Bodleian Social Science Library
Finding Primary and Secondary
Resources Online
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
Jo Gardner:
Bodleian Social Science Librarian and Subject Consultant for Politics &
International Relations
Craig Finlay:
Reader Services Librarian, Bodleian Social Science Library
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Then click on
“training materials
archive”
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Finding your way around ..
SOLO, OxLIP+, OU E-Journals
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Defining sources
A primary source is a work not
based on or derived from
another source
(e.g. contemporary records,
data & statistics, conference
papers, photographs, working
papers)
A secondary source includes the
use, analysis, interpretation of
primary (and other) sources
LOMBARD, E. 2010. Primary and Secondary Sources.
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36, 3, pp. 250-253.
Consider the relationship between
the researcher and the source
in the context of the research
topic
Definitions of primary and
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Sources
Primary Source
Suffragette posters and pamphlets
Secondary
Source
Book about female emancipation in
Britain
Tertiary Source
Dictionary of feminism
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News (Multi-regional)
– Nexis UK
• BBC Worldwide Monitoring
– Factiva
– World News Connection
– Emerging Markets Information Service
– Financial Times
– Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(1974-1996)
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News (Archives)
• In ProQuest
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Guardian, Observer (1791-2003)
New York Times, (1851-2010)
Wall Street Journal (1984-Current)
Washington Post (1877-1997)
• Separately:
– Daily Mirror 1903– The Economist (1843-2009) – check in ProQuest and
Factiva for current content
– Financial Times archive 1888-2009
– The Times Digital Archive, 1785 to 2007
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News (Regional)
• Africa:
– All Africa
– Check African Studies LibGuide for others
• China:
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People’s Daily, (1946-)
Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) – 1956China Core Newspapers Database
WiseSearch (China)
• India:
– Times of India archive 1838-2004 (ProQuest)
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News (Regional)
• Japan:
– Asahi Shimbun (1879-)
– Nikkei Telecom21 (
– Yomidasu Rekishikan (Yomiuri Shinbun) (1874- )
• Latin America
– Latin American Newspapers archive (30 publications from
across the region, 1805-1922)
• REES:
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Balkan Insight: premium content available to Oxford users
Izvestiia archive (Soviet and post-soviet: 1917-2010)
Pravda archive (1912 to 2009)
Russian Central Newspapers
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Data & Statistics (multi-regional)
ICPSR
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Data archives and data management training
UK Data Service
• Secondary data
• Large-scale government surveys, international macrodata,
business microdata, qualitative studies
• Census data 1971-2011
OECD iLibrary
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
• Books, papers, statistics, analysis, data
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Data & Statistics (regional)
– Indiastat
– China Data Online
– Latin American Public Opinion Project
(LAPOP)
– Historical Statistics of the United States
– Russian State/CIS Statistical Publications
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Archives
20th Century International History Archives at
Oxford University
• (Libguide)
Forced Migration Online
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Aluka
• (Struggles for freedom in Southern Africa)
DDRS
• (Declassified Documents Reference System - US)
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Theses and dissertations – via OxLIP+
– Dissertations and Theses: ProQuest
– EThOS (UK e-theses)
– Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
• Optionally access titles via SOLO
– OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
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Conference proceedings & Working papers
– ZETOC (conference proceedings from the British
Library)
– ProceedingsFirst and PapersFirst
– Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
– REPEC (economics discussion and working papers)
– Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
– SOLO: use the “Congresses” keyword if not sure of
the title
– Google Scholar: beware of the many synonyms for
conference!
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Reports & Analysis
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Oxford Analytica (Regional analysis)
Business Source Complete - Country Reports
ELDIS (Institute of Development Studies)
Human Development Reports (UN)
Human Rights Watch
IMF Publications
OECDiLibrary
United Nations University Press (full-text online)
World Development Reports (World Bank)
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Secondary Sources
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Search Preparation:
Construct a focussed research question
Do improved skills in information literacy
increase the academic achievement of
university students?
Search Preparation:
Keywords
Information Literacy
Academic achievement Research students
Information skills
Academic success
Graduate students
Search skills
Academic assessment
Postgraduate students
Bibliographic instruction
Academic result
Contract research staff
User education
Academic standard
PhD
Educational achievement DPhil
Educational assessment
Educational result
Educational standard
PRS
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Search the database in stages:
• Search 1: information literacy
information literacy OR information skills OR search*
skills OR bibliographic instruction OR (user education
AND librar*)
• Search 2: academic achievement
(academic OR education*) AND (achievement OR
success OR assessment OR result* OR standard*)
• Search 3: university students
(university NEAR student*) OR undergraduate* OR
postgraduate* OR graduate*
• Final search string: #1 AND #2 AND #3
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ProQuest
– ASSIA
– IBSS
– PAIS International
– Sociological Abstracts
– WPSA
In-depth coverage of social sciences research
and issues
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Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)
– Social Science Citation Index
– Most cited journals in the social sciences,
humanities and sciences
– Find citations and do citation analysis
– 1956 onwards
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Area bibliographies
- ABSEES
(American Slavic, Eastern European studies, Eurasian studies)
- EBSEES
(European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
(East, Southeast, and South Asia )
- Index Islamicus
- E-Korean Studei
- Bodleian Allegro Chinese & Japanese
Catalogues
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e-Books
– Various collections purchased by the library
(all titles in SOLO)
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EBSCOhost
e-Book Library
Ebrary
Oxford Scholarship Online
– Google books
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Online resources for finding printed books
- Library catalogues
• SOLO and OLIS
• British Library catalogue
• COPAC (UK)
• WorldCat (global)
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Tertiary Resources – Reference, Dictionaries,
Encyclopaedias, Research methods
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Blackwell Reference Online
Oxford Research Online
SAGE Research Methods Online
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral
Sciences (note US spelling)
– International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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Tertiary Resources (continued)
• Examples of subject-based resources:
– Handbooks in Economics Series
– New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
– Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
• Examples of regional resources:
– Bibliography of Asian Studies
– Japan Knowledge
– Korea Knowledge Portal
• Search on SOLO/OxLIP+ for others
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