New: Technology and Culture – now full electronic access

Posted on 16 July 2013 by iholowaty

Oxford users now have full electronic access to Technology and Culture, an important journal for the history of technology.

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press “Technology and Culture publishes insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.

Readers include engineers, anthropologists, sociologists, museum curators, archivists, historians, and others.

In addition to scholarly essays, each issue features 30- 40 book reviews and reviews of new museum exhibitions. To illuminate important debates and draw attention to specific topics, the journal occasionally publishes thematic issues.

Recent special issues have focused on biomedical technology, patents and inventions, ecology, engineering in the twentieth century, and gender and technology.” (from Project Muse website: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech)

Full-text access is as follows:

JSTOR Arts and Sciences 7: From 1959 volume: 1 issue:1 until 2007 volume: 48 issue:4

Project MUSE Miscellaneous: From 1998 volume: 39 issue:3 to current

Table of content of the latest issue (Volume 54, Number 2, April 2013)

Essay
How New Technologies Spread: Lessons from Computing Technologies / James W. Cortada

Articles
Taming the Microworld: DuPont and the Interwar Rise of Fundamental Industrial Research / Augustin Cerveaux

Food for Soil, Food for People: Research on Food Crops, Fertilizers, and the Making of “Modern” Indian Agriculture / Madhumita Saha

Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913-1955 / Jeffrey T. Manuel

Inside the Black Box

The Atlas and the Air Force: Reassessing the Beginnings of America’s First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile / Christopher Gainor

Film Review
Nuclear Waste and Historical Time / Maja Fjaestad

Essay Reviews
All the Tools Fit to Print / Karen Reeds

Science and Technology beyond the Barricades / Theresa Levitt

At Work in the Fields of Their Lords / Veront M. Satchell

Rethinking the Economic History of Early Modern India / Peter A. Coclanis

Book Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies ed. by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld (review by Andre Millard)

War Games: A History of War on Paper by Philipp von Hilgers (review by Daniel Bessner)

Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families and Masculinities by Sandra Cavallo (review by Anita Guerrini)

Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810 by Lynn Sorge-English (review by Christelle Rabier)

The Colonial Machine: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime by James E. McClellan III and François Regourd (review Henry Heller)

Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 by Barbara Hahn (review by Drew A. Swanson)

Die moderne Strasse Planung, Bau und Verkehr vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert ed. by Hans-Liudger Dienel and Hans-Ulrich Schiedt (review by Marcus Popplow)

Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State by Jo Guldi (review by Patrick Carroll)

Railway by George Revill (review by Frederick Gamst)

Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South by Randal L. Hall (review by Robert Gudmestad)

Santa Rita del Cobre: A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico by Christopher J. Huggard and Terrence M. Humble (review by Robert L. Spude)

The Quest for Technical Knowledge: Bengal in the Nineteenth Century by Suvobrata Sarkar (review by Daniel R. Headrick)

Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution by Simine Short (review by Glenn Bugos)

Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain by Angus McLaren (review by Maria Björkman)

Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America by John Cheng (review by J. P. Telotte)

Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture ed. by James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi (review by Jenny Leigh Smith)

California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way ed. by Wendy Kaplan (review by Sarah Lowengard)

Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings: A Life in Construction by Samuel C. Florman (review by Henry Petroski)

The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources by Nadia Bozak (review by Brian R. Jacobson)

Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America by Christopher C. Sellers (review by Kristoffer Whitney)

Hormones for Life: Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930-1970 by Christer Nordlund (review by Dominique A. Tobbello)

Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies by Thomas Banchoff (review by Simon A. Cole)

The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia by James W. Cortada (review by W. Patrick McCray)

User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers by Joseph J. Corn (review by Kathleen Franz)

Added to OU eJournals: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1 (1970) to 32 (2001)

Posted on 25 April 2013 by iholowaty

Back issues of Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ISSN: 0069-6412) are now freely available online for years 1970 (vol 1) to 2001 (vol. 32). Subsequent volumes will be uploaded at a rate of one per year.

This graduate journal, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, publishes articles by new scholars working in any field of the Middle Ages or Renaissance. It is a peer-reviewed annual publication and is archived on the eScholarship Repository, University of California.

Related journal:

Viator, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies’ scholarly journal, publishes articles of distinction in any field of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the mid-seventeenth century.

Courses coming up this week and next week

Posted on 23 April 2013 by iholowaty

original image Simon Bentley

There are lots of courses coming up this term to help historians get the best out of the resources available at Oxford.

