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History
and
Philosophy Library
Library Resources for History
200H
Introduction
to Historical Interpretation: 20th Century Germany:
Coercion, Consent, and Dissent
University of
Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
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Mary Stuart
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History,
Philosophy, and Newspaper Hours, Fall 2005:
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History, Philosophy
and
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Mon- Thurs 9 a.m.-9
p.m., Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Newspaper Librarian
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Sat 1 p.m.-5 p.m.,
Sun 1 p.m.-8 p.m.
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m-stuart@uiuc.edu
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Library Website:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/hix
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244-0797
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History Library
Circulation and Reference: 333-1509
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Searching for reviews in JSTOR,
Project Muse, and other databases |
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JSTOR (“journal
storage”) is a collection of full-text journals
online. It is a digitized, fully
searchable version of the full content of nearly 400 scholarly journals
from
their inception (sometimes as early as the 18th century) up
to about
2000 (recent issues excluded). To get to JSTOR,
go to the "Quick Links" (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/hix/history_website/quicklinks.htm)
on the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library web site, or go to
“Online
Resources” from the Library Gateway (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/)
and type JSTOR in the search box from the “Article
Indexes &
Abstracts” tab. Several major historical
journals are included in JSTOR, such
as
Journal
of Interdisciplinary History
Journal
of Modern History
American
Historical Review
Journal of Contemporary
History
Historical
Journal
Past
and Present
English
Historical Review
History and Theory
Because
it is a collection of digitized texts rather
than an abstracting/indexing service (and does not employ subject
descriptors),
careful selection of search terms and fields is essential.
In the absence of subject headings, subject
searches are built on keywords, so it is essential to try several
different
approaches for any given topic. Note
that only about 10% of the articles in JSTOR have abstracts,
so limiting your search term to the abstracts might cause you to miss
relevant
material. When a Boolean keyword search
produces a large set of results, try using the proximity (“near”)
operator to
limit the results to a combination of terms occurring within 10 or 25
words of
one another.
Example: You are looking for reviews of a book by
Claudia Koonz entitled, Mothers in the
Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (New York: St.
Martin’s
Press, 1987). Go to JSTOR and type the
following in the search box:
rt:”Mothers
in the Fatherland”
(rt stands for “reviewed title,”
and the use of quotation marks around the title signals an exact phrase
search)
For the
full text of many (over 300) recent scholarly
journals, use Project Muse. These too
are fully searchable. In most cases,
only the issues from the last few years are available.
Here you will find, for example,
Journal
of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Cold
War Studies
Radical
History Review
Catholic
Historical Review
Journal
of Women’s History
History and Memory
Holocaust
and Genocide Studies
Journal of Social History
To get to Project
Muse, go to the “Quick Links”
on the History and Philosophy Library web site, or go to Online
Resources from
the Library Gateway (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/)
and type Project Muse in the search box from the
“Journals and
Newspapers” tab.
Other good sources for book reviews include Historical
Abstracts, Infotrac (Expanded Academic ASAP), EBSCO Host (Academic
Search
Elite), and Arts and Humanities
Citation Index (Web of Science).
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UIUC
Library Catalogs |
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Use the online catalog to do a subject
search for
books or to find out where a particular book or journal is located in
the Library.
Books and journals are organized in the
library by
subject. Each item is assigned one or
more subject headings and a unique call number. Subject
headings are standardized terms from
the Library of Congress. The call number
is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification.
Why bother with
subject headings in the online catalog when you can do
keyword searching?
It’s true that you can find sources on a
topic by
doing keyword searches. But if you limit
yourself to keyword searching, you are likely to miss important
material on
your topic that uses other terms. If you
only need two or three books, you can probably find what you need by
doing
keyword searches, but if you are doing historical research, you can’t
afford to
miss critical material on your topic. For
a comprehensive subject search, search with subject
headings as well
as keywords.
A good way
to identify subject headings for a topic is to do
a keyword search in the online catalog using terms you think describe
the topic
and try to identify a few relevant books. Look
at the full record for those books to see what
subject headings
were used, then do another search on those headings.
As a rule of thumb, use
fairly broad headings, as well as
the specific ones that describe your topic, in order to make sure you
haven't
inadvertently eliminated relevant material that is contained within
works of
larger scope. Most likely you will
find
multiple headings to describe your topic, and you should use all of
them. You can narrow your search in the
online
catalog by combining subject headings (as a phrase) with keywords,
using the
“Guided Keyword Search” option.
To search the online
catalog, go to the Library Gateway (http://www.library.uiuc.edu)
and click on “UIUC Library Online Catalog.”
Searching the Online
Catalog:
The online catalog offers
both “Quick Search” and “Guided
Keyword” search options. Use the “Guided
Keyword Search” to identify subject headings on your topic, to combine
subject
headings (or elements from subject headings) in a Boolean search, or to
combine
keywords from any part of the record with subject headings to narrow
your
search.
Use “Quick Search” to
browse a subject heading, to search a
title when you know exactly how it begins, to locate a work or works by
a
particular author, or to search by call number for a specific book.
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Searching for articles on 20th-century
German history |
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Historical Abstracts
is the best starting place to search for
scholarly articles in English on 20th-century German history. This database provides indexing and
abstracting for articles, book reviews, and dissertations published
since 1954
on all aspects of world history (excluding North America), and in some
cases it
provides links to the full text of the articles online.
To search Historical Abstracts, start
at the Library Gateway (http://www.library.uiuc.edu) and
type “Historical Abstracts” in the search box (making sure that the
active tab
is either “All Resources” or “Article Indexes and Abstracts”).
Use
the Subject Browser to select your subject term(s) by
clicking on the magnifying glass to the right of the search box. You can narrow your search by adding a
keyword or using more than one subject term. For
example, select “Nazism” as a subject term using the
Subject
Browser, then narrow your search with the keyword “women.”
Your search results display as short records,
which you can expand by clicking on “Display Full Entry” above each
record. The full entry shows you an
abstract or summary of the article. If a
particular article is linked to full text, the link is highlighted in
blue.
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