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Finding Books
- WebCat will help you find books in the Shenandoah University Libraries.
If we do not owe the book you need, you can try WorldCat which provides access
to the holdings of 60,000 libraries world wide.
Finding Articles
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Shenandoah University Libraries have contractual agreements
with various publishers and others to provide you with the citations, abstracts,
and in many cases, the fulltext of
over 30,000 journals, magazines and newspapers. These databases include
materials which are authoritative and accurate, and have search interfaces
designed by experts to make your search for information easier. Using
these databases will generally provide more accurate information, more quickly
and easily, than using "free" Internet sources. They are for the exclusive use of
University students and faculty and are password protected.
Click here for information
about passwords and off campus access.
Journal Locator - once you have a specific article in mind you are ready to use Journal Locator. It is a comprehensive list (over 30,000) of all the journals, magazines, and newspapers to which University Libraries provide fulltext access electronically or in print. It is searchable and you can browse it by subject.
Free Internet Sites - most resources listed here are provided by non-profit or government entities, and have been carefully selected for their authority and stability. Although these web sites are "free" for anyone to use, they have been selected as reliable sources that provide accurate information. As always, carefully evaluate all information found at free Internet sites.
Researcher Services -
click for help with
Ask a Librarian - Get Help with Research Projects or Any
Question - Large or Small
Off-Campus - Distance Education Support Faculty Guide to Library Services
WebCat - the database used to locate books and all other materials owned by the Shenandoah University Libraries. Don't forget that "ink on paper" resources are generally authoritative and are still the easiest to use for many questions. Remember too, that "Power Search" allows you to limit to by item type (journals and magazines for example), by language, publication date(s) etc.
WorldCat - contains records of over 95 million items in over 400 languages from 60,000 participating libraries from around the world. As you might expect, most records are of books, but you will find records of any conceivable item a library might own including audio and video recordings, computer programs, archival materials, maps, musical scores and more. Some items in this database date to before 1,000 B.C. Approximately one million items are being added annually, and WorldCat is updated daily. (remote access requires username and password)
Finding Articles in Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Databases Useful to History Students
JSTOR - an archive of scholarly journals providing the fulltext (PDF files) of hundreds of journals from all disciplines. Coverage extends back decades for many titles, but most have a "moving wall" which blocks access to the most recent articles. (remote access requires username and password)
Project Muse - this full-text resource provides access to 45 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. (remote access requires username and password)
Academic OneFile - provides indexing to more than 11,000 scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The fulltext of articles is available for approximately 3,500 of the titles indexed. Some of the journals indexed may be available in the University Libraries. (remote access requires username and password)
Cambridge University Press - this full-text resource provides access to 120 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences (remote access requires username and password)
Oxford University Press Journals Online - this full-text resource provides access to 120 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics. (remote access requires username and password)
Wilson OmniFile Full-Text, Mega Edition - provides access to indexing and abstracting for approximately 3,500 journals and magazines from the humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering, with fulltext available for about 1,750 titles. Coverage for some titles begins as early as 1982. (remote access requires username and password)
Harp Week - provides fulltext access
to issues of Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization published between January
3, 1857 and December 29, 1877. You can both browse and search; Harp
Week provides subject, illustration, advertisement, and published
literature indexes, or you can search the fulltext of all available issues. One
can also browse by date. (remote
access requires username and password)
Miscellaneous Databases and Research Related Digitized Tools
Dissertation Abstracts - Indexed doctoral dissertations and theses from universities in the U.S. and abroad. Over 1,560,000 items from all fields of study, dating back to 1861. Abstracts provided for records since 1980 - thesis abstracts since 1988. This database can be accessed both on-campus and off-campus through remote proxy access. (remote access requires username and password)
Journal Locator
- is an alphabetical list of journals
and magazines to which the University Libraries provide access. This title
list will, in most cases, tell you the dates available for a particular
electronic title, and you can connect to the appropriate database. You can
then search the database for the title you need.
If we subscribe to a title in print format, "SU Journal
Collection" will be stated and you can connect to the catalog record
which will show our subscription holdings. The catalog record will tell
you whether a title is available in paper or on microfilm.
Over 30,000 titles are now listed.
Search Journal Locator - Find Both Print and Electronic Journals Available Through University Libraries
RefWorks
- a bibliographic citation manager which allows users toImport citations
from online databases to create your own personal bibliographic database.
Off-campus Requires separate password - see Dr. Jacobs for access information
InterLibrary Loan Forms - just click here to bring up the forms for books and journals. Remember, you must make sure that we do not have access to what you need in our local collection, BEFORE you make a request.
Remember to read on-screen
instructions; some systems are actually quite friendly.