Week 1 (this week)

Social Media for Historians: effective online communication & career development (Wed 24 April 14.00-15.30) (wk 1)
This 1.5 hr course will demonstrate the range of social media tools which are increasingly used by individual historians, learned societies, libraries, to communicate and share information and research. The key tools which will be shown are: blogs, Twitter, academia.edu, Flickr, Delicious. They are also increasingly used to maintain an online profile and for networking. The session will show examples of other historians, allow for group discussion and practical play time. > Book now
Course leader: Isabel Holowaty
Venue: IT Room, History Faculty

Week 2 (next week)

During week 2 Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on RefWorks and on finding a range of scholarly materials including journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations and library materials on SOLO.

WISER: Finding stuff – Journal Articles (Monday 29 Apr 9.45-11.15) – an introduction to finding journal articles to support your research and learning. We will focus on searching for articles by subject and keyword and will cover sophisticated bibliographic databases and journal indexes as well as more basic search engines such as the SOLO ‘Journal Articles’ services. The session will include time for you to practice using a scholarly database in your subject area. This session is designed for Oxford postgraduates and researchers but is open to all members of Bodleian Libraries. Please book your place at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZW3

WISER: Finding Stuff – Conferences (Monday 29 Apr 11.15-12.15) – ever had difficulty tracking down a conference paper? This session introduces the secret art of tracking down conference proceedings and papers. In addition we will introduce tools for keeping up to date with up and coming conferences in your research area. This session is designed for Oxford postgraduates and researchers but is open to all members of Bodleian Libraries. Please book your place at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZW5

RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences (Wednesday 1 May 2.00-5.30) introduces the main features of RefWorks including:adding references to RefWorks from a range of databases and online resources, inserting references into Word documents, formatting (and reformatting) references using citation styles and creating bibliographies. The sessions include plenty of opportunities for participants to use RefWorks. This session is designed for all members of Oxford University with an interest in reference management. Please book your place at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TDBL

WISER: Finding stuff – books etc on SOLO (Friday 3 May 9.30-10.30) – introduces SOLO for searching Oxford Libraries and effective ways of using SOLO to find books, journal titles and other library materials in print and online. The workshop will also cover placing “hold requests” for materials in the bookstacks, how to use your SOLO “MyAccount” for book renewals and other administration and using the SOLO e-shelf and alerts. We will also talk about the new Electronic Legal Deposit service. This session is designed for all Oxford Libraries readers. Please book your place online at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZWA

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations (Friday 3 May 10.45 – 12.15) – An introduction to finding theses in Oxford and from Universities around the World. The session will cover SOLO for theses, EThOS and Proquest’s Dissertations and Theses. This session is designed for Oxford postgraduates and researchers but is open to all members of Bodleian Libraries. Please book your place at http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZW4

New Online Guides

LibGuides – Bodleian Libraries have published new guides on “South Asian Studies” (http://ox.libguides.com/southasia) and “Creative Writing for Continuing Education (http://ox.libguides.com/conted-creative-writing)

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities
Why not follow join our mailing list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com.

Not a member of Oxford University?
If you are not a current member of Oxford University but would like to attend a workshop please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Please quote your Bodleian readers card barcode number.

Questions?
Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

OU e-journals unavailable Sunday 17 March 6.30-11am

Posted on 15 March 2013 by iholowaty

OU e-Journals will be undergoing essential maintenance this Sunday (17th March) from 6.30 to 11.00am.

During this time the OxLIP+ “Find e-journals” tab will be unavailable and the links from SOLO to e-journals and e-journal articles will also be unavailable.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Related Links OU e-Journals | OxLIP+ | SOLO | Finding e-Resources guide

New e-access: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (33:1, 2009-)

Posted on 4 March 2013 by iholowaty

Oxford users now have e-access to Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (33:1, 2009-). ISSN 0309-6564, Online ISSN: 1759-7854.

A journal of the Association for Low Countries Studies, Dutch Crossing is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, devoted to all aspects of Low Countries studies: Dutch language and literature, history and art history of the Low Countries, the social sciences and cultural studies, and Dutch as a foreign language.

It also publishes conference papers, research reports, book reviews and occasionally, English translations of Dutch literary works.

Coverage includes both the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as other places where Dutch historically had or continues to have an impact, including parts of the Americas, Southern Africa and South-East Asia.

