Library Resources for Learning Community
War, Culture, and Memory
- Off campus access
- Finding articles
- Finding books and more in the online catalog
- Finding information on the web
- Evaluating Information
- Citing your sources
- Library Information
Off Campus Access
Most of the library resources you will need to use will require you to sign in for off campus access. You will do this using your ASRUITE ID and password.
Finding Articles
Remember: In order to access these databases from off-campus, you need to sign in first with your ASURITE ID and password.
Searching for articles on a topic
Academic Search Elite Includes some full text
A great place to start to search for magazine and journal articles on almost all topics.
Tip: Check "peer reviewed" box to limit your search to scholarly journals.America: History and Life
Indexes and Abstracts over 2,400 articles, bibliographic citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the USA and Canada from prehistoric to the present time.Historical Abstracts Covers the world's scholarly literature in history. Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.
Humanities Full Text
Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications, language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc.JSTOR Includes full text
Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.PCI FullText - (1770-1995) PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Every article is indexed. PCI Full Text contains selected full text of 122 journals and bibliographic citations only for those journals. Allows date-limited searching.
Periodical Abstracts 1986+) Provides abstracts, indexing, & selected full text to articles from academic journals, popular magazines, & key business publications. Covers the social sciences, the humanities, the general-sciences, business, & general-interest publications.
Do we have the journal? : Locating specific articles
If you already have information about a specific article (author, title, journal title, volume, etc.), you need to find out where the journal is available.
Electronic Journals
Use this option to find out if a journal is available electronically.
Tip: Be sure to search for the journal title, not the article title.Journal Title Search in online catalog
Use to find if the ASU Libraries has a print copy of the journal you are looking for.
Tip: Be sure to search for the journal title, not the article title.
Getting articles not available at ASU
The library can get you a copy of an article that is not available electronically or in print through the Interlibrary Loan service. This service is free, but it can take between one and three days for your article to arrive.
Evaluating Journal Articles
Most instructors request that peer reviewed articles in scholarly journals rather than popular magazines be used. These resources will help you in figuring out if the article you found meets these criteria:
Finding books in the online catalog
Search the online catalog to find information about books, journals (but not articles), newspapers, microforms sets, reference works, sound recordings, videos, government documents and Special Collections materials, and other items the library owns.
Tip: Books can be very helpful to provide background information for your topic, even if you're assignment requires you to use journal articles.
The easiest way to start searching for materials in in the online catalog is to do a keyword search. Remember to combine your keywords with appropriate connectors (and, or, not), and to search for alternate endings by truncating with an asterisk (*).
You can then examine the records to see if there are specific subject headings that would lead you to other relevant items in the catalog.
Be sure to note where the book is located (HAYDEN Stacks or HAYDEN US Documents), as well as the call number. You'll need these to find the book on the shelf in the library.
Finding information on the web
The Web (including the ASU Libraries' webpage) can provide a wealth of information, from up-to-date news stories to individual opinions on every topic imaginable. There are several reasons to use the Web for research such as to find current information, to find facts quickly, and for easy access to information. It is important to be aware that not all information on the Web is accurate and to not rely on the Web for all of your research - good research requires the use of different types of resources.
Class Assignments
HISTORY 200( War, Culture & Memory)
War, Culture & Memory: Library Resources for the Learning Community
War, Culture & Memory: Film Reviews
Suggested Internet sites
Internet Primary Sources Relating to History Information on locating and evaluating Primary Sources in History available at ASU and beyond.
Yahoo - History The first place to start for a search of Internet sites for History. Particularly useful for tracking down sites with primary sources. Its hierarchical arrangement is as close to a library as one gets on the web
Using Primary Sources on the Web From the American Library Association
U.S. History: Primary and Secondary Sources From the Association of College and Research Libraries
American Memory: (Historical Collections for the National Digital Library)
Gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 5 million items from more than 90 historical collectionsEuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe (Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Provides links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated
(1300s+) Provide links to the full text of primary sources in modern history.Evaluation of Web Sites
Evaluating Information
It's important to evaluate the information you find to decide whether or not to use it in your research.
Citing your sources
For this class, you will be using the Modern Language Association (MLA), just one of many different style manuals. You will use this to determine how to format your citations to the information sources used in your research. The most comprehensive site for citation guides is hosted by Bucknell University. It includes citation guides for MLA, APA, ASA, Chicago Manual of Style, and Turabian.
Citation Examples:
Book
O'Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. NY: Free Press, 1993.
Journal Article
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Mixed Messages: Women and the Impact of World War II." Southern Humanities Review 27:3 (Summer 1993): 235-245.
Library Information
Reference desks:
Get help in person or on the phone at the Hayden Library (965-6164, #5) or the Noble Science Library (965-7607)
Research appointment:
Schedule an appointment with your learning community librarian:
Ed Oetting
History/Political Science Reference Librarian & Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team edding@asu.edu 480-965-4579
