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WISER: Humanities eResources for Historians. Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian. Or, how to become the typical armchair historian. Aim Provide an overview of electronic resources for History Give examples of useful resources: Bibliographic databases Reference sources - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WISER: HumanitieseResources for Historians
Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian
Or, how to become the typical armchair historian
Aim
Provide an overview of electronic resources for History
Give examples of useful resources:Bibliographic databasesReference sourcesFull-text contentSearch engines & portals
Choice of online resources
• Subscription databases
• CD-ROMs
• eJournals & eBooks
• Search engines, websites & portals
Access
Lists of subscriptionsOxLIP & TDNethttp://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources
Off-campus accessVirtual Private NetworkAthens passwordhttp://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
• Bibliographical databasesbooks, articles, dissertations
• Reference sourcesdictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc.
• Full-text alternativeseJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised sources, etc.
• Search engines & portals
We might need to use…
Library cataloguesOLIS
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/
WorldCat
Specialist cataloguesEnglish Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1475-1800
Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919
BL Newspaper catalogue http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/
Bibliographical databases: books
Historical Abstracts (world history, 1450-)
International Medieval Bibliography (500-1500)
Royal Historical Society Bibliography (British history)
Bibliography of the History of Art
ATLA Religion Database (history of religion & church)
EconLit (economic history)
Philosopher’s Index (intellectual history)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (esp. good for book reviews, citation searches)
Bibliographical databases: articles
America: History & Life (N America)
Index Islamicus (Oriental)
Bibliography of Asian Studies
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliographical databases: articles
Index to Theses (UK & Irish)
Dissertation Abstracts International (US bias)
Theses in progress & completed (1995- via Institute of Historical Research website)
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Theses/
Bibliographical databases: dissertations
Dictionaries & encyclopedias
GatewaysOxford Reference OnlineXrefer Plus
Subject-specificInternational Encyclopedia for the Middle AgesOxford English DictionaryRoutledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyGrove Dictionary of Artetc.
Dictionaries & encyclopedias
Biographical dictionariesWorld Biographical Information SystemDictionary of National Biography (British)American National Biography (US)
Other useful references sources
World of Learning
Digimap Historic Map ServiceColumbia Gazetteer of the World
Historical currency http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Historical directories (England)http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
Historical calendars http://www.timeanddate.com/
Full-text: eJournals
via TDNet
Historical content: JSTORPeriodicals Archive OnlineOxford Journals (OUP)
Current content:Oxford Journals (OUP)Cambridge Journals (CUP)Project Muse
Full-text: eBooks
Individual titles listed in OLIS
Oxford Scholarship OnlineTaylor & FrancisPast MastersOxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
Full-text: eNewspapers
HistoricalTimes Digital ArchiveWashington PostNew York Times Historical ArchiveTimes Literary SupplementAmerican Periodicals Series 1740-1900
Current (British & Foreign)LexisNexis ProfessionalFactiva
Full-text: Digital source material
Oxford Digital Archive http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Domesday ExplorerMedieval SourcesOnlineDigital Library of the Catholic ReformationEighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)Making of the Modern World19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary PapersMacmillan Cabinet PapersDeclassified Documents Reference SystemBritish and Irish Women’s Letters & Diariesetc.
Useful search engines & portals
Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/Google Books http://books.google.com/
Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Historyhttp://ahds.ac.uk/history/
British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Useful search engines & portals
History Departments round the Worldhttp://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/
Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/ H-Net http://www.h-net.org/
Questions?