A special focus concerns relations between the Low Countries and the English-speaking world in all periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Table of Contents of the latest issue (36:3, Nov 2012)

Trifling Things? The Sara Lewes Memorial Lepel and Vork
Authors: Buis, Alena M; Brown, Kevin

Batavia as Patria: Literary Representations of Batavia in W. J. Hofdijk’s Work
Author: Steyaert, Kris

The City and the Revolutionary Dutch Nation, 1780-1800
Author: Callister, Graeme

Commemorating Tollens: Cultural Nationalism, Literary Heritage, and Dutch National Identity
Author: Jensen, Lotte

Early Nineteenth Century Bohemianism in Antwerp: The Unpublished Archives of the St Luybrecht Guild
Author: Ceulemans, Adelheid

Book Reviews

New e-access: Britain and the World: the historical journal of the British Scholar Society (1, 2008-)

Posted on 28 February 2013 by iholowaty

Oxford users now have electronic access to Britain and the World: the historical journal of the British Scholar Society (1, 2008-). ISSN: 2043-8567, E-ISSN: 2043-8575. Bi-annual. Editor-in-chief: Gregory A. Barton.

“Britain and the World focuses on Britain’s global history in the modern era, which is defined as beginning with the changes ushered in by the seventeenth century as these set Britain on a course towards world power status. The focus on the history of the ‘British world’ is unique amongst all journals concerned with British history.

The editors invite research articles, review essays, and book reviews from historians of all ranks on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since the seventeenth century. The journal is sponsored by The British Scholar Society. ”

Like this journal? Then why noy set up an e-alert.

Table of content for the Sept 2012 issue:

The Cultural British World: Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Mark Hampton and James R. Fichter

British Infrastructure and French Empire: Anglo-French Steam Interdependency in Asian Waters, c.1852–1870
James R. Fichter

Iraq in 1939: British Alliance or Nationalist Neutrality toward the Axis?
Juan Cole

British Legal Culture and Colonial Governance: The Attack on Corruption in Hong Kong, 1968–1974
Mark Hampton

Beefeaters, British History and the Empire in Asia and Australasia since 1826
Paul Ward

Making a Difference: Overseas Student Fees in Britain and the Development of a Market in International Education
Nicholas Tarling

A Life in Trouble: A Personal Reflection on Managing Crises
Alan Doss

Book reviews

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire C. A. Bayly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 404 pages, £18.99 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s Pamela Clemit, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxviii+228 pp. £55 (hardback).
David Andress

Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903–16) Marina Soroka. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. xix+312 pp. £65 (hardback).
Jeremy Black

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 382 pp. £10.99 (paperback).
Roey Sweet

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England David Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 242pp. $90 (hardback).
Clive Edwards

Energy and the English Industrial Revolution E. A. Wrigley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv+272 pp. £45 (hardback).
Bernard Attard

The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 P. M. Harman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 393 pp. £45 (hardback).
Michael Roche

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography Adam Sissman. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2010. 648 pp. £25 (hardback).
Reba N. Soffer

The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume II: 1848–1853 Anthony Howe, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 616 pp. £120 (hardback).
Donna Loftus

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution Jane Humphries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii+439 pp. $99 (hardback).
Harry Hendrick

Disraeli and the Eastern Question Miloš Ković. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 364 pp. £63 (hardback).
Jonathan Parry

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 Brendan Simms. London: Penguin, 2007. xxix+802 pp. £30 (hardback).
Jeremy Black

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas Frank McLynn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 486 pp. £25 (hardback).
Roger Morriss

The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law Jenny S. Martinez. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $29 (hardback).
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Popularity stakes

Crowd surfer by Photos by Mavis, on Flick

The most downloaded article is

Did Slavery make Scotia great? by T. M. Devine

Britain and the World 4.1 (2011): 40–64

Training sessions for historians

Posted on 1 February 2013 by iholowaty

During week 4 Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on RefWorks, measuring impact using bibliometrics and finding books and journals:

RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences (Mon 4 Feb 9.15-12.15) (wk 4) – RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references/citations, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all but the section on importing references will focus on Science/Social Science examples.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software

Presenters: Shona McLean and Nia Roberts > Book Now

WISER: Bibliometrics I – Who’s citing you? (Tue 5 Feb 10.00-11.00) (wk 4) – An introduction to citation tracking as a tool for finding out who has cited your work. We will cover citation tracking using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar and will include time for you to use each tool to find citations to your own work.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics, staff involved in the REF or measuring impact.

