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Guide to Historical Research

An online course guide to historical research for students in History courses

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About This Guide

This guide provides resources and helpful information to conduct historical research for students in History courses. Please don't hesitate to reach out to your librarian if you have any questions!

This guide includes the following pages:

This page contains information on how to identify a primary source, examples, how to use catalog search, lists of databases, websites, and newspapers.

This page contains information on how to identify a secondary source, how to use catalog search, and a list of databases.

This page contains information on criteria for evaluating sources and other web evaluation tools.

This page provides information on why and when to cite sources, as well has how to cite sources in Turabian.

This guide provides information on how to request materials from other libraries through interlibrary loan.

General Resources

Research@UWW - Find "everything" (articles, books, & more)
This discovery tool searches multiple resources simultaneously (articles from many disciplines, books, ebooks, videos, digital resources, government documents, etc.), or you can change from searching "everything" to articles only or the local catalog only, i.e., UWW's books, media, government documents, and more.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar can help you find both books and articles, but if you use Google Scholar from off campus, configure the settings to use Andersen Library's full text subscription access.

Articles & Databases by Title  
Find articles relating to your research topic from the Library's article databases.

Journals  
Search for a particular journal, magazine, or newspaper by title. The Library has access to thousands of titles, some online and some not.

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