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HUMANITIES
CORE COURSE |
Discovery Task 4: Using Electric Journals to Find Information on a Topic
Read
all instructions first! |
| Problem: | This Discovery Task requires you to use two different electronic journal collections to find information that will help you to understand primary source material about law in Nazi Germany. The assignment will ask you to find and read scholarly journal articles and to use both primary and secondary sources of scholarly information. The electronic journal collections you will use are Project Muse and JSTOR. This assignment can be completed without coming to the Library. However, it will be easier to access and print the information you need if you use the computers in the libraries or computer labs on campus. |
Objectives: |
This discovery task has several learning objectives. • Learn to locate and search for scholarly journal articles using two different electronic journal collections. • Gain a better understanding of primary source materials about Nazi Germany by reading the articles you find. • Learn to identify characteristics of scholarly, as opposed to more popular, journal articles. • Learn to distinguish between primary and secondary sources of information for research purposes. |
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL COLLECTION DESCRIPTIONS
| JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/ |
JSTOR
is unique electronic archive of the complete backfiles of about 120 scholarly
journals. Many of the journals go as far back as the 1800s. The articles
are scanned in their entirety which creates a perfect image of the original
page. JSTOR journal titles do not include the most recent three to five years of the journal. The JSTOR electronic journal collection provides access to older issues of journals that libraries may not have room for on their shelves. It also allows library users to have access to journal articles without having to come to the library. The JSTOR electronic journal collection provides access to older issues of some scholarly journals. It does not include the most recent three to five years of the titles covered. The journal titles included in JSTOR are not the same as the journal titles included in Project Muse. |
| PROJECT
MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ |
Project Muse is an
electronic journal collection of the full text of almost 200 journals in
the humanities, social sciences, and sciences published by Johns Hopkins
University Press and other leading academic presses. The collection includes
two journals published solely in electronic format. Full text coverage varies
by journal title but ranges from 1993 to the present for JHU press publications
and 1998/1999 for other publishers. The Project Muse electronic journal collection provides access to recent (1993-present) issues of almost 200 journals. The journal titles included in Project Muse are not the same as the journal titles included in JSTOR. |
INSTRUCTIONS
TO STUDENTS
Before you begin looking for articles on the assigned topics, it will help if
you have a basic understanding of how to recognize a scholarly journal article
and of the difference between primary and secondary sources.
Scholarly or Popular?
One way to recognize an article from a scholarly journal is to compare it to a more popular magazine or newspaper article. You are probably more familiar with magazines and newspapers than you are with scholarly journals. This chart lists some characteristics of scholarly journals and popular journals. Once you complete this assignment, you can add your own characteristics to the list.
| How Do I Know If It's a Scholarly Journal? | |
| Here are some general guidelines that you can use to help you to decide whether or not a publication is a popular magazine or a scholarly journal. | |
| Scholarly Journal | Popular Magazine |
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The cover lists the contents of the issue. • The title of the publication has the word "Journal" in it. • You only see the journal at the library. • The journal is published by a special society or organization of members like the American Anthropological Society. • It doesn't have advertisements in it. • The authors have Ph.D. after their name. • Many of the articles have more than one author. • There is a short summary of the article on the first page. • Most articles are fairly long (5-20 pages). • The articles have a bibliography (list of references to other articles) at the end. • You probably wouldn't read it at the beach. |
• There is
a color picture on the cover. |
Primary or Secondary?
Researchers depend on primary
sources when they are conducting their research. The summaries of what they
find are often considered secondary sources of information. This assignment
will introduce you to both types of sources. It is important to remember that
the distinction between a primary source and a secondary source is not always
clear. Sometimes it will depend on the context of the information.
| What's the Difference Between a Primary Source and A Secondary Source? | |
| Primary Sources | Secondary Sources |
Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to the truth of what actually happened during an historical event or time period. Primary sources are the evidence left behind by participants or observers. The following are generally considered primary sources: • Diaries,
speeches, journals, letters, memos written by participants in an event
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A secondary source is a work that interprets or analyzes an event or phenomenon. It is generally at least one step removed from the event. Examples of secondary sources are: • Articles
or books that evaluate and analyze |
For more information on
distinguishing between primary and secondary sources, check out the UC Berkeley
Library's guide to Library Research Using Primary Sources.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html
Now that you have a general understanding of some of the characteristics of the articles that you will be reading, you can start the assignment. You are going to use two different electronic journal collections to find information about that will help you understand different views of gender during the National Socialist era in Germany. This assignment will tell you what subjects to look up and what information to provide about what you find.
