty , Search.com , Dogpile

Searching the ‘Deep Web’. e.g. Infomine , Complete Planet , Turbo10

Recommended General Gateways (mediated)

BUBL , INTUTE , Europeana

(N.B INTUTE’s Virtual Training Suite and subject booklets)

Some Other Drama & Theatre resources

- Check ‘ Drama & Theatre Subject Portal ’

e.g.

Irish Playography , American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920. , Internet Broadway Database , Lortel Archives: the Internet Off-Broadway Database , Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 , Theatre Central , BritishTheatre.com , British Theatre Guide

Quality Control 1.

Look for authority, currency, relevance, reliability, validity [for more click here ]

Is it ‘scholarly’ enough?

Scholarly resources aimed at those already within the field; disseminates research within that discipline. Scholarly methods used in order to make claims about the world that are valid and trustworthy.

Popular resources aimed at a wider public/mass audience; entertain, inform, promote viewpoints, sell products and services.

Quality Control 2. Checklist

Who is it for? -intended audience: other researchers/scholarly community V general public

Who is it by? -affiliated, qualified expert, academic credentials V journalist/other author/commentator

How is it written? -language of particular field V for more general/mass consumption

Why was it written? -contribute to field V news and entertainment, opinion

What is the acceptance procedure? (n.b. journals) -peer reviewed/refereed?

Where is it indexed?

Quality Control 3. Checklist

Format and structure -scholarly structure includes abstracts and bibliographies/references (may include introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion and conclusions)