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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
America: History & Life
Covers over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and includes article citations and book/media reviews of special interest to historians of United States and Canadian history and related fields.
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Early Canadiana Online
A digital library of primary sources in Canadian history from the first European contact to the early 20th century. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of literature, women's history, travel and exploration, native studies and the history of French Canada.
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H-NET Reviews
H-Net Reviews is an online
scholarly review source for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. H-Net Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web
site. This format permits reviews to reach scholars with a speed unmatched in
any other medium and makes possible discussion between reviewers, authors and readers.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Reference Materials
Canadian Encyclopedia
Online version of the standard reference on Canada. Does not include bibliographies.
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Canadian History: A Reader's Guide - Z1382 .C217 1994
A two-volume companion to the historiography of Canada.
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Canadian Reference Sources: An Annotated Bibliography - Z1365 .C33 1996
An expansive retrospective tool for reference, history, and the humanities, with helpful annotations.
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
A scholarly national biography, with approximately 8000 entries on people who helped in the formation of Canada and who died between the years 1000 and 1930.Fully searchable, with detailed bibliographic information for each entry.
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Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies - E45 .E53 1993
Covers colonial North America from the Norse settlements (c.1000) through aspects of nineteenth-century New Mexico and Alaska, including non-English colonies. 247 topical essays in three volumes, with good cross-referencing and bibliographies.
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Historical Statistics of Canada
Contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. This is an electronic reprint of the 2d edition of Historical Statistics of Canada, jointly produced by the Social Science Federation of Canada and Statistics Canada in 1983.
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Introducing Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian History in English - Z1382 .G63 1998
Annotations of about 1000 major monographs and collections published between 1970 and 1996 (with a few exceptions). Arranged by broad subject category, with a subject and author indexes.
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Web Sources
Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
A bibliographic essay which reviews important sources for the history, literature, political life, and other aspects of Canadian studies. Includes links to a wide variety important Internet resources. Frequently updated.
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Doing History: A Guide to Historical Research
A guide to doing historical research, with links to a variety of web sites covering various historical events and eras. Maintained by Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Periodicals
Canadian Studies Journals
A list of journals important for Canadian Studies, from "Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources."
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ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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History Cooperative
A convenient way to see the full-text of more recent issues of important historical journals. These are made available through Hekman Library's institutional subscriptions, so most of them are not accessible to non-Calvin users.
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