Workshop on the Professional Historian
The Virtual Library: Critical Online Resources for Historians
Ellen Broidy, October 26, 2004
Librarian for U.S. and British History and Women's Studies
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MELVYL: The Catalog of the University of California Libraries
Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, published since 1964. Available from UC IP addresses only.Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life) published since 1967.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Contains citations from journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, the history of technology, and allied historical fields in a variety of languages. Covers 1976 - present. Available from UC IP addresses only.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliography of more than 225,000 articles and databases from books and over 300 journals covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile [formerly Poole's Plus]
Index to 19th century periodicals and resource for the study of 19th century cultural and intellectual life.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Best known for its unique Cited Reference Lookup feature.
Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.
Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.
Full text of 15 important journals in History, including American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, and Journal of World History. The site also contains additional content including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in ther print versions of some articles.
Includes Palmer's Index to the (London) Times, 1790-1905, with Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870 (currently available: 1800-1870); The Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980; and The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1923 (currently available: 1863-1905 and 1913-1922).
HarpWeek - The Civil War Era, Reconstruction I & II, and Gilded Age I
Full-image reproductions of Harper's Weekly from its beginning in 1857 to 1883.
Women's history in the world from 1543 to 1945. Contains 4,700 publications from Europe, the U.S., the U.K., Canada and New Zealand tracing the evolution of feminism within a single country as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of others.
International Medieval Bibliography
Early Encounters in North America
Citations from early English texts from 1475 to 1700, presented as digital images. Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
Images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1962, taken from libraries and archives around the world ; arranged in five thematic sections, to be published 2003-2007, with essays by leading scholars. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Collection of letters and diaries of women of varied age groups, ethnicities, and geographical regions, spanning more than 300 years ; includes both published and previously unpublished materials.