History Bump

OK!

Scholar.google.com -

a beta search engine that counts citations as well as listing links to sources.

To test its usefulness, I put in "Hayden White", and got the following as the top 4 responses (note - the "cited by" is a clickable link to a list of the works the original work is *cited in*):

[BOOK] The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation H White - Cited by 92 - Library Search - Web Search Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1987

[BOOK] Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
H White - Cited by 88 - Library Search - Web Search
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore i Londres. …, 1973

[CITATION] The value of narrativity in the representation of reality
H White - Cited by 62 - Web Search
On narrative, 1981

[BOOK] Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
H White - Cited by 52 - Library Search - Web Search
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978

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in addition to what carolyn mentions here. (i've only done this once; i'll have to try it again to make sure it really works.) But if you are on campus and you decide to use google scholar, and your results return with links, once you select the link, it will connect you to the Bird library SUMMIT catalog; and i believe, right to that article.

the 'advanced' option is also really cool.

For finding threads of conversations I'd like to zero in on, explore and perhaps even take up in my own work, I find Bloglines indispensible. It allows me to subscribe to RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for both weblogs and other sources of information online. I check it every day; rather than visiting indidivual sites to see what's updated, it pings the XML for the pages and returns the updates (for *free*) to the account.

I've been experimenting this semester with overlapping search engine RSS feeds channeling into Bloglines. In other words, we can set up a search query (for "Stanley Milgran" let's say) and set it to post daily results (based on popularity, newness, etc.) to the Bloglines account. This would work with any other RSS reader too. Each day when I check my bloglines account, I have a new set of results turned up for the search term I've set. Some are germaine; others are unexpected (and no less useful for their unexpectedness, fwiw).

Bloglines is explained here:
Integrated Circuit (collective weblog for WRT205)

Search terms set to RSS here:
Weblogg-ed

And here:
Integrated Circuit

Derek, I'm curious how you use blog information in your research. Is it for the sharing of ideas or do you ever use the blog as a source in itself?

I've cited blogs in some of my seminar projects before. It just depends on the project and what I think I want to do with it. But generally, yes, I don't see any reason why we can't read weblog entries as potential sources, usually mixed in with other sources as well. There's a lot more to it for me, but I find reading blogs incredibly generative. I'm often put on the trail of an idea worth exploring--all stirred by the writing and linking of others.

I usually first go to the personal websites of distinguished scholars in a field and check out their links and resources. The direction they give is very specific and informative. ---Ruby