Electronic Resources for Historical Research
The University of Iowa Libraries
Janalyn L. Moss

http://www.myweb.uiowa.edu/jmoss/history/seminars/2005/erfhr/erfhr.html

 
Reference Librarian  
janalyn-moss@uiowa.edu
Campus phone: 335-5698

Pursuit of secondary sources -- Indexes & Databases

Subscription Databases available through InfoHawk

 
  • African Studies - This database is an anthology of 16 databases covering 19th century to present, derived from books, periodical articles, pamphlets, maps and music recordings. Topics include politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, and music.
  • America: History and Life - A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
  • American Periodical Series (APS) - American popular and professional periodicals covering a wide range of subjects. Provides citations, full text.
    Historical Abstracts - Covers 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 New York Times - Identifies historical coverage of The New York Times (1851-2001) including full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
  • International Medieval Bibliography - Identifies multi-disciplinary articles and books about the European Middle Ages
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Identifies articles, conference proceedings, and books on all aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
  • JSTOR - Full text articles from back issues of academic journals in a variety of subject areas.
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - Periodical archive of the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
  • Project Muse - Provides full text access to scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage period variable. Update period is also variable. Provides citation, abstracts, and full text.
  • The Times Digital Archives - Complete digital edition of The Times (London), 1785-1985.
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America: History and Life - Example, Simple Search

 
 
 
  • Using Simple Search for a combined keyword and subject (or author, title, language, etc.)
  • ? as wildcard takes the place of one character
 

America: History and Life - Example, Advanced Search

  • Searching the subject terms field without having browsed subject headings
  • Use quotation marks to search a phrase, unless it's a common term like Civil War
America: History and Life - Example, Full Entry Display
 

 

  • Use InfoLink to determine if the UI Libraries have an item full-text in any of our subscription
    databases or check holdings in the library catalog
  • Search terms will be highlighted
  • Does not use Library of Congress Subject Headings

 

Historical Abstracts - Example, Advanced Search

 

  • Using 'paste to search' for valid subject headings
  • Using 'paste to search' to limit language, document type, and time period
  • Can change OR to AND

Historical Abstracts - Example, Full Entry Display