This Web page was compiled to accompany a Yale University Library Research
workshop for Esther Da Costa Meyer's seminar -- Postmodern Spaces: Deconstruction to Disney.
Sarah Prown
Librarian for Film Studies, Theater Studies and Networked
Information
Research Services & Collections, Sterling Memorial Library
Revised, February 1998
Table of Contents:
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Secondary Sources (indexes, catalogs, and bibliographies)
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Primary Source Material
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People and Places to know about in the Yale Library
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Related Internet Sites
1. Locating Secondary Sources
(indexes, catalogs, and bibliographies)
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Yale University Library
Research Workstation
The Yale University Library Research Workstation is the primary gateway to
all of the Library's electronic resources, as well as information about the
rich print and manuscript collections. Use the Research Workstation to connect
to Orbis (Yale's online catalog), as well as many databases, subject guides
and online library services.
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Orbis/Yale Library
Catalogs
The collections of the Yale University Library are represented in multiple
online catalogs and card catalogs. Together, Orbis, Morris (the Law Library
catalog) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) catalog constitute the
Yale University Library online catalog.
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Use these catalogs to determine what materials (books, journals,
archival collections, etc.) are held by Yale, and where these items are located.
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Materials published prior to 1977 that do not appear in Orbis (OPAC)
can be located using the "union" card catalog in Sterling Memorial Library.
More than half of the Library collection is represented ONLY in the card
catalog.
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There are also numerous Special Library Catalogs that provide unique
access to the Yale Library collections. For example, Government Documents,
Maps, and Musical Scores are NOT represented in Orbis or the SML card catalog.
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The Law Library maintains a separate online catalog called Morris.
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Additional materials purchased cooperatively are available through
Interlibrary Loan from the Center for Research Libraries
(CRL).
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Indexes - General
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia: Insititute for
Scientific Information, 1975- .)
SML, Subject Bibliography (L&B) Z5937 +A795 (LC)
Connect to Arts & Humanities Citation
Index (via Web of Science)
An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of
the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering
about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively covered
are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation
Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible
interest in the arts and humanities are drawn.
Published in three parts:
* Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited
earlier books or articles)
* Source Index (an author index)
* Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles)
The Web of Science database includes the years 1978 to the present, and the
print volumes go back to 1975.
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Expanded Academic Index
Connect to Expanded Academic Index
Indexes articles from over 1500 scholarly journals, magazines and
the New York Times from 1985 to the present on all topics. It is available
through Orbis as ACAD. There is no print equivalent of this index.
- Lexis-Nexis (Dayton, OH: Mead Data)
Connect to Lexis-Nexis Universe(via WWW)
Guide to Lexis-Nexis Universe(via WWW)
Yale Library News Workshops
Lexis-Nexis is a full-text news and information service that
provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal
information and much more.
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Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
Connect to Periodicals Contents
Index (PCI)
Guide to
searching PCI
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals
in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991.
Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals
in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
PCI Web currently indexes over six million articles in 1,595 journals. Every
year, it adds records for more than two million more articles. It will grow
to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.
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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. (Minneapolis : H. W. Wilson
Co., 1905- )
SML Reference (index case) AI1 R43 (LC)
Indexes popular magazines and journals throughout the 20th Century.
For earlier citations, see the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide
to Periodical Literature and Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature.
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Indexes - Art and Architecture
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Art Index (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1929- )
SML Reference Z5937 +A78 (LC)
Art & Architecture Reference Z5937 A78 (LC)
British Art Reference Z5937 A78 (LC)
Connect to
Art Index online (via WilsonWeb) *scroll down to "Indexing Only Databases"
More than 250 key international, English-language arts publications.
Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award
notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. The print
volumes begin in 1929. The online versions include indexing from September
1984 to the present. Art Abstracts includes abstracts of articles from Spring
1994.
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Avery Index (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1973- )
Art &Architecture, Reference Z5945 +C65 1973B (LC)
Art &Architecture, CD-ROM
Connect to Avery Index online
(via CitaDel)
Guide to
Searching the Avery Index (via CitaDel)
Connect to Avery Index online
(via World Wide Web)
Index to architectural periodicals in all languages, covers built
works, theory, interior design, city planning, and landscape design for all
time periods and geographic places. The database--both online and CD-ROM--covers
1978 to the present. The print volumes go back to 1973.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Connect to BHA
Guide to Searching
BHA
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including
books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and journal articles in more than
3,000 periodicals. Produced by the Getty Information Institute, formerly
the Getty Art History Information Program, and the Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique (INIST). BHA incorporates the art indexes RILA
(International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'art
et d'archeologie). The databses covers the years 1973-present and is updated
quarterly.
