History Study Centre Demonstration

History Study Centre A wealth of primary and secondary resources for historians. Content is selected and organised by expert editors. All elements of the service can be quickly and accurately searched.

Seven composite elements Study Units Reference Library Journal Library Picture Library Video Library KnowledgeNotes™ History Guides Web Gateway

Home Page Instantly search all areas of the Study Centre with Quick Search. Navigate the Topic Tree to find Study Units you are interested in. Explore the resources individually.

Quick Search Quick Search enables instant searching of all elements of the Study Centre. Your keyword will be matched against a range of related meanings using sophisticated search technology. All records which contain your search term will be brought back, in relevance order.

Quick Search Quick Search retrieves results across all seven elements of the Study Centre. The most relevant items appear at the top of the list. Click on a link to view the record.

Your search term and related terms are highlighted in the text. Use the Previous and Next record buttons to move through your results.

Advanced Search Advanced Search allows more focused searching. Specify exactly which resources you want to search in – including the option to search specific reference volumes. Control how the search technology operates.

Choose whether to use Boolean operators or to expand your search to include variant spellings or related meanings. You can opt to restrict your search just to the title field, or just to biographical records. Select which resources to include in your search.

Study Units Study Units bring together essential information and rare documents, and encourage further research. Each Study Unit contains between articles, documents and images selected for their relevance to the topic.

Find Study Units using the Topic Tree. Click on a link to view the Study Unit you are interested in.

Each Study Unit begins with a brief introduction. Resources are grouped under different headings. Click on a heading to jump down to that section of the Study Unit.

Highlights Around five of the best items on each Study Unit are selected as highlights. Each Highlight has a brief explanatory caption. Click on the link to view the item.

Reference Library A library of around forty respected reference volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical atlases and historiographical guides. All volumes can be browsed through Tables of Contents. An ideal launching point for further research.

Click to view a Table of Contents for the volume.

The Table of Contents is organised in expandable and collapsible sections. Click on a link to view the article.

Journal Library Search cover-to-cover full text from around fifty top periodicals. Browse Tables of Content for each issue. Journals are regularly updated with new issues. Backfiles vary in length – some go back to 1986.

Search the full text of articles. Choose to limit your search by date. View a list of journals and browse by issue.

The most recent articles appear at the top of the list. You can choose to re- sort your results in relevance order. Most articles open as PDF page images.

Picture Library Search an archive of thousands of historical images, from early woodcuts to modern news photography. Each image is given a detailed caption which places it in its historical context and aids searching.

Enter your search term and click Go! The search retrieves all images where the captions match your search term, with the most relevant results at the top of the list.

View photographs of the major events of the twentieth century. Words which the search engine has matched to your keywords are highlighted in the caption.

Video Library View hundreds of clips from the WPA Film Library, some dating back to the end of the nineteenth century. Watch footage of historic events such as the signing of the Munich agreement. Clips can be downloaded in Real Player or Windows Media Player format.

Simply enter a keyword and click Go! Your keyword will be matched to clip titles and captions.

KnowledgeNotes™ History Guides Extensive introductions to key historical topics and texts, with timelines, biographies and bibliographies. Topic Guides offer a thematic examination of major historical topics. Text Guides provide close analysis of widely studied documents and historiographical works.

Read a guide to a vital document such as the Communist Manifesto. Or look at the guides to important topics such as the Vietnam War.

Jump down to any part of the guide from the menu. Every History Guide includes a detailed overview to its subject placing it in historical context. Many Text Guides include a link to the full text of the original document.

Web Gateway Search over 2,000 of the best history resources on the Web. All selected Web sites must meet quality control standards. The gateway is regularly updated to ensure Web sites indexed remain current.

Enter your search term and click Go! Results are returned in relevance order. Click on the ‘details’ button for more information about the site.