HI 200: Historian's Craft

Subject Headings.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Check the Catalog under the following subject headings:

Historiography History
Jesuits History Sources
China Diaries [Use keyword search]
China Personal Narratives [keyword search]

INDEXES, DATABASES AND RESEARCH GUIDES

Academic OneFile A superb interdisciplinary database journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

America: History and Life
Complements Historical Abstracts, this database covers U.S. and Canadian history.

Book Reviews
A research guide to print and electronic sources, covers both current and retrospective book reviews in popular and academic journals.

Historical Abstracts
The pre-eminent database to find journal articles on world history, except for the
region covered by America History and Life.

Humanities and Social Sciences Full Text
Excellent source indexing a wide variety of academic journals. (Despite the name, it does not only contain full-text).

JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Full-text collection of back issues of scholarly journals

Primary Sources
An excellent research guide defining primary sources and providing links to authoritative sites.

Project Muse
Similar to JSTOR, this database provides full-text collections of back issues of scholarly journals.

CITING SOURCES

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based software package that enables you to: organize your research; include citations while you write your paper; create a bibliography in a variety of formats; import references from different data sources.

Donald Altschiller, History Bibliographer, Mugar Memorial Library (donaltsc@bu.edu)