Resources for History

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Resources for History

• Jeremy Richard Library

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Library Homepage
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Locating Material

• HOMER for books
• Databases / Shortcuts for articles
• eJournals to locate Electronic Journals
• Document Delivery for items in other libraries

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HOMER Search Strategies

• Search by
• Title
• Author,
• Keyword- Relevance
• Keyword Boolean
• and more

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HOMER Searching by Keyword
Keyword- Relevance To search phrases, use
quotes SAMPLE SEARCH world war I To mark
essential terms, use SAMPLE SEARCH world war
I causes To truncate, use ? German? finds
Germans, Germany SAMPLE SEARCH German? And
world war ILimit to Stamford
http//homerweb.lib.uconn.edu/
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HOMER Citation
Subject Heading
Call Number
Status
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Databases

• To find articles
• Magazine vs. Journal
• Full Text vs. Abstract

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Infotrac
Subject Guide Search Limited to refereed
publications
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Subdivisions of World War, 1914-1918
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Infotrac Citation
Full Text
Abstract
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Creating your Searches
Relationships Between Search Terms
OR one or the other or both of the words
World War I
Causes
Origins
AND
OR
AND both words must
appear
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Try other databases
JSTOR backfiles of core scholarly journals
beginning with the first issue up to a moving
wall of 2- to 5-years for such titles as
American Historical Review, American Quarterly,
Economic History Review, Eighteenth-Century
Studies,, History and Theory, Journal of American
History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of
Modern History, Journal of the History of Ideas,
Military Affairs, Speculum, William and Mary
Quarterly, Reviews in American, Mississippi
Valley Historical Review


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JStor Search
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Historical Abstract Search
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Library Links
Library Homepage http//www.lib.uconn.edu/ Librar
y Session http//www.lib.uconn.edu/campuses/stamfo
rd/using/instruction/history/History101_Blatt.htm
Questions/Comments shelley.roseman_at_uconn.edu Te
l. 203 251-8522