Getting Started in the LibraryThis library guide points you in the direction of some basic library resources for completing library assignments and writing research papers in this course. Many of these resources are available from the library's homepage at http://www.lib.ipfw.edu/, so you may want to bookmark both the homepage and this guide.
Here are some resources to get you started:
Gaining an OverviewTo develop and refine your search, it often helps to consult a specialized dictionary, encyclopedia, handbook, textbook, guide, or bibliography. These tools are designed to offer an overview of your topic or research problem written by an expert. They may provide an historical perspective, a chronology of events, definitions of terms or concepts, or bibliographic references leading to the literature in a particular field of study. Many useful reference works are now available online. These handy e-reference collections are accessible via Find Resources By... Subject, Title, or Type on the library's homepage.
Historical Research ProcessWhen conducting historical research: FIRST. Use specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and textbooks to identify who, what, when, where, how and why.
SECOND. Use the references cited at the end of chapters or articles in textbooks, specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, and guides, and specialized bibliographies to identify the core scholarly research on your topic or research problem.
THIRD. Use databases and indexes to update core scholarly research with current scholarly material.
FOURTH. Identify and obtain as much primary source material as possible. A primary source documents first-hand accounts or first recordings of events. The historian using a number of such primary sources produces a secondary source. Examples of primary source materials include letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, government documents, statistics, photographs, etc. Consult the History librarian for help in locating primary source materials.
Selected Reference Works for this CourseEuropean History - General
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Thomson-Gale)
Content: | This online reference collection provides full-text access in PDF format to more than 200 major reference books and encyclopedia sets published from 2000 on by publishers such as Berkshire, Cambridge, Macmillan, Sage, Scribner, Sharpe, St. James, Thomson Gale, Wiley, and others. All of the resources included in Gale Virtual Reference Library are also accessible via IUCAT, Indiana University's Online Library Catalog. A complete list of titles covered is available. |
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Encyclopedia of British History, 1500-1980 Entries are arranged both chronologically and by category in this Internet encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism (Reference DJK6 .E53 2000) This encyclopedia includes scholarly articles on the major political and cultural figures, organizations and movements, and lists of further reading.
Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture This encyclopedia spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts and other fields.
Encyclopedia of Russian History, 4 vols. (Reference DK14 .E53 2004) Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres.
Specific SubjectsHolocaustEncyclopedia of the Holocaust, 4 vols. (Reference D804.3 .E53 1990) provides extensive scholarly articles with references to further reading.
Nazism Resistance & Holocaust in World War II: A Bibliography (Reference D810.J4 L37 1985) This bibliography includes references to books and articles on women's role in the resistance and the holocaust.
Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature Provides biographical and critical essays on 223 writers connected to or concerned with the Holocaust, as well as separate essays on 307 of their works.
Women and the Arts (Art, Literature, Music)Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (Reference PN471 .B57 1992) This guides includes brief biographical entries arranged by country or region.
Contemporary Women Artists (Reference N8354 .C66 1999) This volume provides brief biographical information, discussion of the artist's work, and list of works by and about the artist.
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers (Reference PR111 .S34 1988) This encyclopedia includes brief biographical information and lists of works by and about the authors.
Feminism in Literature This work explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the "Lost Generation," lesbian literature, modern feminist theory, criticism and scholarship and much more. Also included are detailed studies of prominent women writers, including Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich and many others.
Feminist Companion to Literature in English (Reference PR113 .F45 1990) This volume includes brief biographical sketches of women writers from the middle ages to the present.
Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Reference PQ149 .F47 1999) This encyclopedia covers concepts and writers of French literature and includes suggestions for further reading.
Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature (Reference PT41 .F46 1997) This encyclopedia covers concepts and writers of German literature and includes suggestions for further reading.
Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, 2 vols. (Reference PQ6055 .F46 2002) This encyclopedia covers concepts and writers of Spanish literature and includes suggestions for further reading.
Feminist Writers (Reference Z5304.A8 F46 1996) This volume includes brief biographical information and lists of writings by and about the author. It provides indexes by nationality, subject and genre, and title.
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, 2 vols. (Reference ML105 .C7 1987) This encyclopedia provides brief biographical information and a list of the composer's works.
Spanish Women Writers (Reference PQ6055 .S63 1993) This volume provides extensive biographical information, a study of themes in the author's writing and lists of works by and about the author.
Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography (Reference Z7963.A75 B32 1994) Arranged by century, this bibliography provides a brief biography and list of articles about the artist and her work.
