Contents Databases and Indices World Wide Web ASA Interlibrary Loan Footnotes/citations

Databases and Indices for Historical Research

Generally useful for finding articles in scholarly journals and other secondary sources, however some Primary Source Material may be uncovered. (The Database list link can be found on the Library Services home page)

Link to electronic databases list: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/databases/index.html
 

• Academic Index.1980- General and Academic journals in all subject areas

• ATLA: Religion Index.1949- Scholarly journals in religion and theology

• Historical Abstracts. 1971- Covers European and non American history topics

• Readers Guide Abstracts broad range of subjects

                Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide in L-1-Index, 1890- 1922

• Social Sciences Abstracts

• Sociological Abstracts.1963- Academic journals in social and behavioral sciences

• WorldCat 1200- Catalog of Library holdings worldwide (not a journal article index)

World Wide Web

InfoDome: Lehigh University's Scholarly Web Resource collection-History
http://www.lehigh.edu/library/infodome/humanities/history.html

Rhodes- History Resources
http://www.rhodes.edu/Histhtmls/histnet.html

WWW - Virtual Library: History
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

Reformation and Peasants' War Resources:

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/crrs/Databases/WWW/Bookmarks.html

Reformation Guide
http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.htm

The Protestant Reformation
http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.htm

Reformation
http://www.mun.ca/rels/reform/reform.html

Frederick Engels' The peasant war in Germany
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1850-PWG/

Catholic Encyclopedia: War of the Peasants
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

The History of the Christian Church by Phillip Schaff
http://www.bible.org/docs/history/schaff/vol7/httoc.htm

German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods by James M. Stayer
http://www.mcgill.ca/mqup/stayerj.htm#magillgoods

Peasants war of 1525
http://bennyhills.fortunecity.com/reddwarf/357/rpl/pw1525.html
 

Search Engines:

AltaVista http://altavista.digital.com

HotBot http://hotbot.lycos.com/

Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
 

Evaluating Web resources:

A useful guide to evaluating Web resources has been created by Susan McMullen at Roger Williams University. It contains a brief list of criteria for evaluating sites and links to additional guides to evaluating Web material.
http://alpha.rwu.edu/library/evaluat.html

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ASA:

Academic level material selected specifically for your use on many of the topics for this class can be found by searching our online catalog, ASA. From the Library Services home page link to http://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/uhtbin/webcat Try Keyword or Subject searches for your topics. Check our journal holdings by searching for the Journal Title in ASA.

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InterLibrary Loan

Resources that you discover for your paper that are not available from Lehigh can often be gotten from other libraries through InterLibrary Loan (ILL). To learn more about this service and access the ILL form go to http://www.lehigh.edu/library/services/ILL.html from the Library Services home page.

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Footnotes/Citations

The resources you use for your reports and term paper must be cited and cited correctly. To check examples of citing books, web sites, journal articles etc. you can access citation guides from the Library Services home page http://www.lehigh.edu/~inhelp/footnote/There are many citation styles to use, check with Prof. Baylor to see which style he prefers for your paper.

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