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RESEARCH GUIDE FOR HISTORY
FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Guides, Directories, Bibliographies
Ritter, Harry. Dictionary of Concepts in History. Westport: Greenwood, 1986. (Uris Reference and Olin Reference D13 .R59) Arranged in dictionary format, this source explains "key concepts of contemporary historical analysis" (Introduction).Historical periodicals directory Eric H. Boehm, Barbara H. Pope, and Marie S. Ensign, editors. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 1981-1986. Olin Library Reference + Z6205 .H673.
Steiner, Dale R. Historical
journals : a handbook for writers and reviewers. Santa Barbara, Calif. :
ABC-Clio, c1980. (Olin Reference Z6205 .S92)
A guide for writers interested in placing works for publication in historical
journals. Brief sections offering advice on articles and book reviewing are
followed by an alphabetical listing of about 700 historical journals.
Slavens, Thomas P. Sources of information for historical research New York : Neal-Schuman, c1994. (Olin Reference Z6201 .S64x 1994). The coverage of sources is comprehensive, organized by geography (country or continent), genre, and type of holding. All works listed are annotated.
Barzun, Jacques. The modern researcher. Fort Worth [Tex.] : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers ; c1992. 5th ed. (Olin Reference and stacks D13 .B29 1992).The classic guide to historical research in an updated, revised version.
Freidel, Frank, ed. Harvard Guide to American History. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1974. (Olin Reference and Uris Reference Z 1236 .H23 1974) Includes bibliographical references to materials in political, social, constitutional, and economic history. Divided into nine parts: 1) Research Methods and Materials, 2) Biographies and Personal Records, 3) Comprehensive and Area Histories, 4) Histories of Special Subjects, 5) America to 1789, 6) U.S., 1789-1860, 7) Civil War and Reconstruction, 8) Rise of Industry and Empire, and 9) Twentieth Century. Volume II also contains an index of names and a subject index.
Norton, Mary Beth, ed. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.) Olin Reference +Z6201.A51 G9 1995 A new edition of a standard reference work. A comprehensive guide to historical literature for all periods and areas of the world in two volumes. Useful for retrospective bibliography and primary source material.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Reference
universe.
[Sterling, VA] : Paratext, 2002- Search the back-of-the-book indexes to subject
encyclopedias and other reference works in a wide variety of subject areas.
Oxford Reference Online: History Outstanding collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and companions covering all periods, places and aspects of history.
Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. ed. by Michael Grant and Rachel Kitzinger. New York: Scribner's, 1988. (Olin and Uris Reference DE59 .C58 1988) Three volumes offer extensive articles and brief bibliography.
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Jack M. Sasson, editor in chief. New York: Scribner's, Macmillan Library Reference USA; London: Simon & Schuster Prentice Hall International, c1995.(Uris Reference DS57 .C55x 1995) This four volume work includes articles with bibliographical references and index.
Strayer, Joseph R., gen. ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 12 vols. New York: Scribners, 1982-1988. (Olin Reference D 114 D55+; also Uris) A major reference source in this area. The articles, written by specialists, cover roughly the years 500-1500 A.D. in the lands of the Latin West, the Slavic world, Asia Minor, the lands of the Caliphate in the East, and the Muslim-Christian areas of North Africa.
Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams, editors. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001. (Uris Library Reference E169.1 .E624x 2001) Essays by major scholars with bibliography.
Cayton, Marx Kupiec, ed. Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1992. (Uris Reference and Olin Reference HN 57 .E56 1992) This 3-volume encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present various aspects of American social history, including periods of social change, patterns of everyday life, family history and science, medicine and technology.
Stearns, Peter N. ed., Encyclopedia of European Social History: From 1350 To 2000. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. (Olin and Uris Reference HN 373 .E63 2001) This encyclopedia "contains 209 articles arranged in twenty-three topical sections" (Introduction, p. xxi) that present a variety of European social history issues.
Wieczynski,
Joseph L., ed. Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. 58
vols. Gulf Breeze: Academic International, 1976-1995. (Olin Reference DK14
M68)
A massive work drawing information from major Russian reference sources, both
historical and contemporary, as well as from standard monographs, articles and
other writings. Bibliographic references have been supplemented with important
English-language titles. Supplementary volumes 46 - 55 cover topics omitted
in the main sequence, especially material on cities and towns, and biographies
of individuals deceased since publication of earlier volumes. Volumes 56 - 58
are indexes by entries and authors; topics; time period.
