Beyond Googling: Arts and Humanities Bata Library Trent University

Information Portals, Hubs, and Search Engines BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources http://bubl.ac.uk/link/ - This information service is provided by the Centre for Digital Library Research of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Canadian scholars will find this broad listing to be a useful gateway to reliable Internet resources in a variety of subject areas. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org This resource provides a searchable database of full text open access (free) scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee content. This is the primary mode of access to many of these journals as they are often not included in the library catalogue. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online http://www.h-net.org/ - H-Net is an international interdisciplinary consortium of scholars and teachers that provides edited lists of web sites, published peer reviewed essays, and multimedia materials. With an objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. Humbul Humanities Hub http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ - Humbul is dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloguing online resources in the humanities. Access to the extensive catalogue is available through both a browsable and searchable interface. Humbul is part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/). Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections http://infomine.ucr.edu/ - A virtual library containing over 26 000 librarian created links and over 75 000 robot/crawler created links. Infomine is more than just a list of links as its annotated, and indexed to provide many access points to resources. Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) http://www.sosig.ac.uk/ - Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network, this service seeks to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) http://vos.ucsb.edu/ - VoS aims to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources. Theses Canada Portal http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/ - This is the central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. Search AMICUS, Canada' s national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada' s theses collection, established in 1965. Access and search the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002.

Google Advanced Search Features and Tips Google Images http://images.google.ca/ - Enter a query in the image search box, then click on the "Search" button. On the results page, just click the thumbnail to see a larger version of the image, as well as the web page on which the image is located. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Use caution! This service is still in testing mode and Google has not been clear about criteria surrounding their definition of a scholarly resource. Google Advanced Search http://www.google.ca/advanced_search - With the advanced search features you can be much more precise in your search. Limit by language, file format, date, and domain name. hddh About RSS (Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary) RSS is such a new phenomenon that there is still little agreement about what this acronym means. No matter what its called, RSS allows users to share and receive information through Extensible Markup Language (XML). In the same way that browsers (like Internet Explorer) are used to read HTML, aggregators (or feed readers) can be used to read XML. The real benefit of RSS is that you no longer have to go to the information because the information comes to you. Step 1 Get an aggregator. There are many aggregators that can be downloaded to your computer but for those who dont want to download an application, or who want to test RSS before committing, there are several web-based tools that do the job. Bloglines is a good introductory aggregator. A Bloglines account can be set up at http://www.bloglines.com/. Step 2 Add RSS feeds. Before you can add feeds to your aggregator, you have to find the ones youre interested in. Sometimes, when browsing web-pages youll run across feeds you want to add, otherwise check these RSS directories: Feedster (http://www.feedster.com/), Syndic8 (http://www.syndic8.com/). Also, if youre using Bloglines as your aggregator you can search and add feeds from within your account. Once youve got your aggregator set up and youve subscribed to RSS feeds, all you have to do is wait for the information to come to you. Your aggregator will check each website (usually once an hour) and notify you when the site has been updated. Some resources with RSS feeds: Humbul: http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/rss.html H-net: http://www.h-net.org/about/rss.php Government of Canada newsroom: Go to http://news.gc.ca, enter and select choose your news