Getting Started
Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/)
You are going to use the Project Muse electronic journal collection to look for articles about gender during the period of National Socialism in Germany. You are going to answer questions about an article of your choice from this collection. The articles in the Project Muse collection are from journals that have been published in the last five years. Because these articles were not written during the period of National Socialism in Germany, they are considered secondary sources for the purposes of your research.
To use the Project Muse
electronic journal collection:
1. Start at the UCI Libraries Online Resources Page (http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/online.html)
2. Click on the Selected Resources A to Z on the right side of the page
3. Scroll down to Muse and click on the link to Project Muse
This will take you to the search interface for the Project Muse electronic journal collection
To look for information
about views of gender during the National Socialist era.
1. Enter the words gender nazi in the search box.
Your search screen should look like this.
2. Press the Search button to execute the search.
Select an Article to Read**
| If your last name begins with the letters | Select an article between the numbers of |
| A-E | 1-5 |
| F-J | 6-10 |
| K-P | 11-15 |
| Q-T | 16-32 |
| U-Z | 33-50 |
**This method will avoid
having everyone read the same article
3. Click on [View This Document] to display the full text
4. Read the article and takes notes on it
Record the bibliographic information for the article you select
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Answer the following questions
about the article you read. Use 2 or 3 full sentences to explain your answers.
1. What aspects of Nazis and gender does this article highlight or analyze?
2. Are Nazis and gender the primary subject of the article? If not, what other subjects are discussed in connection with the topic?
3. Is this article from a journal that covers subjects from the discipline of history, the discipline of social science, the discipline of law, or the discipline of medicine? How can you tell? (HINT: You may want to explore the information that is behind the small picture of the journal cover at the top of the screen where the article begins or think about what you learned from the last Discovery Task, when you compared journal articles from Historical Abstracts to those from the.)
4. How might the article be relevant to material discussed in lecture by Professor Robert Moeller?
JSTOR
(http://www.jstor.org/jstor/)
Now you are going to use the JSTOR electronic journal collection. You will conduct
searches and look at both primary and secondary sources of information. You
are going to look for articles in journals in the History, Political Science
and Sociology categories for recent information written by scholars about marriage
during the Nazi era. Then you are going to look for articles on marriage and
the Nazi era that were actually written during the time period from 1929 to
1939.
To use the JSTOR electronic journal collection
1. Start at the UCI Libraries Online Resources Page (http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/online.html)
2. Click on the Selected Resources A to Z on the right side of the page
3. Scroll down until you locate the link to JSTOR and click on it.
This will take you to the the JSTOR electronic journal collection
To Search JSTOR
1. Click on the Search link. This will take you to the SEARCH J-STOR--Basic
Search screen.
2. Enter the word nazi in the first search box
3. Enter the word marriage in the second search box
4. Scroll down and place a check mark in front of History, Political Science,
and Sociology.
5. Click on the Search button at the bottom of the screen
Select an Article to Read
1. Browse the list of titles to find an article that will help you understand
marriage during the Nazi era.
2. Click on article title to display the full text of the article
3. Read the article and takes notes on it
Record the bibliographic information for the article you select.
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Answer the following question about the article you selected. Use two or three complete sentences to explain your answer.
1. What is the main point that the author of the article is trying to make about marriage during the Nazi era?
2. Is this an example of a primary or secondary source?
3. Is this from a scholarly journal about history, political science, or sociology?
Now you are going to use the JSTOR collection to look at articles that are examples of primary sources. You are going to look for articles published between 1929 and 1939 on marriage in Nazi Germany
1. Select the option to
"modify your search" from the task bar at the top of the screen
2. Leave the term nazi in the first search box
3. Leave the term marriage in the second search box
4. In the Published Between boxes, enter 1929 in the first box and 1939 in the
second box
5. Place a check mark in front of History, Political Science, and Sociology
6. Click on the Search button
Browse the list of titles and select an article to read.
Record the bibliographic information for the article you select
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Use two or three complete sentences to answer this question about the article you selected.
How does the article you selected illustrate one or more of the points that Professor Moeller covered in his lecture?