Rhyne, George N. Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History. Gulf Breeze: Academic International, 1995 - . (Olin Reference DK14 M68 Suppl.) An ongoing supplement to the above, arranged alphabetically by topic, with the purpose of including recent subjects as well as updating older entries with newly available sources. The set has been retitled since volume 56 as Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History [SMERSH] to reflect fuller treatment of non-Russian areas and cultures.
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. 9 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983. Plus suppl. 1986. (Uris Reference and Kroch Asia Reference DS 805 K76+) Over 9,000 entries (the vast majority under 500 words) are contained in this eight-volume encyclopedia. A one-volume index completes the set.
Encyclopedia of Asian history. Prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society ; editor in chief, Ainslie T. Embree; executive editor, Robin J. Lewis ; editors, Richard W. Bulliet ... [et al.]. New York, NY : Scribner, c1988. Four volumes. (Kroch Library Asia and Uris Library Reference +DS31 .E56)
New one or multi-volume specialized encyclopedias such as Germany: An Encyclopedia (Olin Reference DD126 .M43x 2001+), Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (Olin Reference DA315 .T753x 2001) arrive daily. They can be located through a keyword search in the online catalog or browsing the reference collection at the appropriate call number.
Chronologies
The Almanac of American history, general editor, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; executive editor, John S. Bowman. New York : Putnam, c1983. (Olin Library stacks E174.5 .A4 1983)Carruth, Gorton. The encyclopedia of American facts & dates New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1987. 8th ed. (Uris Library Reference E174.5 .C31 1987).
Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson.
Longman Handbook of Modern European History, 1763-1985. (London and New
York: Longman, 1987) and Longman Handbook of World History since 1914.
London and New York: Longman, 1991. (Olin Library stacks DA470 .C77 1988)
Everyman's Dictionary of Dates. 6th ed. revised by Audrey Butler.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1971. (Olin and Uris Reference D9 .A76 1971; other
editions in the stacks)
Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. Chronology of World History: A Calendar of Principal Events from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1973. London: Rex Collins, 1975. (Olin Reference D11 .F85).
Steinberg, S.H. Historical Tables 58 B.C.-A.D. 1990. 12th ed. Updated by John Paxton. London: MacMillan, 1991. (most recent edition at Library Annex + D11 .S83x 1991; earlier editions in stacks and reference).
Bibliographies
Bibliography of
British History, 1851-1914. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976.(Olin Reference Z2019
H23) Excellent bibliographic coverage of all aspects of British history
during the latter half of the 19th century.
Biography
American
National Biography [New York] : Oxford University Press, c2000. (Library
Gateway's Databases; also available in print, Olin Reference + CT213 .A68x 1999)
Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women, from all eras and walks
of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. Features thousands of illustrations,
hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.
American biographical archive. Ed. Laureen Baillie, Gerry Easter. London ; New York : K.G. Saur, [1986- 1995]. (microfiche CT213 .A51 1995 shelved in microforms alcove Olin Library Lower Level). This set reproduces entries from biographical sources. Includes Canadians. American biographical index (Olin Library Reference + CT213 .A511 1998 ) serves as an index to the microfice. This 10 volume set serves as an index to the microfiche entitled
Dictionary of National Biography (online). 21 vols. plus suppl. London: Oxford UP, 2004. (also in print at Olin Reference and Uris Reference DA28.D4 O95 2004) The standard work for English biography. It contains signed articles by specialists and excellent bibliographies. The scope includes noteworthy inhabitants of the British Isles and the Colonies. Still not very good on its coverage of women.
British biographical archive: a one-alphabet cumulation of 324 of the most important English-language biographical reference works originally published between 1601 and 1929. London: K. G. Saur, 1984. 1236 microfiches. (Olin lower level microtexts) Reproduces in one alphabetical sequence entries from some 320 biographical sources other than the Dictionary of National Biography. Indexed by British biographical index (Olin Reference +CT773 .B86 1998). Useful both as an index to the microfiche and as independent resource, providing dates, occupations, and citations to both printed sources and the microfiche set.
Dictionnaire de biographie française. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1933-92. (In progress.) (Olin Reference +CT 143.D55) An important dictionary of national biography, unfortunately still incomplete (to date up to L). More convenient to use, but not nearly as extensive as the microfiche set above.
Archives biographiques françaises. London: Bowker-Saur, Ltd., 1988-90. 1065 microfiches. (Olin lower level microtexts) Reproduces entries from nearly 180 biographical sources published from the earliest time to 1914. Includes supplements of omissions. Indexed by Archives biographiques françaises (Olin Reference +CT1003 .I53x 1998). Useful both as an index to the microfiche and as independent resource, providing dates, occupations, and citations to both printed sources and the microfiche set.
