History 203 First Year Research Seminar: Spanish Borderlands V. Ruiz Winter 2005 Library Research Guide

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• UCI Libraries Website 
• History Subject Guide
• Connecting from Off Campus (remote access to resources below)

1. Sources for Historical Research
2. Good Research Skills
3. Sources for Topic Analysis
• Guides to the Literature, Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
4. Monographs and Other Research Materials: Library Catalogs
• ANTPAC (Anteaters Public Access Catalog)
• Melvyl UC Systemwide Catalog and California Digital Library (CDL)
• Beyond UC: WorldCat and RLIN
  
• Essays/Chapters in Collections and Anthologies
• Dissertations
5. Articles: Periodical Indexing/Abstracting Services
• Web-based Indexes
• Print Indexes
6. Full-Text Journals on the Web
7. Primary Sources
8. Government Publications and Information
9. Specialized Internet Resources
10. Creating, Organizing and Managing Bibliographies and Manuscript Citations: EndNote and RefWorks

1. Primary sources are firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.  The nature and value of a source cannot be determined without reference to the topic and questions it is meant to answer.  The same document, or other piece of evidence, may be a primary source in one investigation and secondary in another.  The search for primary sources does not, therefore, automatically include or exclude any format of research materials or type of records, documents, or publications. Primary sources typically can include archives and manuscript material, photographs, letters and diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers and clippings, government publications, oral histories, magazines, published books, printed ephemera, and video and audio recordings. [adapted from a definition on the Yale University Library Web site]
    
2. Secondary sources are those that analyze, assess, or interpret a topic under investigation, often utilizing primary sources to do so.
   
   
3. Tertiary sources  are those that identify and located primary and secondary sources.  These includelibrary catalogs,  bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, encyclopedias, and other reference resources.

   IMPORTANT:  Note that these categories are not mutually exclusive. A single item may be primary or secondary (or even tertiary depending on your research topic and the use you make of that item.

Start with topical analysis

• What is your topic?
• Diagram/interrogate your topic (ask who? when? where? what? why? how?).
• Keywords, synonyms, contemporaneous ways of referring to/describing your topic that are no longer current.

• Research is an iterative process and the best researchers learn as they go.
• What resources and research tools have you used?
• What terms have/have not worked?
• What new names/terms have you encountered in your searches?

• Start with a basic familiarity with the research tool you are using (online catalog, print index, internet)
• What is its topical and chronological coverage?
• How trustworthy is the information to which it provides access?
• Known item searches: titles and authors.  Use these to identify and link from promising subject headings.
• Subject searches: terms generally from a standardized list like LCSH (see below).
• Following subjects from a known item that you know is on target for your research is a good way of finding more of the same!
• Keyword searches: words that appear anywhere in descriptions of resources or resources themselves.
• Truncation:  Use trucation symbols (usually * and/or #) building on the root of a word to expand your retrieval

    Examples:
        histor*    =    history, historian, historical, historicism, etc.
        border#   =    border, borders, borderland,  borderline, etc.
        rac*         =    race, racism, racist BUT also raccoon, racketeer, etc.

• Date searches: limiting result sets by dates can be a good approach when you are focusing on primary sources for a narrow time period like the 1950s.

Guides (or guides to the literature as they're sometimes called) provide the researcher with a basic introduction to the literature of a topic. Guides often list important bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, periodical indexes, manuscript and statistical finding aids, etc. They may be  a useful first step in beginning research, helpful both in acquainting the researcher with critical sources in the field and assisting in organization and evaluation of research strategies. In other words, some guides offer a structured overview of an academic discipline, while others serve primarily as beginning bibliographies of the key works in a field.

Guides to the Literature of History:

• The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford, 1995. 2 vols. Ref. Z6201 .A55 1995
• Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and other Reference Works. Francis Paul Prucha.  2d ed. Lincoln: Un. of Nebraska, 1994. Ref. Z1236 .P78 1994
• United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources.  Anna H. Perrault and Ron Blazek.  Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003.  Ref. E178 P47 2003

• Atlas of Hispanic American History.  George Ochoa. Ref. E 184 S75 O287 2001
• Dictionary of Mexican American History.  Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.  Ref. E184 M5 M453.
• Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1993. Ref. HN57 .E58 1993
• Encyclopedia of Mexico : History, Society & Culture. Michael S. Werner, ed. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. 2 vols. Ref. F1204 .E539 1997
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2nd ed. 3 vols.  Detroid: Gale Group, 2000.  Ref. E 184 A1 G14 2000.
  
