Unit-2 Research Methodology Those who are admitted PG under Bharathidasan University

1. UNIT-II

2. What is a Bibliography?
❖ Derived from two Greek
words, “biblion” meaning book
and “graphein” meaning to
write or the writing of books.

3. Compiling A Working Bibliography
1.Keeping Track of Sources.
2.Creating a Computer File.
3.Recording Publication Information.
4.Noting other useful information.
5.Verifying
6.Converting the working Bibliography to
the Works-Cited list.

4. ❑ The history, identification, or description of
writings or publications.
❑ A list of works written by an author or printed
by a publishing house.
❑ It is the name given to a list of books,
manuscripts, and other publications,
systematically described and arranged, which
have some relationship to each other

5. Three Basic Purposes
⮚ To Identify and verify information.
⮚ To locate materials.
⮚ To select materials for the
collection.

6. There are two main types of bibliography
formats:
❑ MLA (Modern Language Association)
❑ APA (American Psychological
Association)

7. Bibliography format for a book
❑ Author
❑ Title
❑ Publisher
❑ Date Of Publication

8. Bibliography format for a Periodical
⮚ Author
⮚ Article Title
⮚ Journal Title
⮚ Volume Number
⮚ Pages
⮚ Date of Publication

9. Types of Bibliography
A. Systematic Enumerative Bibliography
A. Systematic Enumerative
Bibliography
B. Current Selection Aids
C. Bibliography of Bibliographies
B.Current Selection Aids
C. Bibliography of Bibliographies

10. A. Systematic Enumerative Bibliography
Type of bibliography which refers to a list of
books, film or recordings.
1. Universal Bibliography Includes everything,
published, issued or printed in the fields of
communication from the beginning, through
the present to the future.
Conrad Gesner, known as the Father of
Universal Bibliography. Biblioteca Universalis
(1543)

11. 2. National and Trade Bibliographies
a.National Bibliography -published by government
Examples: Canadiana - CANMA General Catalogue of
Printed Books (Published by the British Library)
Copyright Office, record of the works published in
the country Arranged acc. To DDC with author, title,
and subject indexes.
Utlas The most popular online bibligraphy in
Canada

12. b. National Library Catalog
A list of all the works cataloged by a
national library and other member
libraries and includes items not published
in the country of origin.
Example: National Union Catalog (NUC)
of the LC Issued in microfiche in 1983

13. c. Trade Bibliographies
List commercial publications to aid in the
selection and acquisition recently published
materials, specifically trade books.
Information is gathered from the published
materials, specifically trade books.
Examples: Book in Print ( R.R. Bowker of
New York) 1948 to date

14. 3. Subject Bibliography
List materials that relate to a particular topic. It
is intended to research workers and other in
special areas.
Examples: Blazek, Ron and Elizabeth Aversa. The
Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information
Sources.

15. Analytical and textual bibliography
Analytical- concerned with the
physical description of books.
Textual- highlights certain textual
variations between a manuscript and
the printed book.

16. Retrospective Bibliography
Covers materials published
during an earlier time period.
Examples:
Evans, Charles. American
Bibliography. Chicago: Evans.
1903-1934. 14 volumes.

17. webliography
list of electronic documents,
websites, or other resources
available on the World Wide Web,
especially those relating to a
particular subject.
Ex:a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.

18. Arachniography
A list of URLs to websites typically used as a
set of reference links on a particular subject or
bibliography. The term was coined by Andrew
Butrica of NASA and comes from "arachnid,"
which is Greek for spider.