LibGuides: HIST 451, Capstone Research Seminar (Brown): Secondary sources

WorldCat

WorldCat lets you identify books held by other libraries that you may be able to borrow from interlibrary loan.

WorldCat
11th century -
Use WorldCat to search the holdings of academic, public and special libraries around the world.
This union catalog contains records of books and other items in libraries worldwide. Items owned by UNLV Libraries are indicated; UNLV students, faculty and staff may request books via Document Delivery Services.

WorldCat.org
Free online version of WorldCat; includes fewer items than the library subscription version but has nicer interface.

Secondary Sources: Books and Articles

Academic Search Premier
Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
1954-
Journal articles and books about world history from 1450 forward (Does not include the United States and Canada). Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Historical Abstracts identifies journal articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada (See: America: History and Life). Articles from over 2,000 journals are indexed and annotated, and the database includes over half a million entries in all. A select 3,000 books are also listed.
JSTOR
An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Project MUSE
1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Update frequency: monthly
Bloomsbury Cultural History
Ebooks surveying cultural phenomena across different historical periods - topics include fashion, leisure, sexuality, medicine, youth and many more.
Hathi Trust
Good for: Searching books and periodicals, including full text access to those in the public domain and limited search for those still under copyright.
Contains: Scanned books and periodicals

Archive.org Library requires free Internet Archive account for one hour loan of all in copyright works.
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Scanned books published before 2011. Make a free account to borrow works still under copyright.

Reference Guides and other ways to get oriented to work already done

Current overviews of scholarship

Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method
Articles and ebooks about historiography, historical theory, methods for analyzing primary sources, and schools of thought within the discipline of history.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Scholarly research reviews and historiographical essays published in the Oxford Handbooks series. Use these to get an overview of how historians have approached a topic.

History Compass
Review articles to get an overview of current scholarship on historical topics.

Oxford Bibliographies
Scholarly topic overviews and annotated bibliographies with expert literature reviews from a wide range of disciplines.
Video tutorial for Oxford Bibliographies

H-Net online reviews
Reviews of books and web projects in history and other humanities disciplines

Older guides for use doing historiography

The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature (1995)
This guide is an annotated bibliography of key sources in different regions and time periods. Sources published after 1992 are not included, but this can help you identify relevant collections or standard works.
AHA guide 1961 edition
(table of contents cuts off but you can use the page number dropdown to navigate the rest of the book - start with the Frontmatter link and navigate to page xix to pick up where the online table of contents ends. US History begins on page 711.)
A guide to historical literature (1931)
First bibliography from American Historical Association

Dissertations

Dissertations generally have excellent bibliographies and often include a section that reviews scholarship done on a topic.

Dissertations and Theses
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.

HIST 451, Capstone Research Seminar (Brown): Secondary sources

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Secondary Sources: Books and Articles

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