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie Leipzig: Duncker, 1875-1912. 56 volumes.(Olin stacks CT1053 .A43) The outstanding German biographical dictionary, containing long, signed articles, with bibliographies, on persons from early times to the end of the 19th century.
Deutsches biographisches Archiv: eine Kumulation aus 254 der wichtigsten biographischen Nachschlagswerke für den deutschen Beriech bis zum Ausgang des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1982. 1447 microfiches. (Microfiche CT1053 .D48; Olin library lower level) Reproduces about 400,000 entries on 225,000 individuals from 267 biographical sources published between 1700 and 1910, plus a supplement of omissions. Indexed by: Deutscher biographischer Index (Olin Library Reference +CT1053 .D48 1998). For more recent biographies, see Deutsches biographisches Archiv. Neue Folge bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts [microform] : eine Kumulation aus 284 der wichtigsten biographischen Nachschlagewerke für den deutschsprachigen Bereich (Microfiche CT1053 .D48 1990 shelved in microforms alcove on Olin Lower Level).
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index Detroit : Gale Research, Inc. (Library
Gateway's Databases; also in print Olin Reference +Z5305.U5 B61)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes current, readily available
reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover
individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from
all areas of the world.
Statistical
Sources
Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993. 4th rev. ed. London: Macmillan Reference Ltd., 1998. (Olin Reference HA 1107 M5x 1998; older edition in Uris Reference HA 1107 M68 1981) Official and unofficial statistical sources were used to provide comparative data for the 26 European countries (including Russia) treated. Arranged into 11 sections: climate; population and vital statistics; labor force; agriculture; industry; external trade; transportation and communication; finance; prices; education; and national accounts. Check list in the front of the volume for official sources consulted.
Mitchell, Brian R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, and Oceania 1750-1993. 3rd rev. ed. London: Macmillan Reference Ltd., 1998. (Olin Reference HA4675 .M552x 1998) Presents comparative statistics for 80 African and Asian countries (including Cyprus and the Near East), derived from official governmental and intergovernmental publications, and supplemented by unofficial sources. Dates of coverage vary, but the majority of tables begin during the first half of the 19th century. Topics include climate, population, labor force, agriculture, industry, external trade, transport and communications, finance, prices, education, and national accounts.
Mitchell, Brian R. International
Historical Statistics: the Americas, 1750-1993. 4th ed. London: Macmillan
Reference Ltd., 1998. (Olin Reference HA175 .M55x 1998)
Presents comparative statistics for 26 North, Central, and South American countries,
mostly from the mid-19th century to the early 1970s. Tables are grouped in 11
broad subject areas.
Historical statistics of the United States. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006- Millennial ed. / editors of the Millennial ed., Susan B. Carter ... [et al.]. Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. The data are readily available for charting, or statistical analysis, or regrouping across tables, which should greatly facilitate the efforts of scholars, journalists, students, and other researchers.
United States. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. 2 vols. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975. (Uris Reference and Olin Reference HA 202 A385+ 1976) Now online as pdfs: Volume 1 Volume 2 Useful not only for the statistics but also for the invaluable source notes. Provides summaries of economic, business, demographic and educational statistics from all eras of American history, to 1970. Arranged by category. Subject and time period indexes.
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1878- . Print volumes available in Olin and Uris Libraries. Latest volume in Reference. Also available in most other libraries. (HA 202) (Also available online through the Library Gateway's Databases) The standard annual summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. It is designed to serve as a convenient volume for statistical reference and is a guide to other statistical publications and sources.
General
Oxford English dictionary [computer file]. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2000]- (Library Gateway's Databases also in print at Olin and Uris Reference PE1625 .M98 1989) The OED presents in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology.
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Germany--History--1618-1648--Sermons
China--History--Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644--Research Methodology
Paris--France--History--18th--Century--Sources
Civilization, Islamic
Periodicals
Fourth Century--Bibliography
United States--Social Conditions--1865-1918--Personal Narratives
Reformation in Art
Monsters in Literature
German Literature--History and Criticism
World War, 1939-1945--Chronology
Manuscripts, Arabic--Africa--Catalogs
Archives--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Directories
Women --England--London--History--18th Century--Diaries
African-Americans--North America
Blacks South Africa Cape of Good Hope History 17th century
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National and International Library Catalogs
The National Union Catalog, pre-1956 Imprints (Olin lower level) This 200+ volume catalog contains photocopies of cards from catalogs from libraries around the country. It can be invaluable for tracking down older material not found in OCLC Worldcat or RLIN.
