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Department
of History
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide describes basic information on library
and information resources related to history, as provided
by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
History Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
History, General D -------- Great Britain DA
-------- Central Europe DAW -------- Austria DB1-
DB879 -------- Hungary DB901- DB999 --------
Czechoslovakia DB2000- DB3150 -------- France DC
-------- Germany DD -------- Greco-Roman World DE
-------- Greece DF -------- Italy DG --------
Low Countries DH, DJ -------- Eastern Europe
DJK -------- Russian Federation DK --------
Scandinavia DL -------- Spain and Portugal DP
-------- Switzerland DQ -------- Balkan Peninsula
DR -------- Asia DS -------- India DS401-
DS486 -------- China DS701- DS799.9 --------
Japan DS801- DS897 -------- Korea DS901- DS937
-------- Africa DT43- DT154 -------- North Africa
DT160- DT177 -------- North West Africa DT179.2-
DT179.9 -------- Central Africa DT348- DT363.3
-------- Eastern Africa DT365- DT469 -------- West
Africa DT470- DT671 -------- Southern Africa DT1001-
DT1190 -------- South Africa DT1701- DT2405
-------- Oceania DU -------- Australia DU80-
DU398 -------- New Zealand DU400- DU430 --------
Gypsies DX -------- Americas E- F --------
United States E151- E740 and United States Local
History F1- F975 -------- Canada F1001- F1140
-------- Mexico F1201- F1392 -------- Latin America:
General F1401- F1419 -------- Central America F1421-
F1577 -------- West Indies F1601- F2191 --------
South America: General F2201- F2239 -------- South
American Countries F2251- F3799 -------- Economic
History (by region and country) HC10- HC1085 --------
Economic History & Conditions HD28- HD9999 --------
Social History HN1- HN981
2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles
(using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following are recommended for courses for first-year students
and non-majors:
- (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Premier: Provides full text for
3,288 journals in social science, humanities, general science,
etc. This is one of the world's largest multi-discipline
full text databases.
- (EBSCOhost)
MasterFILE Premier: Provides full text for over
1,890 general reference, business, consumer health, general
science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
The
following are recommended for use by advanced students and
researchers:
- America:
History and Life
(EBSCOhost): Since 1964, the premiere database covering
the history of the United States and Canada. Database indexes
2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to articles,
the database provides citations of book and media reviews
annually as well as abstracts of dissertations.
- Historical
Abstracts
(EBSCOhost):
Since 1954, the premiere database covering history since
1450 (excluding Canada and the United States). In addition
to articles includes 3,000 citations annually to useful
historical books reviewed by leading historical journals
and citations to abstracts of dissertations.
- FirstSearch:
Arts & Humanities Search (= Arts &
Humanities Citation Index): Citations or abstracts
of over two million articles, bibliographies and reviews
from more than 1,300 journals, beginning in 1980. Faculty
and graduate students, undergraduates by special permission.
- FirstSearch:
Humanities Abstracts
(H.W. Wilson): Includes articles, bibliographies and
book reviews drawn from 465 journals. Indexing since 1984,
abstracts since 1994. Faculty and graduate students, undergraduates
by special permission.
- HLAS
Online: A bibliography on
Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated
by scholars since 1935.
- Iter-Gateway
to the Middles Ages and Renaissance
(University of Toronto): Consists of records indexed from
400 scholarly journals pertaining to the period 400-1700.
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of over 225 (and growing) core scholarly
journals up to the most recent three to five years.
- Times
Digital Archive: Online tool researchers can search
through the complete digital edition of The Times
(London), to retrieve full facsimile images of articles
from 1785-1985.
- The
Historical Los Angeles Times: 1881-1986 (ProQuest)
Full Facsimile images from 1881-1986.
- The
Historical New York Times: Full facsimile images
of articles appearing in the New York Times from its inception
in 1851 through to four years before the present.
- Project
Muse: Scholarly Journals Online: Full-text articles,
mostly in the humanities.
The
following services are useful in locating biographical information:
- Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (Gale Group): BGMI
is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical
sketches in more than 3,400 volumes of current and retrospective
reference books.
- Biography
Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson): Combines the complete
content of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated with
Biography Index Plus. Includes more than 95,000 biographies
and 26,000 photographs.
