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Research Guide for History and Political Science
FINDING ARTICLES
EBSCO History databases searches History Reference Center, Military & Government Collection, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier . The citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single database.
History Reference Center features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers. The database also includes full text for nearly 60 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
Military & Government Collection is designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia University has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.
EBSCO's Religion searches two databases, ATLA Religion Database ™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. These databases provide information on topics such as world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Some of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. This database includes working papers, journal articles, books, case studies, and an atlas with country information.
Biographical Research
General biographical information, executive directories, current congress biographical profiles, legal biographies, government biographies, law directories, legislative biographies, who's who foreign listings, and obituary information.CongressNow
CongressNow covers all policy and legislation on Capitol Hill and is updated Monday-Friday in full-text.News
Regional, state, national and international news sources.
A variety of current and archieval news sources are available to Alvernia students.
WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.
Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected History Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia University computer network.
WorldCat 100 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)
Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.
Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.
The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library. Books on history are primarily located in the 900 - 990 sections.
Examples of books with background information on history are listed below:
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences R 300.3 I61 2008
Encyclopedia of American Social History R301.0973 E56 1993
Political Handbook of th World 2008 R320.9 P769 2008
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour Through History from Ancient Times to the Present R390.21 G816 2004
The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes R391.009 R121
Encyclopedia of World History R902 L276
The Timetables of History: Horizontal Linkage of People and Events R902.02 G888T
The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Chronologically Arranged R903 E56 2006
Medieval World R909.07 M489 2002
Great Events from History: Ancient and Medieval Series R909.09 M194
Chronicle of the 20th Century R909.82 C557
Atlas of the World R912 A881 2006
Historical Atlas of Ancient America R912.7 B213 2002
The Praeger Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Civilization R913.38 D488
Encyclopedia of Latin America R918.03 E56
Great Events from History: Modern European Series R940 M194
Companion to British History R941 A742 2001
Encyclopedia of Asian History R950 E56 The American Years R973.02 A512 2003
Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power and Greed R973.03 G878 2003
International Encyclopedia of the Social Services
The Encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
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Updated: September 4, 2008