{"id":189,"date":"2019-05-03T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scholar-speak\/?p=189"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:21:34","slug":"unt-subject-course-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scholar-speak\/2019\/05\/03\/unt-subject-course-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"UNT Subject & Course Guides\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"Written By: Janelle Foster<\/b>\r\n
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Clear Light Bulb Placed on Chalkboard<\/a> by Pixabay<\/a> licensed under Unsplash<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nWhen faced with an imminent research project, knowing how and where to start your research can be daunting.\u202f Subject librarians at UNT Libraries understand this impediment and have provided a helpful launching point for your studies through subject or course-specific research guides.\u202f These guides are a culmination of targeted and constructive scholarly resources tailored specifically for support within a specific subject or course. They include recommendations for books, journals, newspapers, databases, streaming media, and websites, as well as citation help, search strategies, library services, and subject librarian contact information.\r\n
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\r\n\r\nSubject guides are not a new concept.\u00a0 They have been employed within academic libraries in either print or electronic format, albeit under different languages, since at least 1973 (Tchangalova & Feigley, 2008).\u00a0 The historic term for this type of research guide is pathfinder; as such a name implies, its purpose was not to serve as a comprehensive, exhaustive resource list but rather a finite, focused set of resources carefully selected as the \u201cbest\u201d suggestions for information discovery (Tchangalova & Feigley, 2008).\u00a0 Since then, subject guides have evolved to address issues with scope, layout and format, readability, ease of use, accessibility, resource quality, maintenance and updating, and assessment \u2013 and of course, all of this within the sweeping context of the advent of the internet and electronic resources (Morris & Del Bosque, 2010).\r\n
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\r\n\r\nWithin UNT Libraries, subject and course guides can be accessed from the library homepage by clicking on Subject & Course Guides in the big blue research box.\u00a0 You can type in a subject name or course name\/number or browse through the directory.\u00a0 Should you choose a subject within the guides, both the course guides that fall under that subject and general subcategories of that subject will appear (see below).\r\n
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Screenshot of Art Subject Guides<\/a> on UNT library website<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nHere are some helpful tips when perusing subject guides:\r\n
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