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- Research Workshop
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- Universe of resources reflects bibliographic history of each country.
The better your knowledge of that history, the more effective your use
of the resources.
- Online resources have expanded the choices, but not necessarily repeated
the information of the printed materials.
- Some resources continue to be overlooked, both in paper and electronic
formats.
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- Printed sources and electronic
sources reflect different aspects of publication history.
E-resources often make that history less apparent, combining
resources. For example, the catalogs of the Czech National Library or
the Jagiellonian Library.
- Well developed bibliographic structure is reflected in the types and
varieties of sources.
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- E-resources can be difficult to assess, particularly in relation to
comprehensiveness.
- Some electronic resources are superseding print resources
- For the scholar the issue is simply this: “When I have searched this
source can I assume that I have seen everything?”
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- Archival sources
- Full text online and in microfilm
- Guides to archives, online and paper
- Contact information
- Bibliographical sources
- Traditional print bibliographies
- Guides to or bibliographies of bibliography
- Bibliographic software (create and tailor your own bibliography)
- Subject indexes
- Biographical information
- General reference sources, electronic and print
- Biographical indexes, i.e., guides to biographical sources
- Archival guides
- Specialized biographical sources (biographical encyclopedias, subject encyclopedias, etc)
- Sources for indexes
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- Along with the types of printed sources mentioned earlier there are a
number of sources that are somewhat overlooked.
- Some in this category can save you time, such as Masanov's index of
periodical indexes.
- Some sources have multiple uses.
Mashkova' Obshchie Bibliografii Russkikh Periodicheskikh Izdanii,
1703-1954 includes a bibliography
of statistical works on periodicals.
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- Electronic and printed versions are available. In many cases there are general portals
that list archival resources, such as the Repository of primary sources
or the UNESCO Archive Portal. The next slide is an example of such a
portal.
- Archival guides are also listed in subject guides and historical
bibliographies and some encyclopedic sources.
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- Many countries, like Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Serbia,
Slovenia , and Ukraine have
separate portals of their own archives
- Repositories have a wide range of information from the full text of
archival guides to general descriptions of contents and access
information.
- Archival guides are often the only source of brief biographical
information available.
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- The information in the citation informs the user as to the number of
entries, period of coverage, types of entries.
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- If you are working on an unfamiliar topic, the bibliography of
bibliography can save you a great deal of time in your research. It is
the easiest way to identify a subject guide for your area.
- Currently produced by most countries as serial publication including
Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia.
- In some cases, the national library catalog now serves the function of
this type of source as will be described below.
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- Subject guides commonly include:
- Biographical sources
- Journal literature
- Encyclopedic sources
- Archival sources
- Bibliographies
- Lists of major figures in a field
- Particularly common in Russian bibliographic literature
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- Countless new resources are available on the web that serve as subject
guides. The Russian National
Library’s Guide on Education is an example.
- Another such source is the Spravochnik
Nauchnykh Obshchestv Rossii. The latter is an example of a guide that is
simply an online version of a printed source of the same title by I. I.
Komarova.
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- Subject bibliographies are most easily identified within bibliographies
of bibliography, subject guides, portals or electronic catalogs with
subject access.
- Annotated guides, as opposed to simple lists, continue to be most helpful including
citations to reviews in addition to a summary of the works included.
- Chronologically or linguistically specific catalogs are frequently
available in a digital format. The image on the next screen is an
example of such a resource.
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- Any subject bibliography can serve as a bibliography of bibliographies
as most contain sections listing the bibliographies of the subject
area. The image to the left
shows an entry on “Knigopis” from an early 20th century
bibliography.
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- There are portals to subject bibliographies that can be save you time,
such as the national library websites.
Many of these will access full text databases such as those
listed throught the Polish National Library.
- The Russian National Library has a number of bibliographic resources
available (pictured below) and is an excellent example of such a
resource.
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- Biographical resources exist in a variety of forms from encyclopedias to
biographical dictionaries to obituary listings.
- There are a number of guides to biographical materials that can be very
helpful. K.G.Saur’s Biographic Archive series is very useful as a source
for biographical information.
- The depth of information needed should guide your selection of a
resource.
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- There are a number of guides that index biographical sources. The Index
bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum. (IBN) Pars C. Corpus alphabeticus.
I. Sectio generalis. Osnabruck: Felix Dietrich Verlag,
1976- is a particularly
valuable resource.
- This is also a category that has excellent resources on the web. Again, many are somewhat hidden. For example, the "Predmetnyi
Katalog" of the State Historical Public Library in Moscow provide
bibliographic citations on historical and literary figures.
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- National library catalogs now have access to articles as well as
books. A search can yield
citations to works by and about an author.
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- As noted above, archival resources, electronic and paper are excellent
sources for brief biographical information.
- There are numerous printed sources with unusual features that make them
valuable for biographical information.
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- The number and array of sources available make it difficult to keep up
with all that is available.
- Broad portal resources are invaluable to keep up-to-date on the most
recent material. Four essential
sources:
- The European Library
- Lib-Web-Cats
- The International CIPAC (card-image public access catalors aka scanned
card catalog access) list
- SearchEngineColossus
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