WISER Online resources for historians Isabel Holowaty Bodleian

WISER Online resources for historians Isabel Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian isabel. holowaty@bodleian. ox. ac. uk

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 & discussion

Access to subscriptions: Lists of subscriptions: Ox. LIP+ & Oxford University e. Journals Off-campus access Single-Sign On (SSO) http: //www. bodleian. 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 > Go to Ox. LIP+ or SOLO!

Login with SSO to use My. Research and access resources off-campus.

We might need to use… Bibliographical databases books, articles, dissertations Reference sources dictionaries & encyclopaedias, directories, etc. Full-text alternative e. Journals, e. Books, online newspapers, digitised source material, etc. Search engines & portals

Bibliographical databases: books Library catalogues SOLO/OLIS British Library Integrated Catalogue COPAC World. Cat http: //solo. bodleian. ox. ac. uk/ http: //catalogue. bl. uk/ http: //www. copac. uk/ [via Ox. LIP+] Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog http: //www. ubka. uni-karlsruhe. de/hylib/en/kvk. html

Bibliographical databases: books 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) Bibliography of British & Irish History Bibliography of the History of Art ATLA Religion Database (history of religion & church) Econ. Lit (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 Cambridge Histories Online Subject-specific International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages Oxford English Dictionary Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Oxford Art Online (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) Know. UK (contemporary + Who was who)

World Biographical Information System

Other useful reference sources Europa 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: e. Journals Access via Oxford University e. Journals or link from database Historical content: JSTOR (e. g. Speculum) Oxford Journals (OUP) (e. g. Past & Present) Wiley. Inter. Science (e. g. Renaissance Quarterly) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Current content: Oxford Journals (OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP) etc. http: //ejournals. bodleian. ox. ac. uk

Some key journals online American Historical Review Bulletin of the History of Medicine Economic History Review English Historical Review German History French History Workshop Journal of Ecclesiastical History Journal of Modern History Journal of the History of Ideas Parliamentary History Past & Present Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Full-text: e. Books Individual titles listed in SOLO & OLIS See History e. Books pages: – Scholarly monographs – Early printed books – Free e. Books (e. g. Google. Books) http: //www. bodleian. ox. ac. uk/history/eresources/ebooks

Full-text: e. Newspapers Historical (UK) Eighteenth Century Journals 17 th & 18 th Century Burney Newspapers 19 th Century BL Newspapers Times Digital Archive 1785 -1985 The Guardian (1821 -2003) / The Observer (1791 -2003) The Irish Times (1859 -2007) The Scotsman (1817 -1950) Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842 -2003 Times Literary Supplement 1902 -1990 Economist Historical Archive 1843 -2003

Full-text: e. Newspapers Historical (US) 19 th Century US Newspapers American Periodicals Series 1740 -1900 Washington Post 1877 -1990 New York Times Historical Archive 1851 -2003 Current (British & Foreign) Lexis. Nexis 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) See also Early English Books Online (EEBO) Primary Sources Online 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

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275 -1504 (PROME)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1475 -1700 (EEBO)

Calendar of State Papers (CSP)

State Papers Online I (Tudors: Domestic)

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries 1500 -1950

The Times Digital Archive 1785 -1985

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)

Declassified Documents Reference System – US (DDRS)

Visual sources & data Art. Stor Bridgeman Art Library (via Dictionary of Art) Johnson Collection: an archive of Printed Ephemera VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) http: //www. vads. ac. uk/ Historical Statistics of the US AHDS History (Arts & Humanities Data Service) http: //ahds. ac. uk/history/index. html i. Poll

Art. STOR: Illuminated Manuscript Collection

Historical Statistics of the US

i. Poll

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/ Intute http: //www. intute. ac. uk/ Google Scholar http: //scholar. google. com/ Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History http: //ahds. ac. uk/history/ http: //www. british-history. ac. uk/ British History Online 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

Forthcoming WISER sessions WISER Sources for US History Friday 11 June 12. 30 -1. 30 WISER Sources for Medievalists Monday 14 June 12. 30 -1. 30

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