1. Open Source Koichi Inoue Subject Librarian(Humanities & Social Sciences)

2. Wikipedia 3. Wikimedia 4. IMSLP 5. Google Books 6. Project Gutenberg 7. Open Library 8. WorldCat 9. Google Scholar 10. Directory of open access journals 11. Zotero 12. Finding more open source 13. WikipediaPros: Good place to gather reference type ofinformation (you can also check what the rest ofthe world already knows about your topic). Great place to find key information sources onyour topic.Cons: Inconsistent, sometimes conflicting, informationbetween pages. You cannot cite it in academic writing if you wantto be taken seriously. 14. Glass Menagerie 15. Film and television adaptations 16. Key information sources 17. Disambiguation page 18. 5 min. exercise Search on your topic in Wikipedia. 19. WorldCatPros: Worlds largest union catalogue (searches forbooks, magazines, DVDs, etc. held in librariesaround the world). Uses thesauri (easier to collate material on thesame topic). Personal account (can save records andsearches, set up email alerts and RSSfeeds, share you findings with others, etc.)/Cons: No full text available (but you can get them fromour library). Keyword searching is weak (no full text 20. Search results 21. Item record 22. Find in a library 23. Similar items 24. Subject limits 25. Format limits 26. 5 min. exercise Search on your topic in WorldCat. 27. Google BooksPros: Searches through millions of digitised booksavailable. Full text searching (picks up parts of books reallywell. Ex. book chapters and paragraphs).Cons: Returns a huge number of hits, but it is difficult tonarrow down the results. 28. Related books 29. Find in a library & Bib info 30. Google ScholarPros: Searches through millions of journal articles andbooks across all disciples and databases. Great tool to find gray literature (i.e.Dissertations,theses, conference pagers, etc.). Also great at finding open source journal articles.Cons: Same issue as Google Books too many hits, often irrelevant to your topic. 31. 5 min. exercise Search on your topic in Google Books and Google Scholar. 32. Borrow Direct 33. Borrow Direct libraries 34. Borrow Direct title search 35. Make a request 36. What if the Library doesnt have it?