History 97C-1
Unsolved Mysteries
of the Early Modern European World
Winter 2007
Library Research
Guide
Ellen Broidy
Librarian for Anglo-American History
825-1324
This guide is designed as an introduction to print ("real") and online ("virtual") resources critical for accessing materials about two great “mysteries” of the early modern world, the characterization of Richard III (hero, villain, something in-between) and the debate over the authorship of plays attributed to William Shakespeare. The guide is extremely selective, both in terms of the sources cited and the research strategies recommended. In other words, there is a lot more out there; hopefully, this will provide some useful suggestions for completing your first and final writing assignments.
I. UCLA Library Website – http://www.library.ucla.edu
The website/homepage is the front door to UCLA’s print and electronic collections as well as useful information about the Library and links to subject guides.
II.
Using the UCLA Online
Catalog - http:www.catalog.library.ucla.edu
The online catalog (or OPAC) provides access to UCLA’s vast collections. It lists our holdings by author, title, keyword(s) and Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Here are some examples of search strategies for the first and last writing assignments:
1. Richard III
Author search:
Search for other relevant works by authors on your syllabus (e.g., Pollard, A.J.)
Keywords:
King Richard III (add term sources to locate primary materials)
Library of Congress subject heading:
2. Shakespeare
Title search:
Search for a title of a book on your syllabus (e.g., Who wrote Shakespeare), display the full record in the OPAC, click on appropriate subject heading(s).
Keyword:
Shakespeare authorship
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 authorship
Remember, I said the guide was selective so experiment!
III.
Significant print collection
Statutes of the Realm
**K24 .G79s (double oversize; shelved at north end of the 4th floor)
Volumes contain all Acts of
Parliament for
IV.
Digital Primary Sources
The UCLA Library provides access to extraordinary digital resources, some of which are digitized (and fully searchable) versions of important primary materials. Among the most useful for this course are:
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile
page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from
1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through
the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
This is a gateway site to primary
and secondary source materials on Medieval and Early Modern Britain. It is
organized both topically and geographically. It includes primary source material
published by the History of Parliament Trust, the Centre for Metropolitan
History and the
V.
Secondary Sources
The assignment also requires you to
produce a short bibliography of secondary works on your chosen topic. Here, too, you will be able to make use of
print and digital resources.
a. Books and other print sources
For books (monographs), return to
the UCLA Catalog and once again try using keyword and/or subject searching to
identify relevant materials. If you have already read something by a particular
author, you might want to do an author search to see if that author has written
anything else on your topic.
b. Scholarly articles
The "world's leading historical bibliography" covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Database contains citations to over 1,700 journals as well as books, and dissertations.
Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language
Association)
Indexes journals, dissertations,
collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and
folklore from 1923 to the present.
Fully indexed, searchable digital versions
of key journals in History, including American Historical Review, Journal of
Social History, Journal of World History.
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. You can search by subject or browse a journal title.
Journals of interest in Muse include:
English Literary History (ELH)
Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
Journal of Medieval and Early
Modern Studies
Journal of the History of Ideas
Shakespeare Quarterly
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1971.
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