Contents
Reference Books | CLIO | Databases & Indexes for Finding Articles 
Primary Sources | Newspapers | Other Libraries Catalogs | Subject Guides Online
Interlibrary Loan | European Studies Websites | Consultation Request
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REFERENCE BOOKS

Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• factual information
• bibliographies

CLIO: the Library Catalog

CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard and Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword.  Help for searching CLIO is available on every CLIO screen: click on the Help button at the top. 

• You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University Libraries Home Page
• Search tips are available on the bottom of the opening search screen
• The holdings of the Health Sciences Library as well as Union Theological Seminary are included in CLIO
• The Law Library's catalog is Pegasus, Teacher's College catalog is Educat and JTS' catalog is Aleph
• To search CLIO, Pegasus and Educat simultaneously, click on the "Search all CU catalogs" button, available on every CLIO screen
• Primary sources can also be found in CLIO. For example, select the subject search and type: churchill winston
  note the subheadings under churchill winston 1874-1965:
                   --archives
                   --biographies (this includes autobiographies)
                   --correspondence
                   --diaries
                   --oratory
   the subheadings: diaries, interviews and sources indicate primary sources; also search person as author

Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial article (the, an, la, etc.)
title: women in english social history               journal title: journal of social history
                                                                     journal title: monde   
Author search: put last name, then first name
author: churchill winston 1874-1965

Finding a book about a person or a subject: start with a Keyword Search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for useful subject headings and do a Subject Search.

Keyword search: use and, or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
keyword: algerian? and immigrant? and france
keyword: (spain or spanish) and colon?
keyword: women and "french resistance"

• keyword searches search various parts of the library screen/record for those words

• use most distinctive words

• try multiple searches

Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
subject: france history
subject: czechoslovakia politics and government
subject: great britain civilization
subject: france social life and customs
subject: women france
subject: world war 1939-1945

Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-Select Limits or Post Limit option; available with keyword and title searches only

Call numbers: Overview of the Library of Congress Classification Outline

Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the location Barnard.

DATABASES & INDEXES: For Finding Periodical and Journal Articles

Historical Abstracts
Citations to articles in world history excluding U.S. & Canada including time period from 1450 to present. Articles, books and dissertations. 1982 to present.
search hints: use keywords, "   " for phrases, * for truncation

Humanities Full Text 
General humanities. Includes history as well as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts and religion, citations and links to full-text, 1984 to present.
search tips: use keywords, "  " for phrases, * for truncation

Social Sciences Full Text
General social sciences. Includes social history, anthropology, economics, foreign affairs, international relations, political science, psychology, sociology and more, includes citations and some links to some full-text from 1983 to present.
search tips: use keywords, "  " for phrases, * for truncation

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 
Core social sciences, includes history, demography, foreign affairs, international relations, psychology and social issues. Includes international journals. Citations and some links to full-text, 1951 to present.
search tips: phrase assumed, * for truncation

ADDITIONAL DATABASES

Absees, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Citations for journal articles, books, book chapters and more relating to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union published in North American, 1990 to present.
search tips: use keywords, "  " for phrases, automatic stemming

L'Annee Philologique
Citations for publications related to Greco-Roman Antiquity.

AP Photo Archive
Associated Press photo archive of over 500,000 images from 1844 to the present.

ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
Citations to articles and some full-text in the field of religion and theology, coverage date varies, some citations go back to 1949.
search hints: phrase assumed, * for truncation

Bibliography of the History of Art
Citations to articles and some full text in the field of architecture, decorative art, drawings, painting and more. Covers The Americas and Europe, 1973 to present.
search tips: use keywords,  ? for truncation

British Humanities Index
indexes articles, excluding reviews, in more than 320 humanities journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the UK, 1962 to present.

Family and Society Studies World Wide
Indexes, with some full text, scholarly works on marriage and the family

HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Citations to articles and materials in the social sciences and humanities about U.S. Hispanics as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, covers 1970 to present.
search tips: use keywords

JSTOR: the Scholarly Archive 
JSTOR means journal storage and is a large group of more than 600 journals in many disciplines including history. It has the full text of the journal beginning from volume 1 up to the last 3-5 years. It is searchable as a whole or by journal title or subject area. History journals include Journal of Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas and more. Political Science, Sociology and other subject areas are included.
Useful for finding both primary or secondary articles.

Music Index Online
Resource for finding articles about classical and popular music worldwide. Covers 1979 to present.
search tips: use keywords

Project Muse
Searchable E-journal collection of full text of articles from periodicals, includes current issues only. Interdisciplinary, includes Journal of Social History, Journal of World History and many other journals. Primarily humanities and social science journals.

Readers Guide Full Text
Citations and links to full-text for popular and general interest periodicals from 1983 to present.
search tips: use keywords, "  " for phrases, * for truncation

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Citations, abstracts and full-text articles in the social sciences.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Indexes books and journal articles on education, employment, women in the family, medicine and health, gender role socialization, social policy, the social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism and historical studies.

