Book with a single author:

SLAIS RESEARCH SKILLS DAY

Starting points for subject searching in LIS:

Starred items * are available from UCL Library www.ucl.ac.uk/library. Web addresses are not given for these as they can be accessed from the Library’s website.

General book databases:

Library catalogues:

COPAC (the merged catalogues of 24 UK university libraries + national libraries) www.copac.ac.uk

The British Library www.bl.uk

The Library of Congress www.loc.gov

RLG Union catalogue *

Other national library catalogues accessible through the IFL website http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm

Commercial book databases

Books in print *

General journal databases:

Zetoc * http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk

Web of knowledge *

This incorporates the following databases which are also available

individually :

Arts and humanities citation index *

Science citation index *

Social sciences citation index *

Current contents connect*

Inside information plus*

Journal citation reports*

JSTOR * www.jstor.ac.uk

Electronic journal publishers cross-domain searching

Taylor and Francis journals *

Swetswise journal search (free, but you must register)

LIS journal databases:

Library and information science abstracts (LISA) *(online and hard copy)

Library literature (later Library literature and information science) * (hard copy)

Current awareness abstracts (Library and information management) * (online and hard copy)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) free from EBSCO http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=205&marketID=20

dList (A digital repository of LIS material) http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

H. W. Wilson library databases (free trial until end May) Go to Art Fulltext on MetaLib in UCL Library services

Other relevant UCL databases and free access websites:

Historical and biographical material

Historical abstracts *

Oxford dictionary of national biography *

American national biography *

Rare and early printed books

EEBO (Early English books online) *

English short title catalogue *

Eighteenth century collections *

Education

ERIC *

Computer science

INSPEC *

Statistics

Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk

Some parts of this (Regional trends, Social trends are also available as databases *)

Census interaction data service (CIDS)

Legislation and official publications

Official documents of the United Nations *

OECD publications *

United Kingdom Official Publications online *

BOPCRIS

A free resource for key 18^th, 19^th and 20^th century official publications www.bopcris.ac.uk

A good site for official publications is OPSI www.opsi.gov.uk

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister www.odpm.gov.uk is also a good site for government information, particularly for government policy

Website of the US Government printing office (equivalent of the

Stationery Office) www.access.gpo.gov

The Office for official publications of the European Union http://publications.eu.int/

Europa http://publications.eu.int/general/oj_en.html has the text of the Official

Journal

Newspaper sources

Times digital archive *

Theses and dissertations

Index to theses online *

Dissertation abstracts *