purdue library’s online
resources for research:
modern period
patricia sullivan
fall 2008
a
brief introduction to database
resources for historical work in
rhetoric that can be used
through purdue’s library
web site
our library & online research
materials
• still a physical repository of scholarly
materials
• adding more online materials regularly - both primary and scholarly
• an exciting time to be a scholar of
history
getting started
locating our library’s online
research materials
• Go to: www.lib.purdue.edu
• Select among the choices:
– Articles: keyword metasearch of article
databases in various areas [will note if
print/electronic versions available]
– Catalog: books and other holdings in the Library
– eJournals: digitized journals library subscribes to
– Databases: databases library subscribes to
locating our library’s online
research materials:2
• this ppt covers
databases
• Select the tab for
databases and
scroll for the one
you want OR select
“Arts and
Humanities” [though
several are in
another subject] in
“Databases by
Subject”
• You’ll be asked for
your login
locating our library’s online
research materials:3
• There are 88
databases in the
“Arts and
Humanities” List,
some primary,
more secondary
• Listed
alphabetically,
these have a
brief description,
years covered,
and type of data
types of online materials for
historical research
• primary historical sources online
– Books
– Mixed materials
– Period periodicals/newspapers
• online sources for scholarly work
– Locator and reference materials
– Scholarly articles and books found online
primary sources online
primary sources in library’s
online databases
• Books
– EEBO [Early English
Books Online] 1475-1700
– ECCO [Eighteenth-C
Collections Online]
– Early American Imprints,
1639-1800
• Specialized/Mixed
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Accessible Archives
Black Studies Center
Oxford English Dictionary
Women and Social
Movements
– Historical Statistics US
• Periodicals/Newspapers
– American Periodical Series
Online 1740-1900
– British Newspapers 1600-1900
– 19th c U. S. Newspapers
– Harp Week [Harper’s 18751912]
– London Times 1785-1985
Books Online
Early English Books Online
• EEBO contains over
125,000 titles listed in
Pollard & Redgrave's
Short-Title Catalogue
(1475-1640), Wing's
Short-Title Catalogue
(1641-1700), and the
Thomason Tracts
(1640-1661).
Eighteenth Century
Collections Online
• ECCO offers full-text
searchable facsimile
pages of approximately
150,000 Englishlanguage and foreignlanguage books
published in Britain and
its colonies (including
N. America) during the
18th century.
Early American Imprints,
series 1: 1639-1800
• Full-text archive of
nearly 37,000 early
American publications
based on Charles
Evans' American
Bibliography of all
books, pamphlets, and
periodical publications
printed in the U.S. from
the genesis of printing
in 1639 down to the
year 1800
Specialized/Mixed Sources
Primary Materials @
Accessible Archives
• The library lists a
number of collections
housed here, including:
– 19th c African American
Newspapers
– Civil War Newspapers
– The Liberator
– The Pennsylvania
Gazette
– Godey’s Lady’s Book
– American County
Histories
Black Studies Center
• combines several
resources in Black
Studies: Schomburg
Studies on the Black
Experience,
International Index
to Black Periodicals
(IIBP), historical
black newspapers,
and the Black
Literature Index
Women and social
movements
• Books, letters,
images, scholarly
essays,
commentaries, and
bibliographies
documenting
American women’s
reform activities
from the colonial
period into the 20th
century
historical statistics of the U.S.
• statistical
information from the
Census Bureau
covering 1790-2000
• Covers
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Population
Education
Work and welfare
Economic data
Governmental
relations
Oxford English Dictionary
• OED is available
online
• It traces the history
of English words’
uses through more
than 2.5 million
quotations
Historical Periodicals &
Newspapers
American Periodical Series
Online
• Over 1,240 American
magazines and journals
that began publishing
between 1740 and
1900, including general
magazines, literary and
professional journals,
and other historicallysignificant periodicals.
For periodicals that
continued into the 20th
c., the cut-off date is
1940.
British Newspapers 16001900
• Over 3 million pages of
newspapers, news,
books, and ephemera
• Includes:
– 17-18th c Burney
collection
– 19th British Library
collection
– National & Regional
papers from British Isles
British Newspapers 16001900
• Sortable using a
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Basic search
Advanced search
Publication search
Location list
• So, you can know a
news source, a time
period, a person, a
topic. .. And manage
results
19th century U.S. newspapers
• 19th Century U.S.
Newspapers provides
searchable facsimile
images of urban and
regional newspapers,
advertisements and
illustrations included.
• Can search for
keywords in a
newspaper, in states, in
cities
• Can specify ads, news,
features, images,etc.
Times digital archives
• Covers London Times,
1785-1985
• Can search for
keywords specifying
type:
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Advertising
News
Features
Editorials
Images/illustrations
Business
people
HarpWeek archives
• A searchable, full-text
archive of Harper's
Weekly (1857-1912),
one of America's
leading illustrated
newspapers. Contains
facsimile images of all
pages, including
advertisements.
sources for scholarly work in
our library’s online databases
Locator and reference sources
• Finding Agents
– Arts & Humanities
Citation Index
– Archive Finders
– ArchiveGrid
– Current Contents
– Dictionary of Literary
Biography
– MLA Directory
• Indexes/Abstracts
– First Search’s Article First
– Com Abstracts
– Humanities Abstract [1907present]
– Iter [1784-current]
– LLBA
– MLA International Bib [1926present]
– Periodicals Index Online
Article First
• First Search’s
searching home
page (which
includes FRANCIS
and also education
and communication)
Humanities abstracts
• Wilson’s
searching home
page
• Some articles
are abstracted
and some are
full text
Iter
• Gateway to
scholarship on
medieval and
renaissance topics
MLA International Bibliography
• covers literary and
languages
scholarship
• 1928-current
LLBA
• Linguistics and
Language Behavior
Abstracts is
interdisciplinary and
covers study of
linguistics, language
use, grammar, etc.
from 1973
archives of scholarship in
library’s online databases
• Periodicals
– JSTOR
– Periodical Archives
Online
– Project Muse
• Books
– ACLS Humanities EBook
– America: History and
Life
– NetLibrary
JSTOR
• Online Archive of over 700
scholarly journals
• Usually includes vol 1 volume ending 4-5 years ago
• You can find: CCC, College
English, PMLA, Rhetoric
Review, RSQ, Philosophy &
Rhetoric, Hs of Education, to
name a few
Periodicals Archive Online
• Periodicals Archive Online
provides access to the full
text of a growing number of
periodicals indexed in
Periodicals Index Online.
• Periodicals Archive Online
contains over 500 journals,
with 12.9 million article
pages - over 1.9 million
articles
Project Muse
• Includes 340+
journals in
humanities and
social sciences
[various years
covered]
• Many ways to
search