Beyond Journals & Books

Discovering Doctoral Theses, Navigating News resources and Cruising for Conference papers

James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.ukAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline- Newspapers and news sources

- Conference papers- Official Publications- e-books- Theses

Part 1a News Resources(Current News)

Key resources

DemoNexis UK / Infotrac

Part 1b

Historic News

Resources

Key Resources• Times Digital Archive 1785-2006

• British Newspapers 1600-1900

• Eighteenth century journals 1685-1815

•EEBO and ECCO for pamphlets

•19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)

•Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

•Historic Australian newspapers 1803-1954

DemoBritish Newspapers 1600-

1900 / Times Digital Archive

Additional resources

- Times Literary Supplement [1902 - ]

- Times Higher Education Supplement [1995- ]

- The Economist [1843- ]

- JISC Mediahub [ ITN/Reuters archives 1900 - 2007 ]

- News on screen [1910- 1983]

- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Historic News on Microform

• Some national and local, e.g. - Sunderland & Durham County Herald 1839-67

• International, e.g. - Kabul Times 1969-79, - Milliyet (Istanbul) 1970-86, - Pravda 1921-1953, - Jerusalem Post 1950-2007

Hands-on

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Free news resources

• Current news databases–Kidon Media link

• Higher Education–ResearchProfessional–Funding Councils’ web sites

Part 2

Conference Papers

Key Resources• Conference alerts

- Current Awareness service for upcoming and recent conferences

• Web of Science Conference Proceedings - Will locate individual papers

•Proceedings First / Papers First

DemoWoS Conference Proceedings / Proceedings & Papers First

Part 3

Official Publicatio

ns

Key Collections• Bill Bryson Library – Level 1 (West

Wing) - Middle Eastern Documentation Unit (MEDU) - European Documentation Centre (EDC) - British Official Publications Collection

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (17th/18th/19th/20th century)

• official-documents.gov.uk

• Google search: “site:.gov.uk” / site:.org.uk”

DemoHouse of Commons

Parliamentary Papers

Hands-on

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Part 4

e-books

Finding e-books• Durham University

Library catalogue

–Individual titles–Collections•MyiLibrary•NetLibrary

Different providers & formats

• Some allow full-text searching; others index only individual chapters

• Some display book within the interface; others link to a separate pdf

• Some scanned items (with OCR searchable text); others free text

DemoDawsonEra / Netlibrary / MyiLibrary

(via the Library Catalogue)

• Free books on the web–Previews (Google Books)–Open access• OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in

European Networks)• Project Gutenberg

–Out of copyright

Finding e-books

Hands-on

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Part 5

Theses

Theses in the UK

• Durham e-Theses• Index to Theses

- Bibliographic details

• EThOS- Full text available for immediate download- Full text scanned for free- Contact the institutional library to access- Full text available, for a fee

DemoDurham e-theses / eThos

Theses at other institutions

- For theses where you asked to pay to download from EThOS

- For those not available via EThOS - Use Durham Library’s Document Delivery Service

International Theses

• Subscription resources- Proquest Digital Dissertations

• Open access resources- DART (European Portal)- Trove Australian Theses Programme- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations- South African Theses and Dissertations- OAIster

Thesis Submission at Durham

• You will have to submit an electronic copy of your thesis in pdf format.

• E-theses are open access: available to anyone, anywhere in the world

• Think about third-party copyright and use of research data

• Consider what you want to do with your research after you pass e.g. embargo, creative commons licence

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