SLAIS RESEARCH SKILLS
DAY
Starting points for subject searching in LIS:
Starred
items * are available from UCL Library www.ucl.ac.uk/library. Web addresses are not given for these as they
can be accessed from the Library’s website.
General book databases:
Library catalogues:
COPAC (the merged catalogues of 24 UK university
libraries + national libraries) www.copac.ac.uk
The British Library
www.bl.uk
The Library of Congress www.loc.gov
RLG Union catalogue *
Other national library catalogues accessible through
the IFL website http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm
Commercial book databases
Books in print *
General journal databases:
Zetoc * http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk
Web of knowledge *
This incorporates the
following databases which are also available
individually :
Arts and humanities citation index *
Science citation index *
Social sciences citation index *
Current contents connect*
Inside information plus*
Journal citation reports*
JSTOR * www.jstor.ac.uk
Electronic
journal publishers cross-domain searching
Taylor and Francis journals *
Swetswise
journal search (free, but you must register)
LIS journal
databases:
Library and information science
abstracts (LISA) *(online
and hard copy)
Library literature (later Library literature and information science)
* (hard copy)
Current awareness abstracts (Library and
information management) * (online and
hard copy)
Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts (LISTA) free from EBSCO http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=205&marketID=20
dList (A digital repository of LIS
material) http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
H. W. Wilson library databases (free trial
until end May) Go to Art Fulltext on
MetaLib in UCL Library services
Other relevant UCL
databases and free access websites:
Historical and biographical material
Historical abstracts *
Oxford dictionary of national biography
*
American national biography *
Rare and early printed books
EEBO (Early English books online) *
English short title catalogue *
Eighteenth century collections *
Education
ERIC *
Computer
science
INSPEC *
Statistics
Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk
Some
parts of this (Regional trends, Social
trends are also available as databases *)
Census interaction data service (CIDS)
Legislation and official publications
Official documents of the United Nations
*
OECD publications *
United Kingdom Official Publications
online *
BOPCRIS
A free
resource for key 18th, 19th and 20th century
official publications www.bopcris.ac.uk
A good site for official publications is OPSI www.opsi.gov.uk
The Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister www.odpm.gov.uk is also a good site for
government information, particularly for government policy
Website of the US Government printing office (equivalent of the
Stationery
Office) www.access.gpo.gov
The Office for official publications of the European
Union http://publications.eu.int/
Europa http://publications.eu.int/general/oj_en.html
has the text of the Official
Journal
Newspaper
sources
Times digital archive *
Theses and dissertations
Index to theses online *
Dissertation abstracts *
Archives
British archives *
UK
National Register of Archives http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/
Manorial
documents register http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr
ARCHON http://www.archon.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/