OCLC Worldcat. [Dublin, Ohio] : OCLC. WorldCat is produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). WorldCat consists of over 35 million records that cite material owned by libraries around the world. Books, magazines, recordings - virtually any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries is included. WorldCat is updated daily.
RLIN Eureka. (Subsumed by Worldcat August 2007.)
Center for Research Libraries Catalog. Chicago : Center for Research Libraries, [19uu?-] The CRL is a consortium of research libraries. It has "most favored interlibrary loan lender" status at Cornell which means that items found there can often be borrowed quickly. CRL has a few unique strengths, including a large collection of foreign doctoral dissertations.
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Library of Congress Call Number Classification for C: Auxiliary Sciences of History (such as Archaeology, Chronology, etc.)
Library of Congress Call Number Classification for D: General and Old World History
Library of Congress Call Number Classification for E and F: History of the Americas
FIND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN HISTORY
Historical Abstracts. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, Inc., c1998-. This historical periodical database includes annotated references to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Covers over 2000 journals. Get alerted to the latest articles by using the Personal Profile feature under the Advanced Search.
America, History and Life Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, Inc., c1998- . A complete bibliographical reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, covering over 2000 journals published worldwide. Get alerted to the latest articles by using the Personal Profile feature under the Advanced Search.
Web of Science (including Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences Citation Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1977- . (Library Gateway's Databases.) A multidisciplinary index to over 1200 leading international arts and humanities journals. It includes journal articles, letters, editorials, notes, meeting abstracts, discussions, poems, short stories, plays, musical scores, excerpts from books, and bibliographies. It is unique in that it allows the user to trace cited references.
Proquest
Dissertations & Theses. Includes doctoral dissertations
and master’s theses. Coverage 1861 to the present.
Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written
by the author. Master’s theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word
abstracts. More than 600,000 are available full text online. Items not available
full text online can generally be interlibrary loaned.
Proquest
Research Library (formerly Periodical Abstracts). Ann Arbor: UMI, 1986-
. Multidisciplinary and multi-genre--scholarly journals, magazines,
reports, newspapers. Indexes and abstracts over 1600 general interest magazines
and scholarly journals. Includes lots of full text.
International
Bibliography of Historical Sciences. Paris, Librairie Armand Colin. 1926-.
Also known as Internationale Bibliographie der Geschichtswissenschaften. Bibliografia
internacional de ciencias historicas. Bibliographie internationale des sciences
historiques. Bibliografia internazionale delle scienze storiche. 1st vol.- 1926-
Suspended 1941-46. (Olin Reference Z6205 .I6)
Covers all areas and periods of history including the auxiliary sciences of
history. Arranged topically and geographically. Valuable for its coverage back
to 1926.
Hapi,
Hispanic American periodicals index. Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American
Center Publications, University of California, c1984-. . From analyses of current
political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American
arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles,
book reviews, documents, original literary works and other materials appearing
in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout
the world.
Francis:
(international humanities and social sciences). . Mountain View, Calif.:
Research Libraries Group, [199-]- . FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual,
multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%),
and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in French studies, religion, the history
of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European
and world literature. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present.
Internationale
Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur:
IBZ (English interface). Osnabrück : Zeller Verlag, [199u]-
A German index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields
of knowledge, and particularly strong in the humanities and the social sciences.
Over 11,000 periodicals are indexed by this multilingual database, now containing
over 1.7 million records. It is international in scope, and indexes a significant
proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent. Available
in print back to the 19th century.
Historische
Bibliographie Online (AHF) ; [hrsg. von Horst Möller in Verbindung mit
Dieter Albrecht ... et al.;]. München : Oldenbourg, c1999-
Index
to publications on history, cumulated from 1990 onward.
Humanities Index.
New York: Wilson, 1974- . (Olin Reference AI 3 H91) An author and subject
index to over 250 English language scholarly journals.
L'année
philologique: APh. Paris : Société internationale de bibliographie
classique, 2001- Online version of L'Année Philologique covering volumes
published since 1969. L'Année Philologique is an exhaustive index of
periodicals, books and festschriften in classics and classical studies. It covers
Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology,
history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects
of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Diotima:
materials for the study of women & gender in the ancient world.
Suzanne Bonefas, Ross Scaife. [Lexington, Ky.] : Classics Dept., University
of Kentucky, [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Classics Dept., University of Miami, <1995>.
Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns
of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration
among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world.
This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable
bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book
reviews, databases, and images.
TOCS-IN
(Library Gateway, Databases) TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents
of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both
in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given
with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about
6%).
