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I'll be showing you a combination of print and electronic resources, don't forget about visual resources like slides, videos and maps. Most important resource in this library is the staff: ask questions early, that is what we are here for. Desk staff will have a copy of the syllabus/assignment.

Getting Started || Using Cruzcat || Reference Titles || Electronic Databases

GETTING STARTED

Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html

Before starting your search, take a look at the "How to Get Started" page: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/
Especially useful for this assignment are the sections on evaluating information on the web, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and citations styles.

In order to have off-campus access to all of the databases that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to connect to the library from home: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/sluglink/

Read the assignment/syllabus carefully, and underline the terms you want to look up: the trick to finding library resources is knowing which words to search for. For this particular class, I might start with these terms from the syllabus: Genocide, massacres, atrocities, human rights and also place names: Balkans, Bosnia, Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, Chechnya

We'll start with Cruzcat, then work our way into the full-text and bibliographic electronic databases, and then move outwards to the web. The better defined your search vocabulary, the better chance you have of finding info on the web.

USING CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/)

A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further. For example:

• KW genocide, or
• KW Armenia and Genocide

For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:

• Genocide
• Genocide -- history -- 20th century
• Genocide -- prevention
• Crimes against humanity -- history -- 20th century
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
• Genocide -- Armenia -- moral and political aspects
• Genocide -- Armenia -- political opinion
• Political Atrocities -- Armenia -- public opinion

Once you have found some useful titles, you need to look at the books and also browse the shelves, both in the ref area and upstairs in the regular stacks.

REFERENCE TITLES

Listed below are the books found in McHenry Reference that were discussed in our Library session:

• Africa South of the Sahara (REF DT352.A1 A3)
• The Middle East and North Africa (REF DS49 .M5)
• The Human Rights Encyclopedia (REF JC571 .L523 2001)
• Encyclopedia of Human Rights, 2nd ed. (REF JC571 .E67 1996)
• War Crimes and Justice (REF LAW K5301 .B35 2002)
• Genocide in International Law (REF LAW K5302 .S32 2000)
• Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law (REF LAW K5301 .R38)
• War Crimes Against Women (REF LAW K5301 .A85 1997)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (available in print, on cd-rom and online) (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm)
• Economist Intelligence Unit Country reports and profiles (http://db.eiu.com/countries.asp)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citatations, others contain full-text.

Full text databases:

LexisNexis
Historical New York Times
Project Muse
JSTOR
eScholarship

Bibliographic databases:

Historical Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
MLA
Pub Med
PAIS

Please ask for help at the reference desk, and feel free to contact me for further help.

Beth Remak-Honnef
Humanities Bibliographer
459-2459 / remak@ucsc.edu