Selected Reference Materials

• 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
• Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine
  Sciences Engineering Library R133 .E5 1993 [Regular Loan]
• Dictionary of American History
  Ref E174.D52 2003 v.1-10
• Dictionary of scientific biography.
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q141 .D5 v.1-18
• Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-Western cultures
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q124.8 .E53 1997
• 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
• The Eighteenth century:A current bibliography
  Reference Z5579.6 .E36 v.1-18
• The history of science and religion in the western tradition: An encyclopedia
  Reference BL245 .H57 2000
• McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q123 .M15 2003
• The Oxford companion to the history of modern science
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q125.O86 2003
• Reader's guide to the history of science
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q125 .R335 2000
• Science in the Enlightenment:An encyclopedia
  Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area Q121 .B87 2003
• The timetables of science: A chronology of the most important people and events in the history of science
  Curriculum Lab, Reference Q125 .H557 1991

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

• America History and Life
• Eighteenth Century Online(ECCO)
• Historical Abstracts
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM)
• 19th Century Masterfile
• MLA International Bibliography
• Religion Database (ATLA)

• Anthropology Literature
• Historical Documents
• PAIS International and PAIS Archive
• PsycINFO
• PubMed
• Social Sciences Database (via CSA)
• Web of Science

• 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.
• 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
  
• Library of Congress American Memory
  Select More Browse Options to Browse Collections by Time Period.
• The Library of Congress Country Studies
  
• The Library of Congress European Reading Room
  

• 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 sterilization and select 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: African American OR Black
• Use AND to force the results to have both terms: AIDS AND Public Policy
• 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