WISER Online 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 Primary Sources Search engines & portals Book reviews Mailing lists, newsgroups Questions; hands-on?

Access Lists of subscriptions: OxLIP+ & Oxford eJournals Off-campus access Single-Sign On (SSO)

Here is why not to google for subscription databases Tells you that access is now longer from old provider Access via a different platform Access from a different library Description from old provider

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

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 SOLO/OLIShttp://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ British Library Integrated Catalogue COPAC WorldCat [via OxLIP] Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog Specialist catalogues Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501) Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue BL Newspaper catalogue

Place search: Berlin British Library Newspaper catalogue

Bibliographical databases: articles 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

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

Bibliographical databases: Dissertations Index to Theses (UK & Irish) Dissertations and Theses (US bias) Theses in progress & completed (1995- via Institute of Historical Research website)

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.

Blackwell Reference Online

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)

World Biographical Information System

Other useful reference sources World of Learning Historical currency Historical directories (England) Historical calendars

Historical Directories

Full-text: eJournals Access via Oxford 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) Project Muse

See History eBooks pages: –Scholarly monographs –Early printed books –Free eBooks (e.g. GoogleBooks) Full-text: eBooks Individual titles listed in SOLO & OLIS

Full-text: eNewspapers Historical Times Digital Archive The Guardian / The Observer The Irish Times The Scotsman Washington Post New York Times Historical Archive Times Literary Supplement th & 18th Century Burney Newspapers 19th Century BL Newspapers 19th Century US Newspapers American Periodicals Series Current (British & Foreign) LexisNexis News Service Factiva

Full-text: Digital texts British History Online Domesday Explorer Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, (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 (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

Useful search engines & portals History Departments round the World Institute of Historical Research H-Net Intute Google Scholar Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) History British History Online American Memory (Library of Congress)

Intute

Book reviews H-Net H-France (mailing list) Sehepunkte (+ mailing list) Selective databases, e.g. Arts & Humanities Citation Index; America: History & Life H-Net

Discussion lists / newsgroups History Faculty JISCMail H-Net

More on Primary Sources? Questions? Hands-on?

E-resources for historians: 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 H-Net.