DICTIONARIES &
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND GUIDES
BOOK REVIEWS
INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
NEWSPAPER INDEXES
ELECTRONIC INDEXES ON WEBLUIS
OTHER ELECTRONIC SOURCES VIA WEBLUIS
DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 13 vols. Strayer, Joseph R., ed
in chief. New York: Scribner, 1982.
Lib West Ref D 114 D5 1982
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Morris, Richard B., ed.
7th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1996..
Lib West Ref E 174.5 E52 1996
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY: Studies of the principal
movements and ideas. Greene, Jack P., ed. New York: Scribner,
1984. 3 vols.
Lib West Ref E 183 .E5 1984
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. Roller, David C. and Robert
W. Twyman. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979.
Lib West Ref F 207.7 E52
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE. Wilson, Charles Reagan, et
al. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Lib West Ref F 209 E53 1989 Also on Reserve
at LW Circulation
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RENAISSANCE. Bergin, Thomas G. and
Jennifer Speake. New York: Facts on File, 1987.
Lib West Ref CB 361 B43 1987
HARPER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MILITARY HISTORY: From 3500 BC to the
present. Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, eds. 4th ed.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Lib West Ref Reserve D 25 D86 1986
HARVARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS. Thernstrom,
Stephan, ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 1980.
Lib West Ref E 184.A1 H35
WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA
Available on First Search (available
via "Quick Links" site)
WORLD HISTORY: A Dictionary of important people, places and events
from ancient times to the present. Wetterau, Bruce, ed. New York:
Holt, 1994.
Lib West Ref D 9 W47 1983
BIOBASE.
Lib West Ref Reserve CD-ROM
BIOGRAPHY INDEX (1984- )
Available on FIRST SEARCH (available
via "Quick Links" site)
BLACKWELL DICTIONARY OF HISTORIANS. Cannon, John, et al, eds.
New York: Blackwell, 1988.
Lib West Ref Reserve D 14 B58 1988
CONCISE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 3rd ed. New
York: Scribner, 1980.
Lib West Ref E 176 D564 1980
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. New York: Scribner, 1928-
.
Lib West Ref E 176 D5635
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Stephen, Leslie and Sydney
Lee. London: Smith, Elder and Co. London: Oxford UP, 1917- .
Lib West Ref DA 28 D48
WEBSTER’S AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES. Van Doren, Charles and
Robert McHenry. Springfield, MA: G & C Merriam Company, 1975.
Lib West Ref CT 213 V36 1975
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S GUIDE TO HISTORICAL LITERATURE.
3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 2 vols.
Lib West Ref D 20 .A551 1995
BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN HISTORY. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
1988. 2 vols.
Lib West Ref Z 1236 .B48 1988
HANDBOOK FOR RESEARCH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A guide to bibliographies
and other reference sources. Prucha, Francis Paul. 2nd ed., rev.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Lib West Ref Z 1236 .P78 1994
REFERENCE SOURCES IN HISTORY: An introductory guide. Fritz ,
Ronald H. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1990.
Lib West Ref D 20 .F72 1990
UNITED STATES HISTORY: A selective guide to information sources.
Blazek, Ron and Anna H. Perrault. Englewood, CA: Libraries Unlimited,
1994.
Lib West Ref Z 1236 .B57 1994
For works originally published in the last few years, you may consult the
following
databases on WEBLUIS: ACADEMIC
INDEX (1996- )
For all works, you may consult INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS. In addition, the following items are available in LIBRARY WEST REFERENCE, INDEX AREA:
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST (1906- ) Z 1219 .C96
Note: The years 1983 to the present are
available on First Search (available
via "Quick Links" site)
BOOK REVIEW INDEX (1965- ) Z 1035.A1 B6
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (TLS) CENTENARY ARCHIVE (1902-1985)
The following indexes are available in LIBRARY WEST REFERENCE, INDEX AREA:
AMERICA: History and life (1964- ) E 171
.A48
Also available online via the Web: AMERICA
HISTORY and LIFE
ARTS AND HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX (1975- ) Z 5937 .A795 Also available online via the Web: WEB OF SCIENCE.
HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS (1955- )
D 299 .H5
Also available online via the Web: HISTORICAL
ABSTRACTS
HUMANITIES INDEX (1974- ) AI 3 .H85
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX (1969- ) Z
7161 .S65
Also available on the web:
WEB OF SCIENCE.
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES INDEX (1907-1974)
(also known as INTERNATIONAL INDEX) AI 3 .R282
SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX (1974- ) AI 3 .S62
Another excellent index (published by the American Historical Association) is located in the Library West Reference stacks:
WRITINGS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (1902-1990) Z 1236 .W771
LEXIS-NEXIS
full-text newspaper articles from
the last 20 or so years
THE TIMES (London)
(1785 - )
Library West, Microform Area
AI 21 .T46-.T5
NEW YORK TIMES INDEX (1851- ) Library West, Microform Area AI 21 .N45
PERSONAL NAME INDEX TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (1851-1993)
Library West, Microform Area
AI 21 .R4
HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS ONLINE:
(Some fulltext, depending on year)
The
Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980
Palmer's
Index to The Times, 1790-1905
The
Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922
HARPWEEK
Full-text and images of Harper's Weekly news,
The Civil War
Era and Reconstruction eras (1857-1877)
OTHER ELECTRONIC SOURCES VIA WEBLUIS
These databases are accessible from the "Quick
Links" Page.
or go directly to the link below:
ARCHIVESUSA
Directory to archives and manuscript repositories in the
U.S.
CURRENT CONTENTS CONNECT
Citation index to journals and their tables of contents for
the current year. Updated weekly.
FIRST SEARCH (available via "Quick
Links" site)
Numerous indexes to book catalogs and periodical indexes
JSTOR
Full-text articles from selected journals
PCI (PERIODICALS CONTENTS INDEX)
Index to Tables of Contents of over 3,000 journals
INGENTA
Index to over 17,000 journals, 1988 to the
present.
WEB OF SCIENCE
Citation indexes to journals: Social
Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), Science Citation Index (1945-present),
and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
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