History Study Centre

Demonstration

History Study Centre

• A wealth of primary and secondary resources for historians.

• Content is selected and organised by expert editors.

• All elements of the service can be quickly and accurately searched.

Seven composite elements

• Study Units

• Reference Library

• Journal Library

• Picture Library

• Video Library

• KnowledgeNotes™ History Guides

• Web Gateway

Home Page

Instantly search all areas of the Study Centre with Quick

Search. Navigate the Topic Tree to find Study

Units you are interested in.

Explore the resources individually.

Quick Search

• Quick Search enables instant searching of all elements of the Study Centre.

• Your keyword will be matched against a range of related meanings using sophisticated search technology.

• All records which contain your search term will be brought back, in relevance order.

Quick Search

Quick Search retrieves results across all seven elements of the Study Centre.

The most relevant items appear at the top of the list. Click on a link to view the

record.

Your search term and related terms are highlighted in the text.

Use the Previous and Next record buttons to move through your results.

Advanced Search

• Advanced Search allows more focused searching.

• Specify exactly which resources you want to search in – including the option to search specific reference volumes.

• Control how the search technology operates.

Choose whether to use Boolean operators or to expand your search to include variant spellings or

related meanings.

You can opt to restrict your

search just to the title field, or

just to biographical

records.

Select which resources to

include in your search.

Study Units

• Study Units bring together essential information and rare documents, and encourage further research.

• Each Study Unit contains between 30-120 articles, documents and images selected for their relevance to the topic.

Find Study Units using the Topic

Tree. Click on a link to view the Study Unit you are interested in.

Each Study Unit begins with a brief

introduction.

Resources are grouped under

different headings. Click on a heading

to jump down to that section of the Study

Unit.

Highlights

Around five of the best items on each

Study Unit are selected as highlights.

Each Highlight has a brief explanatory

caption.

Click on the link to view the item.

Reference Library

• A library of around forty respected reference volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical atlases and historiographical guides.

• All volumes can be browsed through Tables of Contents.

• An ideal launching point for further research.

Click to view a Table of Contents for the volume.

The Table of Contents is organised in expandable and collapsible sections.

Click on a link to view the article.

Journal Library

• Search cover-to-cover full text from around fifty top periodicals.

• Browse Tables of Content for each issue.

• Journals are regularly updated with new issues.

• Backfiles vary in length – some go back to 1986.

Search the full text of articles.

Choose to limit your search by date.

View a list of journals and browse by issue.

The most recent articles appear at the top of the list.

You can choose to re-sort your results in relevance order.

Most articles open as

PDF page images.

Picture Library

• Search an archive of thousands of historical images, from early woodcuts to modern news photography.

• Each image is given a detailed caption which places it in its historical context and aids searching.

Enter your search term and

click Go!

The search retrieves all

images where the captions match your

search term, with the most

relevant results at the top of the

list.

View photographs of the major events of

the twentieth century.

Words which the search engine has matched to

your keywords are highlighted in the caption.

Video Library

• View hundreds of clips from the WPA Film Library, some dating back to the end of the nineteenth century.

• Watch footage of historic events such as the signing of the Munich agreement.

• Clips can be downloaded in Real Player or Windows Media Player format.

Simply enter a keyword and click Go! Your keyword will be matched to

clip titles and captions.

KnowledgeNotes™ History Guides

• Extensive introductions to key historical topics and texts, with timelines, biographies and bibliographies.

• Topic Guides offer a thematic examination of major historical topics.

• Text Guides provide close analysis of widely studied documents and historiographical works.

Read a guide to a vital document

such as the Communist Manifesto.

Or look at the guides to important

topics such as the

Vietnam War.

Jump down to any part of the guide from the

menu.

Every History Guide includes

a detailed overview to its subject placing it in historical

context.

Many Text Guides include a link to the full text

of the original document.

Web Gateway

• Search over 2,000 of the best history resources on the Web.

• All selected Web sites must meet quality control standards.

• The gateway is regularly updated to ensure Web sites indexed remain current.

Enter your search term and click Go!

Results are returned in

relevance order.

Click on the ‘details’ button for more information

about the site.