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WISER
Online resources for historians
Isabel Holowaty, OULS History Librarian
Aim
• Provide an overview of electronic resources for History
• Give examples of useful resources:
Bibliographic databases
Reference sources
Primary Sources
Search engines & portals
Book reviews
Mailing lists, newsgroups
• Questions; hands-on?
Access
Lists of subscriptions:
OxLIP+ & Oxford eJournals
Off-campus access
Single-Sign On (SSO)
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources
Here is why not to google for
Tells you that access is now longer
subscription databases
from old provider
Access via a different platform
Access from a different library
Description from old provider
Login with SSO to use MyResearch and
access resources off-campus.
We might need to use…
Bibliographical databases
books, articles, dissertations
Reference sources
dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc.
Full-text alternative
eJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised source
material, etc.
Search engines & portals
Bibliographical databases: books
Library catalogues
SOLO/OLIS
British Library Integrated Catalogue
COPAC
http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
http://catalogue.bl.uk/
http://www.copac.ac.uk/
WorldCat
[via OxLIP]
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html
Specialist catalogues
Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501)
Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919
BL Newspaper catalogue
British Library
Newspaper catalogue
Place search:
Berlin
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)
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
Historical Abstracts
“Macedonian and relief”; limited to
historical period 1900-1910.
Use bibliographical database
Journal
Databases
you what
to find journaltell
articles.
They
has been
published,
notexist
index
articles
which may
Includes
what
is
held in Oxford!
only in
print.
abstracts
Find full-text (electronic / print)
Bibliographical databases:
Dissertations
Index to Theses (UK & Irish)
Dissertations and Theses (US bias)
Theses in progress & completed (1995- via Institute of Historical
Research website)
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Theses/
Dictionaries & encyclopedias
Gateways
CREDO Reference
Oxford Reference Online (ORO)
Blackwell Reference Online
Cambridge Companions Online
Subject-specific
International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages
Oxford English Dictionary
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Grove Dictionary of Art
etc.
Blackwell Reference
Online
Biographical Information
Biographical information
World Biographical Information System
Dictionary of National Biography (British)
Who is Who / Who was Who (British)
American National Biography (US)
KnowUK (contemporary + Who was who)
World Biographical
Information System
Other useful reference sources
World of Learning
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/
Historical Directories
Full-text: eJournals
Access via Oxford eJournals or link from database
Historical content:
JSTOR (e.g. Speculum)
Oxford Journals (OUP) (e.g. Past & Present)
WileyInterScience (e.g. Renaissance Quarterly)
Cambridge Journals (CUP)
Current content:
Oxford Journals (OUP)
Cambridge Journals (CUP)
Project Muse
http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk
Full-text: eBooks
Individual titles listed in SOLO & OLIS
See History eBooks pages:
– Scholarly monographs
– Early printed books
– Free eBooks (e.g. GoogleBooks)
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/history/eresources/ebooks
Full-text: eNewspapers
Historical
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
The Guardian / The Observer
The Irish Times
The Scotsman
Washington Post 1877-1990
New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003
Times Literary Supplement 1902-1990
17th & 18th Century Burney Newspapers
19th Century BL Newspapers
19th Century US Newspapers
American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
Current (British & Foreign)
LexisNexis News Service
Factiva
Full-text: Digital texts
British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Domesday Explorer
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (PROME)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
Ut per Litteras Apostolicas (Papal letters)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Making of the Modern World 1450-1850 (MOMW)
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Macmillan Cabinet Papers
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)
British and Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries
See also Primary
Sources Online
Useful search engines & portals
History Departments round the World
http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/
Research http://www.history.ac.uk/
Institute of Historical
H-Net http://www.h-net.org/
Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Google Scholar http://scholar.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/
Intute
H-Net
Book reviews
H-Net
http://www.h-net.org
H-France (mailing list)
Sehepunkte (+ mailing list)
http://www.sehepunkte.de/
Selective databases, e.g. Arts & Humanities Citation Index;
America: History & Life
Discussion lists / newsgroups
History Faculty
JISCMail
H-Net
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
http://www.h-net.org
More on Primary Sources?
Questions?
Hands-on?
E-resources for historians: Hands-on
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Select e.g. WorldCat from OxLIP and do any search.
Browse through the Bibliographical database section in History
list. Chose a database of interest and search for an author or title or
subject.
Find a biography of a famous person.
e.g. Gladstone in DNB; Jefferson in ANB; Blair in Who is Who
Find the definition of agger in the Oxford Dictionary of Local and
Family History (Oxford Reference Online).
Find the latest online issue of English Historical Review.
Find a relevant discussion or book review list in H-Net.