Barnard College Library Research Guide

BC4391 Senior Seminar in History -- International Topics

Professors Robert McCaughey, Nara Milanich, and Deborah Valenze

Librarian Jenna Freedman


Women in a Canning Factory, Painting by Max Liebermann. Public Domain.

 
This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. You can ask for further assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk, IM BarnardReference, or call 212.854.3953. You can also schedule a consultation.

Databases  | Primary Sources | Barnard/Columbia | Web | E-Journals | Etc.

 
ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES

  • Access these indexes and databases from the Databases list
  • Using an index to find journal articles is a two-step process; first, find citations in the index, and second, click to find the full text online or do a Journal Title search in CLIO.  

Subject Specific Databases


General Databases


Also check Columbia's Databases: History & Archaeology list.

PRIMARY SOURCES AND DATA

See also the statistical reference works cited below in the Reference Books list.

BARNARD/COLUMBIA

Course website   
Library research session slides

Search CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online)   

Reference Books are good for getting topic overviews, background information, bibliographies, and call number ranges.

 TITLE BARNARD REFERENCE #
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world
The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation
Oxford reference online
The Encyclopedia of romanticism : culture in Britain, 1780-1830s DA529 .E53 1992
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era DA550 .E527 2004
Twentieth-century Britain : an encyclopedia DA566 .T835 2002
Medieval France : an encyclopedia DC33.2 .M44 1995
A critical dictionary of the French Revolution DC148 .D5313 1989
Medieval Italy : an encyclopedia DG443 .M43 2004
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe : from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism DJK6 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa DS43 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia of African history DT20 .E53 2005
Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture F1210 .E63 1997
Europa Yearbooks
  South America, Central America & the Caribbean
  
F1408.29 .S68
Encyclopedia of food and culture GT2850 .E53 2003
The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history HQ1121 .O93 2008
Women and gender in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia HQ1147.E85 W66 2006
Classical and medieval literature criticism, v. 83 PN681.5 .C57
Magill’s survey of cinema, foreign language films PN1993.45 .M34 1986

Barnard and Columbia Subject Guides

WEB SITES

 
E-JOURNALS

Many scholarly journals are available on the Web. The journal often is included in a searchable collection of journals supplied as a package by the publisher or by another vendor. These collections are included on the list of Databases.

If you have a particular journal that you want to access electronically, enter the title in CLIO. In the Quick Limits box below the Search For field, select Electronic Journals/Magazines/Serials, then click search. If we have an online subscription or database access, one or more links will be provided in the record.


ETC.

Other Library Catalogs
Columbia ID holders can access to libraries of the Columbia Law School, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers’ College, and Union Theological Seminary, though their catalogs are not included in CLIO. CUID also provides access to the libraries of New York University. Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in New York is entitled to a New York Public Library card. Use the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, or the following links:

Bibliography Resources
RefWorks and EndNote
are bibliographic software packages that are available, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff

Bibliographic software allows you to

  • search for citations in library catalogs and databases from the software or export results into it from remote catalogs and databases
  • store the citations
  • search through the citations you have stored using keyword searches
  • cite them in papers and bibliographies using any citation format you choose

Consult the page EndNote at Barnard and Columbia for more details.

The Bedford Handbook is a free online guide to APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA styling.

 


Last Modified 09/30/2008
Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services
Barnard College Library
 

 
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