On 17 March 2016, Mita Williams wrote:

> I would suggest that the best subject list for database list might be the
> list of departments and or faculties you have on campus.
>
> That's how we chose to express our subject areas (
> http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/research-tools)
>
> Our reasoning was largely based on this paper, "Students, Librarians, and
> Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return" by Brenda Reeb and Susan
> Gibbons (
> http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v004/4.1reeb.html)
> who suggest that students have a hard time mapping research topics to
> subjects and so ideally, our databases / subject guides should be mapped at
> a course level. That was considered too much for us, so we map to the
> Department level instead.

That's what we did at York, too:

http://www.library.yorku.ca/subjects/

That list hasn't been tended in four years, though, and is under consideration 
for being dropped in favour of the sadly ubiquitous LibGuides.

Bill

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