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?