Web Links: Keeping Up with Professional History and Bibliographic Tasks and Topics

Most listed resources are freely available.Compiled by Charles D’Aniello, Lockwood Library, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

This is an eclectic list (hopefully helpful and certainly selective and suggestive). Many of us work as history librarians or archivists and it is intended to capture a broad spectrum of general potential concerns, identifying resources that may be useful to the largest number of us. You may wish to familiarize yourself quickly with its contents and/or use it only as needed. You will see some Web sites below that may surprise you; but, of course, the “bibliography” of history is diverse. Help build a larger list of general resources: send suggestions for additions or new sections to H-HistBibl.

Contents

Core Information Sources

• News and Commentary
• History Departments
• Associations

Book, Journal and Web Site Identification and Information

• Books
• eBooks
• Journals
• Web Sites

Bringing History to the People

• Radio and Television
• Courses and Lectures on the Web

Teaching Resources

• Lessons, Exercises, Resources, Web Sites and More
• Research Guides for Students

Finding Archival and Manuscript Materials, and Other Primary Sources

• Getting Started
• Directories

Authors and Instructors: Scholarly Communication Tools and Issues

• Author’s Rights: Open Access and Copyright Retention
• Open Access Introductions
• Copyright Information

Productivity Tools

• Finding, Citing, and Translating

Core Information Sources  [Back To Contents]

News and Commentary

History News Network (HNN) -- George Mason University
http://hnn.us/

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
http://www.h-net.org/

AHA Today Blog (American Historical Association)
http://blog.historians.org/

The National Coalition for History (NCH)
http://historycoalition.org/

History Departments

History Departments around the World -- Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/history-departments-around-the-world/departments/

Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada -- American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/pubs/directory/index.cfm

Directory of Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada -- American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/projects/cge/PhD/intro.cfm

Associations

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
http://www.acls.org/

Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada -- American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/pubs/directory/index.cfm

American Association or History and Computing (AAHC)
http://theaahc.org/

Association for History and Computing (AHC)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/ahc/intern/index.html

American Historical Association (AHA)
http://www.historians.org/

Organization of American Historians (OAH)
http://www.oah.org/

Society of American Archivists (SAA)
http://www.archivists.org/

American Library Association (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/

American Library Association History Section (ALA, Reference and User Services Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/index.cfm

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/index.cfm?section=acrl=/taggedpage/taggedpagedisplay.cfm=15=7768

The National Coalition for History (NCH)
http://historycoalition.org/

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
http://www.socialstudies.org/

Book, Journal and Web Site Identification and Information  [Back To Contents]

Books

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

BookTV (C-Span) – Top Non-Fiction Authors and Books
http://www.booktv.org/

H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/

Reviews in History -- UK’s Institute of Historical Review
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/

sehepunkte: Rezensions journal für die Geschichtswissenschaften
http://www.sehepunkte.de/

Association of American University Presses
http://www.aaupnet.org/

BookWire -- Bowker
http://www.bookwire.com/

AcqWeb
http://www.acqweb.org/

Library of Congress Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/

WorldCat Public Catalog
http://www.worldcat.org/

eBooks  [Back To Contents]

Finding and Reading eBooks

Adobe Digital Editions
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

Sony eBook Reader, Reader Library Software
http://ebookstore.sony.com/download/

Google Books
http://books.google.com/

Amazon Look Inside the Book
http://www.amazon.com/books

E-Books Multi-Searcher -- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.html

World Digital Library Home
http://www.wdl.org/en/

Journals

Directory of History Journals -- American Historical Association
http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/journals/

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/

Open J-Gate
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

Conference of Historical Journals
http://www.uark.edu/depts/arkhist/CHJ/

Web Sites

WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html

Academic Information: History
http://www.academicinfo.net/hist.html

Guide to History on the Web -- Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/teaching-and-learning/

Best of History Websites –EdTech Teacher.org
http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Digital History – University of Houston
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Scout Report -- University of Wisconsin
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/

Bringing History to the People  [Back To Contents]

Radio and Television

BookTV (C-Span) – Top Non-Fiction Authors and Books
http://www.booktv.org/

C-Span
http://www.c-span.org/

History Channel
http://www.history.com/

History Detectives -- Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/

Talking History--University at Albany, The State University of New York
http://www.talkinghistory.org/

Courses and Lectures on the Web

Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org/

iTunes University
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Teaching American History Grants
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/audio.asp

Google Video
http://video.google.com/

Teaching Resources  [Back To Contents]

Lessons, Exercises, Resources, Web Sites and More

Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Section (ACRL)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/homepage.cfm

Information Literacy in the Disciplines, History (ACRL)
http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/Information_Literacy_in_History

Center for History and New Media -- George Mason University
http://chnm.gmu.edu/category/teaching-and-learning/

EDSITEment -- National Endowment for the Humanities
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Scout Report -- University of Wisconsin
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/

National Council for History Education
http://www.nche.net/

National History Education Clearinghouse
http://teachinghistory.org/

Online Teaching, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/education/

Organization of American Historians History Teacher Resource Center
http://www.oah.org/teaching/index.html

Research Guides for Students

History Writing Resource Center – The College of William & Mary
http://www.wm.edu/as/history/undergraduateprogram/historywritingresourcecenter/?svr=web

Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students (Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/

Finding Archival and Manuscript Materials, and Other Primary Sources  [Back To Contents]

Getting Started

Using Primary Sources on the Web -- American Library Association, History Section, Reference and User Services Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm

Directories

American Library Directory Online
http://www.americanlibrarydirectory.com/

Repositories of Primary Sources – University of Idaho
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

U.S. Newspaper Program -- National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers – Library of Congress
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Some General Primary Source and Document Collections

The Avalon Project – Yale University
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/

Digital Vaults – National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.digitalvaults.org/

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History – Brigham Young University
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Internet History Sourcebook Project – Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

100 Milestone Documents in American History – National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone

Authors and Instructors: Scholarly Communication Tools and Issues  [Back To Contents]

Author Rights: Open Access and Copyright Retention

Scholarly Resources & Academic Publishing Coalition

(SPARC)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/

Scholarly Communication Toolkit – Association of College and Research Libraries
http://acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/node/41

Sherpa/RoMEO Homepage
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Sherpa (by publisher)
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

RoMEO (by journal)
http://romeo.eprints.org/

Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine
http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

Open Access Introductions

Open Access Overview – Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

What is Open Access? – Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/WhatIsOA.htm

The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml

Scholarly Communication Toolkit – Association of College and Research Libraries
http://acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/node/41

Copyright Information

Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

Copyright and Fair Use – Stanford University
http://fairuse.stanford.edu

Copyright Advisory Office – Columbia University
http://copyright.columbia.edu/permissions

Copyright Information Center – Cornell University
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/resources

Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States – Peter Hirtle
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

WATCH Copyright File – Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu

Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices – Society of American Archivists
http://www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project: Copyright and Fair Use – American Council of Learned Socieities
http://www.humanitiesebook.org/copyrts.html#anchor-google

Productivity Tools  [Back To Contents]

Finding, Citing, and Translating

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/

Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/

Publish or Perish Citation Productivity Software
http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

Zotero (citation management and more)
http://www.zotero.org/

Research+Tools– Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/research-and-tools/