Selected Reference Materials

• Encyclopedia of African American Culture & History
  Ref EGSL REF E185.E54 1996 v.1-6
• American Cultural and Intellectual History
  Ref E169.1E624 2001 v.1-3
• American diaries: an annotated bibliography of published American diaries and journals
  Reference Z5305.U5 A74 1983 v.1-2
• Dictionary of American History
  Ref E174.D52 2003 v.1-10
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
  Ref DG270.B86 2002
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the 19th Century
  Ref E169.1E626 2001 v. 1-3
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the 20th Century
  Ref E740.7 E53 1996 v.1-4
• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A political, social, and military history
  Ref DS557.7 .E53
• The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  Ref DF521.093 1991 v.1-3
• Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
  Ref DE5.L29 1999
• History of the Mass Media in the United States: an Encyclopedia
  Ref P92 .U5 H55 1998
• The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics
  Ref HB 61 E55
• Gale Encyclopedia of US Economic History
  Ref HC 102 G35
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
  Ref DG270.B86 2002

Finding Journal Articles

From the Library's home page, select RESEARCH then ARTICLE INDEXES & DATABASES to access the following select databases.
To access these databases from off campus, you must go through the Off-Campus Log-In.

Selected databases

• AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
• America: History and Life
• The American Civil War Letters and Diaries
• Historical Abstracts
• MLA International Bibliography
• Periodicals Index Online

• Alternative Press Index
• Archive Americana
• Business Source Premeir
• Communication Studies Database
• Black Studies Database
• CQ Electronic Library
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Expanded Academic
• Gender Watch
• JSTOR
• Left Index
• LexisNexis
• Periodicals Index Online
• Project Muse
• WorldCat

• Alternative Press Index
• Expanded Academic
• Gender Watch
• JSTOR
• Left Index
• Periodicals Index Online
• Project Muse
• WorldCat

Newspapers

• Historical Newspapers Online
• Los Angeles Times (Current:1985-present)
• Los Angeles Times (historical: 1881-1976)
• New York Times (Current:1999-present)
• New York Times (historical: 1857-1999)
• Newsbank
• Wall Street Jounnal historical (1889-1986)
• LexisNexis News section

Web sources

• Research in Government Information
  Online, In-depth information about the United States, California, Foreign and International Governments.

• American Rhetoric
  Collection of full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events. The site also includes sections devoted to rhetorical devices, Chrisitan rhetoric, 9/11 rhetoric, movie speeches, and political speeches.
• Department of Special Collections, UCSB library,Subject Guides to Collections
  
• African American Collections
• Civil War (U.S.) Collections
• Isla Vista Resources
• Documenting the American South
  
• In The First Person
  Index to collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives from all time periods--many available online as transcripts or sound files.
• Online Archive of California
  Brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives.
• Library of Congress American Memory
  Select More Browse Options to Browse Collections by Time Period.
• The Library of Congress European Reading Room
  
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• The Valley of the Shadow
  Digital archive with thousands of lettersand diaries, newspapers, speeches, census and church records of men and women in Augusta County Vurgina and Frankiln County during the Civil War.
• African American Newspapers: the 19th Century
• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, 1860 - 1866
• Declassified Documents Reference System
• Early American Imprints (Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker), 1639 - 1819
• Early American Newspapers, 1690 - 1876
• Ethnic Newswatch
• Harpweek
• Lexis Nexis (News section)
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times
• Newsbank
• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890 - 1982
• Wall Street Journal (historical), 1889 - 1986
• Additional Primary Sources Online...
  Locating resources for the American and European perspective.

Open Access Web Sources

• Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
• Making of America (collaborative project of University of Michigan and Cornell University)
• National Archives and Records Administration(U.S. government archives)
• Voice of the Shuttle

Search Strategies
When available use the advance search function since this gives you all the search options available for each database. You will need to think about the terms you will use, how to combine them, and more importantly, the time period.

In the advance search field, if you are trying to locate primary sources enter Keyword great depression Subject personal narratives.

• Use the " " to search a specific phrase as it appears on the document, (e.g. "human experiments", " medical apartheid","syphilis study".)
• Use OR to combine terms when either one will do: draft dodger, draft evader or draft resister
• Use AND to force the results to have both terms: Clothing AND Dress
• Most databases let you truncate by using a symbol to get other letters: cultur* gets you cultural , culture, culturalise...
• The truncation symbol can be a *, ?, ! or other symbols depending on the database

Use Pegasus to find books on your topic. The UCSB catalog will also tell you if the library has a subscription to the journals you need. More importantly the catalog record contains the call number, location,and availability of the journals, books and other library materials. You will need these data to track down the items you want in the library