Tools and Sources in Economic and Social History
Michaelmas term 2008
Deborah Oxley, All Souls College and History Faculty, with guest lecturers (see below)
OBJECTIVES
This is a short hands-on course, designed to
acquaint
students with basic tools, techniques, and resources, and to impart
unwritten, tacit professional knowledge.
COURSE ARRANGEMENTS AND EVALUATION -
The first meeting will take place at 2.00pm on Tuesday of Week 0, 7 October 2008
in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.Most subsequent sessions will
take place on Tuesdays at 2.00-3.30p.m. in the Computer Room,
History Faculty, George Street except for ssession 4 in Week 3, which
will be held in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College.
- Weeks 0 to 6 in Michelmas term
To meet course requirements, students will have
to
demonstrate an ability to compile a bibliographical database in their
area of interest, using Endnote. The bibliography should be submitted
by 5.00pm on Friday of Week 8, 5 December 2008 (printed on paper) to me (Deborah Oxley) at All Souls
College.
Session 0: COURSE INTRODUCTION AND LIBRARY RESOURCES
Week 0 (Tuesday 7 October 2008),
2.00 pm
Wharton Room, All Souls College
- M.Sc./M.Phil. course orientation, and
introduction to tutors.
- The Bodleian Library and its offshoots.
- College and Departmental libraries.
Standard reference works: see
list
- Official papers
- Biographical aids
- Statistical sources
- Archival guides
Session 1: ONLINE RESOURCES
Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History and Margaret Robb, Director of the Social
Science Libraries, Bodleian
Week 1 (Tuesday 14 October 2008),
2.00 pm
Computer Room, History Faculty building, George Street
- OLIS — the Oxford libraries electronic catalogue
- OXLIP — The Oxford University information
system
- JSTOR, TDNET — Online journals
- INTERNET RESOURCES
Session 2: CREATING A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE
Nikola Koepke, Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History
Week 2 (Tuesday 21 October 2008),
2.00 pm,
Computer Room, History Faculty, George Street
- Bibliographical conventions and structures.
- Bibliographic presentation.
- Principles of database organization.
- Application to bibliography.
- Introduction to Endnote software.
- Downloading bibliographical references.
Software: Endnote.
References for Session 3:
Session 3: SCHOLARLY
ETHICS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Week 3 (Tuesday
28 October 2008), 2.00 pm
Hovenden Room, All Souls College [note different location]
References for Session 4: *Priority
- *Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of
Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
(2006), chs. 2, 12.
http://www.benkler.org/wonchapters.html
- *Paul A. David, ‘The Evolution of
Intellectual Property Institutions’, in International Economic
Association and A. B Atkinson, Economics in a Changing World
(1993), vol. 1. A. Aganbegyan, O. Bogomolov and M.Kaser (eds.),
1.System transformation : Eastern and Western assessments, ch. 9. http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/ecohist/readings/ip/david1.doc
- John
Willinksy, The
Access Principle
(2006), ch. 3, ‘Copyright’.
- *Hal Varian, ‘Copying and Copyright’, Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 19, 2 (Spring 2005), 121-138.
- S. Vaidhyanathan, , Copyrights and
Copywrongs : The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens
Creativity (2001), chs. 1–3.
- *Jon Wiener, Historians in Trouble :
Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower (2005),
esp. introduction, conclusion [alternatively
P. Hoffer, Past Imperfect (2004), conclusion; Ron
Robin, Scandals and Scoundrels (2004),
introduction, chs. 1–2.]
Session 4: PRESENTATION WITH POWERPOINT
Week 4 (Tuesday, 4 November 2008), 2.00 pm
Computer Room, History Faculty building,
George Street
Powerpoint – scores of titles.
Search
library catalogue under ‘Powerpoint’ Want to see something new in data presentation? Check out Gapminder http://www.gapminder.org/
Session 5: WRITTEN PRESENTATION: STRUCTURE, STYLE, AND
LAYOUT
Week 5 (Tuesday 11 November 2008),
2.00 pm
Computer Room, History Faculty building, George Street
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Text
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Verbal |
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—Typography |
—Organization |
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—Layout |
—Delivery |
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—Graphics |
—Powerpoint |
References for Session 6:
(a) Typography and Graphics
- James Felici and Ted Nace, Desktop
Publishing Skills: A Primer for Typesetting with Computers and Laser
Printers (1987), chs. 5–7.
- Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display
of Quantitative Information (Cheshire, Conn, 1983).
(b) History of layout and typography
- S. H. Steinberg, Five Hundred Years
of Printing (2nd edn., Harmondsworth, 1961) [not1996
edn. edited by John Trevitt]
- James Moran, Stanley Morison: His
Typographical Achievement (London, 1971).
(c) Style
- Faculty of History, Conventions for
the presentation of Dissertations and Theses (current
edition: available as a PDF file here)
- J. Barzun and H. F. Graaf, The
Modern Researcher (many edns.)
- E. Gowers et al. The Complete Plain
Words (many edns.)
- Horace Hart, Hart's Rules for
Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford
(Oxford, latest edn.)
- W. Strunk and E. B. White, The
Elements of Style (3rd edn. 1979).
Session 6: DIGITAL MAPPING: PRESENTING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Nigel James, Assistant Map Librarian and Digital Mapping Specialist, Bodleian
Week 6 (Tuesday, 18 November 2008), 2.00 pm
Computer Room, History Faculty building, George Street
Digital mapping and online resources
Want to see something new in mapping? Check out Worldmapper http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html
N.B.
Copyright rule is typically 70 years.
Global Insight world data is only available through workstations in the Map Room.
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