HY 399 Studying History - Neel

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor Carol Neel’s Block 2, 2009 class.

Today’s techniques to practice:

Finding Historiographies

Finding historiographical information requires a lot of browsing. Don’t give up too quickly. Try some of the following techniques.

When searching for books or book chapters, try searching the historian’s name or thesis or famous work using a WORD search.

When searching for books or book chapters, try searching the historian’s name using a SUBJECT search. A subject heading that often indicates a historiography is “history—philosophy”.

When searching for articles, try limiting your search with some of the following search terms:

historiography, historiographical, historiographies, historiograph*
approach, viewpoint, debate, controversy, interpretation
revisionist, revisionism, revision*
survey, literature review, review of the literature, review article, book review*, review*, review essay

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “church AND state AND France” in KEYWORD search to find books on church and state relations in France in various time periods.

Try searching “Church and State France History 19th Century” in SUBJECT search.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers world history.

America, History & Life

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers American history.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

The Chicago manual of style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
PE1478 .U69 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 10-2-09, km.