HIS 4150 Resources
History and Historians

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information | Partial List of UCF Library Resources

UCF Library Homepage 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+ 
  Another version of this database, Expanded Academic ASAP (1980+ ) available through InfoTrac, allows you to limit your search to refereed journals and this version is updated daily and may have entries and full text that is somewhat more current; some articles have charts and illustrations not included in the WebLUIS version.
• 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. The electronic counterpart to the printed America: History and Life. Dates of coverage: 1964+
• 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.
• Britannica Online (Encyclopedia Britannica) - The online version of the encyclopedia includes maps, articles, and statistics on individual countries, and weekly background articles for news and current events.
• American Periodicals Index 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) and some of the full text is now available online in the database American Periodicals Series Online. The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  You may find the CD-ROM version available at a single computer 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). Poole's Index... was followed by International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Social Sciences Index (1974- ), and Humanities Index (1974- ). The last two indexes are available electronically as FirstSearch databases: Social Sciences Abstracts (1983- ) and Humanities Abstracts (1984- ). Humanities Abstracts abstracts and indexes periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides abstracts and indexing for approximately 3,000 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals including 380 journals dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals. 
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age I, II, III & IV (1857-1912) provides full text, page image from original issues of Harper's Weekly.
• 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. Dates of coverage: 1954+
• History Resource Center: U.S. (GaleNet database) contains approximately 100,000 pages of 500 primary documents with corresponding facsimile pages. Other content includes more than 25,000 reference documents from various Gale Group sources, magazine & newspaper coverage for more than 60 history-related full-text titles, and over 2,000 photographs & illustrations, including 30 historical maps courtesy of Yale University. The earliest primary document in the collection (as of 1/25/01) is The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci [1497-1504].
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 300 scholarly journals, including 40 history journals, such as: American Historical Review (1895-1999), Journal of Negro History (1916-1999), Journal of Southern History (1935-1997), and William & Mary Quarterly (1892-2000).
• LexisNexis databases:   Congressional (CIS) gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward, and indexing & abstracting from the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress and related indexes from 1789 forward. Statistical (CIS) provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).  Academic (CIS/Lexis-Nexis) provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.  
• 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+
• Women Writers Project provides Pre-Victorian early modern women's writing. Currently has the electronic full text of over 200 texts from 1526 through 1833, a subset of which is Renaissance writers. The database will continue to grow in the coming years.

• Historical Resources on the Internet
  http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/History/
• WWW Virtual Library - History (Univ of Kansas)
  http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html
• 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's Museums (Florida Association of Museums)
  http://www.flamuseums.org/fam/flamuseums/
• 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.html
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
  http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
• Documents Center (Univ of 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/govdocs/index.html
• Genealogy Collection (Univ of South Florida) includes links to other useful Internet resources.
  http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/genea.html
• WWW Sites and Links (UCF History Department)
  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~history/links.html

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