WWW RESOURCES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH

This page provides some links to online bibliographical and archival resources for historians. Given my own research interests, it will inevitably have a somewhat medieval and British bias, but will hopefully be useful to other types of historian too. Apologies in advance for any dead links!

The links have been organized under the following headings:

Library Catalogues Articles via the Internet Online Bibliographies Archives and Manuscript Collections E-Texts and Other Resources

Library Catalogues

1. via Telnet:

• HYTELNET: Database of academic libraries via telnet. (No longer updated)

2. via the Internet:

• LibWeb and Lib-Web-Cats: Links to international library www servers.

• LibDex: Provides access to worldwide library catalogues on the WWW.

• The European Library: portal to 45 National Libraries in Europe.

• DIE DEUTSCHE BIBLIOTHEK: Access to various libraries in Europe.

• GABRIEL: Gateway to European National Libraries.

• Bilkent Library provides a link to Turkish library www pages.

• COPAC: Searches numerous university-library catalogues in the UK and Ireland.

• Library of Congress: Searches the Lib. of Congress and other catalogues in the US.

• British Library Integrated Catalogue

• The London Library

• Milli Kütüphane

• Newton: Cambridge University Library Catalogue.

• OLIS: Bodleian Library, Oxford, catalogue, both pre- and/or post-1920.

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Articles via the Internet

Bilkent lists of online journals:

• Online Databases: Includes links to Full Text and Bibliographical Indices.

• Electronic Journals Database

These pages provide links to the following:

• EBSCOhost: Citations and full texts for over 3600 academic journals, including history (choose Academic Search Premier).

• EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service

• INGENTA: Searchable tables of contents to 17,599,699 articles in 28,961 journals, from late 1980s onwards.

• JSTOR: Searchable and printable scanned ‘facsimile’ versions of articles from over 100 major journals, including history.

• Kluwer Online: Covers 750 ‘Kluwer journals’, including ‘history’ under the ‘humanities’ category; but soon (if not already?) to be merged with and moved to SpringerLink.

• OUP Journals Online

• PCI Full Text: Access to over 300 journals in the humanities and social sciences.

• WWW-Vitrual Library: The History Journals Guide: includes links to journal homepages plus full texts of about 1500 e-articles.

• Thomson ISI (Web of Knowledge): Search for journals by subject (select history): links to journal homepages.

Also, try:

• Medieval and Renaissance Studies Periodicals: Links to journal www pages.

• University of Chicago Journals Division

• Blackwell Synergy: List of Journals

Please note that some of these sites are subscription sites, so they can be accessed for free via a Bilkent-based computer only.

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Online Bibliographies

• ABC Clio: History Online: Includes links to some full-text articles too; via Bilkent network only, I think.

• Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography: by Simon Keynes.

• Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography: by C. P. Biggam.

• The Carolingians: An English-Language Bibliography

• Celtic Studies Association of North America Bibliography

• Crusades Bibliography

• Index of Medieval Studies Bibliographies: ftp files. (=dead link, 24 January ‘05)

• International Medieval Bibliography: via Bilkent network only.

• Islamic History to 1789: Bibliography

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: we’re not subscribed, but there’s a ‘Guest Database Search’ facility.

• New Chaucer Society: Online Chaucer Bibliography

• Old English Homilies: A Preliminary Bibliography

• Rob’s Norman Bibliography or alternatively click here. (The second link didn’t seem to work last time I tried it)

• Royal Historical Society Bibliography

• Select Bibliography for the Study of French History 1500-Present

• Swahili Studies: A Working Bibliography: Jambo!!

… more to come!

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Archives and Manuscript Collections

This list is mostly, but not exclusively, British. For links for some US archival resources not given here, click here.

International:

• Archives and Manuscripts Collections: Links to US and non-US sites.

• Archivesinfo, Overseas Archival Repositories on the Internet: Provides links to some non-UK archival sites.

• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library: Catalogue and microfilm collection of over 25 million MSS from all over the world!

• ICA: International Council on Archives.

• EAN: European Archival Network.

• Ready, ‘Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources.

• Repositories of Primary Sources: Lists over 5300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, etc.

• UNESCO Archives Portal: An international gateway to information for archivists and archive users.

Great Britain and Ireland:

• A2A: Access to Archives

• Aim 25: Archives in the greater London area.

• Archives Hub: A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

• Archivesinfo, UK Archival Repositories on the Internet

• Archives Network Wales

• ARCHON: Details of record repositories in the UK and also for institutions elsewhere in the world.

• British Library Manuscripts Collections

• College of Arms

• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

• GASHE: Gateway to Archives of Scottish Higher Education.

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library: Archives and Special Collections

• JANUS: Cambridge archival and manuscript collections.

• MUNDUS: A guide to collections of overseas missionary materials held in the UK.

• National Archives: This has replaced the old PRO and Historical Manuscripts Commission sites.

• National Archives of Ireland

• National Register of Archives

• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• RASCAL: Research and Special Collections Available Locally (Northern Ireland) …. great acronym!

• Royal Irish Academy, Library Catalogue

• School of Oriental and African Studies: Archives and Manuscripts

• Scottish Archive Network

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office: more than just the ‘Great Bard’!

North America:

• ArchivesUSA: Integrated Collection and Repository Information.

• NAGARA: National Association of Archives and Administrators (US and Canada).

• NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration.

• NUCMC: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Turkey:

• T.C. Basbakanlik Develet Arsivi

… more to come!

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E-Texts and Other Resources

• Anglo-Saxon Charters

• BOPCRIS: British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service: for 1688-1995.

• British History Online: Digital texts about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern periods.

• British Library Online Newspaper Archive

• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: Online resource for Irish history, literature and politics.

• CISP: Celtic Inscribed Stones Project

• Corpus of Early Medieval English Coin Finds/Syllogue of Coins of the British Isles

• DEEDS Project: Medieval Charters: Great site with searchable texts of over 8000 medieval charters.

• Digital Library of Historical Directories: Directory of local and trade directories from England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919.

• English Deeds Collection of the Harvard Law School Library: Descriptions of deeds for the period 1170-1880.

• English Manor Rolls Collection of the Harvard Law School Library: Descriptions of rolls for the period 1305-1770.

• GENUKI: Information on sources for British and Irish family history.

• Guide to 19th Century Pamphlets

• Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th-century journals.

• The Leicestershire Survey: Online version of J. H. Round’s edition of the Latin text.

… more to come!

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For comments and additions, please email me:

tdavid@bilkent.edu.tr

Links last checked and updated on 25 January 2005.