Venue: Please note – this session will take place at the Radcliffe Science Library

Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Karine Barker > Book Now

WISER: Bibliometrics II – Tools of the trade (Tue 5 Feb 11.15-12.15) (wk 5) – An introduction to tools such as Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, Scopus and Essential Science Indicators for calculating research impact in the Sciences and Social Sciences. We cover: finding journal Impact Factors, calculating your h-index, finding ‘hot’ papers and authors, comparing research output of institutions and countries, and the emerging area of altmetrics.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics, staff involved in the REF or measuring impact.

Please note – this session will take place at the Radcliffe Science Library

Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Karine Barker > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO ( Fri 8 Feb. 14.00-15.00) (wk 4) – An introduction to SOLO for finding books, journal titles and other materials in Oxford libraries. The session will cover effective search techniques, placing hold requests for items in the stacks, reservations and using the SOLO eshelf and saved searches.

Who is this session for? All members of Oxford University and other Bodleian Libraries readers

Presenters: Joanne Edwards and Angela Carritt > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Journal Articles (Fri 8 Feb 15.00-16.15) (wk 4) – This session will focus on finding journal articles for your research using a wide range of databases as well as developing effective search strategies. There will be plenty of time for participants to try out their own searches using databases for their subject.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.

Presenters: Kerry Webb, Isabel McMann and Angela Carritt > Book Now

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow join our mailing list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com.

Not a member of Oxford University? – If you are not a current member of Oxford University but would like to attend a workshop please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Please quote your Bodleian readers card barcode number.

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Also coming up this term

Mapping for Historians (Wed 20 Feb 14.00-15.30) (wk 6)
This session will introduce you to the Bodleian’s 1.3 million maps and atlases — how to find material in the collection and use it in your research. It will also touch on the use of GIS to make your own maps to include in your written work, covered in more detail in Week 7.
Target audience: All interested graduate students
Convenor: Michael Athanson, Deputy Map Librarian, Bodleian Library
Venue: Duke Humphrey’s Reading Room, Old Bodleian Library > Book now

ArcGIS Workshop for Historians (Wed 27 Feb 14.00-17.00) (wk 7)
This practical session provides an introduction to the use of GIS in historical research and analysis. It will focus on making historical maps of study areas, using symbology (colour coding etc.) to encode historical statistics and other information and extracting geographical data from scans of historic maps.
Convenor: Michael Athanson, Deputy Map Librarian, Bodleian Library
Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library > Book now

New e-access: The London Journal (1,1975-)

Posted on 28 January 2013 by iholowaty

We are pleased to announce that Oxford users now have electronic access to the entire The London Journal, 1, 1975- current issue. Access is via OU eJournals and will be listed on SOLO soon. The hard copies are in the Lower Gladstone Link Per HIST.

The London Journal (ISSN 0305-8034) is multidisciplinary and covers all aspects of metropolitan society in the past and present. It will be relevant to all those interested in London and the Londoners. It includes book reviews and is published 3 times a year.

Editor: Nicola Avery London Metropolitan Archives, UK
Chair of the Editorial Board: Matthew Davies, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

Keeping up to date with The London Journal

Users can set up alerts to receive an new issue email alert or use RSS feeds.

Sample table of content from the Nov 2012 issue

Ellis, Markman – River and Labour in Samuel Scott’s Thames Views in the Mid-Eighteenth Century – pp. 152-173

Barrell, John – Edward Pugh in Modern London – pp. 174-195

Mee, Jon – ‘Mutual Intercourse’ and `Licentious Discussion’ in The Microcosm of London – pp. 196-214

O’Byrne, Alison – George Scharf’s London Scenes – pp. 215-233

Grant, Elizabeth – John Tallis’s London Street Views – pp. 234-251

Reviews pp. 252-259

Oxford alumni to have remote access to JSTOR (one-year trial)

Posted on 23 January 2013 by iholowaty

Some great news for Oxford Alumni!

From the Oxford Alumni pages:

“In partnership with the Bodleian Library we are participating in a one-year trial project to bring remote access to JSTOR online journals to alumni. Alumni will have access to the same set of JSTOR Archive Collections as students and faculty at Oxford (find out what Oxford subscribes to here).

JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Access to JSTOR is available to all matriculated University of Oxford alumni. If you would like more information about alumni and associate status please see our eligibility criteria.

Remote access to JSTOR

To access the service you will need to be logged in to Oxford Alumni Online.

Don’t have an account? Register now.*

*Please note that you will need to wait for your account to be verified before you can log back in and access JSTOR. This should take no more than three days and you will receive email notification.”

