Using Databases
The syllabus states that you are required to understand how to search two databases: JSTOR and Project Muse. However, there are a few other resources which will allow you to find relevant sources to write an excellent paper.
Please note: you are required to sign in with UTORid when you access these resources outside of the campus. Please click on the title of each database in order to access it.
Searching Databases
Finding articles in databases is a slightly more different than using the catalogue. You are already familiar, however, with the techniques— you can also search the databases by using subject headings and keywords. Please consult Keyword Search Examples (University of Toronto Libraries) for instructions.
Individual consultation is also available. Please contact me to book a research appointment.
Major History Databases
JSTOR
JSTOR includes more than one thousand significant academic journals in the following disciplines: humanities (including history), social
sciences, and sciences. A word of caution: this database does not contain the most recent editions of journals (three to five years). Other materials are
conference proceedings, transactions, pamphlets, monographs, manuscripts, and book reviews.
Project Muse
Project Muse is a multidisciplinary database, containing articles from scholarly journals, editorials, commentaries, works of fiction, drama,
poetry, illustrations and photographs.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is a database on world history, from the year 1450 to the present. Its scope include over two thousand indexes of journals,
books, articles in books. This database consists of indexes, and provides only citation information to help locate a source. It does not link to
full-text articles.
Additional Databases
EuroDocs Germany: National Socialism and World War II
EuroDocs is open-source web site, providing primary sources texts that have been translated, transcribed, or reproduced. It was created by
Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. The texts pertain to political, social, and economic
aspects of the Third Reich.
European History Primary
Sources
European History Primary Sources, a joint project between Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy, is a web site that allows you to search and browse digitized collections of primary sources by country, language, period,
subject, and type of source. Links to digital collections pertaining to the Third Reich
include Before the Holocaust: Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939, Nuremberg Trials Project, and others.
Central and Eastern European Online Library
Central and Eastern European Online Library is a digiti al archive of three hundred academic and cultural journals relating to Central, Eastern
and South-Eastern Europe. They include sources in the humanities and social sciences and literary and cultural periodicals. Many directly pertain to the
history of the Third Reich. Articles are provided in full text as PDF files.
Testaments to the Holocaust
Testaments to the Holocaust includes rare primary sources (photographs, diverse propaganda materials, and personal accounts) of Jewish life in
the Third Reich, on such aspects as life in the concentration camps, in hiding, emigration and refugee life.
German Propaganda Archive
German Propaganda Archive is web site compiled by Randall Bytwerk, a professor of communication arts and sciences at Calvin College. It
includes a diverse range of propaganda that was directed at the German public as well as guides instructing the propagandists. The materials is organized
chronologically and thematically.
Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940–1945
Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940–1945 contains primary sources depicting the conditions of daily life in the
occupied countries during World War II—Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Vatican, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
and Switzerland. Sources include photographs, posters, texts, and film footage.
Image source: “Signing of the Munich Accord.” California State University World Image Kiosk.
