WISEROnline 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 accessSingle-Sign On (SSO)

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources

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Bibliographical databasesbooks, articles, dissertations

Reference sourcesdictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, etc.

Full-text alternativeeJournals, eBooks, online newspapers, digitised source material, etc.

Search engines & portals

Bibliographical databases: booksLibrary catalogues

SOLO/OLIS http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/

British Library Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk/

COPAC

http://www.copac.ac.uk/

WorldCat [via OxLIP]

Karlsruhe Virtual Cataloghttp://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html

Specialist cataloguesIncunabula Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501)Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919BL Newspaper catalogue

Place search: Berlin

British Library Newspaper catalogue

Bibliographical databases: articlesHistorical Abstracts (world history, 1450-)

International Medieval Bibliography (500-1500)

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: articlesAmerica: History & Life (N America)

Index Islamicus (Oriental)

Bibliography of Asian Studies

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Journal

Find 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

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/

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

GatewaysCREDO ReferenceOxford Reference Online (ORO)Blackwell Reference OnlineCambridge Companions Online

Subject-specificInternational Encyclopedia for the Middle AgesOxford English DictionaryRoutledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyGrove Dictionary of Artetc.

Blackwell Reference Online

Biographical Information

Biographical informationWorld Biographical Information SystemDictionary 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 http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

Historical directories (England) http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

Historical calendars http://www.timeanddate.com/

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

http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk

See History eBooks pages:– Scholarly monographs– Early printed books– Free eBooks (e.g. GoogleBooks)

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/history/eresources/ebooks

Full-text: eBooks

Individual titles listed in SOLO & OLIS

Full-text: eNewspapersHistorical

Times Digital Archive 1785-1985The Guardian / The ObserverThe Irish TimesThe ScotsmanWashington Post 1877-1990New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003Times Literary Supplement 1902-199017th & 18th Century Burney Newspapers19th Century BL Newspapers19th Century US NewspapersAmerican Periodicals Series 1740-1900

Current (British & Foreign)LexisNexis News ServiceFactiva

Full-text: Digital textsBritish History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Domesday ExplorerParliament 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 ReformationMaking of the Modern World 1450-1850 (MOMW)House of Commons Parliamentary PapersMacmillan Cabinet PapersDeclassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)

British and Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries

See also Primary Sources Online

Useful search engines & portals

History Departments round the Worldhttp://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/

Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/

H-Net http://www.h-net.org/

Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Historyhttp://ahds.ac.uk/history/

British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

American Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Intute

Book reviews

H-Net http://www.h-net.org

H-France (mailing list)

Sehepunkte (+ mailing list) http://www.sehepunkte.de/

Selective databases, e.g. Arts & Humanities Citation Index; America: History & Life

H-Net

Discussion lists / newsgroups

History Faculty

JISCMail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk

H-Net http://www.h-net.org

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.