WISER Online resources for historians Isabel Holowaty, Bodleian 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 & discussion

Access to subscriptions: Lists of subscriptions: OxLIP+ & Oxford University 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 > Go to OxLIP+ or SOLO!

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

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

Bibliographical databases: books Library catalogues SOLO/OLIS British Library Integrated Catalogue COPAC WorldCat [via OxLIP+] Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Bibliographical databases: books 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 ( ) 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)

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 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.

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 Europa World of Learning Historical currency Historical directories (England) Historical calendars

Historical Directories

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.

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 History Journal of Modern History Journal of the History of Ideas Parliamentary History Past & Present Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

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 (UK) Eighteenth Century Journals 17 th & 18 th Century Burney Newspapers 19 th Century BL Newspapers Times Digital Archive The Guardian ( ) / The Observer ( ) The Irish Times ( ) The Scotsman ( ) Illustrated London News Historical Archive Times Literary Supplement Economist Historical Archive

Full-text: eNewspapers Historical (US) 19th Century US Newspapers American Periodicals Series Washington Post New York Times Historical Archive 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

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, (PROME)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Calendar of State Papers (CSP)

State Papers Online I (Tudors: Domestic)

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries

The Times Digital Archive

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)

Declassified Documents Reference System – US (DDRS)

Visual sources & data ArtStor Bridgeman Art Library (via Dictionary of Art) John Johnson Collection: an archive of Printed Ephemera VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) Historical Statistics of the US AHDS History (Arts & Humanities Data Service) iPoll

ArtSTOR: Illuminated Manuscript Collection

Historical Statistics of the US

iPoll

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

Forthcoming WISER sessions WISER Sources for US History Friday 11 June WISER Sources for Medievalists Monday 14 June

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