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Reference Works

• Style Guides
  • Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003.
    Reference R 808.02 C53 2003
    Note: up to ten people can search the online version at any one time.
    See also the Chicago Citation Quick Guide.
  • A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.
    Reference Desk R 907.2 R177p
• Biographical Works
  • African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Dorothy C. Salem. New York: Garland, 1993.
    Reference R 920.7 A77a
  • American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002.
    Reference R 920.073 A512
  • American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliographies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992. Gayle J. Hardy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
    Reference R 923.6 H269a
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
  • Black Women in America. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
    Reference R 920.7 B6271 2005
  • Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Ed. David DeLeon. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
    Reference R 923.2 L434
  • The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s. Ed. William L. O'Neill. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
    Reference R 920.073 S434
• General Works on the 1960s
  • The 1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States. Rebecca Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
    Reference R 016.3 J13n
  • The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
    Reference R 973.923 H219a
  • The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. David Farber and Beth Bailey. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 973.923 C726
  • Day by Day: The Sixties. Thomas Parker, Jr. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1983.
    Reference R 909.82 F142d 1960
  • Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
    Reference R 973.04 E564
  • Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993.
    Reference R 301.097 E56
  • Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Ed. Immanuel Ness. 3 vols. New York: Sharpe Reference, 2004.
    Reference R 303.484 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
    Reference R 973.03 E562
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    A collection of over 200 electronic reference works. Includes:
    • Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
      Reference R 973 D554 2003
    • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin Palmer. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
    • ... and many more!
  • Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
    Reference R 973.923 H673
  • John F. Kennedy: A Bibliography. Comp. James N. Giglio. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
    Reference R 016.973 K35g
  • The Sixties in America. Ed. Carl Singleton. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999.
    Reference R 973.92 S6252
• African Americans
  • The African American Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael W. Williams. 6 vols. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
    Reference R 973.049 A258
    Supplement (2 vols.; 1997): Reference R 973.049 A258 Supp.
  • Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
    Reference R 909.04 A2581
  • The Black Aesthetic Movement. Ed. Jeffrey Louis Decker. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [vol. 8 of Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series]
    Reference R 928.1 D554d v.8
  • The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology. Howard Dodson et al. New York: Wiley, 2000.
    Reference R 974.7 D647b
  • Black/White Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Leslie V. Tischauser. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
    Reference R 016.3 T611b
  • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin Palmer. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
  • Free at Last: A Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. William H. Fisher. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977.
    Reference R 016.32 K53f
  • The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Ed. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 973.04 H3391
• Civil Rights
  • The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. Paul T. Murray. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993.
    Reference R 016.323 M983c
  • Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Ed. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. New York: Greenwood, 1992.
    Reference R 305.8 E561
  • Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights & Liberties. Ed. Otis Stephens et al. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006.
    Reference R 342.73 E561
  • The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Ed. David Bradley and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 3 vols. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
    Reference R 323.1 E56
• The Cold War
  • Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. Ed. John P. Resch. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005.
    Reference R 973 A5122
  • The Cold War, 1945-1991. Ed. Benjamin Frankel. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992- .
    Reference R 923.2 A211c
  • Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945-1990. Richard A. Schwartz. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
    Reference R 973.92 S399c
  • The Cold War Encyclopedia. Thomas Parrish. New York: H. Holt, 1996.
    Reference R 909.82 P261c
  • The Cold War Reference Guide: A General History and Annotated Chronology with Selected Biographies. Richard Alan Schwartz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.
    Reference R 909.82 S399c
  • The Columbia Guide to the Cold War. Michael Kort. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998.
    Reference R 909.82 K85c
  • Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Thomas S. Arms. New York: Facts on File, 1994.
    Reference R 909.82 A734e
• Vietnam
  • Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. Ed. John P. Resch. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005.
    Reference R 973 A5122
  • American Writers of the Vietnam War. Ed. Ronald Baughman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [vol. 9 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series]
    Reference R 928.1 D554d v.9
  • The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. David L. Anderson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2002.
    Reference R 959.704 A546c
  • Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
    Reference R 959.7 D554
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
    Reference R 959.704 E56
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. Spencer C. Tucker. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: 1998.
    Reference R 959.704 E561
  • Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Edwin E. Moïse. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001.
    Reference R 959.704 M714h
  • Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Bruce Lockhart and William Duiker. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
    Reference R 959.7 L816h
  • Quotations on the Vietnam War. Ed. Gregroy R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
    Reference R 959.704 Q9
  • The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films. Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
    Reference R 959.704 H655v
  • The Vietnam War, an Almanac. Ed. John S. Bowman. New York: World Almanac, 1985.
    Reference R 959.7 V666
  • War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
    Reference R 973 W253
  • Words of the Vietnam War. Gregory R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
    Reference R 427 C593w
• Women
  • Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.
    Reference R 305.4 E56
  • Encyclopedia of Women's History in America. Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
    Reference R 305.4 C967e
  • Handbook of American Women's History. Ed. Angela Howard Zophy. New York: Garland, 1990.
    Reference R 305.4 H236
  • Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Janet Boles and Diane Long Hoeveler. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
    Reference R 305.42 B688h

