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WISER Online resources for historians
Isabel Holowaty, Bodleian History
Librarian isabel.holowaty_at_bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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• 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 discussion

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Access to subscriptions Lists of
subscriptions OxLIP Oxford University
eJournals Off-campus access Single-Sign On
(SSO)
http//www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources
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Here is why not to google for subscription
databases
gt Go to OxLIP or SOLO!
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We might need to use Bibliographical
databases books, articles, dissertations Reference
sources dictionaries encyclopaedias,
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 SOLO/OLIS
http//solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ British Library
Integrated Catalogue
http//catalogue.bl.uk/ COPAC
http//www.copac.ac.uk/ WorldCat
via OxLIP Karlsruhe
Virtual Catalog http//www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/h
ylib/en/kvk.html
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Bibliographical databases books Specialist
catalogues Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue
(pre-1501) Nineteenth Century Short-Title
Catalogue 1801-1919 BL Newspaper catalogue
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British Library Newspaper catalogue
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Bibliographical databases articles Historical
Abstracts (world history, 1450-) International
Medieval Bibliography (500-1500) Bibliography of
British Irish History Bibliography 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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Historical Abstracts
Use bibliographical database to find journal
articles. They index articles which may exist
only in print.
Databases tell you what has been published, not
what is held in Oxford!
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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/Theses/
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Dictionaries encyclopedias Gateways CREDO
Reference Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Blackwell
Reference Online Cambridge Companions
Online Cambridge Histories Online Subject-specifi
c International Encyclopedia for the Middle
Ages Oxford English Dictionary Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Oxford Art Online
(Grove Dictionary of Art) etc.
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Blackwell Reference Online
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Biographical Information Biographical
information World Biographical Information
System Dictionary of National Biography
(British) Who is Who / Who was Who
(British) American National Biography (US) KnowUK
(contemporary Who was who)
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World Biographical Information System
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Other useful reference sources Europa World of
Learning Historical currency
http//www.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/ho
wmuch.html Historical directories (England)

http//www.historicaldirectories.org/
Historical calendars http//www.timeanddate.c
om/
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Historical Directories
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Full-text eJournals Access via Oxford
University 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) etc.
http//ejournals.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Some key journals online American Historical
Review Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Economic History Review English Historical
Review German History French History History
Workshop Journal of Ecclesiastical
HistoryJournal of Modern History Journal of the
History of Ideas Parliamentary History Past
Present Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society
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Full-text eBooks Individual titles listed in
SOLO OLIS

• See History eBooks pages
• Scholarly monographs
• Early printed books
• Free eBooks (e.g. GoogleBooks)
• http//www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/eresources/e
  books

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Full-text eNewspapers Historical
(UK) Eighteenth Century Journals 17th 18th
Century Burney Newspapers 19th Century BL
Newspapers Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 The
Guardian (1821-2003) / The Observer
(1791-2003) The Irish Times (1859-2007) The
Scotsman (1817-1950) Illustrated London News
Historical Archive 1842-2003 Times Literary
Supplement 1902-1990 Economist Historical Archive
1843-2003
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Full-text eNewspapers Historical (US) 19th
Century US Newspapers American Periodicals Series
1740-1900 Washington Post 1877-1990 New York
Times Historical Archive 1851-2003 Current
(British Foreign) LexisNexis News
Service Factiva
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Full-text Digital texts British History Online
http//www.british-history.ac.
uk/ Domesday Explorer Parliament 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
Reformation Making of the Modern World 1450-1850
(MOMW) House of Commons Parliamentary
Papers Macmillan Cabinet Papers Declassified
Documents Reference System (DDRS) British and
Irish Womens Letters Diaries
See also Primary Sources Online
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
(PROME)
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
(PROME)
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Early English Books Online 1475-1700 (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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Calendar of State Papers (CSP)
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State Papers Online I (Tudors Domestic)
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British and Irish Womens Letters and Diaries
1500-1950
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The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
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Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)
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Declassified Documents Reference System US
(DDRS)
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Visual sources data ArtStor Bridgeman Art
Library (via Dictionary of Art) John Johnson
Collection an archive of Printed Ephemera VADS
(Visual Arts Data Service) http//www.vads.ac.uk/
Historical Statistics of the US AHDS History
(Arts Humanities Data Service)
http//ahds.ac.uk/history/index.html iPoll
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ArtSTOR Illuminated Manuscript Collection
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Historical Statistics of the US
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iPoll
iPoll
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Useful search engines portals History
Departments round the World http//chnm.gmu.ed
u/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)
History http//ahds.ac.uk/history/ British
History Online http//www.british-history.ac.uk/
American Memory (Library of Congress) http//memo
ry.loc.gov/ammem/
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Intute
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H-Net
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 History
Faculty JISCMail http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk
H-Net http//www.h-net.org
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Forthcoming WISER sessions WISER Sources for US
History Friday 11 June 12.30 -1.30 WISER
Sources for Medievalists Monday 14 June 12.30
-1.30
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