I teach workshops on library databases to a range of users at the New York Public Library. Some of the students are academics, others are unaffiliated scholars, and many more are undergraduate or graduate students from nearby schools. The degree to which they’re familiar with platforms, searching, Boolean logic, peer-review, and formats varies. But one […]
Continue reading →Every year, more and more research is done by scholars online via academic databases. Print journals, scholarly monographs, newspapers, periodical indexes, and even ephemera and image collections are steadily transitioning from print to electronic. Historically, research using print collections took place in library reading rooms with material owned by the library. Increasingly, research using electronic […]
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