AMH 6939 Resources
The British American Colonies from an Atlantic Perspective

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

Some Additional UCF Library Resources

WebLUIS - UCF library catalog and gateway to electronic resources, such as:
http://webluis.fcla.edu/

• Academic Index - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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+

• Humanities Abstracts (FirstSearch database) - Abstracts and indexes periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Dates of coverage: 1984+

• 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.
  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/

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

• 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

• Dialog@CARL - offers 250+ databases in a wide selection of subjects, including article indexes, full text newspapers, directories and more.
  http://dialog.carl.org:3017/

• Florida Newspapers and Florida Microform Sets

• Untangle the Web! - Internet Workshop Series
  http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/

• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is the only organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to the advancement of study, research, and publications bearing on the history and culture of early America to approximately 1815. The Institute's focus also encompasses the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, insofar as the study of the histories and cultures of these places is relevant to the mainland of North America from 1500 to 1815.
  http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/

• Avalon Project (Yale Law School) provides the full text of Colonial charters and grants, as well as other early American documents.
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm

• WWW Virtual Library - History (Univ of Kansas)
  http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html

• Social Sciences, Humanities, General Reference... (INFOMINE)
  http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/liberalsearch.phtml

• Florida's Museums (Florida Association of Museums)
  http://www.flamuseums.org/fam/flamuseums/

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

• American Memory (Library of Congress)
  http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html

• Documents Center (Univ Michigan) is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/index.html

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

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