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Indexes - Film
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Film Literature Index. v.1- 1973- (Albany, NY: Filmdex, 1974-)
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 F55 (LC)
The major index to film criticism from 1974 to the present. Indexes
over 300 international film periodicals. Film title, personal name, and subject
indexes are included. Film Literature Index also includes critical articals
on television and video (section two).For earlier scholarship, consult the
Retrospective Index to Film Periodicals, below.
- Film Index International (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993- )
SML CD-ROM Reference Center
This CD-ROM, produced by the British Film Institute, includes cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles about 90,000 films and 30,000 persons, 1930-present.
- International Index to Film Periodicals (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1972- )
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 +I58 (LC)
SML CD-ROM Reference Center
A subject index to articles, biographies, and reviews found in international periodicals which covers 1972-present. Articles about both film and televsion programs are included in the database. The CD-ROM is published by FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives).
There are several indexes available from the title screen of the CD-ROM. They are:
- Film Index/TV Index
- Individual Holdings of FIAF Member Archives
- Silent Films
- Latin American Films
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Indexes - History
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America: History and Life (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, v. 0- 1964-
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SML, Reference Z1236 +A43 (LC)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
The primary index to the literature of American and Canadian History,
covering over 2,000 journals in 45 languages. Also, includes dissertations
and selected book, film and video reviews. Quarterly with annual cumulations.
The print volumes are issued in four parts:
* Part A. Article abstracts and citations
* Part B. Index to book reviews
* Part C. American History bibliography, books, articles and dissertations
* Part D. Annual Index
Volume 0 covers 1954-1963. The CD-ROM covers 1964 to the present.
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Catalogs
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Eureka
Connect to Eureka (via
telnet)
Connect to Eureka
on the Web
Eureka Search
Guide
EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to the Research Libraries
Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA
to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate
items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog
records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films,
archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries,
as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be
easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use Eureka to locate
materials outside of Yale.
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Library Catalogs:
Local and World Wide
This list includes connections to Yale Library online catalogs,
information about card catalogs, and connections to library catalogs from
around the world.
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Bibliographies
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In Orbis, search: K=[subject] and bibliography
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Notice the Library of Congress Subject Heading
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Search the Subject heading in Orbis and in Eureka
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Other Reference Sources
2. Locating Primary Source Material
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What is Primary Source Material?
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Where to find Primary Source Material of American Pop
Culture
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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. (Minneapolis : H. W. Wilson
Co., 1905- )
SML Reference (index case) AI1 R43 (LC)
Indexes popular magazines and journals throughout the 20th Century.
For earlier citations, see the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide
to Periodical Literature and Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature.
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The New York Times Index. (New York, New York Times Co. v. 1- Jan./Mar.
1913- )
SML Reference (Index Case) AI21 N44 (LC) (1861-1944)
SML Microtext Room AI21 +N44 (LC) (1945-present)
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Eureka
Connect to Eureka (via
telnet)
Connect to Eureka
on the Web
Eureka Search
Guide
EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to the Research Libraries
Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA
to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate
items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog
records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films,
archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries,
as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be
easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use Eureka to locate
materials outside of Yale.
*USE LIMIT Command to locate Videos and Archival collections in
Eureka
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ArchivesUSA
Connect to ArchivesUSA
Guide
to Searching ArchivesUSA
ArchivesUSA integrates three resources: The National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections (NUCMUC), The Directory of Archives and Manuscript
Repositories in the US (DARMUS), and The National Inventory of Documentary
Sources in the United States (NIDS). Researchers can search descriptions
of manuscript collections in the United States, link to information about
the repositories, and locate the finding aids in NIDS, a microfiche collection
in the Microtext Center of SML.
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Archival Finding Aid Project (Yale University Library)
Connect to Archival Finding Aid
Project
The Yale University Library Finding Aid Project provides access to
archival finding aids in a platform-independent electronic format, using
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and HTML. Finding aids are
inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript
repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the
finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style, their common
purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual
organization of collections. Access to finding aids through the Internet
will assist scholars in determining whether collections contain material
relevant to their research.
3. People and Places to know about in the Yale
Library
4. Related Internet sites
Comments to Sarah Prown
(sarah.prown@yale.edu), Librarian
for Film Studies, Theater Studies and Networked Information. URL is
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/instruction/disney.html