AMH 5176 Resources
Colloquium in Civil War & Reconstruction

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

Some Additional UCF Library Resources

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

• Academic Index (WebLUIS database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+

• America: History & Life (ABC-CLIO database) indexes over 2,000 international journals, books, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. This is the electronic counterpart to the printed America: History and Life. Dates of coverage: 1964+

• Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO database) abstracts and indexes literature covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450 - present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics. This is the electronic counterpart to the printed Historical Abstracts.  Dates of coverage: 1954+

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (GaleNet database) is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
• WorldCat (FirstSearch database) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 36 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge
• WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+
  

• Britannica Online (Encyclopedia Britannica) is the online version of the encyclopedia, including maps, articles, and statistics on individual countries, and weekly background articles for news and current events.

• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II (1857-1874)
  http://app.harpweek.com/

• Index to Early American Periodicals covers all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending from 1741 to 1935. The full text of the actual periodicals are in the UCF Library in three microfilm collections (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III). The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  You may find the CD-ROM version available in the Library's Electronic Reference Area easier to use. The print index provides limited subject access to the complete series and is shelved in the UCF Library's Reference Collection at REF AP2.A388. Nearly one hundred of the periodicals in the APS II & APS III collections are at least partially indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature [Index AI3.P7] (1802-1906).
  http://www.comp-index.com/

• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 100 scholarly journals, including 15 history journals, such as  American Historical Review (1895-1994), Eighteenth-Century Studies (1967-1995), Journal of Southern History (1935-1994), and William & Mary Quarterly (1892-1994).
  http://www.jstor.org/jstor/

• Historical Resources on the Internet
  http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/History/

• EBSCOhost provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
  http://search.epnet.com/cpidlogin.asp?custid=ucf

• netLibrary provides approximately 9,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
  http://www.netlibrary.com/

• Microform Resources identifies many of the microform sets available in the UCF Library
  http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/micro.htm

• WWW Virtual Library - History (Univ of Kansas) provides links for finding aids, materials, methods, instruction, and scholarly exchange.
  http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/VL/index.html

• American Memory (Library of Congress) includes maps & photographs, personal narratives & life histories, etc.
  http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

• United States Civil War Center (Louisiana State Univ) provides links to over 6,000 Civil War related Internet sites.
  http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

• Making of America (Univ of Michigan & Cornell Univ) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/  &  http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html

• Florida State Archives includes the Florida Photographic Collection
  http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/fsa.html

• Florida Biography Index (State Library of Florida) contains references to biographical information on notable Floridians in the books, periodicals, vertical files, newspapers and maps of the State Library's Florida Collection. Some of the resources indexed are rare, but many are current periodicals that might be found locally.
  http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/stlib/flbioindex.htm

• Genealogy Collection (Univ of South Florida) includes links to other useful Internet resources.
  http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/genea.html

• Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an annotated bibliography of novels, stories, essays and other material involving the "what ifs" of history. One of the most common themes in alternate history is "What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?"
  http://www.uchronia.net/

• WWW Sites and Links (UCF History Department)
  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~history/links.html