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Barnard College Library Research
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Barnard College Library Research
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PRINTED FINDING AIDS FOR PRINTED RESOURCES
Essay and General Literature Index
BARNARD REFERENCE AI3 .E752 (1900 - 1994)
Lists essays and articles in periodicals and books; search by subject or
author. The online version
goes back to 1985.
Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide
to Periodical Literature
BARNARD REFERENCE AI3 .R496 (1890-1899)
Use CLIO to find out which library owns the periodical.
If the title does not appear in CLIO, check the Union List of Serials (see below).
Readers' Guide to Periodical
Literature
BARNARD REFERENCE AI3 .R48 (1900 - 1997)
Use CLIO to find out which library owns the periodical.
If the title does not appear in CLIO, check the Union List of Serials (see below).
Online as Reader's
Guide Retrospective (back to 1963 so far)
Monthly Catalog, United States
Public Documents
BUTLER REFERENCE R328.734 D5 (1895 - present)
Begun in 1895, this is a current bibliography of publications issued by all branches
of the government (both Congressional and departmental and bureau publications).
Until 1976, arranged by department and bureau. Includes subject indexing.
Also available online: Catalog of United
States Government Publications. Coverage begins with January 1994. Use it to link
to Federal agency online resources.
Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature
BARNARD REFERENCE AI3 .P7 (1802 - 1906)
Index to articles in magazines and journals; search by subject or title.
Use CLIO to find out which library owns the periodical.
If the title does not appear in CLIO, check the Union List of Serials (see below).
Union List of Serials in Libraries
of the United States and Canada (ULS)
BARNARD REFERENCE Z6945 .U45 1965
This multi-volume set is arranged alphabetically by the title of the publication and
indicates which libraries subscribed to which periodicals before 1965. The code
for Columbia is NNC; the code for the New York Public Research Libraries is NN.
If ULS indicates that the Columbia Libraries had a subscription to a periodical
title, you must still check the Serials Catalog at Butler to find out the call number
and whether Columbia has the volume you need. Using ULS will give you a good
idea of what's available at Columbia before trying to use the Serials Catalog.
American Diaries: an Annotated
Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals (1983)
BARNARD REFERENCE Z5305.U5 A74 1983
The Published Diaries and Letters
of American Women: an Annotated Bibliography (1987)
BARNARD REFERENCE Z5305.U5 G66 1987
ONLINE INDEXES TO PRIMARY SOURCES
Using CLIO (Columbia Libraries Catalog) to Find Primary Sources
Primary sources in CLIO include diaries,
letters and autobiographies.
Look for these subdivisions in the subject field:
ARCHIVES
BIOGRAPHY (this includes autobiographies)
CORRESPONDENCE
DIARIES
INTERVIEWS
SOURCES
For example:
NIXON RICHARD M RICHARD MILHOUS 1913--CORRESPONDENCE
WOMEN--UNITED STATES--SOCIAL CONDITIONS--SOURCES
Looking for books published during a
specific span of years:
Remember that CLIO does not list everything owned by the Columbia University
Libraries. For older books, use the card catalogs in Butler; find an
appropriate subject heading and look through the card catalog for items published in
the years you are interested in.
U.S.
Government Documents at Columbia
A useful guide on Columbia LibraryWeb to finding government documents held by the
Columbia Libraries
Indexes to Magazine and Journal Articles
Essay and
General Literature Index Online
Use to find essays published in anthologies (1985 - present).
Nineteenth
Century Masterfile
Includes several 19th-century periodical indexes, as well as indexing of the New York
Daily Tribune (1875-1906).
Use CLIO to find which library owns the periodical.
If the title does not appear in CLIO, check the Union List of Serials (see above).
Women's Journals in the Columbia and Barnard Libraries
A checklist of women's magazines and journals held by the Columbia/Barnard Libraries.
Display the titles alphabetically by title, or by date.
U.S.
Newspapers in the Columbia University Libraries
A checklist of U.S. newspapers, from 1704 to the present, arranged by state and city
of publication, owned by the Columbia University Libraries.
FULL-TEXT PRIMARY SOURCES ONLINE
Newspapers, Journals and Magazines
JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 120 scholarly journals, from the first issue of
each journal (including some started in the late nineteenth century) up to 3 to 5
years ago.
ProQuest
Direct
Online journal articles and citations, as well as the full text of the New York
Times from 1857 to the present. For the backfile of the New York Times,
select the collection ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
LexisNexis
Includes a database of Primary Sources in U.S. History, as well as full text
newspapers, magazines and journals.
