WISER Humanities

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WISER Humanities Introduction to e-resources for
historians
Isabel Holowaty OULS History Librarian
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• Aim
• Provide an overview of electronic resources for
  History
• Give examples of useful resources
• Bibliographic databases
• Reference sources
• Full-text content
• Search engines portals
• Book reviews
• Mailing lists, newsgroups
• Questions hands-on?

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• Choice of online resources
• Subscription databases
• CD-ROMs, DVDs
• eJournals eBooks
• Search engines, websites portals

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Access Lists of subscriptions OxLIP Oxford
eJournals http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources
Off-campus access Virtual Private Network
(VPN) Athens password http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ere
sources/remote_access
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• History on OxLIP
• Resources organised
• Links to supporting materials
• Important websites included

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We might need to use Bibliographical
databases books, articles, dissertations Reference
sources dictionaries encyclopedias,
directories, etc. Full-text alternative eJournals,
eBooks, online newspapers, digitised source
material, etc. Search engines portals
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Bibliographical databases books Library
catalogues OLIS
http//www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ British
Library Integrated Catalogue
http//catalogue.bl.uk/ WorldCat
via OxLIP Karlsruhe Virtual
Catalog http//www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/
kvk.html Specialist catalogues Incunabula
Short-Title Catalogue (pre-1501) English
Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1475-1800 Nineteenth
Century Short-Title Catalogue 1801-1919 BL
Newspaper catalogue
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Bibliographical databases articles Historical
Abstracts (world history, 1450-) International
Medieval Bibliography (500-1500) Royal Historical
Society Bibliography (British history) Bibliograph
y of the History of Art ATLA Religion Database
(history of religion church) EconLit (economic
history) Philosophers Index (intellectual
history) Arts Humanities Citation Index (esp.
good for book reviews, citation searches)
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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
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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/Th
eses/
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Dictionaries encyclopedias Gateways CREDO
Reference Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Blackwell
Reference Online Cambridge Companions
Online Subject-specific International
Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages Oxford English
Dictionary Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy Grove Dictionary of Art etc.
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Dictionaries encyclopedias Biographical
dictionaries World Biographical Information
System Dictionary of National Biography
(British) American National Biography (US KnowUK
(contemporary Who was who)
Civil Service Biographies   Crockford's Clerical
Directory  Debrett's People of Today  European
Parliamentary Biographies   Greater London
Assembly Biographies   House of Commons
Biographies   House of Lords Biographies   Hutchin
son Encyclopedia of Britain Biographies   Norther
n Ireland Assembly Biographies  Scottish
Parliamentary Biographies   Welsh Assembly
Biographies  Who's Who in Northern Ireland Who's
Who in Scotland Who Was Who  
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Other useful references sources World of
Learning Digimap Historic Map Service Columbia
Gazetteer of the World Historical currency
http//www.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/h
owmuch.html Historical directories
(England) http//www.historicaldirectories.org/
Historical calendars http//www.timeanddate.com/
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Full-text eJournals Access via Oxford eJournals
or link from database Historical content
JSTOR Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Oxford
Journals (OUP) Current content Oxford Journals
(OUP) Cambridge Journals (CUP) Project Muse
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Oxford eJournals
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• Full-text eBooks
• Individual titles listed in OLIS

Oxford Scholarship Online Taylor Francis
ebooks Past Masters Google Books
http//books.google.com/ Oxford Text Archive
http//ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Project Gutenber
http//www.gutenberg.org/ For future ACLS
Humanities eBooks?
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Full-text eNewspapers Historical Times Digital
Archive 1785-1985 New York Times Historical
Archive 1851-2003 Washington Post 1877-1990 Times
Literary Supplement 1902-1990 American
Periodicals Series 1740-1900 Current (British
Foreign) LexisNexis News Service Factiva
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Full-text Digital source material Oxford
Digital Archive http//www.odl.ox.ac
.uk/collections/ British History Online
http//www.british-history.ac.uk/ Domes
day Explorer Monumenta Germaniae
Historica Digital Library of the Catholic
Reformation Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO) Making of the Modern World 19th Century
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Macmillan
Cabinet Papers Declassified Documents Reference
System British and Irish Womens Letters
Diaries etc.
WISER presentation on 7 February _at_ 1230
WISER Primary Sources Online on 7 February _at_ 1230
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Useful search engines portals Intute
http//www.intute.ac.uk/
Google Scholar
http//scholar.google.com/ Arts Humanities
Data Service (AHDS) History http//ahds.ac.uk/hist
ory/ British History Online
http//www.british-history.ac.uk/ American
Memory (Library of Congress) http//memory.loc.go
v/ammem/
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Useful search engines portals History
Departments round the World http//chnm.gmu.edu/re
sources/departments/ Institute of Historical
Research http//www.history.ac.uk/ H-Net
http//www.h-net.org/
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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
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Discussion lists / newsgroups Your
Faculty JISCMail http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk
H-Net http//www.h-net.org
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Questions? Hands-on?
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• E-resources for historians Hands-on
• Select e.g. WorldCat from OxLIP and do any
  search.
• Browse through the Bibliographical database
  section in History list. Chose a database of
  interest and search for an author or title or
  subject.
• Find a biography of a famous person.
• e.g. Gladstone in DNB Jefferson in ANB Blair
  in Who is Who
• Find the definition of agger in the Oxford
  Dictionary of Local and Family History (Oxford
  Reference Online).
• Find the latest online issue of English
  Historical Review.
• Find a relevant discussion or book review list in
  H-Net.

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January (2) Social Science Library IT Room WISER
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(2) Part 2. Thursday 28 February (7) WISER
Primary sources online for historians Thursday, 7
February (4) WISER Historical newspapers print
e-collections Thursday, 14 February (5) WISER
Bodleian Modern Political Papers no need to
book Monday, 25th February (7) Social Science
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