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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 -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/