Archives
and Manuscript Collections
This is a guide developed at Columbia listing resources you can use to try to find
relevant archival collections outside Columbia. The page also provides links to many
archival collections' home pages.
ArchivesUSA
Directory to archives and manuscript collections in the United States with
descriptions of their holdings.
CLIO: Archival
Materials Database
Records for archives, oral history transcripts, architectural prints and drawings,
and manuscript collections in the Columbia University Libraries.
Columbia University
Archives and Columbiana Library
This Web page describes what is contained in the two collections, and provides
contact information.
Oral History
Research Office at Columbia University
Provides a guide to the collection of the Oral History Research Office, as well as
links to other oral history internet resources.
See also: The Oral History Collection of Columbia University BARNARD
REFERENCE Z1361.C6 C64 1979
A catalog of the collection, published in 1979.
The RLIN
Archives and Manuscript Collections (AMC) File
Database of archives in the United States, searchable by author and subject.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
A full-text collection of books and
periodicals covering the history of women from 1543 to 1945, with the bulk being from
1880-1920.
HarpWeek
Full text and page images of the popular illustrated 19th-century American periodical
Harper's Weekly.
RLG Cultural Materials
Digital versions of materials, including
maps, manuscripts, handwritten letters, drawings and paintings, contributed by
archives, libraries and museums around the world.
American
Memory
A collection of primary source materials relating to U.S. history and culture
compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Barnard
College Library Subject Guides to Web Sites: History: Documents and Primary Sources
A list of Web sites with primary materials
Making
of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction, at the University of Michigan.
Encyclopedia of American Social
History
BARNARD REFERENCE HN57 .E58 1993
Provides overview articles on a wide variety of topics. Each essay ends with a
bibliography of secondary sources. Excellent starting place for any research
topic concerning the United States.
Reader's Guide to American History
BARNARD REFERENCE E178.1 .R43 1997g
Discusses important events and issues in American history and gives an overview of
the most important works on each topic.
Encyclopedia of African-American
Culture and History
BARNARD REFERENCE E185 .E54 1996
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
BARNARD REFERENCE DS557.7 E53 1998
American Decades
BARNARD REFERENCE E169.12 .A4193 1996g
Atlas of Jewish History
BARNARD REFERENCE DS117 .C64 1994g
CLIO for Secondary Resources
Title, Author and Subject searches are alphabetic searches with a controlled vocabulary
In Keyword searching, use ADJ for a phrase, and ? for truncation
Find a useful subject heading and the call number that goes with it, and then browse the shelves in that area
Search Help on the right hand side of the screen includes a useful guide to keyword searching
America:
History and Life
Online periodical index to scholarly journals for all aspects of American
history. Useful for finding articles about topics, but it can also lead
to primary material. Check the Documentation Field (available by viewing
the full citation) to see if the article has footnotes, is based on primary material,
etc.
Arts & Humanities
Citation Index
Cited references and bibliographic information for the arts and humanities, with some
links to full-text articles. Useful for tracing who cited a given article or
book, or for tracing an idea.
Dissertation
Abstracts
Index to all U.S. and some foreign dissertations, 1861 to the present.
Dissertations since 1997 have 24-page previews. Although this database offers
an opportunity to purchase dissertations, all Columbia dissertations are available at
Columbia Libraries, and Columbia affiliates can borrow non-Columbia dissertations
free of charge through Interlibrary Loan.
EBSCO Online
Full-text articles and citations from hundreds of journals in the humanities,
sciences and social sciences.
Humanities
Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in archaeology, art, classics, film,
folklore, arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
FULL-TEXT SECONDARY SOURCES ONLINE
Cambridge
Journals Online
Full-text online journals from Cambridge University Press, on the humanities,
sciences and social sciences.
Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals published by university
presses in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Proquest
Direct
Full-text articles from journals. Select the collection PA Research II,
then click on Search Methods - Guided. For scholarly journals rather than
popular magazines, check "Show articles from peer reviewed publications
only".
Library Subject Guides
Barnard Library
Guide to History on the Web
Guide to finding history sources online
E-Guide to American History
Columbia University Libraries guide to American history resources
E-Guide to American
Studies
Columbia University Libraries guide to American studies resources
E-Guide to Humanities
and History
Butler Library guide, includes American History
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Contact a reference librarian: e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu
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Updated Oct 2, 2002
Lois Coleman, Reference Librarian