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Spring
2006 - Nancy Mithlo
reference contact: Sika Berger
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DB
Comparison |
Background
Sources
| Articles
| Books|
Citation
Style|
Blackboard
COMPARING
DATABASES
See
these exercises,
presenting comparisons |
Use
Smith's resources to
compare on your own |
| From
UCLA:
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/googlescholar
(scroll down to find...)
A short movie to help as you decide which search engines to use
for research:
* How scholarly search engines differ (3.15 min.)
Google
Scholar or a subject-specific database?
Questions and answers are provided, to compare on issues such as
number of results, relevance, sorting results, subject terms and
more.
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Sociological
Abstracts
Features the same search interface demonstrated in the movie, with
coverage in anthropology.
Google
Scholar
Search from any campus location to link to full text & other
SC resources.
Ethnic
NewsWatch
A subscription database at Smith, for articles and news on Native
Americans and other groups.
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BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
Starting
out
| Reference
Source or Website |
Call Number or Link |
Native
Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures
Indexed by nations & geographic regions |
http://www.nativeweb.org/ |
Handbook of North American Indians (14 volumes)
In
progress; published to date: v.4: History of Indian-White Relations;
v.5: Arctic; v.6: Subarctic; v.7: Northwest Coast; v.8: California;
v.9 & 10: Southwest; v.11: Great Basin; v.12: Plateau; v. 13,
pt. 1 & 2: Plains; v. 14. Southeast; v.15: Northeast; v.17: Languages.
|
ref
E 77 .H25 |
| Gale
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (4 volumes) |
ref
E 77 .G15 1998 |
| Native
American Issues: A Reference Handbook |
ref
E 98 .T77 T56 2005 |
| Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology (4 volumes) |
ref
GN 307 .E52 1996 |
| Social
and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts |
ref
GN 316 .R37 2000 |
Additional
Sources
|
Look for specific reference sources & other guides |
Link
or Call Number |
| Characteristics
of American Indians & Alaska Natives by Tribe and Language
(Census 2000 report in 2 files) |
http://www.census.gov/
(1)
http://www.census.gov/
(2) |
| Indigenous
Peoples and Environmental Issues |
ref
GF 50 .J65 2003 |
| Native
American Education: A Reference Handbook |
ref
E 97 .H138 2002 |
| Native
American Women: A Biographical Dictionary |
ref
E 98 .W8 B38 2001 |
| HST268:
Native American Indians, 1500-Present |
Library
Research Guide |
A
Pathfinder for the Certificate Program in Native American Indian Studies
at UMass Amherst, 2002.
An extensive list of Five College bibliographies, journals, and other
resources, compiled by Craig C. Richter |
http://www.library.umass.edu |
JOURNAL
ARTICLES AND NEWS
Library
Databases
Look
for SC Links:  ,
or use Smith's Journal
Locator to access journals by title plus year. Connect to the Five
College Library to find call numbers for bound periodicals on the second
floor in Neilson Library.
Internet
Sites
Note
that some sites provide full text, some headlines or extracts, some subscription
info.
Index
of Native American Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
(WWW Virtual Library - American Indians)
Links to newspapers, journals, and magazines. Includes Index
of Native American Media Resources on the Internet, and Index
of Native American Nations On the Internet
Native
American Media
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/media.html
Compiled by Lisa Mitten at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, links to many journals/newspapers.
Includes links to Indian Country Today and The Cherokee Observer.
Wotanging
Ikche: Native American News
http://www.nanews.org/
Archives of electronic news since 1993: postings from Triballaw, Native-L,
and other listservs.
BOOKS:
The Five College
Library System
Use
keyword searching to combine terms, or search with Subject Headings such
as these:
| Indians
of North America
or
[name of specific tribe or indigenous people]
Cultural property - Protection - North America
Gambling on Indian reservations - United States
Human ecology - North America - Philosophy
Indian children - North America
Indian philosophy - North America
Indian reservations
Indian women - North America - Social conditions
Indians in motion pictures
Indians,
Treatment Of - North America
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - North America
Older Indians
Self-determination, National - United States |
Indians
of North America
- Alcohol use
- Civil rights
- Economic conditions
- Education
- Ethnic identity
- Fishing
- Government relations
- Health and hygiene
- Land tenure
- Law and legal status
- Politics and government
- Religion
- Sexual behavior
- Social conditions
- Social life and customs
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HELP
WITH CITATION STYLE
HELP
FROM A LIBRARIAN
See
Need Help? Ask a Librarian!
to send a question via e-mail at any time or live (chat) during reference
desk hours. Or contact Reference librarian Sika
Berger directly: sberger@email.smith.edu
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