HIST 1301 @ NLC Library

HANDOUTS

    Library Essentials -

    Using Online Databases -

    History -

    Primary Sources -

ACTIVITIES

Find It!

Steele, Brian. "Thomas Jefferson's Gender Frontier." Journal of American History 95.1 (June 2008): 17-42.

Quia Activity - Primary or Secondary?

Want articles? Use:

NLC ELECTRONIC DATABASES

or SAC ELECTRONIC DATABASES

NLC Databases by Subject - History

• JSTOR
• Academic Search Complete 
• History Resource Center United States
• World History Collection 

SEARCH STRATEGIES

• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• IDB & ILL

Primary Sources

Firsthand, original accounts created at or around the time an event actually occurred

Examples: autobiographies, original research, letters, memoirs, speeches, works of literature (poems, novels, etc.)

Secondary Sources

Interpretation, analysis, commentary, or summary after an event occurred

Examples: literary criticism, biographies, reviews, analyses, textbook, encyclopedias, etc.

Primary vs. Secondary Chart

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

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