Women's Studies International
Interdisciplinary, women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory from 1972 to present. Includes citations and links to full-text.
search tips: use keywords, "and" operator, * for truncation

PRIMARY SOURCE DATABASES: some with full text

19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online
Full text 19th century British parliamentary papers.

British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries
Full text from 1500-1900.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Full text of British and American imprints, 1701-1800.

Gerritsen Collection of Women's History Online, 1543-1949
Full text and international in scope.

HarpWeek
Full-Text and page images of the popular illustrated 19th century American periodical, 1857-1912.

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective
Citations and links to full-text articles in the humanities and social sciences from 1907 to 1984.
search tips: use keywords, "  " for phrases, * for truncationI

International Index. Barnard Reference: A13. R49
Citations to scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences covering period from 1907-1965

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)
International and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature in the humanities and social sciences. Primarily European
sources, published from 1983 to present.

JSTOR: the Scholarly Archive
JSTOR means journal storage and is a large group of more than 600 journals in many disciplines including history. It has the full text of the journal beginning from volume 1 up to the last 3-5 years. It is searchable as a whole or by journal title or subject area. History journals include Journal of Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas and more. Political Science, Sociology and other subject areas are included.
Useful for finding both primary or secondary articles.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Full text, British and American laws, treatises.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Indexes selected 19th century periodicals including Harper's, New York Times. Choose Pooles to include British journals
Some links to full-text.

Oral History Online
Oral histories, worldwide in English.

PCI: Periodicals Contents Index 
Especially useful for finding articles published in the 18, 19th and the early 20th century. Interdisciplinary and includes international journals. Primarily humanities and social sciences. Citations  and links to full-text.
search tips: keywords, phrase assumed, * for truncation

PAIS Archive, Public Affairs Information Service
Citations and abstracts to journal articles, books and government publications published in public affairs and political science from 1915-1976.
search tips: keyword, "  " for phrase, * for truncation

Past Masters
Several searchable full-text collections of writings by key philosophers and thinkers from ancient times to the present. Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Rousseau and many others are included.

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881. 6 vols. plus index. Barnard Reference: A13 .P7
citations to articles from this time period. British and American. Poole's is also available online in Nineteenth Century Masterfile.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Citations to articles in popular and general interest periodicals from 1890-1982.Some scholarly journals are included in the earlier years. Citations with some links to full-text.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodical Literature, 1824-1900. 5 vols. Barnard Reference: A13 .W45
citations to articles from this time period. British and American.

Women Writer's Online
full-text collection of writings by English and American women writing from the 16th through early 19th century. Includes Renaissance Women Writers Online.

Women's Journals in the Columbia and Barnard Libraries
A listing of women's journals on campus, some of which could be used as primary sources.

NEWSPAPERS

CLIO: the library catalog
Columbia University has a collection of newspapers. Search CLIO using the journal title search option, e.g. monde to find Le Monde newspaper.

Center for Research Libraries Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries or CRL has a collection of newspapers as well as books.

Foreign Press Translations
Includes FBIS Reports, World News Connection which include translations from non-U.S. news sources.

Lexis Nexis Academic 
Major newspaper database. Coverage is mid-nineteen eighties to present. Interdisciplinary database of over 1,800 sources including full text articles from newspapers, including international newspapers, wire services and other sources.
search tips: phrase assumed, ! for truncation

OTHER LIBRARIES CATALOGS

British Library Central Catalog
Catalog of the main holdings of the British Library acquired and catalogued up to the end of 1995. Contains about six million records from three files: British Library Catalogue, Humanities and Social Sciences Catalogue, and Science Reference and Information Service Catalogue.

Bibliotheque Nationale de France page d'accueil
Home page of the Bibliothθque nationale, with links to its online catalogs

CATNYP: the Research Libraries On-line Catalog
Represents the holdings of the Research Libraries, which do not circulate, including books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, microfilms, music scores, prints, photographs, and other materials cataloged since 1971 from the Center for the Humanities, the Science, Industry, and Business Library, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Center for Research Libraries Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries or CRL has a collection of newspapers as well books.

Interlibrary Loan will borrow books or obtain photocopies of items that are not available at the Barnard or Columbia Libraries with no charge to the patron. Click on Request It to borrow items through Interlibrary Loan. Information about "Borrow Direct" is also available on this page.

Union Catalogs can identify and locate materials not available in the CU Library system. Eureka  and WorldCat are two union catalogs available on the main listing of databases.

EUROPEAN STUDIES WEBSITES

•Western European Studies Section Association of College & Research Libraries
•WWW.Virtual Library: West European Studies
•Indiana University Bloomington Libraries: Western European Studies
•http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Romance/westeur.html
•Ancient World Web
•The ORB: the On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
•Encyclopedia of British History, 1500-1980
•EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
•Victorian Studies on the Web
•Victorian Web
•Best of History Web Sites
•Imperial War Museum Collections Online
•World War I Document Archive
•Tennessee Bob's Famous French links
•NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World
•World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies

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