Nestor:
bibliography of Aegean prehistory and related areas. Cincinnati :
Dept. of Classics, University of Cincinnati, Coverage as of Sept. 19, 2003: 1957-2001.
Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Mycenaean Greece, homeric
society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. The primary geographic
nexus of Nestor is the Aegean, including all of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey,
and Cyprus. Its chronological range is the prehistoric period from the Palaeolithic
through the end of the Geometric period.
Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Toronto, Ont. : Centre for
Reformation and Renaissance Studies of the University of Toronto, 1996-.
A bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies,
catalogs, editions, abstracts, discographies, and notes.
ABSEES
online. Urbana-Champaign : Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, University of Illinois. ABSEES covers North American scholarship
on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and contains
bibliographic citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews,
dissertations and selected government publications.
The
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies. Mountain View, Calif. :
Research Libraries Group, [1999]. The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
covers the social sciences and humanities with topics ranging from archaeology,
economics, history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political
science, religious studies, and much more. The database includes citations and
abstracts of journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published
primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries
in Eastern Europe.
Bibliography
of Asian Studies. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies,
1971-. The online BAS contains more than 410,000 records on
all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East,
Southeast and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Print
volumes cover back to 1947 (Kroch Asia Reference +Z3001 F2).
Royal
Historical Society bibliography (Online)
Oxford University Press. Database contains 300,000 records on British and Irish
history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth. Bibliography
includes books, articles in journals and collective volumes, and review articles,
incorporating the content of the print annual bibliographies for 1993-2000;
with updates to follow. The on-line edition also includes some earlier publications,
with near-comprehensive coverage of works published since 1900 and select earlier
works.
Academic
search premier.
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing. Multidisciplinary
and multi-genre--scholarly journals, magazines, reports, newspapers. Covers
1984 to present. Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,140
journals, and includes full text from over 3,170 journals.
International
Medieval Bibliography (online).Leeds, England: W.S. Maney,
1967- Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects
in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays.
Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500
for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for
the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently
controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published
as of 1967.
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SCHOLARLY ARTICLES IN RELATED DISCIPLINES
MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association, 1963 - . An international database providing references to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, film, folklore and linguistics.
ATLA Religion Database. American Theological Society. (Library Gateway's Find Databases) A comprehensive database that contains citations from international titles and multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion index one (RIO), Religion index two (RIT), and: Index to book reviews in religion (IBRR).
The
Philosopher's Index (Library Gateway's Find Databases) Econlit
Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1969-. Produced
by the American Economic Association, EconLit indexes books, journal articles,
dissertations, and articles in books published since 1969.
Psycinfo.
Washington: APA, 1984- . Sociological
Abstracts. Wellesley Hills: Silver Platter, 1974- . Indexes
and abstracts the world's leading journals in sociology. It covers articles
published since 1974. There is extensive coverage of sociolinguistics.
Anthropology
Plus. [Mountain View, Calif.] : The Research Libraries Group, Inc.,
1993-. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles,
reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social,
cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology,
folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers
coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known
journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Bibliography
of the History of Art. [Santa Monica, Calif.] : J. Paul Getty Trust
; [Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France] : Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
1996?- Covering
European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography
of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings
and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more
than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art file is updated
quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.
Art
Full Text. [New York, NY] : H.W. Wilson, 1984- Indexes,
abstracts and full-text from international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum
bulletins. Areas covered include archaeology, architecture, art, film, humanities,
marketing, motion pictures and photography.
Diotima:
materials for the study of women & gender in the ancient world.
Suzanne Bonefas, Ross Scaife. [Lexington, Ky.] : Classics Dept., University
of Kentucky, [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Classics Dept., University of Miami, <1995>.
This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable
bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book
reviews, databases, and images.
Index
of Christian art (ICA database). [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton
University, Dept. of Art and archaeology, [1998] Begun in 1917, ICA is an invaluable
thematic/iconographic index to medieval works of art before 1400 AD. The term
Christian art is broadly construed and is not restricted to art produced within
ecclesiastical contexts or theological in theme. Contains all of the works electronically
indexed by the archive since 1991 when computerization started. Can be challenging
to use. A couple of tips: In a list of hits, to see the record for a specific
item, click on the number to the far left. To see an image, when available,
go to the record and click on the link in the image field. ARTstor
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data. Covers the
fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and
design, as well asmany other forms of visual culture. SOUTHEAST
ASIA VISIONS
is a digital collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern (1613 - 1920s)
Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echol's collection
many of which are housed in the Asia Rare collection. The collection Web site
provides contextual information as well as access to full text and image descriptions
for more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French and
10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color.
