Gastronomy and
Food and Drink in World History

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES AND OVERVIEWS

• Even if you think you know a bit about your topic, and especially if you don't, you must start with one of these to get definitions, background information and, often, further references.
  Make yourself a list of key issues, dates, features and synonyms,
  which will be useful later for searching databases etc.
  
  Cambridge world history of food, ed. Kenneth F. Kiple, 2 vols, 2000
  Main collection and Reserve 641.3009 K57c
  
  Davidson, A. The Oxford companion to food, 2nd ed 2006
  Reference collection 641.3 D252o.2
  
  Encyclopedia of food and culture, Solomon H. Katz, 3 vols, 2003
  Reference collection 394.1203 K19e...also available online
  
  If you are a remote student, either find these in a local library or we can sent you relevant excerpts.
  Many other encyclopedias are listed in the main Gastronomy guide.

Another good trick is to look up your food or concept in the Oxford English Dictionary online provides etymology, definition, part of speech, date of origin etc.

USING THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Once you have made a start with encyclopedias, it's time to see if any books exist on your topic.

These terms will help you to search in our library catalogue, or in that of any other library.
Use Basic Search for simple searches of title, journal; title and simple topics.
Guided keyword search is better for more complex subjects.
Where electronic versions of journals, articles or books exist, our catalogue will link directly to them.
You can limit your search to only electronic resources if you are working remotely.
If you are registered as a remote student you can search for books in our library and request them.
Otherwise, use the facilities of your nearest best library.
Many local libraries will do interlibrary loans for you.
Look at Catalogues elsewhere on the main Gastronomy page

Typical subject headings and terms that you can use in any keyword or subject heading:
Gastronomy
Food habits--England, France, Australia etc
Food habits--History
Food habits--Social aspects.
Cookery, English, French, Australian etc
Food--Australia
Food--History
Nutrition--Social aspects

If your topic is unique, just put that word into the catalogue as a keyword.
Also be aware that more general books may include useful culinary information
eg
Syria Description and travel
Vietnam Social life and customs

Many very old books are being digitised - take a look at E-Books in the Gastronomy guide.


Once you have found some books, check their lists of references for other useful book and journal articles which you can chase up.

DATABASES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES

The next information source to pursue is journal articles.

For your dissertation the name of the game is thoroughness.
For shorter written pieces you may have been able to get away with a few articles, but now your searching needs to be comprehensive.
First, search databases using your subject terms and keywords.
This will give you a list of references to add to the ones you have found already.
Some will be available online, some will be in print in our library (and can be sent to you) and some may be in other libraries (you can get them or or have them sent to you via document delivery).
If there is not an electronic link, search for the JOURNAL TITLE in our library catalogue.
You will be shown if we hold it either in print or electronically. To get free access to our universty's electronic subscriptions you MUST search via the library catalogue, and authenticate yourself.
For other Australian holdings of journals, search
SIAL: Serials in Australian Libraries
It will depend on how specialised yur topic is and your degree of desperation how far you need to pursue these materials.
I suggest you work your way through these databases - some will give better results than others, but you won't know until you try.
A database is only as good as the journals it covers - and they all cover a differenct range!

Interdisciplinary and International

Academic OneFile
A collection of nearly 20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large
proportion of which are full-text in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage across many subject areas. Coverage 1980-

Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas.

EBSCO Business Source
A very large database covering all aspects of business / commerce related subjects for over 1,200 journals some indexed back to 1886. Includes food industry, hospitality etc.

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago. Not good for recent articles.

Project Muse
offers full text for nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of history and many other across the social sciences and humanities.Coverage is from about 5 years ago to current, which nicely complements the older issues in JSTOR.

Scopus
Largest citation and abstract coverage of quality research literature in the sciences and some social sciences.

Web of Science
Much more than science!
Includes the Arts & humanities citation index and the Social sciences citation index,
and can be searched by author, keyword or citation
eg People who have written articles since 1980 that have referred to Beeton, I. Household management.

Periodicals index online
Database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 200 years.
Periodicals Archive Online is a related, smaller collection of journals which has full text searching over more than 200 years.

ISI current contents connect
Current awareness service for new articles as they are published.

Regional databases - for specific areas or national cuisines.

If you are working on a particular region you must search these!

Australia
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
Includes full text for some journals 1995-

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information.
Some scholarly journals included.

Great Britain
Royal Historical Society Bibliographies (for the UK)

Asia
Bibliography of Asian Studies
No full text, but very detailed indexing of Asian studies journals, essays and books.

Related areas

For history try Historical abstracts
Covers history 1450-, not medieval history, North America or Australia.

America History and Life - American history

For agriculture try CAB abstracts (1910-) or
the (US) National Agriculture Library Catalogue , which includes referecne to journal articles.

For medicine and health sciences try PubMed (Medline)

For sociology, try Sociological Abstracts

For psychology, try PsycINFO

For literature, try MLA

Databases for newspaper articles

or other, older newspapers see the Library's guide to
Newspapers and other news services.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Freedman, R. Human food uses : a cross-cultural, comprehensive annotated bibliography 1981
Reference collection 394.1016 F853h

WHERE TO NOW?

By this stage you should have comprehensive working bibliography of items that may or may not be in our library.

For items that are not in the Barr Smith Library:
Waite and Roseworthy libraries- use the document delivery form for an intercampus loan (free), or go there and have a browse!

Go to Finding Journals on the Gastronomy Resources guide.
Local students will use SIAL, where an S in front of the location indicates a South Australian library.

For books not in the BSL, try Libraries Australia where, again, an S location is for South Australia.

If books or journals are not held in SA, use the document delivery service to request an interlibrary loan.
Loans cost $13.20 - discuss with your supervisor whether the department can fund this or not.
You need either a department account code or a receipt number form our services desk in order to complere the request form.

WEB RESOURCES

You can also search the www for yourself using Google Advanced search
and Google scholar, which has been linked to the University of Adelaide's licensed online resources.

ENDNOTE and STYLE MANUALS

Before you start doing too much research you must download Endnote and do the online tutorial which teaches you how to use it. Endnote enables you to keep track of the references you have read, annotate them and search for them later in your own database. It then assists in formatting footnotes and bibliographies and can change style of output when necessary.
The library provides a guide to Endnote, providing instructions on downloading the software, training, and filters to import citations directly without retyping.

Chicago manual of style. 15th ed 2003
Reference collection 808.02 U58.15
also some useful information on its related web page

The faculty has a useful Postgraduate Research Programs which includes a link to Producing a Thesis: A Style Guide for Higher Degree Students.