History/ Environmental Studies 244: City, Anti-City and Utopia

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Professor: Jill Pearlman
Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft
Fall 2007


Catalogs for Books

Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Access to Bowdoin Library's holdings of books, videos, government documents, etc.

MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. It has an online request button—requests from Colby and Bates take 1-2 days.

NExpress
Combines access to the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Williams and Northeastern; requests usually arrive in 2 days.

WorldCat
Combined database of library catalogs nationwide.

In the catalogs above, you can begin looking for your topic with a keyword search or a subject search. For a subject search, here are examples of subject headings for research on cities:

Catalogs of libraries with extensive land use/city planning collections:


Reference Books

Comprehensive urban planning; a selective annotated bibliography.
HT166 .B73 1970
Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates
Main Ref E174.5 .C3 1993
Encyclopedia of American Social History
Main Ref HN57 .E58 1993
Encyclopedia of Urban America
Main Ref HT123 .E5 1998
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Main Ref H41 .I5 1991
National Register of Historic Places
Govt Ref I 70.17:1976
References on city and regional planning. Selected with the assistance of the Dept. of City and Regional Planning, M.I.T
Main Ref Z5942 .S47 1959
World Encyclopedia of Cities
Main Ref HT108.5 .K87 1994


Indexes and Databases

Some of these databases provide citations only. Others contain the full text of the journal articles. Use either the “Check Availability” link in the database or the “Journals” tab in the Library Catalog to determine availability of a journal article.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is a full-text web database of news and legal information with access to both current news and up to 25 years of retrospective news, both domestic and international.

America History and Life
This source indexes articles, books and dissertations about the history of the United States and Canada published throughout the world. It is a subject index which provides citations and abstracts with some links to J-Stor full text.

American Periodicals Series Online
Digitized images of whole pages from American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900. 

America’s Historical Newspapers
Cover-to-cover reproductions of many U.S. newspapers from 1690 to 1922.

Art Abstracts
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 French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish, September 1984 to the present.
 
Arts and Humanities Search
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
This index provides access to the contents of architecture periodicals, most not indexed elsewhere. It is international in scope and includes articles published from 1978 to the present.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier 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 are available in full-text.
 
MLA International Bibliography
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.
 
Government Documents Monthly Catalog
U.S.Government Documents may be an excellent source of research material for this class. Information on historic building preservation, National Park Service reports on urban national parks, or congressional reports on urban problems are a few examples. In this library our government publications are accessed partially through the catalog and partially by Marcive Web, an internet version of GPO's Monthly Catalog, which indexes all U.S. Government Documents published since 1976.

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
PAIS includes "publications on all subjects that bear on contemporary public issues and the making and evaluation of public policy, irrespective of source or traditional disciplinary boundaries." Sources may be periodical articles, books, government documents or the reports of public and private organizations in the U.S. and internationally.
 
Periodical Contents Index
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 on-line indexing access to many of the Library's 19th and early 20th century journals.
 
Poole's Index (Print)
Periodical Index Area
Poole's Index is a 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 paper in its collections.

Reader's Guide
Reader’s Guide (print) Periodical Index Area
The Reader's Guide is an easy-to-use author/subject index to a broad range of U.S. general interest journals and magazines. The index goes back to 1895, and indexes many journals held in the Library's collections.

Sociofile
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.

Selected Internet Sources

Cyburbia: The Urban Planning Portal
Substantial list of links to internet resources for the "built environment" - planning, urbanism, architecture, etc.

Library of Congress, American Memory Site: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
Especially notable for this class is the collection of digitized photographs at this site.
 
Making of America: Digital Library of Primary Sources
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa
A collection of full-text documents from the 19th century.

Planning Resources on the Internet: UC Berkeley
 Nicely organized collection of sites on urban and regional planning; includes a section on the environment.

Project for Public Spaces
This site offers full-text information on public access including building, parks, central squares, public art, etc. It also provides links to related sites.
 
Urban History Website
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
Well organized moderately-sized collection of primary source documents.


Citation Guides

Style Manuals - list of various citation web sites

The Chicago Manual of Style (online)

The Chicago Manual of Style (print)
Main Libr Reserve 130a

MLA handbook for writers of research papers (print)
Main Libr Reserve 135


This page created and maintained by Ginny Hopcroft . Last update: September 2007.