Open Access Resources for European Studies: The Information Landscape
So many choices in the information landscape
• The type of information you need….
• … is found predominantly in certain publication types …
• … that are best found with certain search engines…
• … that have specific options and restrictions.
From: LibGuide of Jeroen Bosman, Urban Social Dynamics
Types of information and document types
Types of information relate to types of documents:
• introductions, theory, reflection → books
• overview, state of the art → review articles, reference books
• research results, analyses → journal articles
• policy, applied research → reports
• news → magazines, newspapers, blogs, social media
• data/statistics → data sets, statistical databases
From simple non- scholarly to thorough and scholarly
• Google – just because
• Wikipedia
• Nexis Uni (newspapers etc.)
• Handbooks – get a grip on the subject
• Google Books + library catalogue: books
• Google Scholar: broad scholarly
• Library database: stringent scholarly, systematic
