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Here are the “old” History News entries, originally posted to the\u00a0Subject Guide<\/a>. I wanted to remove them from the subject guide while retaining the ability to track history-related library news over the past two years.<\/p>\n

New History Blog Category<\/strong>:\u00a0History News<\/a>, a new\u00a0Library Blog category<\/a>, will serve as a forum for news, events, and discussion of interest to Temple’s History Department. Find announcements about new library databases, trials, search tips, etc. An\u00a0RSS feed<\/a>\u00a0is available. History News replaces this section of the subject guide.
\nPosted 11\/16\/05
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\nTrial Databases Page<\/strong>: The Libraries recently created a trial page for electronic databases. Please see the\u00a0Library Blog entry<\/a>\u00a0on this topic for more information.
\nPosted 11\/4\/2005<\/p>\n

Find Temple History Theses<\/strong>: Use\u00a0Diamond\u00a0<\/a>to find dissertations and theses written by Temple’s history graduate students. For a complete, chronological list of the nearly 300 titles indexed since 1973 (newest to oldest), click\u00a0here<\/a>. To search within this list, perform a\u00a0keyword\u00a0<\/a>search in Diamond as follows:<\/p>\n

s:History — Temple University Theses. AND [keyword of choice]<\/p>\n

Sample searches:<\/p>\n

s:History — Temple University Theses. AND military<\/a><\/p>\n

s:History — Temple University Theses. AND war<\/a><\/p>\n

s:History — Temple University Theses. AND women<\/a><\/p>\n

s:History — Temple University Theses. AND mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that in a Diamond keyword search, “s:” tells the computer to return only those records that match a specific subject heading, in this case “History — Temple University Theses”. See also\u00a0Digital Dissertations<\/a>, below.
\nPosted 9\/1\/2005<\/p>\n

New Database: History Reference Center<\/strong>: Ebsco’s\u00a0History Reference Center<\/a>“features cover-to-cover full-text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and non-fiction books. . . . nearly 60 leading history periodicals. . . . 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video”.
\nPosted 8\/18\/2005
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\nNew History Databases: PA Gazette & African-American Newspapers<\/strong>: Published in Philadelphia, the\u00a0Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800<\/a>\u00a0is often called the New York Times of the 19th Century.\u00a0African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century<\/a>\u00a0includes full-text access to publications such as Freedom’s Journal, the North Star, Provincial Freeman and the Frederick Douglass Papers.
\nPosted 6\/20\/2005<\/p>\n

New History Database: Early American Imprints<\/strong>:\u00a0Series I: Evans (1639-1800)<\/a>and\u00a0Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)<\/a>. Based upon the pioneering work of Evans, Shaw, and Shoemaker, Early American Imprints online is the most comprehensive collection of full-text books and broadsides published in the colonies and early United States between 1639 and 1819.
\nPosted 6\/16\/2005<\/p>\n

Librarian Office Hours in History Department<\/strong>: Catch the history librarian every Monday and Thursday between 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. in Room 937, Gladfelter Hall. Students and faculty can take this opportunity to ask questions about history research, collection development, or any other library-related topic. If for no other reason, please drop by to say hello to your history librarian!
\nPosted 6\/7\/2005<\/p>\n

Research Guides<\/strong>: Over the course of the next several months look for a number of new history research guides on this site. The first will be guides to Force & Diplomacy and Modern Europe. For those interested in researching the pre-Columbian Americas, please consult\u00a0Ancient Mesoamerica: A Librarian’s Research Guide<\/a>.
\nPosted 1\/17\/2005<\/p>\n

The Encyclopedia of World War II<\/strong>\u00a0(2004, online version)
\nAn exciting new\u00a0reference work<\/a>\u00a0from ABC-CLIO. Also available in print at Paley Library.
\nPosted 1\/12\/2005<\/p>\n

New Database Trial: Oxford Scholarship Online<\/strong>
\n“Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP’s core scholarly books in four disciplines and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. With over 700 classic and newly published titles now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200 titles added each year.” Researchers can access\u00a0Bible-Carrying Christians<\/span>\u00a0(2002), the latest book published by the History Department’s own David Harrington Watt.<\/p>\n

Trial scheduled to end on 11\/13\/2004.
\nPosted 11\/15\/2004<\/p>\n

New Database Trial: History Compass<\/strong>
\nOffers full-text access to original survey articles published within nine online journals. History Compass also allows the history researcher to access a range of useful reference resources. It allows those involved in the “teaching and research of History to do the following: 1) Teach in a new or unfamiliar area; 2) Keep up with developments in a field and areas related to it; and 3) Ensure that students are exposed only to quality-controlled online content”.<\/p>\n

Trial ends on 7\/15\/2004. Please provide feedback.
\nPosted 6\/21\/2004<\/p>\n

Evaluating Scholarly Credentials in History<\/strong>
\nA resource for historians at Temple, this\u00a0guide<\/a>\u00a0details specific tools for determining the quality of a scholar’s academic output. Learn the impact of a journal article or book, or perform a citation analysis on the work of a particular author (who is citing whom, when, and where). Designed primarily for those seeking tenure.
\nPosted 6\/7\/2004<\/p>\n

Looking for convenient access to history reference material?<\/strong>\u00a0netLibrary’sReference Center<\/a>\u00a0offers full-text access to over 40 reference books in American and world history. Representative titles include A Dictionary of American History, Facts About the Presidents, Encyclopedia of North American Indians, A Concise History of the Middle East, Events That Changed Great Britain Since 1689, The History of India, World Leaders of the 20th Century, and Who’s Who In Ancient Egypt.
\nPosted 5\/12\/2004<\/p>\n

The War on the Walls<\/strong>\u00a0is a new\u00a0online exhibition<\/a>\u00a0of historic images taken from the George F. Tyler WWI Poster Collection. Developed by Temple University Libraries, this worthy exhibition features accompanying descriptions and quotations from primary source material, related links to photograph and document images, and powerful zooming capabilities not usually seen in other online exhibits. Jay Lockenour, Associate Professor of History at Temple, wrote one of the essays featured in The War on the Walls. Please remember to sign the guest book.
\nPosted 5\/7\/2004<\/p>\n

New History Database Trial: Oral History Online<\/strong>
\nBring oral history into your classroom! Alexander Street Press’s Oral History Online is the only commercial database of its kind. If you are a member of the history faculty or a history student please provide me with feedback.<\/p>\n

Trial ends in May.
\nPosted 4\/30\/04<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already, take a look at the recently licensed ACLS History E-Book Project<\/strong>.\u00a0This database<\/a>\u00a0contains 1,000 important history books. It will grow in size and become more valuable over time. If appropriate, consider assigning your students readings from this outstanding resource.
\nPosted 4\/30\/04<\/p>\n

–David C. Murray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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