Women's History (His 445)

Selected Resources

Elmhurst College Library

Spring, 2001

Dr. Phyllis Soybel

• 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:
  
  Women--History
  

  Women -- Employment -- United States -- History

Women -- Suffrage

Sex role -- England -- History

Suffragists

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

• Humanities Abstracts

• 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.

• 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.

• Social Sciences Abstracts

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


• women sources
• nazi germany sources
• women correspondence
• hitler speeches
• women history diaries

Also look at More Internet Resources.

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• Women's History Resources (Rutgers)
• Academic Info: Women's Studies
• Digital Collections of Primary Sources in Women's History
• 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."
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook
• Library of Congress ~ American Memory primary sources
• Women--History from the Librarians' Index to the Internet
• 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