American
journeys eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement :
a digital library and learning center. Wisconsin Historical Society.
"Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private
donors, American journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical
Society and National History Day." "Contains more than 18,000 pages
of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings
in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years
later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers
as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search,
print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic
travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical
Society." Early
encounters in North America [electronic resource] : peoples, cultures, and the
environment. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street
Press, 2001-2002. This database, assembled from hundreds of primary
sources, documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment
in North America from 1534 to 1850. The database includes prints, drawings,
paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs as well as texts.
American
Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Washington,
DC: Library of Congress, National Digital Library Program, 1994-. Provides
information on, and access to, the digitized version of the Library's primary-source
collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents,
sound recordings, and motion pictures.
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and many journals on philosophy and
related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World.
Coverage is from 1940 to the present for U.S. materials, and 1967 to the present
for non-U.S. references.
Indexes and abstracts 1300 leading international journals in psychology and
related behavioral disciplines. The online version available on the Web, updated
monthly, includes a periodical article index from 1887 to the present and a
book chapters index from 1987 to the present, as well as all the records from
the print version Psychological Abstracts.
FIND
HISTORICAL IMAGES
American
Periodical Series/APS online. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1986- . Over 1,100
periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special
interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s
and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Useful for historical advertising.
Evans
digital edition (American Imprints) American Antiquarian Society.
[Chester, VT]: Readex, 2002- In progress. Based on the renowned American
bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to
Evans' American bibliography. Serves as the foundation for research on every
aspect of 17th and 18th century American life. Includes images.
Eighteenth
century collections online (ECCO). [electronic resource]. [Detroit,
Mich.?] : Gale Group, c2003- In progress. Aims to include every significant
English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along
with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.
Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera and images contained therein.
Early
English books online (EEBO)
The
Map Collection located in the Lower Level of Olin Library. Kroch
Rare and Manuscript Collections
In progress. EEBO contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700),
and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
FIND
PRIMARY SOURCES AT CORNELL AND ONLINE
The Map Collection contains over 232,000 maps, 3000 books and atlases and 400
CD-ROMs. The collection is geographically comprehensive and supports the teaching,
research and study needs of the entire Cornell University community.
The Rare and Manuscript Division is located in an underground addition attached
to Olin Library. It houses manuscripts from a variety of periods and several
special collections including the History of Science Collection and the French
Revolution collection. It also supports such electronic collections as the image
collection of European Renaissance Art: UTOPIA.
U.S.
Congressional serial set (Online) 1817-1980 [Chester, VT] : Readex,
2003-
Full text of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and
House of Representatives. Still in progress.
A
century of lawmaking for a new nation: U.S. Congressional documents and debates,
1774-1873 / the Law Library of Congress. [Washington, D.C.] : Library
of Congress, [1998-] Presents records and acts of Congress from the Journals
of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication
with the Forty-second Congress in 1873.
Finding Guide to U.S. Government Documents at Cornell
Research
Guide for UN Documents at Cornell
The
Electronic Text Center. Located on the first floor of Olin Library,
the ETC is a laboratory for the use of full-text primary sources in electronic
form (such as CD-ROM). The ETC provides access to the library's electronic texts
for scholarly textual analysis and editing from a set of dedicated workstations.
The Text Center is open during the hours the library is open. Ask at the reference
or information desks for assistance.
British
History Online
is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary
sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by
the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we
aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning,
teaching and research. Included are the House
of Commons Journal and House
of Lords Journal
Finding
British Sessional Papers at Cornell
The
making of modern law: legal treatises 1800-1926.
[Farmington Hills, Mich.] : Thomson Gale, 2004. Derived from two essential reference
collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth
Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, The Making of Modern Law features
a fully searchable database of more than 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including
casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets,
letters, speeches as well as material that isn't narrowly legal.
Early
encounters in North America [electronic resource] : peoples, cultures, and
the environment. Alexandria, VA : Alexander
Street Press, 2001-2002. This database,
assembled from hundreds of primary sources, documents the relationships among
peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection
focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of
the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers,
native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The database includes prints,
drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original
facsimile pages all searchable by standardized vocabulary.
American
journeys eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement
: a digital library and learning center. Wisconsin Historical
Society. "Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services
and by private donors, American journeys is a collaborative project of the
Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day." "Contains
more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration,
from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men
in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries,
traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American
history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original
manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of
the Wisconsin Historical Society."