Primary Sources

• General Search Tools
  • Library Catalog
    To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
    • sources
    • correspondence
    • diaries
    • personal narratives
    • pictorial works
    For more details, see below.
  • WorldCat
    To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
    • sources
    • correspondence
    • diaries
    • personal narratives
    • pictorial works
    Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format.
    For more details, see below.
• Periodicals
  Magazines | Newspapers
  • Magazines & Contemporary Journals
    Magazines in the Little Library | Indexes to Magazines
    • Magazines in the Little Library
      The Library has many periodicals from the 1960s, including:
      • Crisis
        Microfilm cabinet C-12: 1959-1975
      • Dissent
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1954 to present
      • Ebony
        Microfilm cabinet C-13: 1954-1963
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1964 to present
      • Life
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1936-1972
        Microfilm cabinet C-15: 1936-1972
      • The Nation
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1880 to present
      • National Review
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1955 to present
      • New Republic
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1916 to present
      • New Yorker
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1939 to present
      • Newsweek
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1936 to present
        Microfilm cabinet C-27: 1933 to present
      • Time
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1924 to present
        Microfiche cabinet A-2: 1923 to present
      • U.S. News & World Report
        Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1950 to present
        Microfilm cabinet C-40: 1933 to present
      • ...and many others. See 20th Century Popular Magazines for more information.
    • Indexes to Magazines & Contemporary Journals
      • Index to Black Periodicals (1950 to present)
        Reference Index Area R 050 I382 and R 050 I383
        Previous titles of this index include Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles by and about Negroes, and Index to Selected Periodicals Received in the Hallie Q. Brown Library.
      • The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. 5 vols. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1992.
        Reference R 016.973 K13
      • PAIS International
        (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
        • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
      • Periodicals Index Online
        (c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: automatic
      • Readers' Guide Abstracts
        (1890 to present) Indexes articles in popular periodicals; also includes citations to book and film reviews.
        Search Syntax:
        • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
        • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
        • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Newspapers
    Newspapers in the Little Library | Other Newspapers
    • Newspapers in the Little Library
      • Atlanta Journal-Constitution
        Microfilm (1868 to present): microfilm cabinets C-2 through C-6
      • Charlotte Observer
        Microfilm (1892 to present): microfilm cabinets C-8, C-8a, C-8b, C-9
      • The Christian Science Monitor
        Microfilm (1954 to present): microfilm cabinet C-11
        Index (1954-1992): Reference Index Area R 070 C555
      • New York Times
        Online (1851-2004): Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
        Microfilm (1851 to present): Microfilm cabinets C-20 through C-26
        Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53
        Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area 071 N53p
      • News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
        Microfilm (1894-1977, 1994 to present): microfilm cabinets C-29 through C-30
      • The Times [London]
        Microfilm (1785 to present): microfilm cabinets C-35 through C-37
        Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58
      • The Wall St. Journal
        Microfilm (1961 to present): microfilm cabinet C-42
        Index (1961-2003): Reference Index Area R 071 W187
      • The Washington Post
        Microfilm (1877 to present): microfilm cabinets C-43, C45, and C46
        Index (1971-2005): Reference Index Area R 071 N53; see also the free online historical (1877-1986) index search.
      • ...and many others. See 20th Century Newspapers for more information.
    • Other Newspapers
      • See Newspapers held by other libraries: how to find them.
• U.S. Government Documents
  • American Foreign Policy  S 1.71/2: 
  • Digital National Security Archive
    Contains over 61,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. Includes:
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
    • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
    • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
    These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
  • Documents on Disarmament – AC 1.11/2: 1960-
  • The Documentary History of the John F. Kennedy Presidency. Ed. Lewis Gould. 9 vols. to date. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 2005-.
    Little Library Stacks 973.922 D637
  • Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1861- .
    Government Information Stacks S1.1
    Some volumes are online from the U.S. Department of State:
    • Kennedy administration
    • Johnson administration
    • Nixon and Ford administrations
  • Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, from the FBI
    Contains the full text of many historical FBI records released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Includes records about people, such as Malcolm X, organizations, such as the The Black Panther Party in Winston Salem, NC, and notable events, such as the riots at Kent State University in 1970.
  • The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, 1961-1963 [microfilm]
    Microfilm cabinet C-17
  • The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, Vietnam, 1961-1963 [microfilm]
    Microfilm cabinet C-17
    Guide: Reference R 016.9597 G946
  • LexisNexis Congressional
    Indexes congressional documents published from 1789 to the present and includes some full text. Note: be sure to search the United States Congressional Serial Set too. Includes:
    • The Congressional Record (1789 to present)
    • Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824-2003), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an exclamation point
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use an asterisk *
  • Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1913-1995
    Reference Extension GP 3.8
    Lists government documents cataloged by the Government Printing Office (GPO). Each volume is arranged by departments and agencies, with a subject index. Use in conjunction with:
    • Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, 1900-1971. Comp. William Buchanan and Edna Kanely. 15 vols. Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1973-1975.
      Reference Extension [shelved adjacent to the ITS computers in SE corner of the main floor]
  • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
    • John F. Kennedy
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1961 through GS 4.113: 1963
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1963-64 through GS 4.113: 1968-69
    • Richard M. Nixon
      Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1969 through GS 4.113: 1974
    See also:
    • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, from the University of Michigan Digital Library
      Provides digital facsimiles of the volumes for the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations.
  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set
    (1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. political, military, cultural, economic, ethnic, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
  • United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Mary Ellen Huls. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    Reference R 016.305 H917u
• Other Examples
  • American Memory, from the Library of Congress
  • The American Radicalism Collection [microfilm]
    Microfilm cabinet D-51
    Contains reproductions of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, program notices, clippings, and unpublished writings from the American Radicalism Collection in the Michigan State University Library's Special Collections Division. The microfilm collection is in four parts:
    Part 1: Leftist Politics and Anti-War Movements
    Part 2: The Religious and Radical Right
    Part 3: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Justice and Equal Rights
    Part 4: Twentieth-Century Social, Economic, and Environmental Movements
    Guides: Reference R 322.4 A512
  • AP Images
    (1826 to present [images]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of image, graphics, and text databases from the Associated Press (AP). Over 700,000 AP photographs dating from 1826 to the present are available. The Graphics Database contains diagrams, maps, and charts dating from 1999. The text database contains the full text of AP reports from 1997 to the present.
    Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time.
    Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
  • ARTstor
    A collection of over 900,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images. For technical requirements, see the Quick Start Guide.
  • Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University. Barbara A. Burg et al. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 2000.
    Reference R 016.96 B954g
  • Malcolm X
    • FBI File on Malcolm X [microfilm]
      Microfilm cabinet C-14
      Guide: Reference R 301.45 M243yg
    • Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial [microfilm]
      Microfilm cabinet C-38
      Guide: Reference R 301.45 M243yt
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File [microfilm]
    Microfilm cabinet C-19
  • Online Collections
    • Black Women at Virginia Tech, from the University Archives of Virginia Tech
    • Brown vs. Board of Education: Oral Histories [New Hanover County, NC], from the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear, NC
    • Civil Rights Documentation Project: Oral Histories, from the University of Southern Mississippi
    • Civil Rights in Mississippi, from the University of Southern Mississippi
    • Dirksen Center Projects, from the Dirksen Congressional Center
      Contains documents of Senator Everett Dirksen, includes political cartoons.
    • Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, from Special Collections Library, Duke University
    • Free Speech Movement Digital Library, from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley
    • Freedom Now: An Archival Project from Tougaloo College and Brown University
      Contains documents from Mississippi Freedom Movement.
    • Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum
      Includes links to a number of online resources, including audio clips, oral histories, photographs, speeches, and National Security Action Memoranda
    • Virtual Vietnam Archive, from the Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University
  • Online Exhibits
    • 1968 Revisited..., from the New York University Archives
    • The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change, from the University of Virginia Library Special Collections Department
    • Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press in the "Sixties", from the University of Connecticut Libraries
  • Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
    (c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more.
  • Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Sandra M. Wittman. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989.
    Reference R 016.959 W832w

Secondary Sources

• Books
  • Library Catalog
    Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
    • To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
    • To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.
    • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • ebrary
    A collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
    Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
  • WorldCat
    Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
    Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war")
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• Articles
  
  • America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
    (Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    (1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: automatic
    • Phrase searching: automatic
  • Essay & General Literature Index
    (1900 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Humanities Abstracts
    (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • JSTOR
    Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use a plus sign +
    • Phrase searching: automatic
  • PAIS International
    (1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: automatic
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Periodicals Index Online
    (c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: automatic
  • Project Muse
    Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
  • Social Sciences Abstracts
    (1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Web of Knowledge
    (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Women Studies Abstracts
    Reference Index Area R 050 W872
    (1972 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, and books on all aspects of women's studies, including history, education, gender, literature, religion, and art.