WISER: Humanities eResources 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 databases Reference sources Full-text content Search engines & portals

Choice of online resources Subscription databases CD-ROMs eJournals & eBooks Search engines, websites & portals

Access Lists of subscriptions OxLIP & TDNet Off-campus access Virtual Private Network Athens password

Bibliographical databases books, articles, dissertations Reference sources dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc. Full-text alternatives eJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised sources, etc. Search engines & portals We might need to use…

Library catalogues OLIS British Library Integrated Catalogue WorldCat Specialist catalogues English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue BL Newspaper catalogue Bibliographical databases: books

Historical Abstracts (world history, 1450-) International Medieval Bibliography ( ) 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) Bibliographical databases: dissertations

Dictionaries & encyclopedias Gateways Oxford Reference Online Xrefer Plus Subject-specific International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages Oxford English Dictionary Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Grove Dictionary of Art etc.

Dictionaries & encyclopedias Biographical dictionaries World Biographical Information System Dictionary of National Biography (British) American National Biography (US)

Other useful references sources World of Learning Digimap Historic Map Service Columbia Gazetteer of the World Historical currency Historical directories (England) Historical calendars

Full-text: eJournals via TDNet Historical content: JSTOR Periodicals Archive Online Oxford Journals (OUP) Current content: Oxford Journals (OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Project Muse

Full-text: eBooks Individual titles listed in OLIS Oxford Scholarship Online Taylor & Francis Past Masters Oxford Text Archive Project Gutenberg

Full-text: eNewspapers Historical Times Digital Archive Washington Post New York Times Historical Archive Times Literary Supplement American Periodicals Series Current (British & Foreign) LexisNexis Professional Factiva

Full-text: Digital source material Oxford Digital Archive British History Online Domesday Explorer Medieval SourcesOnline Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Making of the Modern World 19 th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Macmillan Cabinet Papers Declassified Documents Reference System British and Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries etc.

Useful search engines & portals Intute Google Scholar Google Books Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History British History Online American Memory (Library of Congress)

Useful search engines & portals History Departments round the World Institute of Historical Research H-Net

Questions?