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HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

• Bibliographic Guides
• Encyclopedias & Handbooks: For Specific Countries | For All Europe
• Article Databases & Indexes | Web Megasites | Biographical Research

Materials are located in the YRL Reference Reading Room unless otherwise indicated.

Bibliographic Guides: History & Biography

• The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature. Eds. Mary Beth Norton, Pamela Gerardi. 1995. [Ref Desk Z 6201.G94 1995]

• Slavens, Thomas P., 1928- Sources of information for historical research. New York : Neal-Schuman, c1994. [Ref Desk Z 6201 .S63 1994]

• Walford's guide to reference material. 8th ed. London: Library Association Publishing, 1999-<2000>. Vol. 2: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion, Vol.3: Generalia, language and literature, the arts.
  [Ref Desk Z 1035 .W149g 1996]

• Guide to Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Information Resources
  

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Encyclopedias & Handbooks: History & Biography

For Specific Countries

• Buse, Dieter K. and Juergen C. Doerr, eds. Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. New York : Garland Pub., 1998. [DD 14 .M64 1998]

• Cooke, James J. France, 1789-1962. Newton Abbot [Eng.]: David & Charles ; Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1975. [DC 35 .C775f]

• Hochman, Jirí. Historical dictionary of the Czech State. (European historical dictionaries, no. 23) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. [DB 2007 .H63 1998]

• Kubijovyc, Volodymyr, ed. Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1984-c1993. [DK 508 .E613 1984]
• Translation of: Entsyklopediia ukraïnoznavstva.

• Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte : Personen, Ereignisse, Institutionen von der Zeitwende bis zum Ausgangdes 2. Weltkrieges. Gerhard Taddey, ed. 2d ed. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1983.
  [DD 84 .L591 1983]

• Wheeler, Douglas L. Historical Dictionary of Portugal. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. [DP 535 .W44 1993]

• Wieczynski, Joseph L., ed. The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Gulf Breeze, Fl : Academic International Press, 1976-   [DK 14 .M719]

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For All Europe

• Dinan, Desmond. Historical Dictionary of the European Community. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1993. [JN 15 .D56 1993]
• General Encyclopedias from Europe & Russia
• The New Cambridge modern history. Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1957-79. 14 v. [D 208 .N42 1957]
• The Oxford companion to World War II. I.C.B. Dear, M.R.D. Foot, eds. Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  [D 740 .O94 1995]
• Powell, John. Chronology of European history, 15,000 B.C. to 1997. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, c1997. 3 vols. [D 11 .C57 1997]
• Strayer, Joseph R. ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York : Scribner, 1982-1989. 13 vols. [D 114.D5 1982]
• Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000. New York : Scribner, c2001. 6 vols. [HN 373 .E63 2001]

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Article Database & Indexes: History & Biography

• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
  Covers North American scholarship since the late 1980s on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.
• FRANCIS
  An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art, and literature from 1984 to the present.
• Historical Abstracts. 1967-
  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).
• Historical Newspapers
  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, 1913-1922).
• IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
  Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals, including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent, 1983 to the present.
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  Index to articles and reviews drawn from over 300 medieval and renaissance journal titles (covering the period 400-1700), published from 1843 to the present.
• Periodicals Archives 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.
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
  Index to materials in the humanities and social sciences published 1992-present in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Subject headings are in Russian (with some in English), as are most of the materials indexed.
• Web of Science. 1975-
  Includes the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Volumes for earlier years back to 1956 are in Reference at Z 7161 .S67 (Social Sciences Citation Index)

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Web Megasites: History & Biography

• WWW Virtual Library EUI European History Project. (European University Institute, Florence.) Good collection of links for European history.
• WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue. Extensive links covering the whole world.
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe. Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history).

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Biographical Research

• Biography Index
  Indexes articles and other material since 1984 about people from antiquity to the present from all fields and nationalities. Directions: Check the box next to 'Biography Index 1984-present', then click on one the 'Search or 'Browse' buttons from the menu in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
• Encyclopedia of world biography. 2nd ed. Detroit : Gale Research, c1998-c2000. 20 vols. [Biography Table CT 103 .E56 1998]
• Moncure, James A., ed. Research guide to European historical biography, 1450-present. Washington, D.C. : Beacham Pub., 1992- 93.
  [Z 5304 .C44R47 1992] Reference has vols. 1-4; vols. 5-8 are on order.
• World Biographical Index
  Indexes huge microfiche collection (located in YRL Reference) of short biographical entries from a variety of sources about eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Indexes many biographical archives which YRL Reference & Instructional Services has in microfiche. The fiche contains the complete texts of the biographical descriptions, while the Web site indicates birth and death years, occupation, source quoted (archive, fiche-number and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used.
  

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Compiled by Patti S. Caravello, March 2003