The
following sources are useful in locating reviews of historical
books:
- Book
Review Index (Ref Z1035 A1 B6): Since 1965, BRI
has been the leading general guide to reviews of thousands
of books appearing in over 500 publications from the U.S.,
Canada, Europe and Australia. Each annual includes more
than 40,000 reviews.
- Books
in Print with Reviews: Lists 3.5 million books in
print, out of print, or forthcoming, and provides 500,000
full text reviews from Choice, Library Journal,
Booklist, and other library review media.
- ChoiceReviews.online:
Provides access to more than 100,000 reviews of academic
books which were reviewed in Choice Magazine.
- See
also: America: History and Life;
Historical Abstracts; Arts and Humanities Search
(FirstSearch); Humanities Abstracts.
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3. Reference Works in the Helm Library
Guides
- Reference
Sources in History: An Introductory Guide. 2nd ed. (Fritze,
Coutts & Vyhnanek). ABC-CLIO. Ref. Z6201 .F72 2004
(also
as E-book)
Historical
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- The
American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History.
Holt. Ref. E174 .A535 1998
- Civilizations
of the Ancient Near East. Scribner's. 4 vols. Ref.
DS57 .C55 1995
- Dictionary
of American History. 3rd ed.
Thomson/Gale. 10 vols. Ref. E174 .D52 2003
- Dictionary
of the Middle Ages. Scribner's. 13 vols. (1982-1989).
Ref. D114 .D5 1982
- Encyclopedia
of Africa: South of the Sahara. Scribner's. 4 vols.
Ref. DT351 .E53 1997
- Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History. 2nd ed. Macmillan.
6 vols. Ref. E185 .E54 2006
- Encyclopedia
of American Civil Rights & Liberties. Greenwood
3 vols. Ref. KF 4748 .E53 2006
- Encyclopedia
of American History. Facts on
File. 11 vols. Ref E174 .E53 2002
- Encyclopedia
of American Social History. Scribner's. 3 vols. Ref.
HN57 .E58 1993
- Encyclopedia
of American Social Movements. Sharpe. 4 vols. Ref HN57 .
E594 2004
- Encyclopedia
of Asian History. Scribner's. 4 vols. Ref. DS31
.E53 1988
- Encyclopedia
of India. 4
vols. Gale. Ref DS 405 E556 2006
- Encyclopedia
of Latin American History and Culture. Scribner's.
5 vols. Ref. F1406 .E53 1996
- Encyclopedia
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America.
Gale 3 vols. Ref HQ 76.3 . U5 E53 2004
- Encyclopedia
of Southern History. LSU Press. Ref. E207.7 .E52
1979
- Encyclopedia
of the Confederacy. Simon & Schuster. 4 vols. Ref.
E487 .E55 1993
- Encyclopedia
of the Enlightenment. Oxford. 4 vols. Ref. B802
.E53 2003
- Encyclopedia
of the North American Colonies. Scribner's. 3 vols.
Ref. E45 .E53 1993
- Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance. Scribner's. 6 vols. Ref. CB361
.E52 1999
- Encyclopedia
of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Scribner's.
4 vols. Ref. E740.7 .E53 1996
- Encyclopedia
of U.S. Foreign Relations. Oxford. 4 vols. Ref.
E183.7 .E53 1997
- The
Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Gale.
4 vols. Ref. E77 .G15
- The
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights.
Greenwood.
2 vols. Ref E185.96 e54 2003
- The
Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky.
Ref. F451 .K413 1992
- The
New Encyclopedia of the American West. Yale. Ref.
F591 .N46 1998
- Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford. 5 vols. Ref.
HC15 .O94 2003
- Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Oxford. 4
vols. Ref. DS35.53 .O95 1995
- Women
in World History Biographical Encyclopedia. Gale. 16
vols. Ref. HQ1115 .W6 1999
4. Department of History Home Page
5. Related Professional Societies
(for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships,
etc.)
6. Web-based Sites & Products
Recommended by Department of History Faculty
General
E-Books
- ACLS
Humanities E-Books Project http://www.historyebook.org/
[provides full-text access to 1700 monographic works of
major importance to historical studies and other humanities;
selected by the American Council of Learned Socities]
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