HIS102

Librarian: Elin O'Hara
Phone: 564-5187
Email: oharaea@plattsburgh.edu
Office: Feinberg Library 247
IM: PSUIRef@aol.com

Chicago Style (for HIS majors), APA Format (for Social Sciences), MLA Format (for Arts & Humanities):
Feinberg Library Citation Guides

Finding Books

The Search Feinberg link will lead you to books about your topic. In the search box at the top of the screen, you can type a specific title or author OR by choosing subject from the drop-down menu at the top you can search for a specific subject.

If our library doesn't have what you want, you can Search Worldwide. The Interlibrary Laon system lets you borrow almost anything you want. It's fast & free!

(To see the full list of library databases, go to the By Subject link on the library homepage).

Historical Abstracts
-Click on the Advanced Search link
-Specify items such as language
-Specify that you want articles
-Use the "Time Period" selection. This is the only database that allows you to specify specific historical time periods in increments of ten years. Check all decades that apply to your search.
-try a variety of keyword combinations
-use keyword search to determine the "official subject headings" for your topic
-use a * for truncation
-use and to connect subjects

ProQuest Research Library: Information from over 2,600 periodicals and newspapers on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences. You can choose Location from the drop-down menu.

JSTOR: Complete archives of 411 core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Academic Search Premier: Multidisciplinary, full text database designed especially for colleges & universities with articles from over 4,000 scholarly journals in full-text as far back as 1975

Project Muse: 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering many fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millenial Edition The online version of a standard print resource about many aspects of the United States. Includes downloadable tables that you can customize for research or class presentations

Women and Social Movements in the United States
Provides a perspective on women's social movements throughout U.S. history via primary documents, collections interpreting the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and a collection of relevant images.

Do you really want to waste your time scrolling through a million web pages found using Google?

Try a metasearch engine like Clusty
Not only do you get more comprehensive results, but it also organizes your results for you by topic.
OR
Try an index like Librarians' Internet Index!
It contains over 20,000 high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by librarians!

Helpful Historical Websites

Try the Library of Congress American Memory digitized collection.