Making of America: the Cornell University Library MOA collection [Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, 1996-] A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Washington, DC: Library of Congress, National Digital Library Program, 1994-. Provides information on, and access to, the digitized version of the Library's primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
Evans digital edition (American Imprints) American Antiquarian Society. [Chester, VT]: Readex, 2002- In progress. Based on the renowned American bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. Serves as the foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life.
Eighteenth century collections online (ECCO). [electronic resource]. [Detroit, Mich.?] : Gale Group, c2003- In progress. Aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera.
Early
English books online (EEBO)
In progress. EEBO contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700),
and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Guide to full text of pre-1800 Imprints, British and American at Cornell
ARTFL Full-text online of nearly 2000 French texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Gallica
Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Includes many digitized collections of primary
sources originally published in the 19th century such as the multi-volume
Recueil
des historiens des croisades. Use the [challenging] Gallica catalog to
find the fulltext.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. [State College, Pa.] : Accuweather, Inc., c1999-. The Photo Archive is an on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's current and historical images for the last 150 years. It features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as international photos.
SOUTHEAST ASIA VISIONS is a digital collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern (1613 - 1920s) Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echol's collection many of which are housed in the Asia Rare collection. The collection Web site provides contextual information as well as access to full text and image descriptions for more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color.
Africa
Research Central: Primary Sources for African Studies--a
wonderful database of Primary Sources for the Study of Africa; also good is
an excellent and active email/bulletin board discussion lists found through
African
Studies H-Net Listserv
FIND PRIMARY SOURCE PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) (Library Gateway's Find Databases) Covers 1770-1993.Electronic index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
Readers' guide retrospective. [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., c1997- A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur: IBZ. In print.. Osnabrück : Zeller Verlag, [199u]- A German index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields of knowledge, and particularly strong in the humanities and the social sciences It is international in scope, and indexes a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent. Available in print back to the 19th century.
American Periodical Series/APS online. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1986- . Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Useful for historical advertising.
Historical Newspapers Online. Alexandria : Chadwyck-Healy. The Official index to the Times, Palmer's index to the Times, and the Historical index to the New York times in electronic form.
Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers In
development. Newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American
newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored
jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
ProQuest
historical newspapers. [Ann Arbor, Mich.]: UMI, c2002-
Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times (1851-2003), the
Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), the Washington Post (1877-1990), every page
from every issue in PDF files.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 (formerly Early American Newspapers. [Chester, Vt.?] : Readex, [2004?]- Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newspapers.
Paper of record. [Ottawa, Ont.] : Cold North Wind, [200u]- Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images dating from the 1700's. Based on a pre-existing microfilm collection, the online text preserves the original format of the paper, but can sometimes be of poor quality. (Better quality could be interlibrary loaned if necessary.) Included are newspapers from Australia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and United States of America. Many of these titles date from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s.
Poole's Plus: Indices to Nineteenth-Century Newspapers, Periodicals, Books and Government Documents [Reston, VA] : Paratext, Inc., 2000. A continually expanding resource for the study of 19th century cultural and intellectual life.
Increasingly
archives are providing
websites with basic information and contacts if not guides to and catalogs
of their collections. Major archives and repositories generally publish guides
in print which often can be found through a keyword search (using the name
of the archive) in the CU catalog, Worldcat, or RLIN.
Selected print
and online guides:
ArchivesUSA
[Alexandria, VA] : Chadwyck-Healy, Inc. Provides information about primary
source materials from nearly 4,500 manuscript repositories in the United States.
It includes records, with indexes, for approximately 100,000 manuscript and
other collections. It brings together information from NUCMC, or the National
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (found in print at Olin and the National
Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS). It also updates and supersedes the
Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS),
last published in 1988.
ArchiveGrid
Open the Door to History.
[Mountain View, Calif. : Research Libraries Group] Directory of archives
and manuscript repositories. United States. National Historical Publications
and Records Commission. Washington : National Historical Publications and
Records Commission, 1988. (Olin Reference CD3020 .U58 1978 +) A useful
guide for addresses and brief descriptions of the strengths of collections.
Arranged geographically by city within states. Has been superseded by ArchivesUSA.
National
Archives and Records Administration Foster, Janet and Julia
Sheppard. British archives : a guide to archive resources in the United
Kingdom. 3rd ed. Basingstoke, England : Macmillan ; New York, N.Y. : Stockton
Press, 1995. (Olin Reference CD1040 .F75 1995)
Guide
to Finding [Medieval] Manuscripts
Search engines (such as
the highly rated Google) or Internet subject
guides for the World Wide Web can be useful resources. A search engine
is software that allows you to search the contents of web pages and a subject
guide is a web page that uses menus and lists to sort and classify web
sites. Be cautious with material and information found on the web. Evaluating
Web Sites is a helpful guide to using web resources. The History
E-Book Project a collection of full-text books from the American
Council of Learned Societies. List
of POD (print-on-demand for purchase) titles.
