Sample themes for topics

• relations between Cossacks/Russians Settlers and Natives
• Religous Dissent on the Frontier
• State's Policies toward Aboriginals of the Frontier
• State's Policies toward Settlers and Cossacks
• Russian imperial borderlands
• Russian empire
• Immigrant communities in the Russian state
• Russian expansionism
• Russian frontier
• Similiarities amid Russian frontier and the American West
• Russian imperialism and the colonial experience
• Russian frontier

Sample Keywords

• westward expansion
• Russian imperialism
• Causasian war
• Cossacks and Russian
• Siberian immigrants
• Russian expansion
• Russian imperialism and colonial experience
• Russia and history and Siberia
• Indian Removal Act 1830
• Russia and Religious and dissent
• Peasants and settlers and Russia
• Pioneer life and American west
• Muscovy
• Siberian natives
• Assimilation and American Indians
• American wilderness and environment
• Indians North American and government
• Federal Indian policy
• United States Indian Policy

Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources

Primary sources of information present data that has not been analyzed or interpreted in any way; these are original research, eyewitness accounts, and creative works from the time period, usually presented in their original form and serve to help interpret an event. Examples: newspaper articles, speeches, diaries, personal narratives, interviews, photographs, interviews, internet communications or other forms of correspondence, sets of data, patents, conference proceedings, autobiographies, government records and congressional hearings.

What is a secondary source?

Findind Sources

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 proxy server.

• America: History and Life
• Historical Abstracts

• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
• Expanded Academic
• JSTOR
• PAIS International
• Periodicals Archive Online (Article Search)
• Project Muse
• Russian Academy of Science Bibliography
• WorldCat

You can search the following online sources to locate book reviews.

• America History and Life Use for post-1974 reviews of U.S history only. (NOTE: Historical Abstracts, the companion database to AHL, which covers non-US history, does not include individual book reviews, only lengthier review essays.)
  SEARCH TIP: In the Limit to field click Book Reviews. In the Add/Remove Search Field click on Author. Enter author's name in pop up field. Searches yield book reviews of the author's work as well as book reviews written by the author.
• JSTOR
  Around sixty core history and history of science journals are included in this full text multi-subject index. Full back files are available for all titles. However, coverage for recent dates- approximately the past five years, is not available on this database. To check coverage dates see Browse Journals.
  SEARCH TIP: On the Advanced Search screen limit your search to Reviews by checking the box at the Narrow Your Search to--These types: Review. Author search results: book and review authors.
• Project Muse
  Another multi-subject full text index; history is one of many humanities subjects covered by this database. Project Muse is useful for reviews published since 1993. To check coverage dates see Browse Journals.
  SEARCH TIP: From the Search screen use the pull down menu to select Author Reviewed or Title Reviewed.
• American Periodical Series
  Good coverage of American, British, and some continuential European periodicals from the 19th and 20th centuries.
  SEARCH TIP: Search for the title in Article Title Keyword and under Scope select Book Reviews Only.
• Periodical Archive Online, 1770-1995
  Good coverage of American, British, and some continuential European periodicals from the 19th and 20th centuries.
  SEARCH TIP: Search for the title in Article Title Keyword and under Scope select Book Reviews Only. (1890-1982)
  

  3........3 Web sources

  • National Library of Russia.
    

  Primary and Archival Sources
  Department of Special Collections
  
  Subject Guides to Collections
  • Native American Collection
  • Frontiers and the West
  • Religion

  • The Library of Congress Country Studies
    
  • The Library of Congress European Reading Room
    

  Newspapers
  

  • Historical Newspapers Online
  • Los Angeles Times (historical: 1881-1976)
  • New York Times (historical: 1857-1999)

  Additional Primary Sources...
  Locating resources for the american perspective.

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  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 Indian Removal Act and select Subject sources.

  • Use the " " to search a specific phrase as it appears on the document, (e.g. "American Frontier", " Russian Imperialism","Russian Empire".)
  • Use OR to combine terms when either one will do: Russian Settlers OR Russian Migrants
  • Use AND to force the results to have both terms: Russian State AND Kalmyk Nomads
  • 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

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  Finding your Sources in the library (e.g. books, journals etc.)
  

  To find books, use the Keyword search type for searching topics with keywords. After you get the search results you will need the title, call number and location to retrieve the book.

  To find articles, use an article index database (e.g. American: History and Life or Historical Abstracts) to search the terms related to your topic. In order to get the article you will need to write down some information about the article that you will use to find it in the catalog.

  A citation has the following information: journal title, author, article title, publication date, volume and page numbers. The journal title is what you will need to search the catalog to determine if we have it in print or electronic version.
  

  Use Pegasus, to find the periodicals that you need. The Pegasus record will indicate in what formats these titles are available i.e. microfilm, print copy or electronic text. You will need to get the Call Number and location in order to find the particular periodical in the library.
  

  For example:
  • Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with ..." Baltic Review      Main Library D1 .B36
  • Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with..." American Indian culture and research journal     
    
    Native American Studies E98.C9 A44

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  Printed Reference Sources

  The following is a selection of some of the reference books from the UCSB Libraries that might help you further analyze your topic.
  

  • Encyclopedia of Russian history
    Reference DK14 .E53 2004 [Non-circulating]

  • The Blackwell encyclopedia of the Russian revolution
    Reference DK265 .B54 1994 [Non-circulating]

  •  The encyclopedia of revolutions and revolutionaries: from anarchism to Zhou Enlai
     Reference D21.3 .E33 1996 [Non-circulating]  

  • Encyclopedia of Russian history: from the Christianization of Kiev to the break-up of the U.S.S.R.
    Reference DK36 .P39 1993 [Non-circulating]

  • The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union
    Reference DK14 .C35 1994 [Non-circulating]

  • An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires
    Reference DK33 .E837 1994   [Non-circulating]  

  • The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history
     Reference DK14 M6 [Non-circulating]  

  • Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: documents, data, and analysis
    Reference DK1.5 .R876 1997 [Non-circulating]

  • Russia/USSR
    Reference DK 19 P586 1994 [Non-circulating]

  • Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union
    Reference DK32 M62 1898 [Non-circulating]

  • Encyclopedia of American historical documents
     Reference E173 .E54 2004 [Non-circulating]  

  • Encyclopedia of American history
    Reference E174 .E53 2003 [Non-circulating]  

  • Encyclopedia of the North American colonies
     Reference E45 .E53 1993 [Non-circulating]  

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  Ask for Help! Remember to ASK FOR HELP when you need it. You can find a reference librarian at the Main Reference Desk during the week, weekends and even on holidays. For reference help please call the reference desk (805) 893.3133.
  Chimene Tucker: ctucker@library.ucsb.edu