Finding and Managing Digital Resources: Repositories and Zotero
This workshop will review the most valuable online repositories of South African resource material including: Jstor, SA Media in Sabinet, the Internet Archive, the British Hansard, the South African Archives, and the World Newspaper Archive, and some that we cannot access like the Chadwyck Parliamentary Papers. It will also review ways of using Zotero to manage these materials.
Participants should bring their own laptops, including installed copies of Zotero running on Firefox.
Essential tools for digital research: Firefox, Zotero, Zotfile, PDF-Xchange, Notepad ++
Digital Resources for Humanities Research
Breckenridge, 3 August 2016, USIU, Nairobi
Places to begin
Pirates ... http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
http://scholar.google.com Google Scholar, understanding the logic of citation counts
http://jstor.org Jstor
http://www.archives.org The Internet Archives
http://www.national.archives.gov.za The National Archives Database
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com the full-text British Hansard from 1803 to 2005
http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za Fragile, Struggle Publications, strong on 1970s – 1980s. (Often unavailable).
Coming … not done yet: Index pages for 500,000 pages of published South African Hansard. (An excellent place to begin any research problem -- easy to copy and good to scan.)
Licensed Repositories at Wits:
Electronic Journal Listings -- odd system of subscriptions
Electronic Databases
Sabinet > SACat & SAMedia (strong after 1975)
World Newspaper Archives (strong before 1930)
Lexis-Nexis (strong after 1980)
Not available at Wits
Digitised Sunday Times – Avusa Media (Michelle Leon, Manager Library Services, 4 Bierman Ave leonm@avusa.co.za)
Chadwyck Parliamentary Papers – http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk