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WISER: Humanities eResources for Historians

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

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WISER: Humanities eResources for Historians

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  1. WISER: Humanities eResources for Historians Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian

  2. Or, how to become the typical armchair historian

  3. Aim • Provide an overview of electronic resources for History • Give examples of useful resources: • Bibliographic databases • Reference sources • Full-text content • Search engines & portals

  4. Choice of online resources • Subscription databases • CD-ROMs • eJournals & eBooks • Search engines, websites & portals

  5. Access Lists of subscriptions OxLIP & TDNet http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources Off-campus access Virtual Private Network Athens password http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access

  6. We might need to use… • Bibliographical databases • books, articles, dissertations • Reference sources • dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc. • Full-text alternatives • eJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised sources, etc. • Search engines & portals

  7. Bibliographical databases: books • Library catalogues • OLIS http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ • British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/ • WorldCat • Specialist catalogues • English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1475-1800 • Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919 • BL Newspaper catalogue http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/

  8. Bibliographical databases: articles • 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)

  9. 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

  10. Bibliographical databases: dissertations • 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/

  11. Dictionaries & encyclopedias • Gateways • Oxford Reference Online • Xrefer Plus • Subject-specific • International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages • Oxford English Dictionary • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy • Grove Dictionary of Art • etc.

  12. Dictionaries & encyclopedias • Biographical dictionaries • World Biographical Information System • Dictionary of National Biography (British) • American National Biography (US)

  13. Other useful references sources World of Learning Digimap Historic Map Service Columbia 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/

  14. Full-text: eJournals • via TDNet • Historical content: • JSTOR • Periodicals Archive Online • Oxford Journals (OUP) • Current content: • Oxford Journals (OUP) • Cambridge Journals (CUP) • Project Muse

  15. Full-text: eBooks Individual titles listed in OLIS Oxford Scholarship Online Taylor & Francis Past Masters Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/

  16. Full-text: eNewspapers • Historical • Times Digital Archive • Washington Post • New York Times Historical Archive • Times Literary Supplement • American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 • Current (British & Foreign) • LexisNexis Professional • Factiva

  17. 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 Explorer Medieval SourcesOnline Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Making of the Modern World 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Macmillan Cabinet Papers Declassified Documents Reference System British and Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries etc.

  18. 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) History http://ahds.ac.uk/history/ British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

  19. Useful search engines & portals History Departments round the World http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/ Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/ H-Net http://www.h-net.org/

  20. Questions?

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