Research Guides: HIST 398: Approaches to Historical Praxis (BMC): Books & Journal Articles

Finding Books in Tripod

Tripod
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Tripod searches for individual journal articles as well as the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more.

TIP: To search for books with Review Essays in Tripod

SUBJECT SEARCH for "HISTORIOGRAPHY"

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SUBJECT OR KEYWORD SEARCH for your topic

Interlibrary Loan
Request books (and more) not available in Tripod or via E-ZBorrow for delivery in 2-14 days. No need to specify a library - the ILL staff will find out who owns an item and is likely to lend. The lending library sets the loan period and makes the decision on renewals.
E-ZBorrow
Directly request books from regional academic libraries for delivery in 2-5 days. Books loaned via EZBorrow may be renewed via your library account. EZborrows can be renewed for 30 days. Each EZBorrow can be renewed twice, so that you can have a book lent via EZBorrow for up to 90 days!

Finding Journal Articles

TIP: To search for journal articles with Review Essays in Historical Abstracts and America, History & Life:

          "REVIEW ESSAY" OR "BOOKS REVIEWS" in All Text Fields
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          SUBJECT, TITLE or KEYWORD SEARCH for your topic

Historical Abstracts
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Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
Swarthmore has access to the full text.
America: History and Life
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Covers North American history from prehistory to the present. Indexes 2000 journals, including all of the state and regional historical journals in the United States.
JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) Index
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Covers journal articles, reports from governments and private social agencies, conference proceedings, etc for a wide range of social issues. Covers 1915-present.
Google Scholar
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Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.

Dissertations

Dissertations & Theses
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is a collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that consists of 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, and 1.2 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Coverage is from 1861 to the present day.