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. |
