A379: America's Nations
Selected Reference Works
*** American foreign relations since 1600: A guide to the literature. (Z6465.U5)
Encyclopedia of American foreign policy. (E183.7 .H28 2004)
Encyclopedia of American military history. (E181 .E63 2003)
Encyclopedia of U.S. foreign relations. (E183.7 .E53 1997)
Foreign affairs bibliography. (Z6463 .F7)
Chronological history of U.S. foreign relations. (E183.7 .B745 2003 v.1)
Guide to American foreign relations since 1700. (Z6465.U5 G84 1983)
Note: All located in the Reference Reading Room
Finding Books
Search IUCAT to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.
Hint: Limit your search to: "Blmgtn - All Bloomington Libraries" to only find items that are on this campus.
Hint: Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT), and Truncation Symbols ($) to construct your searches.
Hint: When you find a really good title, look at the Subject Headings for that book. Use these in a new search.
*** WorldCat
Thousands of libraries are represented and searchable in this one catalog. Interlibrary Loan requests can be made from within the catalog.
Finding Articles: Databases
More relevant databases can be found at the Resources by Subject page: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1697&mode=subjectId
The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -› Databases by Subject -› History
General & Interdisciplinary DatabasesAcademic Search (EBSCO)
Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. Coverage: from the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago.Subject Databases
*** America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts: coverage of 4000-5000 journals in American and world history
*** Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective: Bibliographic database providing access to scholarly journals in a broad array of the humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1907-1984
PAIS International: index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy
Military & Government Collection: journals and books about military science and the government.Historical Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
(note that more recent years of US and some major non-US newspapers are available through Lexis-Nexis Academic and/or Factiva; more recent popular magazines are available through Academic Search (EBSCO))Chicago Tribune - digital archive, 1849-1985
Washington Post - digital archive, 1877-1990
Los Angeles Times - digital archive, 1881-1985
New York Times - digital archive, 1851-2003Times Digital Archive (The Times, London) - digital archive, 1785-1986 (1987-present available through Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Periodicals Index Online - coverage of thousands of scholarly journals in many fields and several languages, back to each journal's earliest issue (includes links to fulltext of a selection of journals)
*** Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - coverage of 100-200 of the most widely-read U.S. magazines. Print version, shelved across from the Reference Desk, is easier to browse; online version is searchable by both historical and current-usage keywords
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index - an index to 19th century periodicals.
Early American Newspapers Series I, II, III, IV & V - More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.
Historical Newspapers - Includes three indexes: "Palmer's" covering The Times (London) 1790-1905, the Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980 and the NYT 1863-1905 and 1913-1922.Government Publications
Access UN - index to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications, 1944 to the present
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) - online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents, 1940s to present
Digital National Security Archives - topical collections (Afghanistan, Iran-Contra, Nuclear Proliferation, etc) of declassified documents, 1940s to present
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996) - index to the foreign broadcast and other news media, translated. Continued by World News Connection
Lexis-Nexis Congressional - access to congressional publications since 1789
***LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection - Full text, digital version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Coverage: 1774-1969
Foreign Relations of the U.S. - digital archive of the offical record published by the State Department's Office of the Historian. Digital archive is incomplete: additional volumes are available on the State Department's website, and print volumes of the complete record are available in Government Information (GIMSS) on the second floor of the Main Library.
Citing Your Sources
No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.
APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2001.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
MLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003
LB2369 .G53 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
*** Chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
Z253 .U69 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online: The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.
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