History 230A New Frontiers of Cultural History


www.louvre.fr/img/ photos/audito/ca1760.jpg	History M230A New Frontiers of Cultural History Professor Lynn Hunt Spring 2005 Ellen Broidy Librarian for U.S. and British History and Women's Studies 825-1324 Katalin Radics Librarian for the West European Collections 825-1843

This guide is designed as an introduction to print ("real") and online ("virtual") resources critical for accessing materials on the new frontiers of cultural history located at the UCLA Library and beyond. It is extremely selective, both in terms of the sources cited and the research strategies recommended (or implied). All reference and "finding" sources listed are available at UCLA; however, a number of these point to materials located at libraries, both real and virtual, beyond the campus borders.

1. Basic Research Strategies and Tips

1.1. Search tips ~Systems and Serendipity: Successful research is often a combination of systematic approaches and, when appropriate, serendipity.

1.1.1. Topic Identification and Description: Identify a topic of interest and describe it in as narrow and focused way as possible. Consider subtopics, perspective you wish to take, geographical and/or chronological focus. Ask: What? Who? When? Where?

1.1.2.Search Vocabulary: Make a list of search terms (keywords) that describe your topic. Include synonyms, relevant proper names, etc. Avoid very common words if possible, but also include some general (e.g., United States) as well as precise descriptors.

1.1.3. Truncation: Use truncation symbols (?, *, or #) building on the root of a word or within a term to expand your retrieval. Specific symbols and trunction limitations depend on the system you are using.

    Examples:
             wom#n    =    woman or women
              scien? = science, scientific, scientist

1.1.4. Call Numbers: Call numbers are determined by the first/primary subject heading of the publication. Thus, most (but not always necessarily all) books on the industrial revolution in England, for instance, will be classed and shelved together. Once you find a promising call number(s) for your topic, browse the shelves in this area for serendipitous discoveries of other items that might be of interest/use.

1.1.5. Search Documentation: Keep careful track of your research process: sources consulted, date ranges covered, search terms used, as well as promising citations. Use a notebook, index cards, and/or email messages to yourself.

1.2. Considerations in assessing the quality and usefulness of an item (for print and electronic resources):

2. UCLA Library Homepage

This is the front door to a wide variety of print and electronic resources in cultural including links to the UCLA Library Catalog; MELVYL, the union catalog for the University of California libraries; the California Digital Library; and subject-related webpages developed at UCLA.

3. Guides to the Literature

Guides (or guides to the literature as they're sometimes called) may provide the researcher with a basic introduction to the literature of a topic. Guides often list important bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, periodical indexes, manuscript and statistical finding aids, etc. They can be a useful first step in beginning research, helpful both in acquainting the researcher with critical sources in the field and assisting in organization and evaluation of research strategies.

The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford, 1995. 2 vols.
YRL Ref. Desk Z6201 .G94 1995

4. Finding Books: UCLA Library Catalog MELVYL®, WorldCat

Identifying and locating books on your topic is most conveniently done through a keyword or subject (heading) search using the UCLA Library Catalog or the UC systemwide MELVYL® Catalog. Keyword searching is the most flexible, usually producing the largest retrieval (often including "false drops"), while subject searching can often be more precise since it relies on authorized Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Although the advent of online catalogs with keyword search capabilities has sounded the death knell for rigidly structured subject heading/classification schemes, it is still worth considering how language is used to organize materials in a research library. For example, it is possible (and frequently extremely beneficial) to do a subject search in the UCLA Library Catalog or MELVYL® using Library of Congress subject headings.

A subject heading is a word or term that describes, often quite broadly, the contents of a book, journal article, videotape, dataset, etc. All nonfiction books and media are assigned one or more subject headings, allowing for multiple points of access to the same item. "Authorized" headings are found listed in Library of Congress Subject Headings, a four-volume set with a bright red cover located in YRL Reference (Z695.Z8 L524a ).

One of the best and most efficient ways to identify subject headings for your topic is to do a keyword or title search in UCLA Library Catalog or MELVYL, note subject headings for the most promising items, and click on those headings to execute a search on that subject.

