Subject Guides: World History: General History

TRIAL DATABASES

Web Portals for U.S. History

Voice of the Shuttle U.S.History page (Univ of Calif Santa Barbara). A comprehensive index to academic, scholarly websites in History. The full Voice of the Shuttle websites has separate pages for all humanities disciplines.

WWW-Virtual Library History page is another collection of links relating to History. Subcategories include History by Continent/County, Era/Epoch, Topic, and Methods.

Keeping Up With History Scholarship & Teaching

H-HistBibl
H-HistBibl is an international network of librarians, archivists, curators, and scholars interested in the practice and study of bibliographic and library services to support the study and teaching of history.

Bibliographic Databases - Places to Start

Academic Search Ultimate
Covers over 11,000 journals in all fields of study.

Peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Academic OneFile
Covers all subjects, searching 13,000 journals, with over 7300 peer-reviewed titles.

Bibliographic Databases - History

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Includes such topics as world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955; and 350 of them in full text.
America: History & Life with Full Text
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1700 journals, provides full text of 200 titles.

The database indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present and also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Periodicals Index Online
A database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Coverage: varies by title, latest is 1990/1991. ** Due to budget cuts, this resource is to be cancelled in Fiscal Year 2020/21. Current subscription term ends 7/31/2020.
HathiTrust
Digitized materials from member institutions and libraries are freely available to the public for items not under copyright restrictions (generally pre-1923 and most government documents). Downloading and other functions may be limited.

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future.
Center for Research Libraries
CRL has numerous research materials in addition to those found in their catalog. Searchable Special Collection Databases include Foreign Newspapers, U.S. Ethnic Newspapers, Current Serial Titles from the States of the Former Soviet Union, Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Papers, Foreign Doctoral Dissertations, and Current Science Serials.

Collection Highlights provides descriptions of major microform sets of special interest. Digital Collections are online image and full-text CRL collections. The CRL Handbook provides a subject listing and description of the uncatalogued CRL collections. Subject brochures of the collections are also available. Binghamton University students, faculty, and staff can borrow materials found in CRL collections through Interlibrary Loan

Historical Statistics

International Historical Statistics, 1750-2010
This database provides key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years gathered from a multitude of statistical sources.

Tables are downloadable as PDFs or Excel spreadsheets
Global Financial Data
Provides raw financial and economic data from the year 1000 to the present. The data has been compiled from original source documents and archival sources. Read below for important information before you get started. ** Due to budget cuts, this resource is confirmed as cancelled in Fiscal Year 2020/21. Current subscription term ends 12/31/2020.

To use: Log in using BU login. Must click on SUBMIT in order to login. User must create personalized account on GFD website. Data may be downloaded into statistical software for analysis. Click on GFDatabase on left to start searching. Coverage: varies with data set; year 1000 to present.

Subject Librarian

Jim Galbraith

Contact:

Bartle Library LS-1536
607-777-4912
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Subjects:Classical Studies, History, Medieval, Renaissance & Early Modern Studies, Middle East & North African Studies

World History