Centre for Manx Studies Bibliography: Information

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The bibliography was started at the time of the Research Review in 1992-3 when researchers who were invited to join the Centre's Research Register were asked to provide details of their publications. The bibliography was developed using the PAPYRUS package but has subsequently been transferred to ACCESS to facilitate publication on the Internet. Since 1992 some subject areas, such as geology and archaeology, have been searched particularly thoroughly. The bibliography covers all published works in any subject area relating to the Isle of Man. This is an on-going project so please be patient with us. We feel it will be more useful to get this online in its present state than wait until it is in a perfect condition. We hope very much that you will provide us with feedback in your subject area.

The next major thrust on the bibliography will be aimed at providing a bibliography volume for the New History. Much work is also require in keeping the bibliography updated and structuring the keyword system.

Full Bibliography
The full Bibliography now holds 7,089 references. It is available for consultation at the Centre by students and researchers (where it is held in an ACCESS database). Please get in touch if you would like to use it.

Subject area bibliographies
To search for references in Archaeology, Geology and CMSBOOKS or look at the list of completed Theses, and to find out more about the Bibliography please go to SEARCH.

CMSBOOKS
The collection of nearly 1,871 books and pamphlets held at 6 Kingswood Grove, Douglas (CMSBOOKS), can now also be searched from the online Bibliography.

The Bibliography database and website are managed and run by Philippa Tomlinson, Nick Johnson and Claire Corkill.

Keywords
The number of references for the major subject areas are listed below (nb a reference may have any number of keywords).

 
Subject area No. of refs: Online?
Anthropology 16
Archaeology 1685 Yes
Architecture 117
Bibliography 27
Biography 278
CMSBOOKS 1871 Yes
Constitution and Law 218
Cultural History 214
Economy 72
Education 90
Engineering 23
Environment 90
Financial Sector 57
Geography 69
Geology 739 Yes
History 533
Language and Culture 1,108
Legal 392
Medical 73
Natural History 1,260
Theses 128 Yes
Tourism 198
Total number of references: 7,089