Tool Box for the Historian....

Some times some tools can make your job a little bit easier....

http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/eng/index.html

http://academicearth.org/courses/introdu...

It is the Ancient Greek history class of Donald Kagan on both video as well as the transcript.

And it is free.

http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page

http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home?

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/a...

RE the following: The style and substance of both lectures are absolutely excellent. The very best in my experience. And I certainly found it better than his one volume bk on the Peloponessian War. (I haven't cked out his multivolume work.)

http://academicearth.org/courses/introdu...

http://www.theoi.com

The academically initiated among us will know the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Not surprisingly, it is a journal of reviews of books pertaining to Classical Studies. New issues and the archived ones back to 1990 are available electronically to anyone by free subscription:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/

http://www.theoi.com/

http://www.maicar.com/GML/

One of my favorite web sites for Ancient Greece is the following:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Wow! Looks like I'm going to be online often in the near future. Thank you so much!

The Medieval Review

ORB - The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Archaeolink
"The Amazing Worlds of Archaeology, Anthropology, & Ancient Civilizations - History, Social Studies and More"

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

can be found at:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Also there:

The Trial of Joan of Arc

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/joanofarc-trial.html

Another tool:

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

The ERIC mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information that also meets the requirements of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 .

Wolframalpha...A highly specialized tool that you may have use for at some point......

http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/PeopleAndHistory.html

This probably THE bibliography for the Vietnam War.

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/bibliography.html

Great list, my bookmark file has grown considerably. I don't think this has already been posted and appologize if it has.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/category/research-and-tools/

Are bibliographies still worth publishing in the age of searchable databases, searchable documents, online resources etc? Why/why not?

>10 Yes, I think it is still worth putting out bibliographies. It saves having to
reinvent the wheel over and over, provided they are kept up to date. It is also nice to have them annotated.

The Vietnam one I listed is massive and it doesn't have everything. I would not want to do all that on my own. Prof. Moise at Clemson U does a good job of keeping it up to date.

I have tried to find bibliographies or reading lists in other areas of interest and they are scarce.

My wife the research librarian told me about this major tool. It is complicated to access but if you get it you are getting one very major tool.

Roughly speaking it is the databases available through the New York Public Library. As you read on you can can those databases are global in reach.

Now then, how do you get access? Answer: not easily but here are some suggestions:

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An NYPL library card allows you to do more than simply borrow books and other materials. You can also use your card to access our online databases from home. There are two different library cards used at The New York Public Library: a Branch Libraries Card is needed to borrow circulating items, use online databases from home and renew or reserve books. An ACCESS card is used to request materials in any of the readings rooms of the Research Libraries.

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3-The databases available include but are not limited to:

