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Last update: Jul 06th, 2009 URL: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/history  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Key databases

  • America: History and Life  
    Definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. A major index to Americana, including cultural traditions. 1982+
  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers  
    Search and view America's historic newspapers from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
  • History Compass  
    History Compass is an online resource which publishes original survey articles within 9 online journals, combined with a range of useful reference resources.
  • Index to Black periodicals  
    Print only.
    An index to African-American periodicals of general and scholarly interest from approximately 34 journals.
    1984 to 2004 available at SREF 301.4519605/3
  • New York Times 1851-2005  
    Full image archive providing the entire historical run of The New York Times. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
    1851 to 2005.

Multidisciplinary databases

  • Academic Research Library  
    One of the Proquest databases. Good coverage of American History.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP  
    Provides international coverage of academic journals, magazines and newspapers. 1980+
  • JSTOR  
    Provides retrospective full text access to a range of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals. 1800+
  • Periodicals Archive Online  
    Similar to JSTOR in providing full text access to older issues of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals.
  • Project Muse  
    Provides access to over 40 Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals. Coverage includes history. Full text resource to numerous topic areas, including history.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega  
    Includes coverage of the Social Sciences Index, The Humanities Index and Reader's Guide.

Subject specific databases

Citation databases


Find more resources like these under the Research support tab of this guide:

  • Web of Science  
    Web of Science consists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more. Includes Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956+
  • Scopus  
    An abstract & citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, & seamless links to full text articles and other resources.
  • Google Scholar  
    Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, helping you to identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
    Set up Library Links in Google Scholar to link to available UNSW content.
 
 

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Reference


Definitions, concepts and biographies:

  • Oxford Reference Online  
    Includes:
    The Oxford Companion to Australian History
    The Australian Oxford Dictionary
    Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
    World Maps
  • Politics and International Relations Resource  
    Includes over 30 reference books published by Routledge, such as Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics; Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia; The Routledge Dictionary of 20th Century Political Thinkers.
  • American National Biography Online  
    Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the United States.

Useful links

  • American Historical Documents, 1000–1904  
    The 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents in this collection trace the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country to the Civil War and early twentieth-century international relations.
  • Core Documents of U.S. Democracy  
    Cornerstone documents such as The Bill of Rights, The Constitution of the USA, The Declaration of Independence along with Congressional, Presidential and Judicial documents.

Websites


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