• The  Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia:  Matt S. Meier and Margo Gutiérrez.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.  Ref. E184.M5 M4535 2003
  
• The New Encyclopedia of the American West.  Howard Lamar, ed.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.  Ref. F 591 N46 1998.
  
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures : The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. 3 vols. Davíd Carrasco, editor in chief. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. Ref. F1218.6 .O95 2001

• Atlas of Asian American History.  Monique Avakian.  New York: Facts on File, 2002. Ref. E 184 A75 A89 2002
• The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience.  Franklin Odo, ed.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.  Ref. E14 O6 C63 2002
  
• Encyclopedia of Women in the American West.  Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington, eds.  Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage, 2003. Ref. HQ 1438 W45 E53 2003
• The Native American World.  Donna Hightower Langston.  Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2003.   Ref. E77 H54 2002
  

A subject heading is a word or term that describes, often quite broadly, the contents of an information resource. "Authorized" headings for U.S. libraries are generally determined by the Library of Congress (LCSH). LCSH is the basis for subject indexing of resources available in the ANTPAC (UCI) and MELVYL (UC-wide) as well as most other U.S. academic library catalogs. Subject indexing terms can be a powerful search tool in many online catalogs and indexing databases, and  these same subject headings found in records for known items can lead serendipitously to other interesting resources. In addition to usage in catalog records for books, videotapes, and other library resources, many (but by no means all) abstracting and indexing articles databases use LCSH as the basis for their subject indexing.

Searches for subject heading(s) assigned by the Library of Congress or descriptors assigned by the index/database producer use a "controlled vocabulary." The best way to identify subject heading(s) for your topic is to do a keyword search first, then note and link from subject headings of the most promising items.

Reminders:

• A subject heading search in ANTPAC is an exact subject heading search.
• There are many different subject headings that deal with the history of jerusalem; use key word searches to identify the best ones for your topic.
• Subject headings, like all language and most everything in life (!), are socially and historically constructed; consider terminology for your topic broadly and deeply, e.g., Mexican-Americans, Latinos, Spanish-Americans, etc.
  

Finding the subheading terms "Sources" or "Archival resources" appended to any of the subject headings below on a record in an online catalog is an indication that the item you've found is substantially composed of primary source material.

• Acculturation
• California -- HIstory -- To 1846
  
• California -- Race relations
• California, Southern -- History
  
• Chinese Americans -- History
• Chinese Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
  
• Community coodbooks -- History
  
• Cookbooks
  
• Food writing -- History
  
• Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- History
• Hispanic Americans -- California
  
• Indian Women -- West (U.S.) -- History
• Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Cultural assimilation
  
• Indians of North America -- Education
  
• Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History
• Marriage -- West (U.S.) -- History
  
• Mexican-American Border Region
• Mexican Americans -- California
• Mexican Americans -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
  
• Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life
• Mexican Americans -- Race identity
• Minorites -- West (U.S.) -- History
  
• Missions -- California -- History
• Mormon women -- United States -- Diaries
• Mormon women -- West (U.S.) -- History --
  
• Pueblo Indians
• Pueblo Indians -- Government relations
• Racism
• United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
  
• West (U.S.) -- Race relations
• Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources
• Women food writers -- History
• Women pioneers -- California -- History -- Social conditions
  
• Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Attitudes
  
• Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
  

• Jackson, Helen Hunt 1830-1885 -- Political and social views
  
• Murrieta, Joaquin
• Phoenix Indian School
• San Gabriel Mission (San Gabriel, Calif.)
  

ANTPAC provides quick and efficient access to the holdings of the UCI Libraries.  ANTPAC should be your first stop for accessing books, periodicals, media, and other research materials.

ANTPAC is available via a Web interface in the UCI Libraries as well as from home or office.  You can access ANTPAC via the UCI Libraries homepage (http://www.lib.uci.edu/) or directly (http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/).
 
Useful features include:

• Searching by collection: e.g., Entire; Government Information; Journals and Serials; Film and Video
• Limiting searches by: Language; Material Type; (Library) Location; Publisher; Year (of Publication).
• Email Results:  Use the export button to put items of interest in memory, then once you have all titles you wish to send, click on View/Export Marked Records and fill in email boxes.  Note: Change subject box to include your search terms.
• Direct submission of Request/Recalls (when item is checked out)  and Interlibrary Loan* Requests
• MY ANTPAC including
• Preferred Searches - you can search the catalog in MY ANTPAC to save searches to a special file in your Patron Record. You can then request email alerts on "Preferred Searches." You can also request a hold on a title without having to retype your name and ID number.

