Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts

Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts

The Academic Liaison Librarian for this Institute is Alison Taylor.
Email: alison.taylor@worc.ac.uk
Telephone: 01905 855216

Resources for Humanities

  • Our Netvibes page for your Institute is full of the latest news and information, selected by your Academic Liaison Librarian. It’s filled with quality sources to keep you informed in your chosen field.  http://www.netvibes.com/ihca
  • A large collection of bookmarked websites in the fields of Humanities and the Creative Arts can be found on our Delicious site. Anyone can set up their own Delicious account for free, using a Yahoo! ID and password. With an account, you can bookmark your favourite websites and access them anywhere. http://delicious.com/allieblogging
  • Some key resources for Humanities and the Creative Arts include Oxford Journals, Cambridge Journals, Academic Search Complete, JSTOR Arts and Sciences and Shakespeare Survey (for journal articles), and MyiLibrary, Literature Online, Taylor & Francis and ACLS Humanities (for e-books). These are all available through the e-resources section of Resources Online.

Tutorials

The following tutorials can help you to search key databases in Humanities, as well as use networking tools on the Web to help keep you up-to-date.


Academic Search Complete Tutorial (Updated June 2009): This video, presented by Library Systems Manager Darren Taylor, will show you how to search one of our most popular full text databases, Academic Search Complete.


Using Delicious to manage and share your bookmarks (created 2008, reviewed June 2009): This live tutorial will help you to set up your own Delicious account, and save and organise all the useful websites you find.


Using Google Reader (created 2008, checked June 2009): Another online tutorial - set up your own Google Reader account and add RSS feeds to ensure you are always up to date. Make the Web work for you.


How to set up RSS feeds for searches in PubMed and EBSCO databases: This tutorial shows you how to create RSS feeds for searches in Pubmed and EBSCO databases, such as Academic Search Complete. You can do a search, then set up a feed for your Google Reader account (see above) or other RSS reader, which will send you new references related to that search regularly. IMPORTANT: at Step 3 of the tutorial, you should print the instructions before logging in. You will leave the Inform tutorial, and you should follow the print instructions from Step 3 while using the database.


Referencing


RefWorks Guide: how to create a RefWorks account, and start managing your references


Citing & Referencing Guide - Harvard Style: how to reference using the Harvard referencing system