Primary sources come in numerous packages in the library. Microform and digital are two of the easier packages to locate. Printed primary materials, especially monographs and archival sources, can be a bit more illusive. One strategy for identifying them is to add the word sources to your subject search.

4.2. UCLA Library Catalog

The UCLA Library Catalog provides quick and efficient access to the holdings of the UCLA Library. The UCLA Library Catalog should be your first stop for books, periodicals, media and other monographic materials.

The UCLA Library Catalog is directly accessible from the UCLA Library homepage; Click on the "search and find" tab. The catalog is the first item on the drop-down menu.

4. 3. UC MELVYL® CATALOG

If your UCLA Library Catalog search does not produce the desired results, you may want to search the holdings of other libraries, particularly other UC libraries. The UC MELVYL® Catalog opens doors to worlds beyond UCLA (yes, rumor has it that there is intelligent life out there!). In addition to providing bibliographic access to the holdings of other UC libraries through the MELVYL®Catalog, the California Digital Library (CDL) contains a large number of indexes to periodical literature, some with abstracts or full-text of articles available online.

To use the MELVYL® Catalog, click on Search and Find and the Other Catalogs. To research a topic, you may use either the default Basic Search screen or click on Advanced in the gold bar at the top of the page. Subject searches require word(s) from authorized LC subject headings but word order does not matter. If you are unsure of a subject heading, try a Keyword search instead.

OCLC FirstSearch catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, etc. Access via the UCLA Library homepage - click on Search and Find, then Other Catalogs.


5. Finding Articles: Periodical Indexes and Abstracting Services

The most convenient direct access to periodical indexes and abstracts is through the UCLA Libray Homepage. Click on search and find and then on article databases or electronic resources. If you know a particular title, you can search for it here.

Both an index and abstracting database as well as a source for full-text on the web. You can limit retrieval to full-text.

The "world's leading historical bibliography" covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America but including the rest of the Americas). Includes English-language journals (1,700+), books, and disseratations.

IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literatur (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur)

This is a multilingual database indexing over 5600 periodicals, including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent, 1983-current. Connect to IBZ via the UCLA Library Catalog or search and find: electronic resources from the UCLA Library homepage.

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.

This database integrates four major bibliographies in the history of Science, Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

6. Finding Book Reviews

Although there is no separate limit for book reviews, citations to reviews are clearly marked in the record.

2. C.R.I.S. : The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974. 11 vols. vol. 4-9 U.S. History. YRL Stacks Z6205 .C112

3. Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974. 15 vols. YRL Ref. Z1036 A1 C65

7. Full-Text Journals on the Web

Contains Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905 and full-text of the Times covering the same period.

8. Selected Primary and Other Web-based Resources

FRANTEXT consists of about 2000 texts. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

Searching requires the use of diacritics orsubstitutes for diacritics. Click on “Accented characters” on the search page:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/TLF/restricted/search.form.html

French Studies Web

A project of the Association of College and Research Libraries Western European Specialists Section, it provides annotated links to scholarly web resources and also includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe.

Germany

Die Deutsche Bibliothek

The German National Library is located in Frankfurt (Deutsche Bibliothek), Leipzig (Deutsche Bücherei), and Berlin (Deutsches Musikarchiv), and can be accessed through three catalogs. They include exhaustive data on German imprints, imprints in German published in foreign countries, translations of German works into other languages, works on Germany and German culture (Germanica) published in foreign countries, works (even drafts) of German émigrés 1933-1945.

Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

This is an excellent gateway to German archives. Archives are organized according to type (federal, state, military, church, etc.)

Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker im WWW

This is a very rich database of German literary, philosophical, political, theological, etc. texts; includes authors covering eleven centuries. The database has very strong search capabilities for textual inquiries. Clicking on Help on the right side of the home page takes users to search guides. Clicking on Search leads to the search page. Clicking on About Deutsche Klassiker gets to information about the content of the database. Goethe is not covered in this database; the Library, however, has a full text database for Goethe texts accessible on CD-ROM in the Microform and Media area:

Goethes Werke auf CD-ROM
Weimarer Ausgabe
Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. C1995.
PT1891.C95 1995 (Microform and Media)

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

People consider this the German MLA. It is a comprehensive bibliography by subjects and authors and includes citations to books, journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, conference proceedings, etc. Covers 1985-current.