4.2. MELVYL® UC SYSTEMWIDE CATALOG and CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

Melvyl:

Melvyl is a web-based gateway to the library holdings of the University of California Libraries and to those of the California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, California State Library, Center for Research Libraries, Graduate Theological Union, Hastings College of Law, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

The database contains over 23,000,000 records, including books, periodicals or journal titles, videos, maps, sound recordings and muc  more. Melvyl allows you to browse records, save and mail items to your email account, set up a profile and Workspace so that you can save records and searches across sessions, and have email Updates automatically sent to you.

Highly Recommended:  Establish your profile and "Workspace" in new Melvyl  in order to:

• Save and view searches so they are available to you after you log out of your session.
• Save and view items after you log out of your session.
• Use the Update Service, an automated process that will perform searches defined by you at chosen intervals. The emailed results contain records that have been added to the Melvyl system during the previous interval (see Practitioners Guide 16.)
• Customize certain display preferences and save them across sessions, including the format of search results and the number of records displayed per page.
• Set your Email address for use with Updates and Request, the interlibrary loan service.

The California Digital Library:
Mission: "Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the UC, the CDL supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve. Established in 1997 as a UC  library, the CDL has become one the largest digital libraries in the world."

CDL Collections & Services:

      Directory of CDL Licensed Content

            CDL Collections in History Available to UCI Irvine: Browse
                Listing of links to resources by historical field, e.g., Asian  History, California History, Modern European History, etc.
            CDL Collections in History Available to UCI Irvine: Search Results
                Includes over 1200 Electronic Journals, Databases, Archival Finding Aids and Reference Texts; Use the drop-down menu to limit by these categories.

    You may also search the CDL Collections
 

4.3. Beyond UC: Major Library Union Catalogs: WorldCat and RLIN Bibliographic File

WorldCat and RLIN Bibliographic File are databases for large groups of libraries that share cataloging information and access.   To be fully comprehensive in your research, you may wish to search both of these resources.

Note: Watch for UCI holdings statements and/or click on  (where available) to link to holdings in UC libraries.

WorldCat
An even larger bibliographic database than MELVYL, WorldCat includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, etc., in a variety of languages, held in numerous libraries around the world. Coverage: 1000 A.D. - present   (Also provides links to other databases of possible interest, e.g., ArticlesFirst, etc.)
 

RLIN Bibliographic File: Library Catalog for the Research Library Group (RLG)
The RLIN Bibliographic File database serves as a comprehensive union catalog for the RLG,  over 160 universities (e.g., includes Stanford and Princeton), national libraries, archives, historical societies, and other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. The catalog includes everything from books and serials to archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, and computer files. The Bibliographic file covers from the advent of printing to the present.  Records include names of contributing libraries as well as local call numbers. Updated daily, the Bibliographic file includes more than 30 million titles.  Especially useful for manuscript collections and other primary sources.  

4.4. Essays/Chapters in Collections and Anthologies

Finding essays/chapters in collections and anthologies presents particular challenges to the researcher. This is all the more true given that the title or subject of the collection likely will not reflect the more specific topic of the essays within it. Happily, for many publications, you can now use ANTPAC and/or WorldCat to identify selected published essays on your topic.

ANTPAC: Keyword searching now searches for your search terms in the author, title, subject, series, notes, and contents field. Essay titles and authors are typically included in the Contents field.

Do a general keyword search:     Example: borderlands and mexic*
or
Limit to Contents field by using n: in keyword search:     Example: n: borderlands and mexic*

WORLDCAT:Use the advanced search option and limit your keyword search to the Notes/Comments field
 
 

4.5. Dissertations

Digital Dissertations
Includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.
 

5.  ARTICLES: PERIODICAL INDEXING/ABSTRACTING SERVICES

The most convenient direct access to periodical indexes and abstracts is through the UCI Libraries Website:
Article Databases. Here you will find an alphabetical listing of all indexes and abstracts available through CDL or licensed directly by the UCI Libraries.

The following is a selective listing of indexes most useful for topics related to the Spanish Borderlands and History of the West.

Note:

• Pay attention to the chronological scope of the database and the type of materials included. 
  
• Watch for UCI holdings statements and/or click on  (where available) to link to holdings in UC libraries.
• * indicates full-text of articles provided

The most authoritative listing of periodical literature, book and media reviews, and dissertations in United States and Canadian history. Covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide. Provides abstracts and, for some articles, links to full-text.

