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HISTORY AT ITS BROADEST

This a guide to electronic history resources at the most general level.
Some require authentication which is explained here.
More specific subject guides for subjects currently taught,  which list both print and electronic resources, are linked from the tables on the History index page and there is also a page for Historiography.
For any further help in finding  or using these resources please come in to see or contact your
Research Librarian for History, Margaret Hosking , ph. 83033706

 

CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

JOURNALS

BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY
PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

JOURNALS

BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY
PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

JOURNALS

BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update
Margaret Hosking
September 2008

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

WWW RESOURCES

Guides and searching

Intute: arts and humanities
A free online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 18,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing, especially History

Google Scholar will give more scholarly results than Google - peer reviewd articles, chapters etc., some with full text.

Sites with useful links

The American Historical Association

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 
which is searchable via History On-Line

International Institute for Social History in the Netherlands.

Richard Jensen's Scholar's Guide to the WWW

WWW Virtual Library - History central

Librarians' guide to the internet:_History

Best of History websites

Yahoo! History resources

Discussion groups

H-Net

Electronic books, journals etc

The library provides access tothousands of electronic resources - books, journals, databases and websites, most of which can be used remotely. The can all be searched via the catalogue.
Authentication is explained here.

 

DATABASES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES ETC.

History and interdisciplinary

Historical abstracts 1967-
Essential for a thorough search for articles in History journals.
Now has many links to full text articles from JSTOR, Oxford journals, Cambridge journals etc
Looks different because it has moved to the EBSCO platform.
Keyword searching is the default option and results will display in relevance order.
All the advanced search options are still there - scroll down the page for time period, language etc.
If you want to check subject terms click on Indexes (white word on green bar at the top of the page).
Very limited coverage of USA: for USA history,  prefer the print index America,  History and Life  (in Reference collection at 973.05 A512.3)
Also limited coverage of Canadian and Australian journals.

Academic OneFile       1980-
Multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.

Academic Search Premier
Iincludes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals.

Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers

JSTOR   is a full text searchable library of  scholarly journals  which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago. 

Periodicals index online
millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 200 years.
You can search it to find references to older articles in journals (eg 19th century writings)
The full text may then be located in a number of places:
1)Direct link to Periodicals Archive Onlline, which will appear on the PIO results screen.
2)Links to other electronic backfiles of journals held by the library.
3)In print in the library or Store.
4)Other libraries
Periodicals Archive Onlline can also be searched using full text, but the number of journals is smaller.

ISI current contents connect - for current awarerness alerts

Web of Knowledge
Includes  the Arts & humanities citation index and the Social sciences citation index,
and can be searched by author, keyword or citation.

Specific countries

Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT

Royal Historical Society Bibliographies (for the UK)

Bibliography of Asian Studies

America: History and life    1964-2001
Reference collection 973.05 A512
Print edition, now cancelled. This and other American studies materials are better represented at Flinders University Library - check their catalogue and  Online resources for American Studies, although you may not have access to licensed resources.
 

Related areas

For architecture, try the Avery index to architectural periodicals

For art, try Art abstracts

For literature, try MLA International Bibliography
and 
AustLit: the resource for Australian literature

For philosophy, try Philosophers Index

For sociology, try  Sociological Abstracts

NEWSPAPERS

See the Library's guide to Newspapers and other news services.

Factiva  is an index to Australian and international newspapers, magazines etc and includes full text for many titles from the 1990's onwards.

Australian Newspapers Beta service , from the National Library, a growing file of full-text searchable newspapers from the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
The project initially be digitising approximately 3 million pages over 4 years, starting in July 2007. These pages will cover a range of titles from every state and territory, from the earliest newspaper published in Australia in 1803 through to the mid 1950's. A further million pages from the Sydney Morning Herald 1831-1954 will also be digitised.
The coverage and scanning schedule is outlined on this page.

Microfilm Per 54
The Times   (London) 1785-
Use the Times Index, Reference collection 05 T58a
Times digital archive is available at the State Library.

The New York Times
NYT Archive 1851-1980
Full text will cost money so use this as an index, get the date and page number and then use the microfilm for full text:
New York Times 1857-......Multimedia Microfilm Per 3
Print index :
The New York times index.....Reference collection 05 N53y

 

ITEMS NOT HELD BY THE BSL

If a book or article is not held in this library it may be available elsewhere.
You can search other library catalogues from the librarys home page, and your student card allows you to borrow from the libraries of Flinders University and the University of South Australia.
You may also be able to obtain items from other libraries via document delivery.  Charges apply so either get an account code from your supervisor or pay at the Services desk before you start filling out the electronic request form. You do not need to establish a location of then item but if you want to try,  SIAL and Libraries Australia, listed below, are useful  search tools.

FINDING JOURNALS

For Australian holdings of journals, search  SIAL: Serials in Australian Libraries
 

BOOKS

Databases

For library holdings in Australia, search  Libraries Australia

Worldcat for America and beyond.

Copac for major British libraries.

or look at Other Library Catalogues

For second hand books try:
Bibliofind   Bookfinder     Alibris

E-Texts

E_books@Adelaide
 

BOOK REVIEWS

Finding book reviews .
 

DATABASES FOR THESES

ProQuest dissertations and theses...USA and some international

Index to theses......UK

Theses in progress and completed in the UK

For further information see the library's guide to Theses

Australian theses can be difficult to find, but some are available through the Australian Digital Thesis Program.
For theses produced  in Australia, search  Libraries Australia , selecting theses from the check boxes and the
ARROW Discovery Service - where you can search 227,274 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures.ARROW searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories.  

ARCHIVES

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)

Look at the the Guide to archive and manuscript collections

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

Parliamentary Publications in the Barr Smith Library: a finding list
 

DIRECTORIES

History Departments around the world.
 

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION : ENDNOTE

As you assemble your references and other bibliographic information you will need to use Endnote to organise and format your citations. It is worth spending the time to learn this software as it will save you hours of work later on. Training and manuals are available and completing the Endnote tutorial is essential.