This course will take place at Villa Schifanoia, Sala Triaria, the 12th of October 2011, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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All EUI Library e-resources are listed under the A to Z list of e-resources .
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Disciplinary E-resources for historians are selected in the A to Z list of History E-Resources
Three formats for accessing e-resources online:
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CD-ROM's stand alone and loaded on the EUI Library Netman
CD-ROM server (list of
CD's )
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Remote internet sites
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Remote internet e-resources and databases
How to access e-resources on and off the EUI campus ?
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General information on the modes of access to e-resources . Regardless of the access method used, users will be asked to login with their name and Library barcode when linking to a licensed electornic resource. This verifies the user's current EUI Library status and their right to access electronic resources.
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On Campus: Library users can access most electronic resources from any computer in the Library. EUI members may also use their own laptops in the library through either a PC to LAN Connection or via the Wireless network. For the technical details on how to configure your laptop, refer to the following:
PC to LAN connection or
Wireless (WiFi) o n EUI Campus only.
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Eduroam network with access to e-resources for EUI members in other European institutions
Using EUI E-Resources, which Services are provided to Historians ?
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Using forms fo searching contents through Boolean operations and advanced search equations.
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Selecting better the needed information.
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Possibility of reading full-text contents also using "bridges" between resources:
WebBridge at EUI .
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Possibility for printing selected documents or parts of documents.
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Possibility of downloading/saving selected information and documents depending on copyrights issues
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Possibility of sending selected information and bibliographies through e-mail.
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Possibility of capturing full webpage content and PDF using
Zotero and Mendeley, etc.
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Digital History Resources: five different categories
1.Digital Primary Sources
2.Electronic databases with access to bibliographical references
3.Full-text historiography and scholarly literature
4.Online Reference Tools (no bibliographical databases)
5.Databases with historical data's and statistics
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1.Digital Primary Sources.
The HEC Department and the EUI Library created in 2009, the European History Primary Sources - EHPS a portal to access primary sources on the history of Europe. The websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources, but also include "invented archives" and born digital primary sources. EHPS is a work in progress and new content is regularly added. In order to stay updated on new entries or specific categories it is possible to subscribe to RSS feeds or to follow EHPS on Twitter and Facebook .
Exemple of EUI Library databases with access to primary sources (not in EHPS):
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Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) - U.S.A. includes documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act from the period immediately after World War II following the 30 years rule for opening archival documents to the public.
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Frantext -in the ATILF database- is a major corpus of French texts spanning the 16th to 20th centuries. The database currently contains the full text of approximately 3500 works, of which 80% are literary texts, the other 20% being mainly scientific texts
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The Early English Books Online, EEBO an online text editions of works originally published between 1473 and 1700, listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue or the Thomason tracts. Titles in the collection cover literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor.
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ECCO I & II - Eighteenth century collections online provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more
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Women writers online (Brown University Women Writers Project) contains full-text editions of more than 300 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830.
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MOMW - The Making of the Modern World provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850 belonging to the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature and full-text searching on more than 12 million pages of this collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
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JSTOR: 19th Century British Pamphlets - This JSTOR collection contains more than 20,000 British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, providing a rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.
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L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772, containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors.
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Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 - Complete digital edition of the newspaper The Times (London). Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
2.Electronic databases with access to bibliographical references
See a list of interdisciplinary bibliographies subscribed to by the EUI Library here
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Web of Knowledge / Web of Science - Citation database providing seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Includes Journal Citation Reports.
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OvidSP - ERL (Electronic Reference Library) WebSPIRS contents the following bibliographies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Econlit 1969- - Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals 1985- - International Political Science Abstract 1989-.
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WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) - Contains over 100 million records, covering all materials cataloged by thousands of libraries from around the world
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Historical Abstract (in EBSCOHost) indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Links to full-text articles are included when available. It lists materials covering the history starting from 1450 to the present, (No USA an Canadian History) including approximately 2300 periodicals published in 90 countries in 40 languages and starting from 1955-. Collections of essays, conference papers, dissertations, and books are also included.
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IBR - International Bibliography of Book Reviews in Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences - (De Gruyter reference Global). IBR contains over 1.2 million entries on book reviews from the years 1985ff. The database is international and interdisciplinary, the reviews have been published in approx. 6.820 academic journals mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. IBR is updated on a monthly basis, the annual addition to the database is approx. 50.000 entries.
