{"id":10597,"date":"2005-07-13T18:32:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2005\/07\/13\/reference_unive_1\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T19:30:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T19:30:34","slug":"reference_unive_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/13\/reference_unive_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the Libraries&#8217; electronic databases index newspapers, magazines, and journal articles. One unique database,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/refuniv.odyssi.com\/\">Reference Universe<\/a>, indexes thousands of print reference works such as dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias. The database now also indexes web-based reference works. Why is this important?<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you are assigned a research paper on the impact of religion during the Han Dynasty. Maybe you&#8217;ve heard that the Han period represents a &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; in Chinese history. Beyond that, though, the Han are a mystery. Obtaining background information now becomes critical to both your understanding of the topic as well as your ability to properly research it. That&#8217;s where Reference Universe comes in! A quick search of the Reference Universe database for the phrase &#8220;Han Dynasty&#8221; reveals citations for Temple-owned reference works including the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/search\/?searchtype=i&amp;searcharg=0415942462\">Encyclopedia of Religion and War<\/a>. Even better, Reference Universe indicates that there are no less than 15 entries in the back-of-the-book index to the Han Dynasty. Examples include &#8220;Confucianism, Han Dynasty&#8221; on pp. 82-87, and &#8220;Legalism and Confucianism&#8211;Han Dynasty&#8221; on pp. 83, 84, and 106. The next step is simply to walk into Paley Library&#8217;s reference stacks and retrieve the encyclopdia in question.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned above, Reference Universe now goes one step further by both indexing and providing direct links to Temple-owned online reference works from ABC-CLIO, Oxford, and netLibrary, among others. It&#8217;s never been so easy to search and retrieve the important background information critical to good research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;David C. Murray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the Libraries&#8217; electronic databases index newspapers, magazines, and journal articles. One unique database,\u00a0Reference Universe, indexes thousands of print reference works such as dictionaries, handbooks, and encyclopedias. The database now also indexes web-based reference works. Why is this important? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/13\/reference_unive_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,6],"class_list":["post-10597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-new-updated-electronic-resources","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}