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History Guide


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This guide is a select listing of information resources in History, including both Australian history and world history. For a more comprehensive view of the Library's collection please consult our online catalogue, Tropicat. A more complete, general guide to finding information is also available from InfoHelp.

Check out the Social Sciences and Humanities blog regularly to keep up with usefull tips on finding information for your assignments, time saving tips for using MS Word and up coming workshops and other happenings in the Libraries.

The location prefix R used in the guide designates the Reference Collection. Items are held in both Townsville (TSV) and Cairns (CNS) unless otherwise indicated.

Dictionaries and Other Reference Items

Davison, G. et al. (1998). The Oxford companion to Australian history. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

R 994.003 OXF

Horton, David. (Ed.). (1994). (2 volumes). The encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

R 994.0049915 ENC

Derbyshire, Ian. (1993). The Hutchinson dictionary of world history. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio.

R 903 HUT

Townley, Edward. (1997). Dictionary of 20th century European history. London: Fitzroy Dearbon.

R 940.503 TOW (TSV)

Hallam, Elizabeth M. (1990). The Plantagenet encyclopedia: an alphabetical guide to 400 years of English history. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

 R 942.0303 PLA (TSV)

Wieczynski, J. L. (1976-2000). (60 volumes). The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International.

 R 947.003 MOD (TSV)

Williams, Peter W. (2000). (3 volumes). Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history. New York: London: Scribner; Simon & Schuster.

R 973.03 ENC (TSV)
Embree, Ainslee T. (1988). (4 volumes). Encyclopedia of Asian history. New York: London: Scribner; Collier Macmillan. R 950 ENC (TSV)

Journal Indexes in Print

Indexes in print are no longer produced and current holdings are dated. Indexes marked * are available online from the databases page (see below) and are regularly updated. Many of these indexes have not been updated since 2000 or earlier. For current information, please use the electronic databases listed below and available from the Databases page..

*APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service, 1950+

 R 919.40016 P2

Index to Journal Articles on Australian History, 1973-1988

R 994.0016 IND

Historical Abstracts

 R 901.6 P3 (TSV)

*Social Sciences Citation Index, 1977-1996

 R 300.16 P2 (TSV)

Social Sciences Index, 1974-1996

R 050.16 P5
*Sociological Abstracts, 1976-1992 R 301.016 P3 (TSV)

CD-ROM Databases

Some journal indexing and abstracting publications can be searched using CD-ROM. The CD-ROM service is free and operates on a self-service basis. Please ask at InfoHelp for details. NOTE: These discs are no longer current, but may be used, for example, if the Internet is not available.

Internet Database Services

Many journal indexing and abstracting services are available via the Internet. Some services also provide the full text of journal articles. Certain databases may require passwords, which can be obtained from InfoHelp on presentation of your student card, or can be sent to your JCU email address.

Direct links to the following electronic database services as well as a number of other services are listed on the Electronic Databases page.

Some databases that you may find particularly useful for History are:

  • Current Contents Connect - Covers most disciplines and provides access to tables of contents and bibliographic data from issues of more than 7,500 international journals.
  • FirstSearch - Provides access to more than 40 different database services, including Social Sciences Abstracts.
  • Informit Online - Indexes Australian databases, most relevant are: APAIS, AIATSIS databases, AHB, AHRR, AUSTGUIDE, AUSCHRON, FNQ, and MHLIST.
  • InfoTrac - Search and retrieve index citations, abstracts, and selected full text articles via Expanded Academic ASAP International.
  • JSTOR - A comprehensive archive of important scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences including history.
  • Project Muse - Access 40+ full text scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & mathematics, published by John Hopkins University Press.
  • Web of Knowledge - Covers a broad range of relevant subject areas. Databases include Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Electronic Journals

Most full text electronic journals subscribed to by the library are listed in Tropicat. An alphabetical list of ejournals is also available. Access may be by individual title, or by service provider, e.g. Infotrac. If an appropriate journal title is unknown, it is recommended that some of the listed databases be searched for appropriate journal articles. Please contact InfoHelp for assistance.
Note that the library holds many titles in print; some are available in both print and electronic versions.

The School Librarian also maintains links to Internet Resources for History

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