WISER Online resources for historians

1. WISER Online resources for historians Isabel Holowaty, Bodleian History Librarian isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

2. Aim • Provide an overview of electronic resources for History • Give examples of useful resources: • Bibliographic databases • Reference sources • Primary Sources • Search engines & portals • Book reviews • Mailing lists & newsgroups • Questions & discussion

3. Access to subscriptions: Lists of subscriptions: OxLIP+ & Oxford University eJournals Off-campus access Single-Sign On (SSO) http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources

4. Tells you that access is now longer from old provider Access via a different platform Access from a different library Description from old provider Here is why not to google for subscription databases > Go to OxLIP+ or SOLO!

5. Login with SSO to use MyResearch and access resources off-campus.

8. We might need to use… • Bibliographical databases • books, articles, dissertations • Reference sources • dictionaries & encyclopaedias, directories, etc. • Full-text alternative • eJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised source material, etc. • Search engines & portals

9. Bibliographical databases: books • Library catalogues • SOLO/OLIS http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ • British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/ • COPAC http://www.copac.ac.uk/ • WorldCat [via OxLIP+] • Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog • http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html

10. Bibliographical databases: books Specialist catalogues Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501) Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919 BL Newspaper catalogue

11. Place search: Berlin British Library Newspaper catalogue

12. Bibliographical databases: articles Historical Abstracts (world history, 1450-) International Medieval Bibliography (500-1500) Bibliography of British & Irish 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)

13. 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

14. “Macedonian and relief”; limited to historical period 1900-1910. Journal Includes abstracts Find full-text (electronic / print) Historical Abstracts Use bibliographical database to find journal articles. They index articles which may exist only in print. Databases tell you what has been published, not what is held in Oxford!

15. 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/

16. Dictionaries & encyclopedias • Gateways • CREDO Reference • Oxford Reference Online (ORO) • Blackwell Reference Online • Cambridge Companions Online • Cambridge Histories Online • Subject-specific • International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages • Oxford English Dictionary • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy • Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art) • etc.

17. Blackwell Reference Online

18. Biographical Information • Biographical information • World Biographical Information System • Dictionary of National Biography (British) • Who is Who / Who was Who (British) • American National Biography (US) • KnowUK (contemporary + Who was who)

20. World Biographical Information System

21. Other useful reference sources Europa World of Learning 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/

22. Historical Directories

23. Full-text: eJournals • Access via Oxford University eJournals or link from database • Historical content: • JSTOR (e.g. Speculum) • Oxford Journals (OUP) (e.g. Past & Present) • WileyInterScience (e.g. Renaissance Quarterly) • Cambridge Journals (CUP) • Current content: • Oxford Journals (OUP) • Cambridge Journals (CUP) • etc. http://ejournals.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

24. Some key journals online American Historical Review Bulletin of the History of Medicine Economic History Review English Historical Review German History French History History Workshop Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryJournal of Modern History Journal of the History of Ideas Parliamentary History Past & Present Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

25. Full-text: eBooks Individual titles listed in SOLO & OLIS See History eBooks pages: • Scholarly monographs • Early printed books • Free eBooks (e.g. GoogleBooks) http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/eresources/ebooks

26. Full-text: eNewspapers • Historical (UK) • Eighteenth Century Journals • 17th & 18th Century Burney Newspapers • 19th Century BL Newspapers • Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 • The Guardian (1821-2003) / The Observer (1791-2003) • The Irish Times (1859-2007) • The Scotsman (1817-1950) • Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 • Times Literary Supplement 1902-1990 • Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

27. Full-text: eNewspapers • Historical (US) • 19th Century US Newspapers • American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 • Washington Post 1877-1990 • New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003 • Current (British & Foreign) • LexisNexis News Service • Factiva

28. Full-text: Digital texts British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Domesday Explorer Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (PROME) Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Ut per Litteras Apostolicas (Papal letters) Early English Books Online (EEBO) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation Making of the Modern World 1450-1850 (MOMW) House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Macmillan Cabinet Papers Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) British and Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries See also Primary Sources Online

33. Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (PROME)

34. Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (PROME)

35. Early English Books Online (EEBO) Early English Books Online 1475-1700 (EEBO)

36. Calendar of State Papers (CSP)

37. State Papers Online I (Tudors: Domestic)

38. British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries 1500-1950

39. The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

40. Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)

41. Declassified Documents Reference System – US (DDRS)

42. Visual sources & data ArtStor Bridgeman Art Library (via Dictionary of Art) John Johnson Collection: an archive of Printed Ephemera VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) http://www.vads.ac.uk/ Historical Statistics of the US AHDS History (Arts & Humanities Data Service) http://ahds.ac.uk/history/index.html iPoll

43. ArtSTOR: Illuminated Manuscript Collection

45. Historical Statistics of the US

46. iPoll iPoll

47. Useful search engines & portals History Departments round the World http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/ Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/ H-Nethttp://www.h-net.org/ Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History http://ahds.ac.uk/history/ British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

48. Intute

49. H-Net Book reviews H-Net 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

50. Discussion lists / newsgroups History Faculty JISCMail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk H-Net http://www.h-net.org