German Reference Resources (Xipolis)

Xipolis contains a complete set of first class German reference resources searchable together or separately. Brockhaus, Duden, Kindlers are all trademarks of the best German reference work tradition. A set of German-foreign language, foreign language-German (including English) dictionaries are also among the available resources. Searches are case sensitive. Umlauts can be replaced by two vowel combinations (ä by ae, etc.).

German Studies Web

Another project of ACRL's Western European Specialists Section.

Great Britain

British Library

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

Pamphlet Collection: London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)

The Library holds 90,000 old pamphlets, many published in the 19th century or the early part of the 20th century. This is primary source material, published and written by pressure groups, political parties and individual campaigners. Much of the original collection was donated to the Library in its early years. It is therefore a unique resource for historical research.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19th Century Britain

Victoria Research Web

This is a guide to research resources written by the founder and manager of the long-running VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period.

British Studies Web

The British Studies Web aims to provide scholarly information pertaining to the British Isles (the nations of England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)

Italy

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze

This library in Florence became the National Library of Italy in 1958. You can search it if you click on “OPAC della BNCF” link on the home page. Its manuscript collection is also searchable if users click on “Galileo (Manoscritti Galileiani).

Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico

This is the Italian OCLC, a union catalog of Italian libraries. Click on “OPAC dell’Indice SBN” on the home page for searching.

Italian Studies Web

Still another effort developed and maintained by ACRL's Western European Studies Section.

9. Primary Sources in Microform and Print

French Revolutionary Pamphlets.
Guide: DC141.F889 - YRL Microform and Media Services Closed Stacks

The History of Science and Technology microform. Series 3: The Papers of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871.
Guide: YRL Q125 .H58 1991. Film held at SRLF.

Landmarks II (Landmarks of Science).
A comprehensive collection of the source material in the history of science comprising the significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology. Search by individual entries or by the main title. Guide and microfiche both located in the Microform & Media Services Department, 2nd floor, YRL.

Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History.
Contains: The Boulton and Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from the Birmingham Central Library. part 1. Lunar Society correspondence (16 reels). part 2. Muirhead I : notebooks and papers of James Watt and family (12 reels). part 3. Engineering drawings (8 reels). part 4. Matthew Boulton correspondence (24 reels). part 5. Engineering drawings (5 reels). part 6. Muirhead II - notebooks and papers of James Watt and family (33 reels). part. 7. Matthew Boulton correspondence and papers, subject material and individual correspondents, including Garbett, Rennie, Southern and Wilkinson. part 8. Muirhead III and IV - notebooks and papers of James Watt and family. part 9. Journals, notebooks and diaries of Matthew Boulton (12 reels). part 10. Matthew Boulton correspondence (20 reels) -- series 3. The papers of James Watt and his family formerly held at Doldowlod House now at Birmingham Central Library. part 1. Correspondence, papers and business records, 1687-1819 (20 reels). part 2. Correspondence, papers and business records, 1736-1848 (20 reels). part 3. Correspondence, papers and business records, 1736-1848 (25 reels).
Guide: YRL HC254.5 .I382 1992. Film held at SRLF.

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature
An extremely important collection of early economic literature (pre-1850). The Rosenfeld Management Library owns the microflm and a detailed guide to the collection.
Guide: MANREFR STAX H31 .G57 guide. Film also held at Rosenfeld Management Library. Individual author and title entries in ORION2, plus series entry.

Robert E. Gross Collection of Rare Books in Business & Economics.
Pre-1800 imprints and manuscripts on trade and commerce from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Online finding aid available.

The Nineteenth Century: General Collection: Guide to Contents.
Large microfiche collection of reproductions of 19th century books from the British Library and other British and U.S. libraries covering politics, economics, history, philosophy, medicine, science.
Guide: YRL M&MS DA530 .N56 1980 guide. Fiche held at UC Irvine; available via ILL.