Women's Diaries, Journals and Letters: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z7963.B6 C55 1989) This bibliography includes annotated listings by profession or significant characteristics, by subject, and by location.
Labor St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide Provides in-depth analysis of more than 300 key events in labor history over the last 200 years, focusing on the relevance of these events to both the labor movement as a whole and to societal changes around the world. Each entry, written and signed by an expert in the field, is three to five pages in length and includes a description of the event, information about the key players involved and discusses the event in historical context.
Women's Work in Britain and America from the Nineties to World War I: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z7963.E7 M43 1982) This bibliography covers books, pamphlets and periodical articles published 1890-1980. It includes a subject index.
ScienceHistorical Encyclopedia of Nursing (Science Reference Collection RT31 .S66 1999) This encyclopedia provides articles on subjects and people and includes sources for further reading, and a detailed bibliography and index.
Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (Science Reference Collection Q141 .N734 1997) This volume provides a biographical sketch with photo, list of scientists by profession and a detailed index.
Nursing: A Historical Bibliography (Science Reference Collection RT31.N7 B84 1981) This bibliography includes books and articles arranged by broad subjects such as biography, government, military, and wartime, education and nursing in individual countries.
Women and Science: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z7963.S3 O35 1996) This bibliography provides an annotated listing of books and periodical articles with indexes by field of science, nationality, time periods, persons and institutions, and themes.
Women - GeneralEncyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements (Reference HQ1665.15 .E5 2001) This encyclopedia provides brief descriptions with list of suggested readings and a detailed index.
Chronology of Women Worldwide (Reference HQ1121 .C617 1996) This chronology provides a brief summary of events and includes a detailed index.
Chronology of Women's History (Reference HQ1121 .O47 1994) This chronology is arranged by time period and is then further subdivided by daily life, government and military, education, athletics, business and industry, literature, arts, science and medicine and religion.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide. Europe, vol. 3 (Reference HQ1467 .G74 2003) This encyclopedia is arranged by country and then provides an overview of women's issues in the areas of education, employment, family and sexuality, health, politics and law, religion and spirituality, violence. It also includes lists of suggested reading and Web sites.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, 4 vols. (Reference HQ1115 .R69 2000) Provides extensive articles written by scholars with a list of references and suggested titles for further reading.
Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers (Reference Z6011 .R65 1990) This volume provides descriptions of diaries and travel accounts written mostly by British women traveling beyond the frontiers of their native land.
Women and the British Empire: An Annotated Guide to Sources (Reference Z7964.B7 B34 1983) This bibliography provides an overview of women who served as "wives," "settlers," and "missionaries", a list of books and articles about them and a detailed index.
Women in Ireland: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z7964.I73 B7 1988) This annotated bibliography includes books and periodical articles arranged by broad subjects such as education, religion and witchcraft, and marriage and family.
Women in Western European History. 19th and 20th Century, vol. 2 (Reference Z7961 .F74 1982) and Supplement. This is a select bibliography of books and articles arranged chronologically, geographically and topically.
Searching IUCAT for Books and PeriodicalsSearch IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog), to find books and periodicals (scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and other serials), or library materials such as music CDs, electronic resources, and videos. Materials at the Fort Wayne Helmke Library are designated by the library location FORTWAYNE.
IUCAT searches from on-campus computers will show only materials held by the IPFW Fort Wayne Helmke Library. To search all IU libraries, choose ALL from the Select Library pull-down menu on the search screen.
Sometimes IUCAT will lead you to articles in periodicals, but the most efficient way to locate articles is to use a periodical database or index to search many periodicals simultaneously.
Learning about IUCATSave time in the long run by investing a half-hour with our interactive Searching IUCAT Tutorial. It is an easy way to grasp fundamental search techniques and try your hand at practice searches designed to reinforce your knowledge. Also check our other IUCAT Guides for help in using IUCAT to your best advantage.
Choosing the Type of SearchUse the default Basic Search search option to find important keywords or phrases in an IUCAT record, in any order. Choose this search when you are unsure of the exact author or title of works on your topic.
Choose the Begins With (Browse) option from the box labeled More IUCAT Searches to find words or phrases exactly as typed, letter-for-letter, searching from left to right. Choose this search to find known authors or titles. Step 1. Enter term(s) in Title, Author, or Keywords Anywhere search boxes.
Step 2. Under Library, leave Fort Wayne Helmke Library as default, or change to ALL.
Step 3. Click the Search button.