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. more info
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African American Experience
Covering African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day this database provides a comprehensive collection of over 500 searchable virtual titles. Also included are timelines dating from the 15th century to present, primary and landmark documents, slave narratives, audio and image files, and classic texts, some dating from the 19th century. The classroom resources site includes lesson plans which include a subject index and glossary. more info
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African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. more info
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American Indian History Online
Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps & charts, images, and timelines. It also features searchable tribe and culture area indexes, as well as the ability to search for tribes by region. more info
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American Women's History
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history. more info
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Ancient & Medieval History Online
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE. more info
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AP Multimedia Archive Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library. more info
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Biography Resource Center
Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. more info
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Books in Print
A new interface from Books in Print, designed specifically for patrons. more info
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Books in Print -- Global
Covers 9 million English and Spanish-language titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. more info
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Books in Print -- Professional
Contains records of over three million English-language book titles currently in print and records for forthcoming and out-of-print books. more info
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Books in Print - Spanish
An online source for Spanish-language titles, covering in-print, forthcoming, audio,video, and out-of-print titles, and detailed publisher information. more info
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Business & Company Resource Center
Includes company profiles,executives, mergers & acquisitions,ticker symbols, news & magazine articles, company histories and chronologies, financials, balance sheets, financial ratios, rankings, suits & claims (for civil claims suits in the area of Human Resources only), products & brands, industry overviews and associations. Covers 1980- to present. Subjects covered include finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking. more info
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Business Source Premier EBSCO
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more more info
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Career Cruising
Privacy Policy: This database collects personal information from users as part of its service. This information is stored by the vendor that creates the database and is subject to that vendor's private policy. We encourage you to read that vendor's private policy. The information you enter into this database is not stored by The New York Public Library. Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities. more info
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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language. more info
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Columbia Gazetteer of the World
A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries. more info
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms. more info
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Consulta
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of Spanish-language materials. more info
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Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors. more info
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Credo Reference
This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works covering art, biography, business, geography, history and social science, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy and psychology, religion, science and technology. more info
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Custom Newspapers
Searchable full-text of 300 plus newspapers, both national and international. more info
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. This is available in the Literature Resource Center. more info
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Directories in Print
A guide to more than 10,000 business, professional, industrial, and other directories published in the United States. more info
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Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
A directory of special libraries and information centers, covering all disciplines and specialties. more info
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EBSCO Animals (grades 5-12)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to nature and habitat of familiar animals. more info
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EBSCO Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 magazines and over 100 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. more info
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EBSCOhost
Abstracts and full-text of a wide variety of publications. more info
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Electronic Enlightenment
Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection. more info
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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte. more info
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. more info
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Encyclopedia Americana
The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database. more info
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
An encyclopedia of religions in the United States, including mainstream as well as small marginal groups. more info
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Encyclopedia of Associations
Includes nonprofit voluntary membership organizations, such as professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations. more info
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Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States. more info
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ERIC (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
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Facts On File History Database Center
Comprised of the World History Online, Ancient History & Culture, American Women's History, African-American History & Culture and American Indian History & Culture, this interface allows us to search across all five history databases more info
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Offers detailed descriptions of more than 2,000 popular jobs in 94 industries, as well as over 23,000 resources to help people select, plan, and advance their careers. more info
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Fiction Connection
Use this readers advisory tool to discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. more info
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCOgrades 5-8
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. more info
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Gale Directory of Databases
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf is an online directory of organizations, databases, and publications. more info
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Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Includes television stations, radio stations, and cable television companies in the United States and Canada. more info
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Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
Online directory of organizations, associations, databases, broadcast media, and publications. more info
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Global Reference Center
Britannica's Global Reference Center, the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages. These extensive and thorough databases are intuitive and fast, delivering trustworthy information from around the globe. more info
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of the Academic American Encyclopedia. more info
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Grolier Online
Includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. more info
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Included in the database are full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets from a wide variety of medical sources as well as "Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine". more info
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Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCO
Full text for journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. more info
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

EBSCO
Includes scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. more info
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History Resource Center: US
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. more info
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History Resource Center: World
A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals. more info
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International Research Centers Directory
A directory of research institutes and scientific bureaus throughout the world. more info
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Kids Search
An interface that is designed especially for grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. more info
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Lands & Peoples
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared to student readers. more info
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Latino American Experience
Focused on the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present, this comprehensive database features virtual searchable content from over 150 titles, an image file, timelines, primary and landmark documents, virtual origin maps and links to Spanish language content. Also included are image, title and subject indexes, and classroom resources which provide additional activities, lesson plans, blogs and essays. more info
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LearningExpressLibrary
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. more info
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Library Literature
Indexes periodicals and books, reports, pamphlets, and library school theses on all aspects of library and information science. more info
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Literature Resource Center
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. more info
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Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided. more info
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Middle Search Plus
Provides fulltext access to magazines covering general topics for middle and junior high school students. more info
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Modern World History Online
Covers the important civilizations and cultures of world history from prehistoric times through the modern era. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timelines provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history. more info
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National Newspaper Index (1977-present)
Indexing of America's top newspapers in one search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. more info
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New Book of Knowledge
An online version of the print encyclopedia for children plus NBK News, weekly current events stories plus special features geared especially for young students. more info
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New Book of Popular Science (for students)
A science encyclopedia with over 400 articles geared to student readers. more info
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New York State Newspapers
A collection of major New York State newspapers, available in full-text. more info
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New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present)
Full text of the New York Times (1985-present) and New York Post (2000-present). more info
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Newsletters in Print
A directory of newsletters in the United States, covering many subjects. more info
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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts. more info
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Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos. more info
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia, including its viewpoint articles that present the pros and cons of the issue. This database also includes a language translator which allows documents to be converted into eight different languages. more info
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Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. In addition, the online Dictionary is a dynamic resource for economists which: allows remote access to members of subscribing institutions; offers excellent search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced, which make it; possible to explore the Dictionary with great speed and ease; contains hyperlinked cross-references within articles, making it an indispensable tool for researchers and students; features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further; information and bibliographical citations; incorporates quarterly additions and updates. more info
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Professional Development Collection EBSCO
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full-text journals, designed for professional educators. more info
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ProQuest Platinum
Periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas. more info
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A full-text database of journal articles covering topics such as psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and experimental methods. more info
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Publishers Directory