Use online help features
for more detailed explanations of how to search each particular
database.
Tell Us About Your Project - Research Project Consultation
Undergraduates can call: David McKinney at 540-665-5444 or Cindy Thomas at 540-665-5421
Graduate students call: Rosemary Green at 540-665-4634
Always
feel free to ask a librarian for help!!
We want to save you time, help you find the best materials, and help you learn
to become a more efficient researcher.
As always, carefully evaluate all information found at free Internet sites.
Metasites
WWW - Virtual Library -
HISTORY - "The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog of the Web....
the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides
to particular sections of the Web."
WWW Virtual Library - HISTORY: UNITED STATES
General Sources
American
Memory: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
- Library of Congress provides "a gateway to rich primary
source materials relating to the history and culture of the United
States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than
100 historical collections"
National
Archives and Records Administration - a federal agency charged with
the preservation and access to historical documents provides this browsable,
searchable site which has over 83,000 digitized copies. Examples
include the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation
American
and British History Resources on the Internet - a metasite for scholarly
sources. It's not yet searchable, but is browsable by subject area
and chronologically. Courtesy of Rutgers University
International
Institute of Social History - a valuable source for for labor history
and related subjects
Cold
War International History Project - courtesy of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, it focus is to facilitate release of
Cold War documents from all governments
The
African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for
the Study of Black History
American
Women's History: A Research Guide - twenty seven subject areas
including general and biographical sources. Courtesy of Kenneth Middleton
of Middle Tennessee State University
The
American Folklife Center: The Library of Congress
Index
of Native American Resources on the Internet - a browsable metasite,
some subject areas lack depth, but provides many worthwhile links nonetheless
NativeWeb
- covers indigenous peoples not only of North America, but is international
in scope
The
Sixties Project - personal narratives, primary documents, research
links, and more courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia at Charlottesville
African
American Odyssey - covers "more than 200 years of African American
struggle and achievement." Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Oyez Oyez Oyez -
offers transcripts, oral arguments, abstracts dating to 1891, and links to
fulltext. Audio is available for some recent cases. Courtesy of
Northwestern University
American
Cultural History: The Twentieth Century - "The purpose of these pages
is to present a series of web guides on the decades of the twentieth century"
Courtesy of Kingwood College, Peggy Whitley, and several reference librarians
from around the United States
Online Documents for the Study of American History
Making
of America - University of Michigan - primary
sources in American social history. The University of Michigan
has scanned over 1,600 books and 50,000 articles, and they consider this
just a good start. It's searchable, but if you want to browse, it's
like browsing "the stacks of a major archive."
Making
of America - Cornell University - materials accessible here are Cornell
University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital
library of primary sources in American social
history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection
is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American
history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site
provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles
with 19th century imprints
Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920
- "is a digital publishing initiative
that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to
Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the
first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic
collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history
interviews, and songs." Courtesy to the University of North Carolina
Documents
for the Study of American History - a "bibliography of primary documents
available on the Internet which are essential for the study of US history."
Courtesy of the University of Kansas
The
Avalon Project at Yale University - reproductions of historical documents
in many fields. Examples are the Jefferson Papers, The Federalists
Papers, and The Confederate States of America Papers
Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement: An Online Archive - courtesy
of Duke University
History
Channel Speeches - "Hear the words that changed the world.
From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's
farewell to baseball" Brief background information is provided to
help place each speech in context. Be prepared to
endure advertising.
Early Americas Digital
Archive - "The Early Americas
Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to
texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately
1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes" Courtesy of
Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Historical Maps and History
of Cartography
Map
History/History of Cartography: The Gateway to the Subject -
courtesy of the Institute for Historical Research, School of Advanced Study
at the University of London
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection - is perhaps the single best source of maps
and map information on the Internet. Courtesy of the University of
Texas-Austin
The American Civil War
The
American Civil War Homepage - is perhaps the single largest collection
of links about Civil War history on the web. Courtesy of Dr. George
H. Hoemann of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Mary E. Myers
The
United States Civil War Center - Mission statement: "To promote
the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations
and academic disciplines. To locate, index, and make available all
appropriate private and public data on the Internet regarding the Civil
War." Courtesy LSU Libraries Special Collections
Women in American History
American Women's History - A Research Guide - courtesy Ken Middleton and Middle Tennessee State University Libraries
Images
Imagebase - courtesy of Virginia Tech, contains pictures of a wide variety
of items, many with a focus on the state of Virginia and its history
Historical
Picture Collections - courtesy of Steve Schoenherr and the Department
of History at the University of San Diego. Provides links to the
best photo archives on the web