Contact Tim if you need help at any point during your research. My contact info is at the top of the page.

Ask for help at the reference desk, by phone (404-727-0147), IM (EmoryWoodRef) or e-mail (woodref@emory.edu).

To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog.

The contents of books and articles are not searchable in EUCLID. Read Where can I find articles from scholarly journals? to learn more.

You must access library electronic resources via a library web site, such as EUCLID or the Databases @ Emory list (or this course guide). If you are at home, see off-campus access instructions.

To obtain a book or article Emory doesn't have, request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). In most cases, there is no charge for borrowed items or for photocopies. ILL items can be picked up at the Circulation Desk. Returns can be made to the ILL Office or the Circulation Desk.

Consult the Emory Writing Center for help with the process of writing your paper.

Tips:

The Research FAQ has help and answers to common questions, and lots of video examples..

If you're not sure where to start, ask me or anyone at the reference desk! We can save you hours of guessing!

Searching EUCLID will yield both online and print editions of monographs and edited volumes that offer scholarly, in-depth, and coherent studies ready at hand. Linked words and phrases in the following transcription of the course description encode EUCLID searches that will generate results of possible interest. Vary the search terms to see how it affects your results. If your searches fail to yield results, feel free to consult the reference desk or Tim. Another possibility can be that the topic is covered only in journal articles (see section following).

In recent years, the emergence of India as a global technological power has captured the imagination of the international media, transnational corporations, and policymakers across the world. In discussions about outsourcing or the migration of Indian IT workers to the West, Indian technological expertise is often described as a national characteristic— an innate cultural ability that is the hallmark of modern Indian identity. This idea is echoed among social and professional elites in India, who agree that technology is the key to national success in a globalized world. However, the idea of technological ability as an 'Indian' quality is not a recent development, but the product of a long and intriguing history dating back to the era of British colonial rule. In this story, on the one hand, understandings of technology have been linked in fundamental ways to definitions of Indian identity. On the other hand, media technologies, including print, television, and the internet, have contributed to the reimagining and reshaping of Indian regional, linguistic, religious and national collectivities.

With this twin focus, we will examine the relationship between technology and national identities in India from the period of European colonialism in the eighteenth century to the present context of globalization and new media technologies such as the internet. Topics addressed will cover: the reaction of Indians to Western technology in the colonial period; the impact of print and visual media technologies in articulating anticolonial nationalist ideologies; the views of Indian nationalist leaders on technological development; and the use of the internet by diasporic Indian communities to articulate new notions of what it means to be Indian. We will read and analyze a range of texts including historical materials, political writings, analyses of the cultural impact of media, and websites.

Can't find the book you want? Is it checked out? Is it at Oxford or in Storage? Click on the Request button at the top or bottom of the screen while looking at the record in EUCLID to recall it, or request it from Storage or Oxford Library.

To find materials not available at Emory, consider using WorldCat, a catalog of items held in research and special libraries all over the country and the world. You can order items from other libraries around the country using the Emory Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

As an Emory student, you may check out books from Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia using your EmoryCard. Interlibrary Use cards allow you to borrow directly from fourteen libraries in the Atlanta area. These cards are available at the Reference Desk on Level 2.

Tips:

A sample EUCLID search:More EUCLID video tutorials are available on the Research FAQ page.

Most of the articles you will use in your research will be critical articles published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. A peer-reviewed journal is targeted to researchers in its field, and written by experts and scholars. Most of these are not available freely on the web but only by subscription through institutions like Emory.

An index will tell you which journals have published articles on your topic. Indexes come in both print and electronic versions; the electronic version of an index is usually called an article database and some will have links to full text versions of articles. Most print indexes are found in the reference collection on Level 2 of the Woodruff Library.

Bibliography of Asian Studies is the only database narrowly focused on Asian Studies. Other more comprehensive databases listed on the Databases@Emory website under the general category of Area Studies will generate useful results on historical materials. Articles on contemporary issues will be found in other database subject areas such as economics, science and technology, and sociology.

Search interfaces for online databases are still heterogeneous. Most will accept use of wildcards, truncation, and boolean operators and most will have indexed keyword lists. But the wildcard characters and keyword lists may vary, and truncation and boolean operations may be pre-programmed or not. Taking a few minutes to read the database search tip file can save a lot of time in searching. Feel free to consult the reference desk if you need help.

Tips:

What is a scholarly journal?

Many databases just include the citation, not the full article.

To find the full text of articles, look up the journal title (not the article title) in EUCLID or e-Journals to locate the journal in the library or online.