1. WISER: Humanities eResources for Historians Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian

2. Or, how to become the typical armchair historian

3. Aim Provide an overview of electronic resources for History Give examples of useful resources: Bibliographic databases Reference sources Full-text content Search engines & portals

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

5. Access Lists of subscriptions OxLIP & TDNet http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources Off-campus access Virtual Private Network Athens password http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access

6. 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…

7. Library catalogues OLIS http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/http://catalogue.bl.uk/ WorldCat Specialist catalogues English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1475-1800 Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919 BL Newspaper catalogue http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/ http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/ Bibliographical databases: books

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

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

13. Other useful references sources World of Learning Digimap Historic Map Service Columbia 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/http://www.timeanddate.com/

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 Full-text: eJournals via TDNet Historical content: JSTOR Periodicals Archive Online Oxford Journals (OUP) Current content: Oxford Journals (OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Project Muse

15. Full-text: eBooks Individual titles listed in OLIS Oxford Scholarship Online Taylor & Francis Past Masters Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/

16. Full-text: eNewspapers Historical Times Digital Archive Washington Post New York Times Historical Archive Times Literary Supplement American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 Current (British & Foreign) LexisNexis Professional Factiva

17. Full-text: Digital source material Oxford Digital Archive http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/ British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ 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.

18. Useful search engines & portals Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/http://scholar.google.com/ Google Books http://books.google.com/http://books.google.com/ Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History http://ahds.ac.uk/history/ British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

19. Useful search engines & portals History Departments round the World http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/ Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/http://www.history.ac.uk/ H-Net http://www.h-net.org/http://www.h-net.org/

20. Questions?