Resources for History

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Resources for History

• Jeremy Richard Library

shelley.roseman_at_uconn.edu Tel. [phone]
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Library Homepage
http//www.lib.uconn.edu/
Limit Stamford
HOMER Catalog
Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
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Library Lingo

• HOMER is the UConn Library catalog
• Databases are tools for identifying articles
• eJournals is a link that determines if the item
  is available online
• ICE/ILL is a service to request items from
  other libraries

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HOMER Search Strategies

• Search by
• Title
• Author,
• Keyword- Relevance
• Keyword Boolean
• and more

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World War I
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Identify Key Words and Dates
191418 Allied Powers Britain France
Russia Japan Serbia Italy U.S.
Balkans Battle of Jutland Russian
Revolution Versailles Peace Western Front

Central PowersAustro-Hungarian empireOttoman
Turkey

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HOMER Searching by Keyword
Keyword- Relevance To search phrases, use
quotes SAMPLE SEARCH world war I
To mark essential terms, use SAMPLE
SEARCH world war I causes To truncate, use
? German? finds Germans,
Germany SAMPLE SEARCH German? And world war
ILimit to Stamford http//homerweb.lib.u
conn.edu/
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HOMER Citation
Subject Heading
Call Number
Status
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Databases

• To find articles
• Magazine vs. Journal
• Full Text vs. Abstract

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Infotrac
Subject Guide Search Limited to refereed
publications
Subdivisions of World War, 1914-1918
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Infotrac Citation
Full Text
Abstract
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Creating your Searches
Relationships Between Search Terms
OR one or the other or both of the words
World War I
Causes
Origins
AND
OR
AND both words must
appear
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Try other databases
JSTOR backfiles of core scholarly journals
beginning with the first issue up to a moving
wall of 2- to 5-years for such titles as
American Historical Review, American Quarterly,
Economic History Review, Eighteenth-Century
Studies,, History and Theory, Journal of American
History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of
Modern History, Journal of the History of Ideas,
Military Affairs, Speculum, William and Mary
Quarterly, Reviews in American, Mississippi
Valley Historical Review


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JStor Search
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Historical Abstract Search
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Library Links
Library Homepage http//www.lib.uconn.edu/ Librar
y Session http//www.lib.uconn.edu/campuses/stamfo
rd/using/instruction/history/History101_Blatt.htm
Questions/Comments shelley.roseman_at_uconn.edu Te
l. 203 251-8522