Search Tips:

• Use Keyword Search to begin.
• Use Advanced Search for more search options and power.
• Indicate Time Period: For example,  1600H, 1700H or 1800H. (Click on magnifying glass icon to right of time period to browse options.)
• Limit to Language English if you do not read Spanish
• If desired, limit to document type: article

Chicano Database    1967-present
The Chicano database contains records for all types of materials in the areas of Mexican-American topics, and since 1992, materials on other Latino cultures--e.g., Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Subject coverage includes art, language, sociology, public policy, economics, history, literature, politics, and law.

The Handbook of  Latin American Studies/HLAS Online   1935-present
Contains citations in the area of Latin American studies from journals, books, and conferences in the humanities and social sciences including history.Many citations in the database are annotated.

Hispanic American Periodical Index/HAPI Online  1970-present
Produced by the UCLA Latin American Center, provides citations about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the U.S. indexed from articles and other materials.

*Expanded Academic Index ASAP  1980 - present
Provides multi-disciplinary coverage from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology; inlcudes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.  Includes numerous full-text articles.

*Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
Nearly 5,000 publications span news, financial, medical, and legal information, the vast majority available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form. Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, etc. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.

19th Century Masterfile
Indexes books, newspapers, periodicals and government documents on the 19th Century.

PCI: Periodical Contents Index.  (PCI)  and * PCI Full -Text    1770-1995
PCI: Covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and currently indexes around 13.9 million articles dating from as early as the eighteenth century up to 1995 .Cataloguing in PCI is not limited by date or by language. Over two centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
PCI Full-Text contains the contents of 259 journal runs, providing access to over 5.4 million article pages - representing over 860,000 articles. These are drawn from the 13 million-plus article citation records in the PCI index. PCI Full Text is on target to grow to 300 journals by the end of 2003.

Readers Guide Retrospective

Ethnic NewsWatch   1960- present
Full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press covering both current and historical topics.

GenderWatch     1970 - present
Full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.

Women’s Studies International    (WSI) 1972-
Includes over 232,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases including Women Studies Abstracts (1984- ; approx. 35,000 records) and the Women’s Studies Database (1972- ; approx. 70,300 records drawn from 125 journals worldwide).  

Newpapers

Current:

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (see above)

National Newspaper Index.  1977 - presnt
Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Historical:

*El Clamor Publico 1855-1859
Available from the USC Digital Archive, you can "search the entire run (1855 to1859) of 233 issues of this newspaper, considered Los Angeles' main Spanish language paper during this time. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodica Independiente y Literacio," El Clamor Publico was the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American occupation. It was founded by the former Spanish editor of the Los Angeles Star, Francisco P. Ramirez, a 19-year old printer. Published weekly, 233 four-page issues were published between July 1855 and August 1859. The initially moderate paper evolved into an activist tabloid and espoused strong political views generally in support of the Mexicanos. While articles commonly dealt with American political ideology and practice, the newspaper's publication of poetry and literature make it an excellent source of cultural history. It was distributed as far north as San Francisco."(from El Clamor Publico website)

*Los Angeles Times Historical  1881 - 1966 (subsequent years are being added)
Search and browse full text and display images of both articles and complete newspaper pages. Coverage through 1984 will soon be added.
    For current coverage, from 1985 to present, of the LA Times, use
        Los Angeles Times  via Newsbank
       or
       Los Angeles Times  via Proquest Newspapers

PRINT INDEXES

Especially as historians, you can never forget  indexes still available only in print form, for example: 

International Index to Periodicals.  1907-1965/65 Ref. AI3 I58
    Index to academic journals in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
   (subsequently:  Humanities and Social Sciences Index. 1965/66-1973/74; then separately: Humanities Index; Social Sciences Index 1973/74- )

Convenient access from:
    CDL: United States and North American History,  Electronic Journals available to UC Irvine
    or
    UCI Libraries Web Site:  Full-Text Online Journals

Specific Collections:

JSTOR   (Retrospective archive)
Provides searching and browsing access to the full text of back files of over 100 scholarly publications in dozens of academic disciplines, including History. Articles can be printed off using an Adobe PDF reader plug in to your Web browser (available on all public terminals in the UCI Libraries).
Note: for many jouranls,  does not include the latest 2-5 years, but often includes back issues from several decades past.

History Titles Include:

American Historical Review  American Quarterly  Eighteenth-Century Studies  Journal of American History  Journal of Economic History  Journal of Military History  Journal of Modern History  Journal of Negro History

Journal of Southern History Journal of the History of Ideas Renaissance Quarterly Reviews in American History Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies Studies in the Renaissance William and Mary Quarterly

Project Muse (Current)
Full text of over 40 journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Full text coverage varies by journal title but ranges from 1993 to the present. Links to the full text of many articles available in CDL-hosted databases.

