WISER Humanities Introduction to e-resources for historians Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian Aim Provide an overview of electronic resources for History Give examples of useful resources: Bibliographic databases Reference sources Full-text content Search engines & portals Book reviews Mailing lists, newsgroups Questions; hands-on? Choice of online resources Subscription databases CD-ROMs, DVDs ejournals & ebooks Search engines, websites & portals Access Lists of subscriptions: OxLIP & Oxford ejournals http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources Off-campus access Virtual Private Network (VPN) Athens password http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access History on OxLIP Resources organised Links to supporting materials Important websites included I.D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian 1
We might need to use Bibliographical databases books, articles, dissertations Reference sources dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc. Full-text alternative ejournals, ebooks, online newspapers, digitised source material, etc. Search engines & portals Bibliographical databases: books Library catalogues OLIS http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/ WorldCat [via OxLIP] Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html Specialist catalogues Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501) English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1475-1800 Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919 BL Newspaper catalogue Bibliographical databases: articles 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) 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 Philosopher s Index (intellectual history) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (esp. good for book reviews, citation searches) Bibliographical databases: Dissertations Index to Theses (UK & Irish) Dissertations and Theses (US bias) Theses in progress & completed (1995- via Institute of Historical Research website) http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/resources/theses/ Dictionaries & encyclopedias Gateways CREDO Reference Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Blackwell Reference Online Cambridge Companions Online Subject-specific International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages Oxford English Dictionary Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Grove Dictionary of Art etc. I.D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian 2
Dictionaries & encyclopedias Biographical dictionaries World Biographical Information System Dictionary of National Biography (British) American National Biography (US KnowUK (contemporary + Who was who) KnowUK Civil Service Biographies Crockford's Clerical Directory Debrett's People of Today European Parliamentary Biographies Greater London Assembly Biographies House of Commons Biographies House of Lords Biographies Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain: Biographies Northern Ireland Assembly Biographies Scottish Parliamentary Biographies Welsh Assembly Biographies Who's Who in Northern Ireland Who's Who in Scotland Who Was Who 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/ Full-text: ejournals Access via Oxford ejournals or link from database Historical content: JSTOR Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Oxford Journals (OUP) Current content: Oxford Journals (OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Project Muse Oxford ejournals Full-text: ebooks Individual titles listed in OLIS Oxford Scholarship Online Taylor & Francis ebooks Past Masters Google Books Oxford Text Archive Project Gutenber http://books.google.com/ http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ For future: ACLS Humanities ebooks? I.D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian 3
Full-text: enewspapers Historical Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003 Washington Post 1877-1990 Times Literary Supplement 1902-1990 American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 Current (British & Foreign) LexisNexis News Service Factiva 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 Explorer Monumenta Germaniae Historica Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Making of the Modern World 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Macmillan Cabinet Papers Declassified Documents Reference System British and Irish Women s Letters & Diaries etc. WISER Primary Sources Online on 7 February @ 12:30 Useful search engines & portals Intute Google Scholar http://www.intute.ac.uk/ http://scholar.google.com/ Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History http://ahds.ac.uk/history/ British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ 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.h-net.org/ American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Book reviews http://www.h-net.org H-France (mailing list) Sehepunkte (+ mailing list) http://www.sehepunkte.de/ Selective databases, e.g. Arts & Humanities Citation Index; America: History & Life I.D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian 4
Discussion lists / newsgroups Your Faculty JISCMail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk http://www.h-net.org Questions? Hands-on? Hands-on 1. Select e.g. WorldCat from OxLIP and do any search. 2. Browse through the Bibliographical database section in History list. Chose a database of interest and search for an author or title or subject. 3. Find a biography of a famous person. e.g. Gladstone in DNB; Jefferson in ANB; Blair in Who is Who 4. Find the definition of agger in the Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History (Oxford Reference Online). 5. Find the latest online issue of English Historical Review. 6. Find a relevant discussion or book review list in. Forthcoming related WISER sessions WISER Oxford DNB: connecting people no need to book Monday, 21 January (2) Social Science Library IT Room WISER Early Printed Books Part 1. Thursday, 24 January (2) & Part 2. Thursday 28 February (7) WISER Primary sources online for historians Thursday, 7 February (4) WISER Historical newspapers print & e-collections Thursday, 14 February (5) WISER Bodleian Modern Political Papers Monday, 25th February (7) Social Science Library IT Room no need to book I.D. Holowaty, OULS History Librarian 5