Contents
Reference Books | CLIO | Databases & Indexes for Finding Articles 
Primary Sources | Newspapers |Archival and Genealogical Websites |Other Libraries Catalogs | Subject Guides Online
Interlibrary Loan |  Consultation Request
EndNote/RefWorks

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: hellman lillian
  note the subheadings under hellman lillian:
                   --biography (this includes autobiographies)
                   --interviews
                  
• The subheadings: archives, correspondence, diaries, oratory and sources indicate primary sources; also search person as author

Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial article (the, an, la, le etc.)
title: wills of early new york jews                         journal title: journal of social history
                                                                     journal title: monde   
Author search: put last name, then first name
author: kahan abraham

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: jew? and "buenos aires"
keyword: jew? and immigra? and (paris or france)
keyword: "jewish immigrants"

• 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: jews new york
subject: jews argentina
subject: jews great britain
subject: jews england
subject: jews france
subject: theater yiddish

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

America History and Life
Citations to articles in U.S. & Canadian history, Articles, books and dissertations. 1954 to present.
search hints: use keywords, "   " for phrases, * for truncation

Historical Abstracts
Citations to articles in world history excluding U.S. & Canada including time period from 1450 to present. Articles, books and dissertations. 1954 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

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.

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.

ADDITIONAL DATABASES

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

Index to Jewish Periodicals
Indexing to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

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

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

PRIMARY SOURCE DATABASES: some with full text

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

American Memory
Various collections from the Library of Congress, See 19th Century Periodicals.

Accessible Archives
Searchable full text database of several 18th &19th century U.S. newspapers and periodicals, 1740-1900.

American Periodical Series
Searchable full text of selected American periodicals, 1740-1900.

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 truncation

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.

Nation Digital Archive
Searchable full text and page images of major U.S. journal of left/liberal opinion, 1865-1999.

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/Archive 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

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.

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.

American Newspapers in the Columbia university Libraries: See New York
Listing of newspapers by state.

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

OTHER LIBRARIES CATALOGS

Aleph, The library catalog of the Jewish Theological Seminary

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 Bibliothèque 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.

Jewish Studies
From Columbia University Libraries.

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.

CONSULTATIONS WITH A REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

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