1. purdue library’s online resources for research: modern period patricia sullivan fall 2008

2. a brief introduction to database resources for historical work in rhetoric that can be used through purdue’s library web site

3. our library & online research materials still a physical repository of scholarly materials adding more online materials regularly - - both primary and scholarly an exciting time to be a scholar of history

4. getting started

5. locating our library’s online research materials Go to: www.lib.purdue.eduwww.lib.purdue.edu Select among the choices: –Articles: keyword metasearch of article databases in various areas [will note if print/electronic versions available] –Catalog: books and other holdings in the Library –eJournals: digitized journals library subscribes to –Databases: databases library subscribes to

6. locating our library’s online research materials:2 this ppt covers databases Select the tab for databases and scroll for the one you want OR select “Arts and Humanities” [though several are in another subject] in “Databases by Subject” You’ll be asked for your login

7. locating our library’s online research materials:3 There are 88 databases in the “Arts and Humanities” List, some primary, more secondary Listed alphabetically, these have a brief description, years covered, and type of data

8. types of online materials for historical research primary historical sources online –Books –Mixed materials –Period periodicals/newspapers online sources for scholarly work –Locator and reference materials –Scholarly articles and books found online

9. primary sources online

10. primary sources in library’s online databases Books –EEBO [Early English Books Online] 1475-1700 –ECCO [Eighteenth-C Collections Online] –Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 Specialized/Mixed –Accessible Archives –Black Studies Center –Oxford English Dictionary –Women and Social Movements –Historical Statistics US Periodicals/Newspapers –American Periodical Series Online 1740-1900 –British Newspapers 1600-1900 –19th c U. S. Newspapers –Harp Week [Harper’s 1875- 1912] –London Times 1785-1985

11. Books Online

12. Early English Books Online EEBO contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

13. Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO offers full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English- language and foreign- language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century.

14. Early American Imprints, series 1: 1639-1800 Full-text archive of nearly 37,000 early American publications based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography of all books, pamphlets, and periodical publications printed in the U.S. from the genesis of printing in 1639 down to the year 1800

15. Specialized/Mixed Sources

16. Primary Materials @ Accessible Archives The library lists a number of collections housed here, including: –19th c African American Newspapers –Civil War Newspapers –The Liberator –The Pennsylvania Gazette –Godey’s Lady’s Book –American County Histories

17. Black Studies Center combines several resources in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index

18. Women and social movements Books, letters, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting American women’s reform activities from the colonial period into the 20th century

19. historical statistics of the U.S. statistical information from the Census Bureau covering 1790-2000 Covers –Population –Education –Work and welfare –Economic data –Governmental relations

20. Oxford English Dictionary OED is available online It traces the history of English words’ uses through more than 2.5 million quotations

21. Historical Periodicals & Newspapers

22. American Periodical Series Online Over 1,240 American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including general magazines, literary and professional journals, and other historically- significant periodicals. For periodicals that continued into the 20th c., the cut-off date is 1940.

23. British Newspapers 1600- 1900 Over 3 million pages of newspapers, news, books, and ephemera Includes: –17-18th c Burney collection –19th British Library collection –National & Regional papers from British Isles

24. British Newspapers 1600- 1900 Sortable using a –Basic search –Advanced search –Publication search –Location list So, you can know a news source, a time period, a person, a topic... And manage results

25. 19th century U.S. newspapers 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides searchable facsimile images of urban and regional newspapers, advertisements and illustrations included. Can search for keywords in a newspaper, in states, in cities Can specify ads, news, features, images,etc.

26. Times digital archives Covers London Times, 1785-1985 Can search for keywords specifying type: –Advertising –News –Features –Editorials –Images/illustrations –Business –people

27. HarpWeek archives A searchable, full-text archive of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), one of America's leading illustrated newspapers. Contains facsimile images of all pages, including advertisements.

28. sources for scholarly work in our library’s online databases

29. Locator and reference sources Finding Agents –Arts & Humanities Citation Index –Archive Finders –ArchiveGrid –Current Contents –Dictionary of Literary Biography –MLA Directory Indexes/Abstracts –First Search’s Article First –Com Abstracts –Humanities Abstract [1907- present] –Iter [1784-current] –LLBA –MLA International Bib [1926- present] –Periodicals Index Online

30. Article First First Search’s searching home page (which includes FRANCIS and also education and communication)

31. Humanities abstracts Wilson’s searching home page Some articles are abstracted and some are full text

32. Iter Gateway to scholarship on medieval and renaissance topics

33. MLA International Bibliography covers literary and languages scholarship 1928-current

34. LLBA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts is interdisciplinary and covers study of linguistics, language use, grammar, etc. from 1973

35. archives of scholarship in library’s online databases Periodicals –JSTOR –Periodical Archives Online –Project Muse Books –ACLS Humanities E- Book –America: History and Life –NetLibrary

36. JSTOR Online Archive of over 700 scholarly journals Usually includes vol 1 - volume ending 4-5 years ago You can find: CCC, College English, PMLA, Rhetoric Review, RSQ, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Hs of Education, to name a few

37. Periodicals Archive Online Periodicals Archive Online provides access to the full text of a growing number of periodicals indexed in Periodicals Index Online. Periodicals Archive Online contains over 500 journals, with 12.9 million article pages - over 1.9 million articles

38. Project Muse Includes 340+ journals in humanities and social sciences [various years covered] Many ways to search