Environmental Studies 227/History 227
City and Landscape in Modern Europe: London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin: Selected Sources
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Introduction
The purpose of this guide is to help you locate and use the library information resources most useful for research in this class. The library's reference librarians will be glad to assist with specific questions. You may also consult Ginny Hopcroft by phone x3298 or via email at ghopcrof@bowdoin.edu.
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Consult the Overview of Basic Library Research for a helpful summary/refresher about the research process. Below you will find some additional tips for research in economics:
1. Use both subject and keyword searching in any electronic database
or index, including the library catalog.
2. When you find a relevant record for a book or article, always check
the descriptors or subject headings for additional search terms.
3. Check bibliographies and footnotes for additional books and articles.
4. For information on primary sources, please read the CBB
Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources.
5. Evaluate websites carefully for accuracy, timeliness and authority.
See the CBB Guidelines
for Evaluating WWW Sources.
6. Begin research EARLY. Interlibrary loans always take at least a few
days; for obtaining specialized items, such as microfilm of old newspapers,
several weeks may be necessary.
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Library Catalog
The electronic library catalog is the primary access point for the collections of the Bowdoin College Libraries in all formats.
You can begin your research in the Bowdoin Library Catalog with either a subject search or a keyword search (under heading "word"). In subject searching the best search results are obtained by use of the standardized controlled vocabulary found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. In doing either kind of search, take advantage of any additional subject headings you see listed in the bibliographic record.
Examples of useful subject headings for this class:
Paris--Urban
Renewal--France
Berlin--Housing--Germany--History
Thames
River--England
London
International Exhibition
Keyword searching (under the heading "Word") can also yield substantial research material. Some possible examples include:
Berlin
History
London
Public Health
Paris
Seine
Vienna Building
Vienna
Architecture
Reference Sources
The Annual register of world events; a review of the year, 1758-
Main
Ref D2 .A7
Britain in the Hanoverian age, 1714-1837 : an encyclopedia /
Main Ref DA480 .B75
1997
British Diaries: an annotated bibliography of British diaries written
between 1442 and 1942
Main Libr Z2014.D5
M3
Cumulative bibliography of Victorian studies: 1970-1984
Main Ref Z2019
.A639
Annual bibliography of Victorian studies
Main Ref Z2019 .A64
Bibliography of British history, 1789-1851
Main Ref Z2019
.B76
Bibliography of British history, 1851 1914
Main Ref Z2019
.H35
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Main Ref DS102.8 .E496
Europa World Yearbook
Main Ref JN1 .E852
France
Main Ref Z2161
.C52
Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia
Main Ref DA550 .V53
Indexes and Databases
- Academic Universe
Library Gateway - Academic Universe is a full-text database of news and legal information. Under the "General News Topics" section, you can search for news originating in Europe by selecting World News and then European News from the pull down menu. Time coverage for the various newspapers, journals, and newswire services varies from publication to publication, generally no earlier than 1980.
Art Abstracts
Library Gateway- This index cites articles from more than 290 key international periodicals; coverage includes English-language arts publications, periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Covers periodicals published in several European languages, September 1984 to the present.
Arts and Humanities Search
Library Gateway- Arts and Humanities indexes the contents of scholarly periodicals and books in the arts and humanities, published from 1980 to the present. The scope is international.
Avery Index
Main Ref CD-ROM- This CD-ROM index provides access to the contents of architecture
periodicals. Most periodicals indexed in Avery Index are not indexed
elsewhere. It is international in scope and includes articles published
from 1978 to the present.
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Essay and General Literature Index
Main Periodical. Index - This excellent, long-running index is unusual because it emphasizes the contents of books (i.e. chapters or sections). Access points are author, title, and subject. Subject matter covered includes literature, social sciences and history.
Expanded Academic Index
Library Gateway- EAI indexes over 1800 English language journals in social sciences, humanities, and science, as well as general interest magazines and several important American newspapers. It covers articles published back to 1980. About 40% of the articles in EAI are available in fulltext. When doing research in EAI (or other indexes), exercise some critical judgement in choosing sources. Some of the periodicals in EAI are of a very general nature and are valuable for newsworthiness or basic background, but are not appropriate for scholarly research. Look carefully at the source before selecting articles to pursue.