Keyword Search ExamplesKeywords Anywhere will search for words anywhere in a record. This search is the default when the Enter key is used instead of clicking the button.
Example: women and holocaust not (united adj states) [phrase not (united adj states) searches for women and holocaust and eliminates any records that include United States as a phrase]
Author will search for first or last names in any order in the author fields of a record. Included are personal names, organizations, agencies, corporations, conferences, etc.
Example: nightingale florence [finds books by Florence Nightingale]
Title will search for important words in the title. Do not use initial articles: a, the, la, das, etc.
Example: subjection women [finds The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill]
Subject will search for important words in the official Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
Example: women and world war not (united adj states) [searches only the subject field for items on women, in either World War I or World War II and excludes records that include United States as a subject]
Finding Periodicals in IUCATStep 1. Choose Periodical Title Search from the box labeled More IUCAT Searches.
Step 2. Enter the periodical title. Choose Keyword or Exact depending on the search you need.
Step 3. Select the correct record from the Search Results screen.
Step 4. In the IUCAT record look for the URL (for Electronic Resources available Online) or Holdings (for printed periodicals) to find what specific years and volumes are available at IUCAT's FORTWAYNE location.
Step 5. When the library owns the printed volumes you need, write down the call number and location. The call number and IUCAT Shelving Locations will help you determine where an item will be shelved in the library. Or if the resource is available online, follow the URL link to the full-text content.
Locating Books and Periodicals in the LibraryBooks, printed periodicals, and other library materials are shelved in Library of Congress Classification (LC) call number order. The call number and IUCAT Shelving Locations will help you determine on which floor of the library an item will be shelved.
Searching for Periodical ArticlesThe most efficient way of finding a high-quality periodical article , is to search a periodical database or index that provides descriptive abstracts, subject indexing, and often, the full-text content of articles. Check out the interactive Finding Articles Tutorial to learn the basics of choosing and searching the Academic Search Premier database. Below is a selection of databases useful for your course. For a complete list, see the library's Find Resources By... page. Select a resource by Subject, Title, or Type (choose Abstracts & Indexes).
Databases for this Course
Women's Studies International (EBSCOhost)
Content: | Produced by NISC, WSI covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 548,220 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus).Other Indiana residents are authorized to use the State of Indiana's Inspire Project link to access this database. Users with an Internet service provider not based in Indiana (AOL, MSN, EarthLink, etc.) must first register for an INSPIRE password account. IPFW owns the printed Women's Studies Abstracts 1972-1999 (Reference Z7962.W65). |
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Content: | Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in nearly 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers, updated daily, in a wide range of fields including business, education, science and technology, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text. Limit to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles or full-text articles only, if desired. Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s. A complete list of titles covered is available. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). Other Indiana residents with an Internet service provider not based in Indiana (AOL, MSN, EarthLink, etc.) must first register for an INSPIRE password account. |
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Content: | Contains more than 80,000 pages of diaries and letters detailing the experiences of more than 400 women, from 1500 to 1900. The collection includes more than 500 biographies, a table of contents of historical events, and an extensive annotated bibliography. Useful to historians, sociologists, and genealogical researchers, the letters and diaries represent all age groups, all ethnic groups, and many geographic locations. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). |
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
Content: | Produced by the Modern Language Association, this international resource contains bibliographic references (without abstracts) to articles in more than 4,000 journals as well as books, book chapters, proceedings, and dissertations in the fields of literature, modern languages, folklore, and linguistics. Covers 1926 to the present; updated 10 times a year. Journals indexed are listed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns the printed index 1921-1993 (Reference Z7006 .M64). IPFW's license allows an unlimited number of simultaneous users. |
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Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)
Content: | PCI Web covers many scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (The earliest is 1780) through 1995. It includes an entry for each article or book review appearing on the table of contents page of each issue. The scope is international, with journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. In early 1998 PCI included over eight million articles in 2,006 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million more articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). |
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Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
Content: | Contains over 400 journals, providing access to over 1.2 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online covers the humanities and social sciences in 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 60 foreign-language titles, of value to both customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Periodicals Archive Online now hosts content from the new collection British Periodicals. When complete, British Periodicals Collection I will contain more than 160 periodicals from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). |
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Web of Science
