Historians' use of archival sources: Promises and pitfalls of the digital age

Public Historian

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 7-22

  Duff, Wendy ^a   Craig, Barbara ^a   Cherry, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 39449101053     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/tph.2004.26.2.7     Document Type: Article

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2. Clyve Jones, Michael Chapman, and Pamela Carr Woods, "The Characteristics of the Literature Used by Historians," Journal of Librarianship 4, no. 3 (1972): 138-56;
3. Margaret F. Stieg, "The Information of [sic] Needs of Historians," College & Research Libraries 42, no. 6 (1981): 549-60;
4. Helen R. Tibbo, Abstracting, Information Retrieval and the Humanities: Providing Access to Historical Literature (Chicago: American Library Association, 1993);
5. and Peter A. Uva, Information Gathering Habits of Academic Historians: Report of the Pilot Study (Syracuse: State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, 1997).
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7. and Paul Conway, Partners in Research: Improving Access to the Nations Archive (Pittsburgh, Pa: Archives & Museum Informatics, 1994).
8. The two studies by Donald Owen Case are "The Collection and Use of Information by Some American Historians: A Study of Motives and Methods," Library Quarterly 6, no. 1 (1991): 61-82
9. and "Conceptual Organization and Retrieval of Text by Historians: The Role of Memory and Metaphor," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42, no. 9 (1991): 657-68.
10. The studies by Charles Cole are "Information as Process: The Difference Between Corroborating Evidence and 'Information' in Humanistic Research Domains," Information Processing & Management 33, no. 1 (1997): 55-67;
11. "Information Acquisition in History Ph.D. Students: Inferencing and the Formation of Knowledge Structures," Library Quarterly 68, no. 1 (1997): 33-54;
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13. and "Name Collection by Ph.D. History Students: Inducing Expertise," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51, no. 5 (2000): 444-55.
14. Deborah Lines Andersen, "Academic Historians, Electronic Information Access Technologies, and the World Wide Web: A Longitudinal Study of Factors Affecting Use and Barriers to That Use," Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 1, no. 1 (1998): available electronically at http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/jahcIl/Anderson/Anderson.HTML;
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20. Beattie, "An Archival User Study," 44.
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23. Stieg, "The Information of [sic] Needs of Historians," and Stevens, "The Historian and Archival Finding Aids."
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25. Beattie, "An Archival User Study," and Stevens, "The Historian and Archival Finding Aids."
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