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. 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!

5. In SOLO, search database name as phrase in title and limit to Online Resources.

6. Login with SSO to access resources off- campus and click Online resource to connect.

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

14. Switch to Subject to browse for History resources.

17. 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

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

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

20. Place search: Berlin British Library Newspaper catalogue

21. 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)

22. 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

23. JournalFind full-text (electronic / print)Includes abstracts “Macedonian and relief”; limited to historical period 1900-1910. 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

24. 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/http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Theses/

25. 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.

26. Blackwell Reference Online

28. Biographical Information Biographical information World Biographical Information System Dictionary of National Biography (British) Who is Who / Who was Who (British) Dictionary of Irish Biography American National Biography KnowUK (contemporary British)

30. World Biographical Information System

31. Other useful reference sources Europa World of Learning Historical currency http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html Historical directories (England) http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ Historical calendars http://www.timeanddate.com/http://www.timeanddate.com/

32. Historical Directories

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 Full-text: eJournals Access via SOLO, Oxford University eJournals or link from database Historical content: JSTOR (e.g. Speculum) Oxford Journals (OUP) (e.g. Past & Present) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Current content: Oxford Journals (OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP)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

34. 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

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

36. Full-text: eNewspapers Historical (UK) 17 th & 18 th Century Burney Newspapers Eighteenth Century Journals 19 th 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 Check OxLIP+ > Subject > History > News & Newspapers (31)

37. Full-text: eNewspapers Historical (US and others) 19th Century US Newspapers American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 Washington Post 1877-1990 New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003 Pravda 1912-2009 Times of India 1838-2001 (forthcoming) Current (British & Foreign) LexisNexis News Service Factiva WISER: Sources for US History, 15:30-17:00, 8 June

38. Full-text: Digital texts British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/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 Check Primary Sources Online guide WISER: Sources for Medievalists 15 June, 13:45-15:15

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

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

46. Calendar of State Papers (CSP)

47. State Papers Online I (Tudors: Domestic)

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

50. The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

51. Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)

52. Declassified Documents Reference System – US (DDRS)

53. 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

54. ArtSTOR: Illuminated Manuscript Collection

56. Historical Statistics of the US

57. iPoll

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

59. Intute

61. Book reviews H-Net http://www.h-net.orghttp://www.h-net.org H-France (mailing list) Sehepunkte (+ mailing list) http://www.sehepunkte.de/http://www.sehepunkte.de/ Selective databases, e.g. Arts & Humanities Citation Index; America: History & Life H-Net

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

63. Forthcoming WISER sessions WISER Sources for US History Wed 8 June 15:30-17:00 WISER Sources for Medievalists Wed 15 June 13:45-15:15

64. Questions? Hands-on