Historical Abstracts
Library Gateway
Main Periodical Index- This comprehensive set of history bibliographies indexes articles, books and reviews from 2200 scholarly international periodicals. It covers the history of all countries of the world except the United States and Canada. Both on-line and print versions begin with publications issued in 1955; the on-line version continues to the present, while the paper edition ceases in 1994. The format of the print version features author and subject indexes whose entries refer to a separate volume listing full bibliographic citations with abstracts.
MLA International Bibliography
Library Gateway- The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics and folklore and includes access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals, relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats in a variety of languages.
Periodical Contents Index
Library Gateway- This source provides online indexing to nearly 2400 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, published from 1770 to 1990. The index presently has 9 million entries and continues to add more. It provides bibliographic access to many of the Library's 19th and early 20th century journals.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Main Per Index- Poole's Index is a print subject index to British and American periodicals
of the
nineteenth century.. This index provides excellent subject access to periodical articles of the nineteenth century, significant primary source material for this course. Bowdoin Library
owns many of these nineteenth century periodicals in its collections.
Reader's Guide
Main Per Index- The Reader's Guide is an easy-to-use author/subject index to a broad range of U.S. general interest magazines and journals. A special value of the Reader's Guide for this class is its historical coverage. It goes back to 1895, and indexes many journals held in the Library's collections.
Social Sciences Index
Main Per Index- Social Sciences Index is an easy-to-use author/subject index to the scholarly literature of the social sciences. Social Sciences Index began in 1907, so it is another source providing access to period early twentieth century scholarship.
Sociofile
Library Gateway- Sociofile is a scholarly index for books and journal articles in the
field of sociology. Sociofile is international in scope, providing
access to 1800 journals published worldwide, dating from 1974 to the present.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
Main Ref Z2005 .W4- This is a multi-volume work which provides an author index, a book review index, and detailed table of contents listings for periodicals of the Victorian era. In each volume, part A contains the tables of contents of the magazines, while part B offers an author index with a listing of the individual author's articles and a reference to the full citation in part A.
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Primary Source Collections
- Parliamentary
debates (Hansard). House of Commons official report. House of Lords
official report.
- Main Libr J301 .K22 v.1_211
Main Micro Fiche 1179 6th ser. v.198 - Bowdoin has 1806 to present. 1806 to 1990 are print volumes; from 1991 on the series is in microfiche. This series, generally cited as Hansard, reports debates in the houses of Parliament. The first four series, covering debate up to 1908, although authorized, are neither complete nor necessarily verbatim. The fifth and sixth series, starting with 1909, are complete and verbatim. Each session (generally two years) also has its own index.
The Times (London) [microform]- Main Micro (in alphabetic order with other newspaper microfilm.)
The library holds a collection of the Times from 1906 to the present on microfilm. There is an index to the Times, located in the microform room, and it is partly in paper and partly on separate microfilm.
The Nineteenth century [microform]. General collection.- Main Micro Fiche 1151
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This microfiche contains an extensive collection of primary resource materials from the nineteenth century, most from the British Library. This set describes itself as "a microfiche library of historical sources in English for the study of the period 1801 1900.. Fiction is excluded from the collection; otherwise, a wide range of subject matter politics, economics, education, social history, religion is represented. Materials may take the form of books, letters, pamphlets, tracts, etc. There are two indexes for this microfiche collection: a detailed CD-ROM index in the reference area and a paper index.
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Websites
- The
Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybiboutline.html - The author of this site has compiled extensive bibliographies of urban history, organized geographically and by historical time period.
- Urban History Website
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~urban/ - This website offers both links and information for a range of urban history subjects.
- Urban
Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference
Papers and Reports
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm
- Catalogs of libraries with extensive land use collections:
- Columbia
- Harvard (type vt100 at
prompt)
- Library of Congress
- University
of Chicago
- Yale
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