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Okay so that gives you an example of a search in History Reference Center. So let’s move on and look at another database here in
our master list. JSTOR is a very well established academic database that has been around for a long, long, time. It covers articles
that go all the way back into the 1800s and the articles tend to be very detailed graduate level articles, but you may need to pull an article
from JSTOR. So using our example of the Middle Ages and the Black Death from the previous database we’ll go over here to
Advanced Search and we’ll take a look at doing a search here. So we’ll do Black Death and Medieval Europe and we’ll add a field and
let’s say we’re writing a paper about medical treatments during that period of history and we’ll do a search. So this is a very highly
specialized search and we find that there are 1,169 articles dealing with various aspects of treating the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague.
So we’ll just take a look at this first one Treating Medieval Plague: The Wonderful Virtues of Theriac and we’ll click where it says
Article PDF to actually pull the article up on the page, and we agree to the terms, you have to click on that link first. Okay, so now we see
the article coming up on the page, Treating Medieval Plague: The Wonderful Virtues of Theriac by the author Christiane Fabbri, the
source is a journal entitled Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 3 from 2007. And so this would be a more professional graduate level
kind of article that people might be interested in if they’re really doing a detailed paper about a very specific treatment of Bubonic Plague. I
did a little searching and this is quite a, quite a long article here so we won’t look at the entire thing, but I did a little bit of research on Theriac
because I was curious as to what it, what it was and I found that it was a concoction involving 64 different drugs with honey mixed
in so any doctor who would administer this to a patient would certainly have gone to a lot of trouble to make it and then whether the patient
would survive would be another issue, but I’ve always thought that people preferred to avoid the plaque or run away from it, but apparently
there were medical doctors who tried to administer a treatment and probably the treatment killed more people than it helped. But
anyway that’s JSTOR and again, a wonderful database because it encompasses articles from over a thousand academic journals going
back over a hundred years, so just an excellent source for people really doing detailed research. Coming on down we’ll just
look at a couple more databases, Research Library at ProQuest is one of my favorites somewhat similar to Academic Search
Complete, but also a little bit more advanced, has a tendency to be very top heavy with professional journal articles verses pop
magazines, newspapers, that sort of thing. So let’s do a, let’s change shift gears here and let’s do full text and let’s do peer reviewed.
Now let me explain something about peer reviewed articles; you have two kinds of articles appearing in Galileo, you have articles
that are in popular magazines, and you have articles that are appearing in what we call professional journals. Professional journals
are written by people in the field, historians, the journal of World History or Modern Europe or Current History, those are all examples of
professional journals that are actually written, the articles are written by professional historians, professional political scientists,
people with doctorates, people who are doing research all the time in these fields, so they’re different from your popular magazines which
are written by professional journalists who are paid to do a story who may not have expertise in that field but never the less Galileo has
included those kinds of articles as well for the sake of helping people understand and you know basic concepts. A lot of high school
students, a lot of first year freshman do not necessary have a strong background in a particular subject, discipline so we need the
articles that come from Time, Newsweek, you know Christian Science Monitor, those would be your popular magazines. They kind of lay a
foundation so once you’ve read through those and you kind of understand something about a subject then you want to go to the
professional journal articles to find more detailed information written by people who are actually doing research in the fields. So
ProQuest Research Library has a tendency to be very top heavy with the academic journals, but they come in very handy when it comes to
time to do a paper. So we’ll do a search here and so you’ll notice I’ve checked full text and I’ve check peer reviewed and these are the
professional journal articles that are that I’ve been referring to and we’ll just do one very quick search here. Let’s say that you’re doing
a paper on the Early Women’s Movement and you may need to tweak that and narrow that down a little bit so you’ve chosen Susan B.
