The Oxford guide to library research / (Record no. 3323)

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Item number .M23 2015
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Classification number 025.524
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mann, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1948-
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Oxford guide to library research /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Thomas Mann.
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Edition statement Fourth edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Oxford ;
-- New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2015].
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2015.
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Extent xxx, 359 pages ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages [342]-345 and index.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 1. Initial Overview Sources: Specialized Encyclopedias -- 2. Subject Headings and the Library Catalog -- 3. General Browsing, Focused Browsing, and Use of Classified Bookstacks -- 4. Subject Headings and Descriptors in Databases for Journal Articles -- 5. Keyword Searches -- 6. Citation Searches -- 7. Related Record Searches -- 8. Higher Level Overview Sources: Literature Review Articles -- 9. Published Subject Bibliographies -- 10. Truncations, Combinations, and Limitations -- 11. Locating Material in Other Libraries -- 12. People Sources -- 13. Hidden Treasures -- 14. Special Subjects and Formats -- 15. Reference Sources: Types of Literature -- Appendix I: Wisdom and Information Science -- Appendix II: Scholarship vs. Quick Information Seeking -- Index.
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Summary, etc. "The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching--which are not available on the Web--that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms? This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do--and of what not to do. The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet--the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives.""--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The Oxford Guide to Library Research spells out the range of amazing resources available in research libraries that cannot be found on the Internet. These include not only the tens of millions of books, journals and other post-1923 printed sources that cannot be digitized because of copyright restrictions, but a rich array of subscription databases in all subject areas that are not accessible on the open Web, but are freely searchable via research libraries"--
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Library research
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Topical term or geographic name entry element REFERENCE / Research.
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