History of Russia (His 363)

Selected Resources

Elmhurst College Library

Spring, 2001

• Background Information and Bibliographies

• Finding Books

• Finding Articles

• Finding Primary Sources

• Internet Resources

• Evaluating Internet Resources

• Citing Sources

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• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.

• Sample Library of Congress Subject Headings:
  
  Russia -- History

  Soviet Union -- History

  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
  

• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 45 academic libraries in Illinois. 

• Humanities Abstracts

To access this resource from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Humanities Abstracts. You may want to look at Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus.

• JSTOR  is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals but is an electronic archive of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.

To access this resource from off campus, go to Electronic Journals and Newspapers and select JSTOR. You may want to look at Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus.

• Project Muse is an online library of 45 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press, with the full text of articles from 1996 to the present. Journals in this collection cover primarily the humanities and the social sciences.All full text

Available on campus only.

• Social Sciences Abstracts

  To access this resource from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Humanities Abstracts. You may want to look at Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus.

How do I find out if the Elmhurst College Library has the journal I need?

 
• Search for the journal title in Illinet Online.
• For example, search for the title Journal of African History.
• If you don't find the journal you need, take a look at the list,Full Text Periodicals Available Online. You can also call or email the reference department to inquire about a specific title or ask a question.

 

Finding Primary Sources

Books

• Use Illinet Online to find primary sources held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.

• The best way to find primary sources is to do a keyword search using terms that describe your topic plus one of the following words:

 
sources
diaries 
correspondence
speeches

• Sample Keyword Searches


• russia sources
• soviet union sources
• russia correspondence
• stalin speeches

Also look at More Internet Resources.

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• Academic Info: The Cold War
• Academic Info: Russian History
• Historical Text Archive: Russia
• H-Net ~ Humanities and Social Sciences Online, "H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web."
• WWW-VL History (University of Kansas)

• "The Historian, the Internet, and the Web: A Reassessment" (February 1998) by Andrew McMichael, writing in Perspectives Online, a publication of the American Historical Association.

• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

• Dissing the King

• Citing Sources Using Turabian/Chicago Style
• Elmhurst College Writing Center
• Online Guides to Writing and Research