Anthony and you may want to leave the search at that or may want to add something else, you might want to add and Women’s
Rights Movement as an example. I could of gone to the advanced search feature and I could of entered the same terms there, but
we’ll just keep it on that and let’s do a search here and we have 77 full text articles coming up in these professional peer review journal
articles about Susan B. Anthony and the Women’s Rights Movement, so outstanding coverage here, lots of things to choose from
and you can see where she is highlighted, her name is highlighted along with the Women’s Rights Movement so we know we’re on the
right track here. So you won’t be at a lost for finding good information about this topic or any other topic and we can at least click on one of
these just to give you an example of what the article looks like so we’re just gonna click on the title link and now we have the title of the
article we have the author of the article, we have the journal title, the volume issue number, the date and the page numbers, and then we
have an abstract, which is a summary of what the article talks about and then we have the actual article coming after that. So I really like
Research Library at ProQuest. All right coming back to our master list, we’ll look at World History Collection next and as the title of the
database connotes it is a comprehensive international kind of database and we’ll just do one more search there for the sake of keeping
it simple. We’ll do Simon Bollivar, you’re taking a class on the History of Latin America and you may not know who Simon Bollivar was but
again we’ll just key in his name and then we’ll do full text here and we could do other things as well we could narrow it down a bit, but let’s
just keep it simple. Click on search and now we have 29 articles coming up dealing with Simon Bollivar who was the liberator of at
least six countries in Latin America liberated them from the control of the Spanish in the 1820s and here’s a good example here Simon
Bollivar and the Spanish American Revolutions, so he’s considered to be a big hero in Venezuela, Peru, some of the other countries
down there and again we have an example of what one of those articles looks like. And is with all the other databases in Galileo you also
have the option to print the article out, you can email it to yourself, there should be a citation here we go here’s the citation link, click there
and we can find out how to cite this so lots of great options available to you there and very easy to use. All right now we have in
concluding this presentation we’ve looked at what I consider to be the purely historical databases, but there are a couple of other
peripheral databases that I want to mention that are related to history and let’s take a look at those right now because they may come in
handy as well. Okay, you’ll notice that we’ve been looking at the master list of historic databases and we’ve just looked at about a
half dozen or so of these databases but on down below this master subject list you’ll see other databases in this category and I really
like Credo Reference. Credo Reference we’ll just look at that one briefly and what we have in Credo Reference is we have the option of
looking at encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, famous quotations, you can do a topic search here or you can come over here
and look at encyclopedias we’ll take a look at that one and then we’ll scroll through the master list of encyclopedias and this is a
wonderful database, very good coverage of all of the different subject disciplines here at the college but look at all of this highly
specialized encyclopedias that are available to you dealing with different aspects of history, just amazing what is available to you there. So
I always want to mention Credo Reference when I’m doing a bibliographic instruction class because it is so comprehensive, we’ll take a
look very, very quickly at one of these we’ll look at The 911 Encyclopedia, just click on that one and then you can come down and look at
all the different entries in alphabetical order that are featured in that online encyclopedia and so quite extensive and then we’ll just look
at one of the entries here. Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, the Late Osama Bin Laden I should say and then here is an article on Bin Laden,
the mastermind terrorist behind 911 followed by various images and an analysis of his personality and famous quotations, things of
that nature so again, just a lot of tremendous coverage and that’s just one entry in one encyclopedia among at least 30 or 40 historic
encyclopedias and that’s from Credo Reference, lots of biographies, I could go on and on and on. For the sake of keeping it short
and simple we will just look at one other database here, we can look at North American Women’s Letters and Diaries again, top heavy
with primary sources and we can come down and look at some sample diaries here, we’ll let’s go ahead and just do a search, let’s
browse we can look at historical events, you’re writing a paper about the Great Depression and you need some primary
sources so you may come down through the list here and you may find lots of Civil War diaries by the way kept by women, you’ll
notice all of the Civil War entries here, but coming on down you’ll find the Great Depression here and there are at least 9 diary
entries over here kept by women during that period of time. And we’ll just look at one of these, Diary of Ann Marie Low, kept in
November of 1929 and it’s featured in a book entitled The Dust Bowl Diary, so apparently it was her personal diary and it’s at the
University of Nebraska and they have been good enough to publish this online for us and here you have an actual entry from November
9, 1929 in which she talks about the crash of the stock market and so it’s quite, quite interesting. I always like to mention that we do
have quite a bit in women’s studies as they pertain to history. I think that now is a good stopping point, we’ve looked at a lot of
different databases and I don’t wanna just keep going and run this into the ground, but I think most important thing I can share with you
in conclusion is that we have multiple databases, lots of information on every topic out there in history and your most important
resources always the Librarian so I hope that you’ll get in touch with us. I think at the top of the session in the first session we talked
about how to do that through email, Live Chat, phoning us, Tweeting us, what have you, so I
hope you’ll do that and thank you again for tuning in.