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Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Getting started with research

As you begin to edit, you may need to search for resources related to the article you're working on. Use the tips below to get started using OU Libraries for your research.

ALICE Catalog

ALICE is  Ohio University's Library Catalog, useful for finding the books, magazines, journals, newspapers, videos and other materials in our collections. 

  • ALICE includes the collections of both the Athens main campus and the regional campuses.
  • If you need e-books, choose "World wide Web" from the drop-down box. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Careful! ALICE does NOT search individual articles in magazines, journals or newspapers -- only publication titles. If you have a citation and wish to find the article itself, C&P the article title into Articles Plus -- or let us help you find it!

 

ArticlesPlus

Articles Plus is a single database which searches the contents of more than 200 databases all at the same time, including: 

  • All EBSCO databases that we have
  • All JSTOR journals that we have
  • Several newspaper databases
  • ALICE Catalog (books, videos, names of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and more)
  • ...and much more

Articles Plus does not include everything. We subscribe to many other databases--including about two dozen from ProQuest--that are not included in Articles Plus. To find and use these, go to the  database list -- or let us help you

Google scholar

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Google Scholar searches for scholarly journals, books, theses, conference papers, etc.

Some things to note:

  • It lacks most of the search limiting functions of other article databases.
  • Google does not make clear what journals it searches or excludes or what years are covered.
  • Google's definition of "scholarly" may not agree with ours!
  • Never pay for an article! C&P the title into Articles Plus to see if we have it. IF not, use Interlibrary Loan to request it for free.

 

    Did you know?
  • You can set  Google Scholar to find the full text of articles in OU Libraries:
    • Click on the Settings icons for google scholaricon.
    • Configure the settings like this:Google scholar settings as described above
    •  find it link in google scholarshould show up in your search results. You may have to login to get to the full text.  

Finding images and using ArtSTOR

Searching for images isn't the same as searching for, well, anything else in the library.

Just think: most of what the library gives you access to is words--books, articles, databases. They're full of words, and you use words to locate what you need from that collection of words. Images (and visual media in general) often don't work the same way. They might be described using words (known as metadata, which can consist of the title, creator, technical specifications, or other information about the information), but generally those are going to be more limited in scope than, say, searching the contents of an entire book to decide whether it's relevant.

And yet, most collections of images ask you to use keywords to locate items.

So to find images, it's a good idea to switch up the approach and be aware of the way the images are described and organized just as much as you're thinking about what types of images you're looking for.

While there aren't a lot of rules that apply to every single image collection, there are a few that are broadly applicable:

ALWAYS USE FILTERS
BE FLEXIBLE WITH SYNONYMS AND ALTERNATE KEYWORDS
CONSIDER YOUR USE AND REUSE

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The following are a selection of image collections, libraries, and archives that are generally intended to be used for study, though some may be in the public domain or licensed for reuse. For images explicitly licensed for reuse and modification, check the next tab.

Note that many image databases linked elsewhere might include open access and/or public domain images and often are able to be filtered accordingly. The following are resources that primarily feature images licensed for reuse and/or that are in the public domain.