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HISTORY AT ITS BROADEST

This a guide to electronic history resources at the most general level.

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
email: margaret.hosking@adelaide.edu.au

CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

FINDING JOURNALS

FINDING BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY
PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

FINDING JOURNALS

FINDING BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY
PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

WWW 
RESOURCES

DATABASES FOR 
JOURNAL ARTICLES 

NEWSPAPERS

FINDING JOURNALS

FINDING BOOKS

BOOK REVIEWS

DATABASES FOR
THESES

ARCHIVES

PARLIAMENTARY
PAPERS

DIRECTORIES

MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update
Margaret Hosking
June 2010

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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' internet: index - History

Best of History websites

Yahoo! History resources

Discussion groups

H-Net

Electronic books, journals etc

The library provides access to thousands of electronic resources - books, journals, databases and websites, most of which can be used remotely.
They can all be searched via the catalogue.

 

DATABASES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES ETC.

History and interdisciplinary

Historical abstracts with fulltext 1967-
Essential for a thorough search for articles in History journals, but starts at 1450 and does not cover North America....see next 2 databases.

America History and Life with fulltext
Indexes 1,700 journals (many with full text links) from 1964 to present -

International medieval bibliography online

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 fprovides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit 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
Database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
 Links to:
 Periodicals archive online
A full text searchable  archive of hundreds of digitised journals published
in the arts,  humanities and social sciences.
Fewer titles than in PIO but deeper searching.

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

Bibliography of British and Irish history online

Bibliography of Asian Studies

America History and Life with fulltext

Related areas

For architecture, try the Avery index to architectural periodicals (AVE)

For art, try Art Abstracts 1984-

For literature, try:
MLA 1925-
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 newspaper coverage is availalbe via the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project from the National Library. Currently under development. More than 1 .8 million pages up to the mid 1950's have been scanned, and the fulltext will be searchable. A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers 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 and the National Library of Australia.

The New York Times
NYT Archive 1851-1980
Full text will cost money, so use this website 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 library 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

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

There are licensed e-resources available via the National Library of Australia.
You need to register and a library card and number will be posted to you in 7-10 days.
There is a list of their History e-resources, both free and licensed.

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 also
Australian Research Online- where you can search more than 436,127 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. It searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories.  

ARCHIVES

After 12 years of service to the community, the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts has retired.
Search our new Trove service to find manuscripts, personal papers, organisational collections - and books, pictures, oral histories, websites and more.

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.