Welcome to the library guide to research in history. The links described here are simply a starting place for your research; you will find more (and possibly more relevant!) resources as you do your own research. If you any questions about conducting historical research, ask your professors or the librarians/archivist at the BC Library and the Mennonite Library & Archives.
Thanks to David C. Murray, subject specialist in History, Latin American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese at Paley Library, Temple University (PA) for many of the links and pages presented in this guide.
The WorldCat database is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It contains more than 43 million records describing items owned by our libraries or libraries around the world.
WorldCat contains records for the following types of materials:
books*
journals*
musical scores
computer data files
magazines*
newspapers*
computer programs
manuscripts
sound recordings
films and slides
maps
videotapes
* Does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research.
The database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, such as Branden Publishing, Compass Point Books, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications and more.
The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives, Civil War Times, Foreign Affairs, German History, History, History Review, History Today (back to January 1975), History: Reviews of New Books, Kansas History, Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild West, World War II and more. Further, the database contains nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 37,400 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a online collection of over 500 major academic research journals covering topics in the arts, humanities, business, and social sciences. For the most part, BC Library patrons do not have access to JSTOR full text.
Most of JSTOR's full text content is NOT available to Bethel College. Use interlibrary to get copies of articles you want.
Welcome to the library guide to research in history. The links described here are simply a starting place for your research; you will find more (and possibly more relevant!) resources as you do your own research. If you any questions about conducting historical research, ask your professors or the librarians/archivist at the BC Library and the Mennonite Library & Archives.