Content: | The Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index published by the Institute for Scientific Information. These unique citation indexes scan the content (including cited references) of nearly 9,000 major journals published worldwide. Updated weekly. Each record offers access to the author's abstract (when available), words in article titles (thus, limited subject analysis), and most importantly, the author's full bibliography (list of cited references or bibliographic footnotes). Use Cited Reference Search to find articles that cite an author or a work anywhere in the indexed source journals from 1955 to present. Use General Search to find articles by topic, author, journal, or address; IPFW's license provides access to articles published in the 9,000 source journals only from 1995 to present. Use the Help feature or Information for New Users to learn more about citation searching, including techniques for eliminating self-citations, finding articles that make reference to or include illustrations of works of art and music scores (implicit citations), or how to use the Times Cited feature to trace citation networks. Searches can be saved and run as search alerts. Results can be marked to print, save, e-mail, or export directly into bibliographic management software such as EndNote. A Master Journal List is available after authentication. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). |
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WorldCat (OCLC)
Content: | Provides access to the OCLC database with more than 50 million bibliographic records for materials in all formats. Search by author, title, keyword, publisher and more. An online guide is available after IPFW authentication. Tutorials and other training materials are also available. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IU Libraries' license allows 12 simultaneous users. |
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA)
Content: | CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts includes the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of books, dissertations, films, software and international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, labor relations, and public administration/policy. The database indexes approximately 1,304 titles and contains over 400,000 records. Many records from key journals in political science, published since 2000, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference. All records added since 2000 are indexed using a thesaurus of over 3,000 terms. |
Access: | Database available to authorized IPFW users (on or off campus). IPFW library owns ABC Pol Sci, 1969-1991 (Reference Z7161.A214). |
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NOTE: Access to Historical Abstracts is available by appointment with History librarian, Cheryl Truesdell (truesdel@ipfw.edu or 260-481-6506)
Is Your Article Scholarly or Popular?University instructors often ask students to use articles from scholarly journals rather than from popular magazines for their research assignments. The following Is Your Journal Scholarly? (PDF) summarizes major differences between scholarly journals and popular magazines. Which type of source have you located?
What about Full Text?Full text means that the text of the article is available in PDF or HTML digital format. Graphics and tables are not automatically included unless the database producer has rights to publish them. Many of the library's licensed databases offer the full-text content of periodical articles. IPFW students, faculty, and staff now have access to more than 20,000 full-text journals. Find them in E-Journal Finder.
When an article you need is not available full text in the database you are using, choose  to see all of your delivery options. You may be able to access the full-text content in another database, request the article from another library through Document Delivery Services, or make a photocopy of the article if the printed periodical is owned by Helmke Library.
When a Resource is Not Available in the LibraryRequest Delivery is an IUCAT feature that allows IPFW faculty, students, and staff to request materials held by other Indiana University Libraries and to have them delivered to Helmke Library (see the IUCAT Request Delivery Fact Sheet).
You may also request any item that is not available at Helmke Library through Document Delivery Services (DDS). DDS borrows books and provides photocopies of periodical articles from other library collections. The service is free for IPFW faculty, staff, and students.
Using Government InformationThe U.S. government is an excellent source for primary research materials. Helmke Library has been a selective federal depository for U.S. government publications since 1965, receiving items in the categories of business, the census, commerce, defense history, education, health, justice, foreign affairs, presidential and congressional materials. Many federal government publications are freely available in digital format, and these resources can be accessed using IUCAT Catalog. The library's Public Information Reference Service (PIRS) provides research assistance as well as access to the wealth of local, state, federal, and international government information on the Web. The Allen County Public Library is also a federal depository library.
Searching the InternetFor some information needs, the Internet may supplement library resources. To begin an Internet search, try one of the many search engines on our Internet Search site. One that works well is Google, which ranks results by number of links leading to a site. The section on Subject-Oriented Tools includes directories that have evaluated and selected sites for specific subject areas, such as the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Because the World Wide Web is a massive, tangled directory of knowledge producers, research, facts, and entertaining tidbits of information, you must be critical about the material you find there. Quality and validity are not assured when anyone can publish anything, anytime, without the benefit of scholarly peer review. There are many useful guides and tutorials to help you understand how to navigate and evaluate Web sites, including Is Your Web Site Credible?
Style Guides and Useful Tools for WritingA variety of style guides are on reserve at the Service Desk on the first floor. These tools help you organize and write your paper, and format in-text references and bibliography lists. For more information, also see our Style Guides and Writing Guides subject pathfinders.
And Finally, Ask a LibrarianLibrarians and skilled information assistants are always available to assist you. Visit the Service Desk to meet an information assistant who will help you get started. You are welcome to make an appointment with Your Subject Librarian if you need more in-depth assistance.
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truesdel@ipfw.edu
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
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