Resources: Links for Research and Writing

Databases for Research

College of Wooster Library History Resource Page
http://www.wooster.edu/library/resources/subjects/history.php

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/
Full-text database of scholarly journals in the humanities. Does not
include journals from the past five years. To search the database you must
select the discipline you would like to search in (check history) and the
kinds of resources you would like to search for (check all that apply:
articles, reviews, opinion pieces, etc.).

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=aph.
Database of scholarly and popular journals. Some sources are full text.

The History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/
Full text, and fully searchable, database of many important history journals. Includes just the current issues of these journals

Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
http://journals.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals
Full text of 4300+ research journals. Includes or has links to full text.

Historical Abstracts
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/habs
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada). Includes or has links to full text.

America: History and Life
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/ahnl
Companion database to Historical Abstracts which includes indexes, abstracts, and some full text for American history.

The Syllabus Finder
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/
A syllabus often provides a nice reading guide to a subject, whether it is twentieth century French history, Latin American nationalism, or Japanese popular culture.

Lexis-Nexis History
http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/
Includes three parts: Access to African American Studies, Access to Women’s Studies, and Guides to Microforms, which may be searched either together or separately.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
http://poolesplus.odyssi.com/
Indexes by keyword or journal title articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the 19th century and very early 20th century.

Periodical Contents Index (PCI)
http://pci.chadwyck.com/all/search?language=english
Indexes journal articles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western language journals, 1770–1993.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml
Indexes both popular and general-interest magazines published in the United States, 1890–1982. For 1983–present, see Readers’ Guide Abstracts.

Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
http://www.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/rlg.pl?latin
Indexes and offers scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles from more than 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and conference proceedings published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
http://www.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/rlg.pl?hst
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.

Databases for Reference

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
Looking for quick reference? Timelines? Brief biographies. Look here for The Columbia Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of World History.

Oxford English Dictionary
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
A historical dictionary.

Oxford Reference Online
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html
A wide collection of reference sources. See the pages for History, Law, Military History, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Powerful and extensive database for news sources, court decisions, laws and more.

Gilder Lehman Institute of American History
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/index.cfm

Hollywood's America (at Gilder Lehman Institute of American History)
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/historyonline/hollywood.cfm
Good bibliography and overview of periods and problems in American film.

For Writing and Documentation

Diana Hacker, Research and Documentation Online
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/history.html
Has guides to footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies, Chicago style and much more.

Guides to Doing History

Reading, Writing and Research for History: A Guide for College Students
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/
Useful guide to doing history from Patrick Wael at Bowdoin College.

The History Guide: A Student's Guide to Doing History
http://www.historyguide.org/guide/guide.html
Steven Kreis

Oral History Techniques
http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/techniques.html
A nice overview to the methods of oral history, from the Center for the Study of History and Memory at Indiana University. By Barbara Truesdell, Ph.D., Assistant Director.

Fast Facts Guide: Identifying Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
http://library.uncwil.edu/is/infocycle.htm
William Madison Randall Library at UNC Wilmington

BBC - History - How To Guides
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/howto/index.shtml
Simple introductions to how to do history. See the pages on Oral History
for example.

Library Research Using Primary Resources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html
A nice guide defining primary sources and explaining some strategies for finding them.

History and the Web

Web Review Archive at History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/webreviews/
Reviews of history web sites.

Web Evaluation Guide at Regent U. Library
http://www.regent.edu/lib/mba/Web-evaluation-guide.html#RESOURCES

Web Evaluation Guide at Widener University
Widener University
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm