Middle East and South Asia at the University of Virginia Library
2010 Library Resources by Philip McEldowney
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*RefWorks:. Access
Evaluation.
Practice time
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*Introduction. My role as Librarian for the Middle East and South Asia Languages and Cultures department: maintain contact with the faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, do training, make purchase requests, develop bibliographies, and preform other related services.
TODAY: --Pointers to resources. Follow along on your own terminal, except one database
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--Encourage to ask questions as go along, or arise, even general questions
--email me, pm9k@virginia.edu
*Location in Alderman - Help and checkout, Reference, Stacks (P, DS), Periodicals and journals, Government Docs and Scholars Lab
*Print reference resources - encyclopedias, journals, monographs
*The Library Catalog - VIRGO. (Bring up home page and VIRGO)
- --This is a gateway to more than just catalog, databases; Hours, Maps, Subject Guides, Finding a book
--VIRGO catalog screen, Searching with terms
--Click on one title to see all its information
See hot-linked Related Subjects, Authors
--Emailing, marking, exporting to RefWorks, Print (Don't do it, right now in class)
The Black line - VIRGO Classic, Course Reserves, Requests for ILL and Purchase, Databases.
- *VIRGO all databases and Middle East databases
--Note about Off grounds access: to make available from home/off-grounds, need to set up proxy account (prompted once a session, easy to do) or UVa Anywhere. See Note at Databases page
- A. Index Islamicas Search, save, print, email
B. Other databases - "Go to Databases."
Academic Search Complete (Web),
ATLA Religion database,
Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971+ (Web),
Digital Dissertations,
Historical Abstracts [all the world but North America since 1450],
JSTOR,
Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe,
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) online,
- WorldCat: First Search.
- WorldCat (verification for ILL).
OneSearch For Middle East, South Asia, summary, etc.
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*From the Library Home page and Databaeses
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