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HIST 400: Senior Thesis Seminar (HC) 2023-24

History 400: Senior Thesis Seminar (Duan, Graham and Saler) Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

Indexes for History

Indexes for Related Subject Areas

Journal Indexes for World Regions and Cultural Groups

Tracking Citations Forward in Time

Usually researchers find more sources by looking at the footnotes in an article or book, but these will always be older than the publication you have in hand.  Citation indexes like the Web of Science (which includes sections for the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Science) are set up to search for sources cited in the footnotes of journal articles as soon as they become available. 

This allows you to find newer articles which cite the books and articles you already know are key for your topic.  By relying on connections between authors rather than subject words and by moving forward in time, citation searching can open up new avenues of research.

See this tutorial for more information on cited reference searching.