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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature - IBZ als o known as "The Dietrich", has been published since 1896 and is an international and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. IBZ online contains over 2,553,260 journal articles from about 10,785 journals covering the years 1983ff. Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually (De Gruyter Reference Global)
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Periodicals Index Online (PIO/PCI) - Database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years (1770) with sometimes direct access to full text contents through PAO (see category n.3). Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages.
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Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique - bibliographie - Multilingual up-to-date bibliography covering the literature that deals with the different aspects of religious history and much more nand dealing with scholarship in many European languages.
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Historische Bibliographie Online - Index to publications on history, cumulated from 1990 onward.
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Index Translationum "is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations since 1979.
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Index Islamicus online indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
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Medline : Covers all areas of medicine also in historical perspective as the history of medicine. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts for biomedical literature in English and all foreign languages and is fully indexed
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Google Scholar - The EUI Library has established a partnership with Google that enables the EUI community to link to EUI-subscribed online materials from within Google Scholar by clicking on the "Full-text @ EUI Library" textual link. Users must set preferences on their own browsers in order to enable the linking to EUI Library resources and maximum two other libraries.
3.Full-text historiography and scholarly literature
The EUI Library provides linking capacities (WebBridge) between its main bibliographical e-resources and, if available, the full text of single articles in other full-text databases listed below. This is also possible configuring Zotero to that purpose.
IngentaConnect - Electronic journal platform offering titles from more than 280 publishers. Full-text access for EUI users is limited to those journals to which the EUI has subscribed.
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Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - Archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas . Comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
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Cairn.info - With over 200 titles in full-text, the Cairn.info platform offers the most comprehensive collection of journals available online in French language for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Project Muse - Electronic journal platform offering scholarly titles from several American university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Full-text access for EUI users is limited to those journals to which the EUI has subscribed
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HeinOnline - HeinOnline contains full-text legal periodicals for the whole 20th Century.
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JSTOR - Digital archive collection of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. The EUI Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII, IX and the Ireland Collection.
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HEB-Humanities E-Book Project . is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records.
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Gutenberg-e - A series of digital USA Ph.D. Thesis in the field of historical scholarship produced in collaboration with the authors and the electronic publishing staff of Columbia University Press.
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Oxford Scholarship Online - Online resource containing the full text of selected OUP books in the areas of Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Business and Management.
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Rivisteweb - Provides online access to 31 journals published by il Mulino some of them important historical journals.
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Franco Angeli Journals Archive Collection - Journal delivery platform of FrancoAngeli publications containing full-text archive of 67 journals, from 2000 to through the previous calendar year, currente year: Franco Angeli Journals (current)
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CEEOL - Central and Eastern European Online Library - Online archive providing access to full text articles from 200 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics and different languages.
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DigiZeitschriften - Backfiles for over 110 scholarly German journals in many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, history, librarianship, mathematics, and biological and physical sciences.
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PERSEE: Portail de Revues Scientifiques en Sciences Humaines et Sociales - PERSEE is the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Some individual articles listed on the PERSEE site are not available in full-text due to copyright restrictions.
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Revues.org - A consortium of academic journals, covering many subjects in the social sciences and humanities. Full-text access limited to freely-available content.
4.Online Reference Tools (no bibliographical databases)
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Brepolis database: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques
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Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français (Networked CDROM)
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) - This is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of selected reference books. Parts of the GVRL are: the Encyclopaedia Judaica and the "Encyclopedia of Modern Europe " (also Scribner library of modern Europe) is an electronic edition of 3 titles edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter and hosted on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform:
1) Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire ;
2) Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World.
3) Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill Academic)
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - An illustrated collection of more than 56,521 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.
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Oxford Reference Online - Single cross-searchable web database which brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, encyclopedia, and reference books, as well as an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
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WWW-VL History Project - The World Wide Web Virtual Library History (EUI project starting 2004-)
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Centre Virtuel pour la Connaissance de l'Europe - CVCE - With a multimedia database documenting the history of European integration and enlargement from 1945 to the present day.
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5.Databases with historical data's and statistics
Use the EUI library Economic Research Guide (Thomas Bourke) to available Statistics at the EUI:
Data Portal - Macro Data - Micro Data - Statistics Overview - EU & Eurozone Statistics - Conditions of Use -
Statistics Software Manuals - List of Data Sets and EUI CDROMs with Historical Statistics.