Alumni working within any of the Bodleian Libraries will of course have online access to the full range of electronic journals and databases.

Click for more information.

History journals

There are over 300 history journals in JSTOR and include:

The Agricultural History Review 1953-2007
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 1969-2004
The American Historical Review 1895-2007
Analecta Hibernica 1930-2009
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 1946-2007
Archivium Hibernicum 1912-2009
Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 1941-2007
The Business History Review 1954-2007
The Catholic Historical Review 1915-200
Central European History 1968-2009
Church History 1932-2007
Comparative Studies in Society and History 1958-2007
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 1941-2010
The Economic History Review 1927-2007
Eighteenth-Century Studies 1967-200
The English Historical Review 1886-2001
French Historical Studies 1958-1999
The Hispanic American Historical Review 1918-1999
The Historical Journal 1958-2007
Historische Zeitschrift 1859-2002
History and Theory 1960-2008
History Workshop Journal 1995-2005
Irish Historical Studies 1938-2007
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 1936-2008
Jewish Historical Studies 1982-2011
Journal of American Studies 1967-2007
Journal of British Studies 1961-2012
Journal of Contemporary History 1966-2009
The Journal of Economic History 1941-2007
The Journal of Modern History 1929-2012
Journal of the Early Republic 1981-200
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1890-2007
The New England Quarterly 1928-2009
The Oral History Review 1973-2007
Past & Present 1952-2001
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1838-2009
Renaissance Quarterly 1967-2012
Revue Historique 1876-2005
The Scottish Historical Review 1903-2007
Speculum 1926-2007
Traditio 1943-2009
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1872-2007
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 1787-1906
Victorian Studies 1957-2012
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 1953-2002
VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1972-2008

Information skills sessions for students and academics

Posted on 22 January 2013 by iholowaty

This term there are a variety of workshops open to undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and academics at Oxford University. Here are the WISER information skills courses coming up next week and some courses specifically for historians that are coming up over the term. Spaces on courses are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Courses specifically for Historians

RefWorks for Historians (Fri 1 Feb 11.00-13.00) (wk 3)
RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles.
Who is this session for? Any students, researchers or academics interested in using the RefWorks
Presenter: Alice Nelson
Venue: IT Room, History Faculty, Old Boys’ School, George Street > Book now

WISER Workshops in Week 3

Further details about upcoming sessions and online booking are available at ox.libguides.com/workshops or by following the links below.

Some individual workshops are designed for particular groups (for example researchers or postgraduates). Check the individual class descriptions for more details.

WISER: Finding Stuff – Journal Articles (Mon 28 Jan 9.30-10.45) (wk 3)
This session will focus on finding journal articles for your research using a wide range of databases as well as developing effective search strategies. There will be plenty of time for participants to try out their own searches using databases for their subject.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.
Repeated: Fri 8 Feb 15.00-16.15 (week 4)
Presenters: Kerry Webb, Isabel McMann and Angela Carritt > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Conferences (Mon 28 Jan 10.45-11.45) (wk 3)
Conference papers can be difficult to find but they are valuable because they describe cutting-edge research. This session will enable you to find out about forthcoming conferences and also to locate the published papers of proceedings which have taken place.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.
Presenters: James Shaw and Sue Bird > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Books etc on SOLO (Wed 30 Jan 14.00-15.00) (wk 3)
An introduction to SOLO for finding books, journal titles and other materials in Oxford libraries. The session will cover effective search techniques, placing hold requests for items in the stacks, reservations and using the SOLO eshelf and saved searches.
Who is this session for? All members of Oxford University and other Bodleian Libraries readers
Repeated Fri 8 Feb. 14.00-15.00 (wk 4)
Presenters: Joanne Edwards and Angela Carritt > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations (Wed 30 Jan 15.15 – 16.30) (wk 3)
Guidance on finding theses, both those submitted to and held in Oxford, and those from other institutions in the UK and abroad. It will demonstrate how to exploit some of the main sources of information : SOLO, Index to Theses (UK and Ireland); and Dissertations and Theses (International), EThOS and ORA.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.
Presenter: Craig Finlay and Angela Carritt > Book Now

WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA (Fri 1 Feb 15.45 – 16.45) (wk 3)
Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need to take into account when preparing and writing their thesis so that they do not encounter problems when they deposit. DPhils are encouraged to attend this session early so that they can make sensible decisions regarding rights from the start of their research.
Who is this session for? Resarch Postgraduates who are required to write a thesis
Presenter: Catherine Goudie > Book Now

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