WESTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1450

CONTENTS

I. Catalogs: Find books, journals, microfilm collections, CDs, and DVDs    

II. Reference: Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other sources of information    

III. Find Articles & Book Reviews    

IV. Primary Source Collections   

V. Internet Resources   

I. CATALOGS:  Find books, journals, microfilm collections, CDs and DVDs

• Start with: WorldCat   (more information)

Catalogs at Columbia University:

• CLIO: Columbia University Libraries Online Catalog   (more information)

• Pegasus: catalog of the Columbia University Law library   (more information)

• Card catalog, Rm. 310, Butler Library

• Periodicals and Microforms Reading Room.  Butler Library, Rm 401   (more information)

• Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections Portal

General Content Online Catalogs:

• The European Library

Specialized Online Catalogs:

• Center for Research Libraries   (more information)

• IndexCat   (more information)

• Proquest Digital Dissertations   (more information)

II.  REFERENCE:  Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other sources of information

• Start with:   Oxford Reference Online   (more information)   Includes: Oxford Reference Online: History

General Online Sources

• Blackwell Reference Online 

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online

• Reference Universe   (more information)

Specialized Online Sources

Biographical information:

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index   (more information)

• Biography Resource Center   (more information)

• World Biographical Information System   (more information)

Historical dictionaries and encyclopedias (by historical period):

• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

• Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance 

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

• Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire

• Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction

Historical dictionaries and encyclopedias (by subject)

• Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• Encyclopedia of European Social History, 1350-2000

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Encyclopedia of Population

• Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450

• History of World Trade Since 1450

• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas 

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Print Sources

Butler Reference Collection, Butler Library, Rms. 301 & 310

• Reference Book Location Guide

• Locations of Atlases in Butler Reference

• Reference Sources for French History

III. FIND ARTICLES & BOOK REVIEWS

• Start with: Historical Abstracts   (more information)

General indexing and abstracting databases

• EBSCOhost

• British Humanities Index

• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

• Humanities Full Text

• International Bibliography of Book Reviews

• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

• Web of Knowledge

Specialized indexing and abstracting databases

• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

• International Medieval Bibliography Online

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Full-text journal collections

• JSTOR

• Periodicals Archive Online

• Project Muse

IV. PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS

Major online full-text collections

• ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online

• ARTFL: American Research on the Treasury of the French Language

• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

• Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945

• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

• Digital Library of Classical Protestant Texts

• Early English Books Online

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online

• Gallica

• German Literature Collections

• Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945

• Past Masters

• The Philological Museum: Library of Humanistic Texts & Bibliography of Neo-Latin Texts on the Web

• The Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature

V. INTERNET RESOURCES

• Start with: Intute   (more information)

Directories

• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

• WessWeb  Maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.  See in particular the Europe in Bits and Bytes column published in the WESS Newsletter.