1. Philosophy and Practice of History: Library Orientation
September 11, 2019
Vince Graziano
History Librarian

2. Workshop Outline Finding background information Finding books
Printed encyclopedias
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Cambridge Histories Online
Finding books
CLUES, Library Catalogue
Finding articles
America: History & Life
Canada and United States history
Historical Abstracts
World history from 1450
Finding book reviews

3. Reference Books Print encyclopedias
Historiography and Historians
Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Online encyclopedias, companions, dictionaries:
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Cambridge Histories Online
Bibliographies
Study of History: A Bibliographical Guide

4. Writing and Research Guides
The Craft of Research
Learning to Do Historical Research
Online guide by William Cronon
Pocket Guide to Writing in History
Many editions
The Modern Researcher (Barzun and Graff)
The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students
The History Student Writers' Manual

5. Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing

6. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

7. Study of History: A Bibliographical Guide

8. America: History & Life
Description:
Covers all aspects of USA and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
Indexes books, journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations
1964 onward. Some coverage from

9. Historical Abstracts Description:
Citations with abstracts to articles in some 2,000 journals and citations to books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history.
Covers world history since 1450 except for the USA and Canada.
1955-onward

10. Book Reviews Print sources Online sources
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals,
Online sources
America: History & Life: 1964-onward
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective:
JSTOR: most recent 3-5 years not included

11. Electronic Journals Collections with substantial humanities content:
Project MUSE (Recent issues)
JSTOR (Older issues)
Oxford Journals (recent and archive)
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
ProQuest Central
British Periodicals I and II ( )
American Periodicals ( )
Periodicals Archive Online ( )
Many other electronic journal collections

12. Electronic Books Collections with substantial humanities content:
Early English Books Online (EEBO) –
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Canadiana Online
Oxford Scholarship Online (recent and ongoing)
Cambridge University Press e-books ( )
Project MUSE Ebooks (university presses)
Palgrave Macmillan (2010-)
ACLS Humanities E-books
Canadian Publishers Collection
EBSCO E-books
Many other electronic books

13. Primary Sources
Many primary sources are reprinted in books and listed in the library catalogue
Databases for primary sources
Listed on the History Subject Guide
Also listed on the Databases by Subject page
Choose History
Choose History Historical Newspapers
Choose History Primary Sources

14. Search Operators AND Marxist AND historians OR women OR feminist
“ ” “oral history”
* Marx*
( ) (historians OR historiography) AND postcolonial* AND Africa

15. Subject Searching Thesaurus Subject Headings in CLUES
List of terms used in a database
Subject Headings in CLUES
Created by the Library of Congress
Subjects include:
People
Events
Places
Topical subject headings

16. To Find the Full Text Use Search CLUES Check other Montreal libraries
Perform a Journal Title search
Check other Montreal libraries
Use your BCI card
Request an Interlibrary Loan (COLOMBO)
Online form
Allow 1 to 2 weeks for delivery of books
Allow 2 to 4 days for delivery of articles by

17. RefWorks Discontinued as of May 31, 2020
RefWorks is a Web-based tool that:
Facilitates organization of references
Is accessible from any Internet connection
Simplifies the process of preparing bibliographies
Access RefWorks through the Quick Links menu on the Library website
Help
Tutorials on Library website

18. Zotero Needs to be downloaded
Zotero offers a much better user experience with more functionality
Easily migrate your references from RefWorks to Zotero
Workshops
Migration workshops
Zotero workshops
Workshop schedule
Schedule includes general library workshops

19. Help is Available At the Ask Us Desk Library website
History Subject Guide
Ask a Librarian
form
Chat with a Librarian
Ask Vince:
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Office hours: by appointment