Finding Information for

MLCS 400: History of Translation

by

Denis Lacroix

French and Spanish Librarian

Session Outline

The Research question and topical concepts

Finding Subject Guides and Reference resources

Finding Books by author, subject, title

Boolean, Truncation, and Advanced Searching

Finding online and print Articles in Periodicals

Databases and ILL

Print Indexes

The Research Question

Humanities Abstracts

Historical Abstracts

A&HCI

Women Translators of the 18th century?

Translating humour ?Translating motion pictures ?

Finding Subject Guides

Click on the Subjects tab on the Library home page Click on Humanities and Social Sciences Click on Languages & Literatures or Linguistics or History (General)

Choose a guide in the right-hand column under QuickStart Guides

Useful Reference Resources

• Index translationum – Online and PN 886 Z9 I38 Ruth. Ref and Ref Aux.• Termium • Literature Resource Center• Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies - P 306 E57 Ruth. Ref. •Dictionary of translation studies - P 306 S58 1997 Ruth. Ref.•Bibliography of translation studies - P 306 Z9 B53 2000 Ruth Ref •International bibliography of translation – P 306 Z9 H77 1973 Ruth. Ref.•Into English : writing and translating into English as a second language : a practical guide to recurrent difficulties - PE 1498 D84 2000 Ruth North 5 flr. •Translating from English into Russian : reference grammar for students of Russian - PG 2498 R33 1998 Ruth. Ref.•Encyclopedia of literary translation into English – PN 241 E53 Ruth. Ref. •Twentieth-century Italian literature in English translation : an annotated bibliography, 1929-1997 - PQ 4250 E5 Z9 H43 1998 Ruth. Ref.•The Oxford guide to literature in English translation – PR 131 O94 2000 Ruth. Ref.

Finding Books

By author: Waisman, Sergio Gabriel

By title Borges and translation: the irreverence of the periphery

Request or place a book on hold About an author as subject

[Containing] or [Starting with] Châtelet, Emilie du

Advanced Searching Finding books about a topic

Think of variant or similar terms and click Advanced Search

Use Boolean operators, e.g. and, or [Subject] women or feminism

AND [Subject] translating

Use truncation symbols: $ ?[Subject] translat$ AND[Any Field] humo?r

Finding Reference titles in advanced search

Using Subject Headings MLCS 400 Topical Subject Headings

Bede, the Venerable, Saint; Bible; Biography; Creole; Feminism; German* language; History; Interpreters; Linguistics; Methodology; Motion pictures; Professional ethics; Translating and interpreting; Translating into French*; Translators; Women, etc.

Geographical Subject Headings

Latin America, South America, Caribbean area, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, etc.

Historical Subject Headings

18th century, 20th century, 345 - 410, Marina ca 1505 - ca 1530, To 1500, etc.

* Replace with appropriate language

Electronic and Print Indexes

Use electronic databases or print indexes to find periodical articles.

Use databases to find articles published since 1980 and print indexes for older material.

Databases are all different: some contain full-text articles some list only citations and abstracts others have a mixture of both

Locating Databases and Finding Articles

• Under Browse by Subject or Subject in the menu, click on your research area.

• You will find a list of recommended databases on the left and, on the right, QuickStart guides to help get you started on your research project.

• E.g. Click on Humanities and Social Sciences History (General)

General Humanities: MLA, Humanities Abstracts*, Web of Science*, IBZ*, American Humanities Index*, PCI full-text*, PAIS, Literature Resource Center.

History: Historical Abstracts, America: History & Life, International Medieval Bibliography, L’Année philologique

Sociological Resources: Sociological Abstracts*

Women’s Studies: Gender Studies Database*.

World-wide or Rare Resources (books & articles): Centre for Research Libraries (CRL), OCLC WorldCat.

Theses: Proquest Dissertations & Theses (full text), Index to Theses.

* Limitable by Book Review

Electronic Databases

Linguistics and Translation

• Language and Communication: LLBA, Communication & Mass Media Complete*

• Translation: Termium, Le Grand Dictionnaire terminologique (GDT), Eurodicautom, Oxford Reference Online Premium

• Bibliography of Translations: Index Translationum

* Limitable by Book Review

Language Specific Databases

• French: Repère, Choix, DAVID, Termium, GDT

• Spanish & Latin American Studies: HAPI, HLAS, Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, Clase

• Italian: Italinemo

• German: Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach – und Literaturwissenschaft, IBZ

• Slavic Studies: ABSEES, EBSEES, Russian National Bibliography, IBZ, Literature Resource Center

• East Asian Languages and Literatures

Humanities Abstracts

Type in the search terms one concept per box: [Subject] translat*

Add [Subject] motion picture* or film* or cinema* Click on SearchFind article using , the full text link

or the Library Catalogue e.g. (#2 and 5)

Add records to your folder and send them by e-mail

Exporting Files to RefWorksWhen saving or e-mailing, click on Bibliographic Manager to Export items to RefWorks

1. Place imported records into new folder

2. Click on Bibliography

3. Select Output Style, File Type, and Reference Location before Creating Bibliography

Sample RefWorks Bibliography

Always check your bibliography for errors.

Learning RefWorks

Click on Citation Guides under Find on the Library’s main Web page.– Click on RefWorks

RefWorks for New UsersRefWorks Tutorial

Arts & Humanities Citation IndexClick on the General Search button Type search terms in Topic search box,

e.g. translat* AND (motion picture* or film* or cinema*) AND German*

Restrict by language or document type if necessary

Search Click Get It button to locate the

article

Look up specific decades or centuries

Inter-Library Loans (ILL)

If the document that you are looking for is not in our Library Catalogue, fill out an ILL electronic form: http://

www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/index.cfm indicate, if possible, where your document is located in the

world. using OCLC WorldCat locate your document in libraries world-wide

by clicking on “Libraries Worldwide.”

Check the status of your ILL after 2 weeks: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/interlibraryloan/status/index.cfm

Print Indexes IBZ: International bibliography of periodical literature

What: (1896-1991) also available onlineWhere: Rutherford North Reference and Ref. Aux. AI 9 I61

C.R.I.S. : the combined retrospective index set to journals in history, 1838-1974 Where: Rutherford N flr1 Indexes E 171 C12 1977 v.1-v.11

Public Affairs Information Service : Annual Cumulated Bulletin 1915-1971 and Cumulative Subject Index to the PAIS Annual Bulletins 1915-1974 (also available online) Where: Rutherford N flr1 Indexes H1 Z9 B932

MLA International BibliographyWhat: (1921 to 1962) also available online Where: Rutherford N flr1 Indexes PB 1 M58

Book Review Indexes Book Review Index

Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 B73 What: (Since 1965-) Provides author and title indexes, but no excerpts of the reviews.

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974Where: Rutherford North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035 A1 C7 1982

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 Where: Ruth. North Floor 1 Index Tables Z 1035  A1 C72 1979

Reference ServicesThis slide show is downloadable at:

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mail reference, telephone reference, or in-person at the reference desk.

Good luck in your searches!