Selected journals of interest include:

American Imago American Jewish History American Quarterly Eighteenth-Century Life

Eighteenth-Century Studies History and Memory Journal of the History of Ideas Reviews in American History

History Cooperative

Sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press, provides electronic access to the following journals:

American Historical Review  The History Teacher  The Journal of American History

Law and History Review  The Western Historical Quarterly  The William and Mary Quarterl

• Consult the following guides, which may make your research much more effective/successful! and efficient (time-saving!):


• Identifying and Locating Primary Sources
  
  
• Using Primary Sources on the Web

• One way to find primary sources in ANTPAC or other library catalogs: Add the form subheading "sources" to your keywords.
  For example:
keyword:                             History and California and Sources
LC subject heading:             California -- History -- Sources

Note: This strategy retrieves items that are compilations of primary sources, such as a collection of documents or a  volume of personal narratives.  It is by no means comprehensive.   

This "rare books and manuscripts" department includes numerous collections of books, newspapers, maps, photographs, pamphlets, and manuscript materials documenting many topics.  The collection is especially strong in California and Orange County history.

ANTPAC Search tip:

For example:    Subject: California --  history   or
                        Keyword: California and history and sources
                            and limit to location Langson Spec Collections ... and language English if you don't read Spanish :)

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of taking a local angle to your research topic, please contact Steve MacLeod  (phone # and e-mail are at the top of this guide) to discuss.

The U.S. Government produces a mind-boggling amount of information.  The titles below are just a few resources that might be of use. You can also limit your search retrieval sets in ANTPAC to items located in "Langson-Gov Info" by using the "Limit/Sort" or Modify Search button.

If you want to use government information in your research, it is highly recommended that, near the beginning of the quarter, that you email Kay Collins , U.S. Government Information Librarian, regarding available information resources: kcollins@uci.edu.

• CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings List, 1833- . Ref. KF40 .C56 1981
Provides access to House and Senate hearings by subject as well as name of witness. Parts XI and XII, 80th-91st Congresses, cover the 1950s.
• CIS U.S. Serial Set Index. Ref. Z1223 .Z9 C65
An ongoing collection of U.S. government publications compiled under the direction of Congress. Indexes congressional journals, administrative reports, and reports from federal agencies. Features some interesting rsources on "discrimination in education."
• Congressional Universe--Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969.
Online access to U.S. congressional indexes for published material and indexes to unpublished hearings.

Web Directories and Portals:

Although the Internet provides access to information resources that are often of dubious quality or authority, there are a growing number of sites that may well prove useful to your research.  Among the most valuable are collections of primary documents, visual resources, and listservs where you can consult with colleagues around the world.  In addition to the relevant websites listed on your History 203 syllabus, you may wish to try search engines like Google (always carefully and critically!).  Often, however, selective web directories often can be even more useful than global search engines. These include:

• The Librarians Index to the Internet
  "A well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world."
  
  
• The Best of the History Sites
  An "award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts...features links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more." 

• Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching  (Center for Distributed Learning, California State University)
  "MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments."  History was added to Merlot in 2000 and, listed under Humanities,  now includes 211 selected sites.  You may also search the Merlot site; for instance, a search on American History retrieves 44 materials.
  
 
• The Scout Report
  The Scout Report Archives are a searchable and browseable collection of over seven years' worth of critical annotations of Internet sites, mailing lists, and other online resources carefully selected by librarians and subject experts.
  

Bibliographic management software allows you to store, manipulate, and automatically format citations for the materials referenced in your research. Using either EndNote or RefWorks, you can import citations from library databases, format them into a completed bibliography, and insert them into a paper. Choose the program that most closely matches your needs.

RefWorks (New!) is a basic web-based program that, as of January 2005, is freely available online to UCI  students, faculty and staff. It serves the needs of most undergraduates and those not needing to manage an extensive bibliography.

EndNote: 

• Tuesday, January 25: 10:00-12:00.  Langson Library TEC, Room 228      (sponsored by HumaniTech and UCI Libraries)
• By request to Joan Ariel, jariel@uci.edu, for History graduate students and faculty.
• Guide: Introduction to EndNote, Ariel, HumaniTech and UCI Libraries, October 2004.
• Tutorial
  

• Workshops to be arranged.  Contact jariel@uci.edu if you are interested in being notified.
  
• RefWorks Quick Start Guide
• Tutorial