A directory of United States and Canadian publishers. more info
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Regional Business News (formerly Business News Wire)
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Business News Wire is now called "Regional Business News" more info
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
A full-text database of journal articles in the fields of philosophy and religion. more info
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Research Centers Directory
A directory of reseach centers, covering all subjects and disciplines. more info
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Science Online
This database covers fields of Animal Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, General Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Life Science, Marine Science, Physical Science, Physics, Space & Astronomy, and Weather & Climate. Its six categories, Diagrams, Definitions, Biographies, Essays, Experiments and Timeline are cross-referenced through hyperlinks and are cross-searchable by keyword, topic, and year. more info
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Searchasaurus grades 1-3
Full-text articles from over 80 magazines and pamphlets appropriate for children in grades 1-3. more info
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Small Business Resource Center
Covers major areas of starting and operating a business. Search and browse topics including sample business plans, how-to articles, overviews, and directories, including the Encylopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management, Consultant's and Consulting Organizations directory and more. Includes business books from John Wiley and over 200 business journals, including titles like: Better Asset Management, Black Enterprise, Consumer Comments, Cosmetics International, and more. more info
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Teen Health & Wellness
Provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. more info
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Twayne's Authors Series
Contains the full text of frequently-used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. more info
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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Directory of international magazines, journals, annuals, irregular publications, and newspapers. more info
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What Do I Read Next?
Suggests new fiction and nonfiction titles to read. more info
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World Book Online Reference Center
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more. more info
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WorldCat -- OCLC
Search for materials held in libraries around the world. more info
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Holy giant post!

Of course the last one in the list is:

WorldCat

If the book you want is available by interlibrary loan via your local library,

worldcat.org

will tell your library where they can get it.

So you can really get any book you want.

Also in the list is:

What Do I Read Next?

Which is a helpful reader advisory for you if you have a book you really like and want to move on to the next one similar to it or choose from similar choices.

enjoy,

Ur

Two more tools; this time re American history.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/resources/index.html

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/intro.php

On American Diplomacy:

University of Michigan Document Center, American History from 1945:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forpol.html

The George Washington National Security Achieve:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy Home Page:
http://www.shafr.org/

State Department Achieve of Foreign Relations Documents (Pre-2001):
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html

University of Wisconsin Digital Achieve's "Foreign Relations of the United States" Collection:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Just stumbled on this...
http://americangardenhistory.blogspot.com/

Not sure if it fits the definition of Toolbox, but it looks like fun anyway.

Daniel

Since I am a long time gardner and history buff that site looks great to me!

I love the clock!

Ur.

More tools for the tool box......

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Another Vietnam War source...

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/

Browse a bunch of scholarly History Journals!
http://www.historycooperative.org/

Daniel

More tools ....

American history documents

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/subject-index.html

Wow, I spent most of a day looking through those two sites. Once I found the National Archives Flicker account it was all over.

How about this for a tool.....

http://www.abc-clio.com/huntforhistory/

Thanks to all of the above....I have my first "favorite" thread ;)

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Love the American Memory site. You can page through images of the pages of rare books, or use very reliable text transcriptions.

Speaking of rare books, Google Books http://books.google.com has done a public service together with the academic libraries at Harvard, U. of Mich., U. of Calif., etc., etc. I've been amazed at what's available for free downloads as PDFs or EPUBs (whatever that is). When you use the feedback link to call attention to an illegible or missing page, Google staff has been diligent (from what I've seen) in redoing the scans to get it right. It has allowed me to peruse 18th- and 19th-century journals and magazines as well as half-forgotten traveler's books, geographies, and advice books for emigrants to the United States.

The only downside is that naive users may well hit upon something like Monette's History of the discovery and settlement of the Mississippi Valley and swallow it all, without question, because of its lofty prose and relative antiquity. The Internet is already a haven for the absurd misapplication of random data about the past.

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I agree about the downside. Because of computer systems and applications most of us (in my very unscientific observation of colleagues, coworkers, and students) have conflated knowledge with skill. Plus most non-historians still think of History in a very late nineteenth century "positivist" terms. Thus they think all you need is to find the information and write it up in order to be a Historian.

The skill of interpreting and analyzing information is then ignored. Information that cries out for both interpretation and analysis is absorbed whole rather than evaluated, compared, weighed, and tested.

Daniel