Cornell
Research Guide for American Indian Studies Cornell
Research Guide for East European and Russian History Cornell
Research Guide for Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Cornell
Research Guide for Medieval Studies Cornell
Research Guide for Latino Studies The
American Historical Association's page with of affiliate historical
organizations.
The History
E-Book Project a collection of full-text books from the American
Council of Learned Societies. List
of POD (print-on-demand for purchase) titles
History
Organizations and Societies, an eclectic collection of links
to major (and less well known) historical organizations.
JAKE.
JAKE ("jointly administered knowledge environment"). A favorite of librarians,
JAKE allows you to identify journal titles, where they are indexed, and which
vendors make them available in full-text.
Internet
History Sourcebook Project Collections
of sources for ancient, medieval, modern, etc. history. A convenient way to
find the classic sources of a period. Be wary. "Editions" and translations
contributed by volunteers can be outdated and error-ridden.
The
Voice of the Shuttle covers all periods of history. Digitized
video collections were recently added.
The
Labyrinth: Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
Near
Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Cornell's
Africana Library History
of Africa (University of Stanford)
Slavic
and East European Collections, Cornell University
Yale
University's Research Guide to Modern European History is particularly
good on history by region.
Turabian, Kate L. A
Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 5th ed.
Chicago: U Chicago P, 1987. (Uris and Olin Reference PE 1478 T92 1987)
A newly revised
and expanded version by B. Honigsblum, of Kate Turabian's standard guide for
student writers. Fourteen chapters cover everything you've ever wanted to
know about putting a paper together, from its introductory chapters to its
bibliography. online
version
MLA
citation style MLA
citation style (Library Gateway Help)
MLA
Style (MLA's web site)
Modern Language Association
of America. MLA Style Manual. 2nd ed. New York: MLA, 1985.(Olin
Reference PN147 G444x 1998; also Uris Reference) Although
somewhat scholarly in tone, the purpose of the MLA Style Manual is
to provide for the researcher, at whatever level, a systematic, consistent
format for all forms of citation. In addition, it provides information about
proofreading, the use of abbreviations, transliteration and such simple, but
not always obvious items, as margin width, pagination, and typeface.
APA
citation style
Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) CU Library Reference
locations include Africana, ILR, Mann, Olin, and Uris Libraries at call number:
BF76.7 .P83x 2001+.
APA
citation style (Library Gateway Help)
APA
Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials Excerpted from
the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual.
Managing
Information using Bibliographic/Citation Software
RefWorks
is a web-based program that allows you to easily collect, manage, and organize
bibliographic references by interfacing with databases. RefWorks also interfaces
directly with Word, making it easy to import references and incorporate them
into your writing, properly formatted according to the style of your choice.
For more information and to sign up for an account: http://www.refworks.cornell.edu.
EndNote allows
you to build your own database of bibliographic references from a variety
of resources, including library catalogs and periodical indexes. EndNote interfaces
with several standard word processing programs and provides direct connections
to resources, making it easy to import references and incorporate them in
your writing. EndNote (or RefWorks) is highly recommended for researchers.
EndNote
workshops are regularly held on campus.
New!
RefWorks/EndNote
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FIND
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
Includes a searchable database for catalog records for archival collections
and items, and full-text guides to specific collections. Sources are RLG members
and nonmember contributors.
This is the National Archives of the United States. The print versions are
Guide to the National Archives of the United States and The Archives: A Guide
to the National Archives Field Branches. Since NARA administers the Presidential
Libraries, it includes links to their electronic finding aids on this site.
Quick
Guides: just the essentials
SELECTED
WEB SITES FOR HISTORIANS
H-Net
Listservs--active email/bulletin board discussion lists on all
aspects of history including such topics as Primary
Sources for African Studies
CITE
WHAT YOU USE
The
Chicago Manual of Style (online). 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago,
1993. (Olin Reference Desk Z 253 U69x 2003; also Uris) "A
standard work, thoroughly revised and updated, which serves as a how-to book
for authors and editors. In three main sections (Bookmaking; Style; Production
and printing), offering practical information and advice on all aspects of
manuscript preparation, copyediting, and seeing a work through the press.
Glossary of technical terms; bibliography; index." (Sheehy). The basics online:
Chicago
Manual of Style.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) CU
Library Reference locations include Olin and Uris Libraries at call number:
Z 253 M68 2003.
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