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Library InstructionJournalism studies

About the Library of the University

› All Library locations University of Groningen

› The Arts Library will move to the second floor of

› the main University Library Building in December!

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Libraries of the University of Groningen: facilitiesCollection• 3.300.000 books• 5000 printed journal subscriptions• 30.000 online journal subscriptions• audiovisual material

Tools for finding and accessing literature• Open access shelves, catalogues, bibliographies, Libguides, etc.

Study places• Regular study places• Study places, pc included• Wireless internet

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How to find publications?

-(Old) Catalogue : titles of books and journals within University of Groningen-PiCarta: All other libraries in the Netherlands.-PiCarta also gives articles, but you don’t know where they come from.

The new catalogue: SmartCat..› SmartCat is the new catalogue of Groningen UL.› You cannot only find book titles and titles of

journals but articles as well.› SmartCat searches through all electronic

databases that we pay for, but not as ‘deep’ as it is possible in those (bibliographic) databases themselves. It will give you fast first entrances.

› SmartCat will direct you to other locations when a title is not in Groningen. You could open an ILL (inter library loan) account.

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Electronic bibliographies for searching articles :

› Contain references to scientific and scholarly publications

› Are focused on one main field/subject › Complete their descriptions with subject

terms en abstracts for searching› Often offer the possibility to link through

to full text/pdf

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Bibliographies: demonstration

› › You’will find your bibliographies in the › › middle columns › of the Libguides

Instruction page Arts Library (bookmark!)with Libguides and Powerpoints for Journalism and related fields› All Libguides › Libguide Journalism

› and

› Libguide Communication› Libguide Linguistics› Libguide Modern and Contemporary History› Libguide International Relations

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Open access shelves in the Library of Arts › Classifications of the categories on the shelves via these websites :

› Arts Library › Journalism collection› Communication collection › Linguistics collection › These category classifications on the websites are

all clickable!› So you can see at home what’s on the library

shelves.

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RefWorks : the online card-index box

• Stores your references (imported from electronic bibliographies, catalogues, newspapers etc.)

• Attaching documents is possible

• You can cite literature in a Word-document, make• notes etc.

• You can generate a bibliography in any style

• Open a RefWorks-account before you leave!

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Electronic newspaper database: LexisNexis Academic

› full text articles from electronic newspaper archives› Dutch and many international newspapers and other news

sources› Text only, no illustrations ; not 100% complete

Demonstration

› Other historical newspapers

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Oxford English Dictionary Van Dale and many other dictionaries available!

› OED online

› Van Dale Online

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Electronic databases outside University› Login: s-number and password

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In a nutshell ….

› Books/Journals : Catalogue + Open access shelves› Books/Journals/Articles (limited) outside RUG :

Picarta› NEW: SmartCat: all the above + less-detailed

bibliographic search› For detailed subject search : DO USE

Bibliographies!› Newspapers: Lexis Nexis Newspapers› Online Card-index box: RefWorks More information: Journalism Libguide

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