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HIST 490C: Baseball and the World (Fall 2024)
Why So Many Databases?
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HIST 490C: Baseball and the World (Fall 2024)
Introduction
General Library Services & Resources
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Quick Refresher
Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
Goals for Session 10/8/24
Why So Many Databases?
How do we have so many Resources?
Secondary Sources
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Types of Secondary Sources
Ordering Materials From Other Libraries
Reference and Stats Materials
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Online Resources
Boolean (AND OR NOT)
Secondary Sources: Getting Started
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Contextualizing the Collection
Primary Sources
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Database Mechanics
Citation
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Zotero
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Comparing Results
japan AND baseball in Historical abstracts
japan AND baseball in PRIMO
japan AND baseball in googlescholar
Questions
What do you notice about the differing results?
How do the topics differ?
How do the number of results differ?
Why does it matter?
The point: subject databases matter!
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